RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond rapper and native Mad Skillz, or Shaqwuan Lewis, has been captivating audiences with his smooth lyrics and rapping style for more than 30 years. He’s often credited for ...

Rapper Mad Skillz has returned with his yearly round-up song for 2024. Skillz’s return with “2024 Rap Up” comes out of the blue because he retired in 2021. He’d previously been dropping yearly ...

Skillz reveals he wrote Jay-Z’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, reflecting on his career shift and future plans in a conversation with AllHipHop. Skillz is stepping into a new chapter, and ...

After a lengthy absence from the whole, "Rap Up" game, Mad Skillz has returned. Over the weekend, the veteran MC made time to drop “The 2024 Rap Up,” his first end-of-year recap song in three years.

Richmond rapper Mad Skillz performed in the city on Sunday as part of Dogwood Dell's 67th Festival of the Arts, and 8News had the opportunity to speak with him about his homecoming performance. On ...

For decades, Virginia lyricist Mad Skillz has been a ghostwriter for some of your favorite MCs. While he keeps his clients close to the vest, he has a lot to say about the taboo topic. The rapper ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The full nominations list for this year’s Grammy Awards was released last week, and among the names was Richmond’s very own Mad Skillz. The Richmond rapper Mad Skillz — also ...

Veteran rapper Mad Skillz says he needed a little extra motivation to record his "2025 Rap Up" track -- a year-end tradition for him since 2002 -- but is glad he did for his boy, D'Angelo!!! TMZ Hip ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not all hip-hop is meant to be poetic. But aficionados argue the genre is best when partnered with poetics — layered rhyme, ...

It’s hard not to feel bad for Skillz; the man’s entire career looks like a study in missed opportunities and bizarre turns of fate. He signed with Rawkus at exactly the wrong moment. He never managed ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond-based rapper and poet Mad Skillz has won his first Grammy Award, taking home the honor for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. Mad Skillz earned ...

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 ...