“You’re looking at a crazy lady right now,” says Psalm One with a grin. It’s 10 days before Chicago’s hottest indie rapper releases her long-awaited solo album, the vivid “The Death of Frequent Flyer.

Following allegations of abuse against multiple members of the Minneapolis hip hop scene — including Prof and Dem Atlas, who have now been dropped by their label Rhymesayers — a 2015 CityPages ...

Last year, Philly rockers The Great Unknown came to Milwaukee to work with kids at MPS' Hayes Bilingual to write and record a song as part of the America SCORES ASCAP Foundation Songwriter Residency ...

Chicago artist Psalm One is a rapper who left her job as a chemist to pursue her hip-hop dreams. Psalm One's latest album is called The Death of Frequent Flyer. By day, Chrystalle Bowen was a ...

Except for Val Kilmer and his crafty misfit cronies in Real Genius, you’ve probably surmised by now that chemist types are socially awkward stiffs with strange laughs and even stranger diets. In her ...

Rusko's "O.M.G.!" WHAT IT IS: The full-length solo debut from Rusko (née Christopher Mercer). The Leeds-raised musician, aka the world's foremost purveyor of the "dubstep" genre, has been steadily ...

Good news hit my inbox last night: chemist turned rapper Psalm One drops the third installment in her Women @ Work mix-tape series today. I’m still on my first listen, but the first four songs alone ...

“We want it all so we got to grab it / We gotta do anything, make sure we have it / Want no money or no cars, just wanna hang out / We all have our voices so we’re gonna sing out.” Those lyrics come ...

NEW YORK (RNS) Saralee Howard remembers the woman who walked into the Shared Pregnancy Women’s Center in Lansing, Mich., last year and asked for an ultrasound even though she was leaning toward an ...

In Psalm One’s family, macaroni and cheese means love. It also means criticism — harsh, passive-aggressive criticism. “My mother, one year, got ostracized because she used a different cheese than what ...