People watching their performance can claim that they wanted to show off their own very best individual skill set for the culture and spirit of hip hop. From Left to Right: Yardy Léxandros, ...

All week Ann Powers and The Seattle Times' Andrew Matson are having coffee with people in Seattle's fertile rap scene. We're calling the series Grind and Shine, and you can read the interviews and see ...

While the men of rock ‘n’ roll have dropped a lot of insensitive faux pas over the course of the genre’s rich and illustrious history, the men of hip-hop are surely the kings when it comes to outright ...