 THE VOTES ARE IN...... A few years ago, K-Swift was an underdog in the Baltimore club scene: a young woman among the countl... Best Club Music Producer Debonair Samir Samir Singletary has been producing Baltimore club songs since way back in the '90s. But in a recent... Best MC Verb Verb, the most prominent member of the trio Dirty Hartz, probably wouldn't be one of the top 10 rapp... Best Female Rapper ShellBe RAW The women of Baltimore hip-hop are stepping their game up, but the reigning queen is ShellBe RAW, ak... Best Female Rap Group Golden Seal A hot Baltimore hip-hop group is rare enough, but a hot all-women local hip-hop group is practically... Best Hip-Hop DJ DNA Baltimore is full of hip-hop DJs who make their bread in the club or on the radio. But with the city... Best Teen Heartthrob Young Leek Barely old enough to drive and already inspiring the kind of screeching, Beatlemania response in pub... Best Producers Darkroom Productions Juan Donovan and Jamal Roberts, the two men who are Darkroom Productions, bristle when you call them... Best Record Label Unruly Records Since its 1994 inception, Unruly Records has been synonymous with the city's indigenous and deeply e... Best Summer Jam "Ryda Gyrl" Every year, if we're lucky, there's one song that eats the city during the hot months of the year, b...
Local jam "Ryda Girl" ruled the summer radio airwaves, but Blaq Starr's "Hands Up Thumbs Down" owns ... Like it or lump it, 92Q is about as good as dedicated music radio gets in these parts. Sure it's a c... If you care about hip-hop in Baltimore, then you care about WEAA's venerable Strictly Hip-Hop. Now a... A few things keep us sane in the hellish week that is the production cycle of a City Paper special i... The 5 Seasons restaurant and lounge doesn't look like an obvious haven for underground hip-hop, nest... Places to see live jazz in Baltimore aren't exactly thriving, but the few venues that are hanging on... For sheer consistency of post-2 a.m. partying--by which we mean safely in public, undrunkenly, and f... Sonny Brown is a label mate of Mullyman and a talented rapper in his own right, but lately his most ... * Please check out the actual City Paper (or their site) for the complete list of BIG winners! |
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