Boaz

After dropping a pair of dusty head-bobbers in the form of his Real Name, No Gimmicks mixtapes this summer, rapper-to-watch Boaz has announced his Rostrum Records debut, Intuition. No surprise he was able to snag a feature from fellow Pittsburgher and former Rostrum signee Mac Miller, plus cameos from Styles P and Jadakiss...

Gritty Pittsburgh boom-bapper Boaz is back with "Mathematics," the first taste of Vol. 2 of his Real Name, No Gimmicks mixtape series (head here to stream the very solid first installment). The Rostrum Records signee is prepping his debut album for later this year, and on this cut he gets lyrical about counting money and spitting bars over a dusky '90s beat, scratches and all... Read Mor

When I was growing up in Pittsburgh, the music scene was abysmal. We had Rusted Root, we had this awful, glorified bar band The Clarks, and we had the unavoidable, hokey Steelers anthem "Here We Go." That was about it. And then something strange happened in the 2000s, as the city transformed into a somewhat cool destination for young people who wanted a cheap, culturally vibrant place to