Rap Yard: Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Maffew Ragazino, Delicate Steve The Morgan Saturday, August 20 Better than: Eating fried chicken with a prostitute. Fresh off the release of a free mixtape through local indie label Fool's Gold, the rising Detroit MC Danny Brown headlined Saturday installment of the Rock Yard...

New York City rappers have been cast as something of the rap world's whipping boys for more than a few years now. Not only is it fashionable to paint the city's scene as still stuck in the '90s—that's, er, despite the man who effectively runs rap, old man Jay-Z, being...

Last year a small, underground pocket of NYC-based hip-hop found its voice again. With Roc Marciano's unimpeachable Marcberg album as the catalyst, a crew of loosely associated artists shook off that tired cliché about our city's commercial-outsider status and, for the first time since the height of the Dipset era,...