Over the past year, Kingdom has gone head-to-head with some of the best rappers in the business, including Wyclef Jean, with whom the Royal One faced off during the recent Campus Invasion Tour.

Hailing from St. Nicholas Houses in Harlem, Krissy Yamagucci earned the nickname “Battle Rap’s Beyoncé” for her striking ...

Krissy Yamagucci died at 35, leaving a legacy as a pioneering Queen of the Ring battler and devoted mother of two sons.

You could read the whole thing as a project against atomization. By the early 1990s, when the Los Angeles rap avant-garde coalesced around the Good Life Cafe on Crenshaw, distinctions were already ...