Though born in Ohio, OsamaSon and his family moved to the modestly sized South Carolina city of Goose Creek in 2015, and the aspiring hip-hop star proceeded to take the family’s artistry to new ...

At its core, hip-hop is a voice for the voiceless seeking to address systemic inequities through storytelling.

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...