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Wicked Babydoll Talks Beats, Rhymes and Anaheim!

{Wicked Babydoll / Photo cred: Lyrik of Steel Banging Music} Wicked Babydoll is coming into her own as a Chicana on the mic. The 23-year-old rapper originally from Los Angeles has three mixtapes to her name with the latest Words of the Wicked showcasing her impassioned delivery and hard time rhymes. The collection, laced with [...]

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[Locals Only] Interview w/ Kevin Parx!

Santa Ana’s Kevin Parx is ready to step up to the charity stripe. The 23-year-old is a rapper by trade, not a b-baller, but he’s hoping his forthcoming Freethrows mixtape, which is slated for a June 3 release, will hit nothing but net just the same. Even so, he is guarded about his latest work, [...]

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On Understanding the Power of Lupe Fiasco’s “Jonylah Forever”

The funeral for Jonylah Watkins, a six-month old baby who died after being shot five times last week on the South Side of Chicago, will take place this morning. Bulls basketball superstar Derrick Rose has offered to pay for the service. In a musical tribute moved by the gun violence in his hometown, rapper Lupe [...]

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[Locals Only] Interview W/ Endz!

Alan Navarro doesn’t like starting what he can’t finish. It’s a motivating factor that inspired the moniker Endz, though it’s only the beginning for the MC with endless potential. Back in the day, hip-hop was there when he was a kid trying to get his act together. “In high school I just never gave a [...]

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Lupe Fiasco’s Pre-Inaugural Protest!

On the last song of Lupe Fiasco‘s Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, the rapper rhymed, “And you know me / I don’t vote / But the White House / You already know / It’s hood now.” The lyrics were a hat tip to Barack Obama being the first Black president of [...]

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