Artist Directory
Featured Artists
Big Tez
The one everybody points to when they argue the city is about to break. Three mixtapes deep, all recorded in the same basement studio off 38th, and a distribution deal signed this month that he says he took specifically because it let him stay put. "Off The Circle" is at forty thousand plays and it was shot in one night on a borrowed camera.
B. Stacks
Quit for two years. Had the UPS application filled out, second shift, was going to be done with it entirely. Came back in 2008 with The Haughville Tapes and it is the best-written project anybody in this city has put out. Writes everything longhand. Refuses to record before midnight.
38th Street Mob
K-Rich, Duce Hollis, Slim Ray, Marco P and DJ Krisis. The most reliable live act in the city — they have never once had a bad set, which is more than you can say for anybody else on this list.
All Artists (A–Z)
Boo Slim
Has the biggest single song in the city and the smallest catalog. "Naptown Anthem" is at twenty-one thousand views and gets played at every function, every cookout, every high school gym in the county. He has released four songs total. Four.
Cash Amp
Writes half the interviews on this site and releases records at the same time, which several people have pointed out is a conflict of interest. He has agreed to stop reviewing his own projects.
DJ Krisis
Runs the boards for the Mob and puts out Meridian Street Music on his own time. The best pure blend DJ in the state and the only one still cutting on vinyl at every show.
DJ Tuff Luck
The Circle City Certified series is the closest thing this scene has to an official record of itself. Three volumes, fifty-eight artists, not one feature from outside the state line.
K-Rich
The Mob's best writer and the one most likely to go solo, which everybody in the group knows and nobody talks about. His verse on "Mob Ties" is the most quoted sixteen in the city right now.
Lady Prime
Outraps most of the men on this page and has said so on record, repeatedly, without anyone successfully arguing back. Went undefeated at the Basement's Wednesday cyphers for eleven weeks before people stopped signing up against her.
The Mile Square Click
Yung Circle, Tone Deep and a third member who has never been named in any interview or credited on any track, which started as a joke and is now simply how it is.
Rudy Malone
Writes about Eagledale the way other people write about somewhere they left. He still lives there. Eagledale Nights is forty minutes long and has no features on it at all, on purpose.
Sco Deuce
Fastest rapper in the city and knows it, which is both the appeal and the problem. Whether he can write a song people feel is still an open question he seems uninterested in answering.
Tone Deep
Produced roughly a third of everything on Circle City Certified Vol. 3. Works entirely off an MPC and records from the Sunday flea market. Has never charged a local artist for a beat.
Yung Circle
Named himself after Monument Circle and has never been downtown after dark without somebody bringing it up. The chopped and screwed edition of Monument is better than the original and he will not admit it.