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"This helps me bridge the gap between me being in my own world and the world that everybody else lives in." Allan Kingdom is trying to tap into something elusive. On his new song, "Glass Up," the St. Paul rapper teams up with Chicago producers Odd Couple--and the artists' movement Closed Sessions...

"I'll stop rapping when they lock them fucking cops up." Sometimes the best rap songs are grand undertakings, Bentleys and string sections. Other times it's just spliffs. In the land of 10,000 mostly frozen lakes while on tour, teenaged upstart Chester Watson linked up with local hero Bobby Raps...