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      Tyler Maas
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      Matt Wild
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      Matt Wild
      June 11, 2025
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      Caleb Westphal
      June 6, 2025
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      Tyler Maas
      June 6, 2025
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      Matt Wild
      June 4, 2025
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      Tyler Maas
      April 23, 2025
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      March 24, 2025
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      Matt Wild
      December 2, 2024
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      November 4, 2024
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      Tyler Maas
      September 16, 2024
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      May 22, 2025
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      Tyler Maas
      May 20, 2025
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      Matt Wild
      May 14, 2025
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      May 9, 2025
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      June 9, 2025
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      June 5, 2025
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      Matt Wild
      May 22, 2025
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      May 12, 2025
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      May 5, 2025
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      Tyler Maas
      April 28, 2025
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      October 24, 2014
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      June 10, 2025
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Evan Rytlewski

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Evan Rytlewski is the former music editor for the Shepherd Express and web editor for Radio Milwaukee. His writing has appeared in Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, NPR, and The Washington Post.

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Evan Rytlewski
June 19, 2024
How do you make a sound as unpolished as Milwaukee lowend appeal to the masses? That's a puzzle it didn't take the city's rap scene long to solve. In its earliest incarnations just a few years ago, lowend wa...

Puerto Wiccan and Tay Diego ride for the South Side on “Michelle”

Evan Rytlewski
April 4, 2022
Milwaukee rap has finally generated some real buzz over the last several years, but that attention hasn't been spread evenly across the city. While the city's North Side continues to do blockbuster streams and ...

Lil Trav raps through grief on “Right Or Wrong”

Evan Rytlewski
March 21, 2022
Milwaukee rap is still reeling from the death of Big Wan, the teenage savant who left an outsized influence on the scene before his murder in November at age 19. But nobody in the scene feels that loss more acu...
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