After being one of the lesser-known faces of XXL's 2012 Freshmen Class, Seattle native Macklemore and his partner Ryan Lewis have had the best year ever. The duo has smashed charts with catchy and ...

Rodriguez eventually left Seattle for Los Angeles in 1997 to become rap editor at HITS magazine. Enduring Seattle ties Even 27 years after leaving Seattle, Rodriguez remains a well-known and revered ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, we celebrate the birthday of a man who unapologetically loved what he loved—Sir Mix-a-Lot. While many may only know him for his timeless crossover smash “Baby Got Back” ...

The Seattle hip-hop community lost one of its most influential early ambassadors last week: “Nasty” Nes Rodriguez died Saturday in Los Angeles, his widow, Llola Rodriguez, announced the following ...

As the instrumental mastermind behind Seattle’s indie-rap power act Grieves & Budo (and Macklemore’s first album, The Language of My World), Josh Karp, aka Budo, has earned a sizable local following ...

A pair of Seattle brothers rapped about being cold blooded killers, and they may have been just that. 97.3 KIRO FM’s Brandi Kruse reports: Ondrell Harding raps of drugs, sex and the street life. In a ...

If you’ve been steeped in Northwest rap since the Clinton era, you know Silas Blak well. A commanding and singular presence since the days of Blind Council, through Seattle’s compilation era (he pops ...

In the 1980s, Seattle's music scene was hooked on disco. The success of "Saturday Night Fever" meant venues opted for groovy vinyl over live band performances, and songs like Chic's "Good Times" were ...

Nes Rodriguez was just 19 years old when he began DJing his first hip-hop radio show in Seattle in 1981. Over the next two decades, Rodriguez — now better known as “Nasty Nes” or “the Crazy Pinoy” — ...