Baltimore rapper Abdu Ali is one of the most versatile MCs out there right now — his willingness to rap over everything from experimental noise to explosive hip-hop makes that clear. On his ...

Tygapaw is a force for good in New York nightlife: she's the founder of Fake Accent, a queer collective and party that celebrated its third birthday in the spring, and a regular fixture on discerning ...

Musician Abdu Ali and DJ Ducky Dynamo reflect on the rise of Baltimore club music and the efforts to preserve its history in ...

Baltimore’s Abdu Ali is an abstract, poetic screamer with a penchant for beats that nod to both his hometown’s frenetic club music scene and the digi-grinding skronk of Internet-fueled noise-rap. As ...

Impose Magazine is throwing a festival at Brooklyn venue Secret Project Robot on August 8 with a great and eclectic lineup of Yvette, Geoff Rickly, Jawbreaker Reunion, Malportado Kids, Show Me The ...

Abdu Ali is many things: rapper, producer, Baltimorean, black, queer, curator and agnostic “baby Buddhist,” are some. But “activist” isn’t one of them. To be sure, Ali, who uses “they” and “them” ...

What’s the song of the summer? The argument could be made for Drake’s pop-rap-UK funky-hybrid anthem, “One Dance,” or maybe it’s the Rihanna-Calvin Harris duet, “This is What You Came For.” Justin ...

Musician Abdu Ali, who was born and raised in Baltimore (and goes by the nonbinary pronoun they), makes music that has roots in Baltimore club but then extrapolates into something else – channeling ...