After being one of the lesser-known faces of XXL's 2012 Freshmen Class, Seattle native Macklemore and his partner Ryan Lewis have had the best year ever. The duo has smashed charts with catchy and ...

The Seattle hip-hop community lost one of its most influential early ambassadors last week: “Nasty” Nes Rodriguez died Saturday in Los Angeles, his widow, Llola Rodriguez, announced the following ...

Rodriguez eventually left Seattle for Los Angeles in 1997 to become rap editor at HITS magazine. Enduring Seattle ties Even 27 years after leaving Seattle, Rodriguez remains a well-known and revered ...

In the 1980s, Seattle's music scene was hooked on disco. The success of "Saturday Night Fever" meant venues opted for groovy vinyl over live band performances, and songs like Chic's "Good Times" were ...

“Man, I’m so sick and tired of all these rappers in Seattle, these so-called emcees, everybody wants to be divided,” Byrdie shouts at the beginning of “Dirty Politics,” the fourth track from his solo ...

For people who lived in Seattle during the 1980s—of a certain age and demographic—the name “Nasty” Nes Rodriguez holds especially profound significance. He DJ’d for some of Seattle’s first rappers, ...

On this day in Hip Hop history, we celebrate the birthday of a man who unapologetically loved what he loved—Sir Mix-a-Lot. While many may only know him for his timeless crossover smash “Baby Got Back” ...

A pair of Seattle brothers rapped about being cold blooded killers, and they may have been just that. 97.3 KIRO FM’s Brandi Kruse reports: Ondrell Harding raps of drugs, sex and the street life. In a ...

It's summer vacation week on Sounside. But that doesn't mean we're out of your podcast feed. Senior producer Gabrielle Healy shares some of her favorite recent Soundside segments. We’re talking about ...

Nes Rodriguez was just 19 years old when he began DJing his first hip-hop radio show in Seattle in 1981. Over the next two decades, Rodriguez — now better known as “Nasty Nes” or “the Crazy Pinoy” — ...