Not all hip-hop is meant to be poetic. But aficionados argue the genre is best when partnered with poetics — layered rhyme, alternating meter — using complexly concise lines. Mad Skillz gets that. The ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Mad Skillz, Grammy-winning rapper, producer, writer and professor, talks with Chandler Nunnally about his spoken-word poetry album "Words For Days, Vol. 1" and his win at the 68th ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond musician has received his first Grammy after working on the album of a fellow Richmond-native rapper. Richmond-native Shaqwan Lewis, also known as rapper “Mad Skillz, ...

The Grammys are this weekend, and Richmond's Mad Skillz returns with a spoken word poetry album featuring a collaborative effort of more than a dozen Richmonders. For the second consecutive year, Mad ...

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