Roderick Pullum

Jui$e Leroy is one of the best showmen in North Texas hip-hop, an artist who displays pure ferocity when he performs, matched only by his prowess writing lyrics. Leroy labels his music “conscious trap,” a description he coined to describ...

Last year, we named up-and-coming hip-hop artist EvryDay Tony as the “Best Rapper You’ve Never Heard Of.” He also won another title, as the winner of the 2019 Master of the Mic competition. In 2020, the rapper is making sure local hip-hop fan...

Concert and nightclub promoters are a unique tribe, and there’s no shortage of them in every major U.S. market. The least common denominator among them can include unsavory individuals who oversell and under-deliver, but those who do their job wel...

The killing of George Floyd may finally propel the early stages of what could be a significant era for police reform — a cause that has long been part of Bobby Sessions' work. For the Dallas native, police brutality is part of his family hist...

On Aug.16, Zyon Iman turned 22. That day, the Dallas rapper by way of Milwaukee released the first installment of his mixtape series IPMD [I Paid My Dues] Vol I. The title may seem a bit presumptuous and off-putting to those in older age...

Nipsey Hussle’s music made him a star, but his message of financial empowerment and community activism propelled him into icon status. In 2013, Hussle launched his innovative Proud2Pay campaign, whereby he sold physical copies of his Crenshaw mixt...