Hopefully, from here on out, it will just be the music that helps him ascend.īaltimore artist Abdu Ali can’t be contained. Last year the 18-year-old was the beneficiary of a # FreeXan movement, which led people to flock to his catalog and catapulted him onto a new plateau. The Landover, Maryland artist delivers gun-toting lyrics like many of his generational peers, but his character shines through the nihilism with humorous witticisms and nonsequiturs stacked atop the often booming production on tracks like ” point,” “ PINK,” and other “ Xanstyles.” But the prolific artist is at his most impressive when he lets his melodies shine through in Luther Xandross mode on tracks like “ Gucci Down ” and the recently released “ Midnight,” where he harmonizes over dreary guitars. XanMan is nothing short of a phenom in the DMV, and it seems like a matter of time before the rest of the country is on his wave. For the sake of spreading love to talented artists, however, those restrictions will be loosened on this list of DMV (and Baltimore) hip-hop artists to get familiar with.
But locally, DMV refers to any area reachable on the DC Metro system, which links the DC metropolitan region. Many outsiders misinterpret DMV as a catch-all term that refers to anywhere in DC, Maryland or Virginia. From Grammy- nominated artists Goldlinkand Shy Glizzy to cult favorites like Rico Nasty, Fat Trel, and Oddisee, artists from all over “the urrea” have entrenched the DMV rap scene as one to be reckoned with. Ten years later, the area coined as the “DMV” isn’t just a show date. Labels saw Wale’s cosmopolitan fashion sense, his ability to hold his own in both ciphers and strip clubs, and wondered what exactly was going on in the DC area. It’s Wale’s versatility that made him the perfect pioneer. He’s groused about feeling underappreciated in the past, but here are the bare roses: his rise to mainstream relevance is the undeniable genesis of a DC, southern Maryland, and northern Virginia rap scene that was rarely a national factor before him. Wale released his debut album, Attention Deficit, a decade ago.
Photo Credit: Kyle Gustafson / For The Washington Post via Getty Images From Largo’s Q Da Fool to Baltimore’s Deetranada to The Landover’s XanMan, artists from all over “the urrea” have entrenched the DMV rap scene as one to be reckoned with.
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