Stacc Styles used to spend hours at Zia Records as a teen searching through stacks of vinyls for hip-hop records from Tucson artists and rappers he had never heard of. Many of those unknowns were on ...

For years, Dominic Harris and Michael Tolle traveled in the same Tucson musical circles. They would talk about collaborating — Harris, aka Tucson rapper Cash Lansky, behind the mic and Tolle at the ...

There’s an innovative new way to experience hip-hop in a more intimate setting, and it’s rolling through Tucson at 40 mph. “The Rap Van is a mobile hip-hop show,” said Tom Johnson, Rap Van creator and ...

Though battle rap, a showcase of brags, boasts and brutal insults, has existed as long as rap itself has, it exploded into public consciousness with the 2002 film “8 Mile,” and has drifted in and out ...

When Ice Cube rapped “Fuck the police comin’ straight from the underground / A young nigga got it bad ’cause I’m brown / And not the other color, so police think / They have the authority to kill a ...