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No Pain, No Fame

posted: August 6, 2012

Kids who grow up on the streets of Detroit face their fair share of temptations. Some of them, like Se’von, dodge the dealers, boosters, and thugs through music. The rapper lets the streets inform his…
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Raise Your Tankard

posted: November 14, 2011

Cannock Wood is a small village in Staffordshire, England known for its charming natural beauty. And in this bucolic land of rolling hills, green pastures and thick groves of trees, lives a man who wants…
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Insomniac

posted: November 7, 2011

Let’s get one thing straight. Hustlers don’t sleep. They just don’t. Exhibit A: the song Husterlz Don’t Sleep by J-Mike. The Houston rapper has made that his mantra, dividing his time between the studio, the…
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Check Baby, Check Baby

posted: September 26, 2011

Mike Check started his career in music behind the kit, eventually trading sticks for a pen and becoming a songwriter. Turns out it was a good swap. Today Check is one of New York’s up-and-coming…
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Supernatural

posted: May 18, 2011

With a gospel and jazz-singing mother and a guitar-playing, producing and songwriting father, it was almost a no-brainer for A-Natural to follow in the family business. In addition to music, religion was a constant in…
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Caring Is Creepy

posted: March 14, 2011

SumKid Majere’s hip hop education is as comprehensive as it gets”gleaned on city streets and country towns from sea to shining sea. Raised between Oakland and North Carolina, the rapper blends his bicoastal influences into…
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