Before picking up a microphone and putting lyrics to the beats of Anthony Davis, AKA Ant, Sean Michael Daley was a courier driver, loving every second of it. “I was delivering stuff, and I probably ...

Atmosphere’s rapper Slug didn’t harbor any aspirations that he and producer Ant would have a long career when they started releasing music 39 years ago. Their hometown of Minneapolis wasn’t exactly a ...

“We’re definitely one of the Indiana Jones’ of ‘sad face rap,’” Daley decided during a recent Zoom call. “I don’t think Drake’s ever heard of Atmosphere, so please take what I’m going to say with a ...

Drawing the biggest crowd ever for a homegrown hip-hop act at the Minnesota State Fair grandstand was just one of many reasons Saturday’s concert by Atmosphere felt like a truly big deal. After ...