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In 2003, New Hampshire hip-hop artist Sage Francis traveled to Olympia for one of the biggest hip-hop shows the city had seen at that time. Sage rapped and told stories to a near sold-out Capitol Theatre main stage and left Oly's hip-hop scene bubbling and eager for more. Shortly after, Sage's
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TEAMING UP WITH AESOP ROCK >>> Kimya Dawson is (and has been) an icon in the Olympia music scene since the mid-1990s. Although Dawson has come and gone, she has now been back in Olympia for about five years and says she's here to stay. The folk singer, who gained notoriety
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GAINING STEAM IN OLYMPIA >>> "I started rapping when I decided I wanted to make a rap album for my cat," Hollywood Kill Krew (HKK) frontman Doc Hollywood tells me. "I didn't know anybody that rapped, so I would just do it by myself for my cat, Mr. Cool." Although Hollywood says
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FAMILIAR NAMES OPEN NEW VENTURE >>> Subdivision Studios is quite possibly the best thing ever to hit Olympia for up-and-coming hip-hop artists - at least when it comes to finding a legitimate place to record music or finding top-of-the-line production. On April 1, Smoke of Oldominion (Matt Smokovich), Booz E Collinz
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LIVE SATURDAY AT NORTHERN >>> On Tuesday Olympia's legendary K Records released its first hip-hop album in over a decade. Saturday, April 30, Olympians will get the chance to check out Eprhyme, the hip-hop artist Calvin Johnson and K decided would be a good fit for their popular indie record label. Eprhyme,
