Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden gems, with a focus on Kansas City’s communities of color. Send your ideas ...

Tech N9ne, Kansas City's most famous rapper, has had a busy year. Decades into his career, the 52-year-old artist released a new album and has no plans of slowing down. Aaron Yates, better known as ...

Your Guide to KC: Star culture and identity writer J.M. Banks is acting as a tour guide of sorts to some well-known and hidden gems, with a focus on Kansas City’s communities of color. Send your ideas ...

The “KCMO Anthem” rapper is a star around the globe. His hometown should recognize him officially. SUSAN PFANNMULLER/Special to The Star File photo This summer, hip-hop turns 50. To celebrate, ...

Perhaps the artist to define the Kansas City music scene the past 25 years, rap icon Tech N9ne is a Midwest original. His faithful following — which includes the Columbia audiences who flock to ...

“It is kind of weird in a way,” said Stephen Johnson, a 44-year-old Tech N9ne fan who attended Boulevardia for the first time to see the Kansas City artist. “I can remember going to a Tech N9ne ...

YOURSELF. SOME STAR POWER, ESPECIALLY KANSAS CITY STAR POWER TECH NINE. WE KNOW HE’S FROM KANSAS CITY. THE RAPPER FAMOUS FOR THE SONG RED KINGDOM. SO IF YOU’RE WALKING AROUND ARROWHEAD AHEAD OF A GAME ...

Talilo (left) and Tech N9ne on the "My Shoes" single art. (Jawan Blevins, Jon Meyer and Cruz Media, courtesy of Talilo Marfil.) Musicians collaborating with their idols always marks a significant ...

Kansas City-based rapper Tech N9ne plans to write a song commemorating the Kansas City Chiefs’ first trip to the Super Bowl in 50 years. “Because we’re gonna win it,” he said Sunday while standing ...

Back in early 2017, indie rap artist Tech N9ne had what sounded like a pretty far-out idea for his next album, to be called Planet. In an interview at that time with this writer, he said he wanted the ...

ATLANTA (AP) — On a phone call from jail last year, Lil Wayne told a radio show about one of the first rappers he wanted to collaborate with once he got free. It wasn't a reigning chart-topper like ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has conquered the box office, the wrestling ring, TV ratings and tequila sales — now, is he about to dominate the charts? In a history-making career move, Johnson is making ...