Author Evan Rytlewski

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...

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 ...

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...