Special Effects

The frontal lobes of the human brain are directly connected to an individual’s primary emotion, conscious thought, social conduct and sense of empathy. It’s with definite purpose that in the first 10 seconds of the introductory track (“The Procedure”) to Tech N9ne’s 15th studio album, Special Effects, that the listener finds themselves in an operating room with surgeons on the brink of incision in

Tech N9ne is not a stoic person. The Kansas City rapper, famous for his theatrical live shows and for building an independent rap empire from a grassroots approach, has something that is sure to make his core audience don their masks and makeup...

Tech N9ne stopped to speak with Montreality during a recent tour stop in Canada, and—as many of his peers have been in the past ten days since it dropped—was asked for his response to Kendrick Lamar's massive "Control" verse. "My rea...