On Jan. 3, Double Entendre, a combination rap battle and comedy show, returns to Fathoms Bar near the University of Oregon campus. Eugene comedian Lexis Shardé hosts the show, where audiences ...

A man of many talents, KSI started his music career by writing songs about his life. He has since honed his craft, but here he recounts his nerve-wracking first performance in front of a real crowd.

The debate in the special operations community rages on as to who is the elite SOCOM element — Navy SEALs or Army Rangers. We finally reached the point where there was only one way to settle this: ...

LOS ANGELES -- Turns out, not "making it" in Hollywood was the best thing that could have happened to Lloyd Ahlquist and Peter Shukoff. The two friends, who met doing improv in Chicago in the '90s, ...

The history of competitive insults goes back generations, and it's having a renaissance in the form of battle rap. Thanks to social media, rap battle leagues have popped up around the world recently.

For the first time in history, we’re is dropping our “Best of the Year” list. Come and celebrate some of the culture’s most notable talent from the fans’ (our favorite experts) perspective. Despite ...

Epic Rap Battles of History, created by Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist, imagines what would happen if some of the biggest historical, political and cultural names verbally sparred for supremacy.

It’s taken two years for director Joseph Kahn’s blistering battle-rap satire “Bodied” to make it to screens — a period of aggressive political and cultural upheaval in America that’s unexpectedly only ...

Chance The Rapper can spit with the best of them, but battling isn't exactly something he's known for. The Chicago MC, who was recently honored for his humanitarian efforts at the 2017 BET Awards, ...

For more than 35 years, battle rap has grown and evolved to become one of hip-hop's major elements. Now meet some of the faces carrying the movement into 2016. Words: Georgette Cline Editor’s Note: ...