Boston
rappers.
A smaller scene with an outsized export list, mostly sent down I-95 to New York.
Boston's rap scene has always been small next to New York's and has always sent people down I-95.
Guru took his voice to Brooklyn and formed Gang Starr with DJ Premier, one of the most influential partnerships the coast ever produced. Ed O.G stayed closer to home and made one of the city's defining early records. Joyner Lucas, from Worcester, carried the state into the streaming era.
Roxbury1991
Ed O.G & Da Bulldogs
Life of a Kid in the Ghetto, the debut that made Ed O.G Boston's first national rap name
Golden ageProfile →Roxbury1991Gang Starr
Guru's level voice over DJ Premier's chopped jazz, the blueprint for New York boom-bap
Golden ageProfile →Worcester2017Joyner Lucas
"I'm Not Racist" and two-sided story verses, built on YouTube out of Worcester
Internet eraProfile →Keep moving