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Jenni Moore
Jenni Moore is a former music editor and hip-hop columnist and current freelancer at The Portland Mercury. She also writes about comedy, cannabis, movies, TV, and her hatred of taxidermy.
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Raz Simone Touches Down for We Take Holocene IV
RAZ SIMONE Uniting the Northwest. DYLLYN GREENWOOD SEATTLE RAPPER RAZ SIMONE is “That N*gga” (oh my!). On the self-actualizing track from his most recent mixtape Trap Spirituals, Simone raps about barbershop pettiness—others spreading rumors and gossiping about him all day out of jealousy. He bluntly explains that, unlike these ain’t-shit niggas, he’s doing exactly what […]
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Raz Simone’s Soulful Sincerity
The Seattle Rapper Touches Down for We Take Holocene IV
The rapper touches down in Portland for We Take Holocene IV.
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BJ the Chicago Kid’s Timeless R&B
BJ THE CHICAGO KID He’s found a way to bring some lovin’ here today. Motown Records THESE DAYS it feels like the world is in complete chaos. Every week there’s a new catastrophic death toll, police shooting, rape, or murder. Following the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando last month, listening to Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going […]
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BJ the Chicago Kid Is a New Star with an Old Soul
His Motown Debut Is Timeless R&B
BJ the Chicago Kid’s Motown debut is timeless R&B.
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Sneaker Wave: The Latest in Portland Hip-Hop
“History”, “Quentin (Koncept) + Marcus Ray/ X-Ray (Fountaine) + Brandon (5th Sequence)” Seena Haddad THERE’S A COUNTERCULTURE to Portlandia‘s narrow representation of Portland. In Rostam Productions’ fictional X-RAY web series, writer and director Seena Haddad gives a lifelike glimpse of what it’s like to come up in Portland’s slowly rising hip-hop scene. Parts One and […]
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Sneaker Wave
The Latest in Portland Hip-Hop
The latest in Portland hip-hop with the X-RAY web series.
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Sneaker Wave: Glenn Waco’s “Assata”
GLENN WACO Filming the music video for “Assata.” Ben Olsen WHEN PORTLAND RAPPER Glenn Waco announced he was moving to Long Beach, California, a few months ago, I felt personally victimized by the decision. To be fair, the Portland rapper/activist had been making music for several years before I noticed. I first sought out local […]