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Equipto: Hip Hop and Collectivity

Equipto: Hip Hop and Collectivity

An exclusive interview with legendary San Francisco MC and Bored Stiff member, Equipto. He speaks on his crew, Bored Stiff’s beginnings, balancing music and community work, and what it’s like to be an independent artist in 2021.

Chinese Americans, don’t let rapper YG boil your blood

Chinese Americans, don’t let rapper YG boil your blood

After numerous critically acclaimed mixtapes, California-based rapper YG released his debut album “My Krazy Life” in 2014. Track 6 of that LP has a skit titled “Meet the Flockers” that explains the process and emotions he associated with robberies in his neighborhood.

Local artist "spits" law and rap

By Shane MenezThe Guardsman Kae Ranoa’s upbringing as a poor Filipina-American is self-described as “arrested, chewed up, and spitted out.” That personal history has led her to working in careers which allow her to bring voices to female rappers underrepresented in hip-hop as her stage persona Hopie Spitshard, and

Point/Counterpoint: Is there any originality in Rap music today?

"Good music? Yes. Original? Absolutely not!" said Graham Henderson. "...There is hope yet," said Aaron Light & Silvano Purpura-Pontoniere.