Marina rapper Bar$ Marley has different sides to her catalog of music. There's the introspective and deeply personal tracks like "F.O.G. Fear Only God" where she boasts "This my testimony/about my fucking journey/the good, the bad and all the shit that I been learning" to the bombastic "Mike…

Casper Locs of Gonzales has been rapping for nearly half his life time, whether it was a friendly freestyle with teenage friends or recording rhymes over instrumentals by a Billboard chart-featured producer for his debut album. Though his sound is more refined then his early days, what hasn'…

Few local rappers can claim they have garnered a real audience outside of the area, but Conspiracy of Marina has proven he can with a recent performance in Denver, Colorado. That's because even after 12 recorded albums to his name and countless singles and collaborations with other rappers, …

Jose G and Stevie C—the duo known as Seaside Organics—do not simply produce stoner rap. The sound can be breezy, with good vibes felt through the instrumentals and a party atmosphere established in the rhymes. And the consumption and cultivation of weed is a theme throughout their collection…

The Salinas hip hop artist La Sofa Queen loves poetry and complex, multi-syllabic rhyme schemes. She refers to herself not as a rapper, but as a spoken word artist. While the pacing might often be slow and the lyrics backed sometimes by guitar, the rhymes speak to personal drama, perhaps a y…