On the first day of the new millennium, rapper Slug, one half of Minneapolis-based duo Atmosphere, opened his guest verse on DJ Abilities’ song “Exclusive” by recalling “the earlier days when [he] ...

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 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. After all, Minneapolis, their hometown, wasn’t ...