1: Jean Grae

For the first edition of Outside the Lines we bring you a talk with one of our favorite rappers, Jean Grae. Jean’s sophisticated flows and rhyme schemes, hysterical wordplay, and good-old-fashioned violence has kept her at the top of our list since her debut with the group Natural Resource in the 1990s. Her latest release is Cookies or Comas, available free on jeangrae.com, and her album Cake or Death is due later this summer.

See http://theciphershow.com/episode/1/ for full show notes and comments.