Author: ryansomers

Ten years after the arrival of his groundbreaking hip-hop zine In Search of . . . Divine Styler, founder Fritz tha Cat has unearthed stacks of dusty rap interviews, flyers, photos, and artwork from the mid- to late- 90s to document both the evolution of the zine and his own trajectory from 18-year-old rap fan to one of the leaders of an underground movement. In the spring of 1996, a gang of … gang of skater hip-hop nerds in London, Canada (of all places), tripped out listening to rapper Divine Styler’s Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light. Inspired by that…