Bay Area rappers E-40 (left) and Too Short on “Verzuz,” the webcast series created by producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. The series was introduced in March during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual DJ battle on Instagram Live.Photo: "Verzuz" The winner was always going to be t...
Back then, styling yourself as someone unfeeling turned you into a notable character, a sort of supervillain within the rap landscape; today, it’s often simply a given. There’s an entire generation of Detroit rappers— Peezy, Veeze, Baby Smoove, Shaudy Kash, DaeMoney—who adopt this voic...