King Mez is a problem solver. When the rapper needed money to book studio time as a teenager, he’d buy fake Jordans from a local flea market and sell them to unsuspecting kids in high school for the ...

Pitchfork recently published an interview with a number of Dr. Dre’s collaborators on Compton. In light of the recent debate about artists writing their own raps, some of the most interesting stories ...

King Mez opens for Kooley High at Tir Na Nog Thursday, July 8, at 10 p.m. The show is free. At the front of a packed crowd inside Five Star, an Asian restaurant in Raleigh by evening and a longtime ...

North Carolina needed another classic rap album, just as hip-hop at large currently needs a new class act. While the greater rap world is consumed by the manufactured hype surrounding Chicago rapper ...

Dr. Dre's new album C ompton debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 295,000 equivalent album units (of which 276,000 are pure sales). A standout guest artist off the project was King Mez who's ...

King Mez doesn't smoke loud, sip lean or drink alcohol. He doesn't care about Audemar watches or oversized chains with icy pendants. Dude spends his off days piecing together 500-part Gundam Wing ...

Warner/Chappell signee Mez looks to have a busy schedule over the next few weeks. With Dreamville's Return of the Dreamers III slated to drop this summer and the third installment of his EP, Data… By ...