Month: May 2015

If you couldn’t get enough of Stoned & Dethroned, Nacho Picasso is back with 88 Ultra of Blue Sky Black Death and they recently dropped The Witchtape. Dark, spacey, and…

Northwest veteran MATTY has released the finale of his “Bars UP” video series. “These are a warm up exercise for the album to remind people I still got it”, MATTY…

Talilo Marfil is one of Portland hip-hop’s greatest modern heroes; an educator by nature, a leader by nature and rapper by craft, in many ways he reminds me of a…

Donte Thomas is definitely an artist to watch. Young, confident and charismatic, the newly minted 21 year old spins microphone tales over jazzy headknockers and has shown he can hold…

“I can’t tell it’s cabin fever or something else… I haven’t eaten, just smokin’ drinkin’ and nothing else.” ~ Kahlo Week 3 of Fridays in May brings perhaps most “rappy”…

It had been a while since I’d heard from Portland State graduate Issa Diop. The Senegalese singer was a major factor in the PDX scene about 5 years ago, garnering well…

I’ve recently been tasked with checking out this PDX collective known as Futro… Admittedly, I wasn’t really familiar with anyone’s work outside of Das Luene – well, I’d heard some…

Portland’s Drae Slapz (Lunchtime Legends) is putting some songs together and you should probably pay attention. Known for his rugged and trappy yet commercial production, Drae brought the bars out of…

Got some new heat for you busters. An often underrated veteran MC with an underground following, Gepetto released a new track recently and it made me smile. That’s the kind…

I have yet to form a full on opinion about Vancouver rapper Dior Worthy, but his mission to be the “2015 Master P” continues with another repetitive trancy banger. Gotta…