As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list.

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 ...

Seattle has never wanted to be cool — and that’s precisely what makes it so. When the grunge movement of the ’90s sprung to the forefront of mainstream American culture, Kurt Cobain’s ripped jeans and ...

It’s drizzly right now (needed that, actually), but if you like or have ever liked hiphop, your sunny Seattle summer will be woefully incomplete without this music. Download link here. Do it. It’s ...

Enduring Seattle ties Even 27 years after leaving Seattle, Rodriguez remains a well-known and revered figure in the Emerald City, said friend Robert Brewer, aka DJ Forrest Gump, who co-hosted “Rap ...

This just in from the Internet: four Seattle music recordings of note, from the realm of soul and hip-hop. All are self-released and, as of press time, freely downloadable. Finally, a formal debut ...

United more by strategy than sound, the city's stars are fans-first nonconformists, who have often succeeded by doing the opposite of what the... As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip ...