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Long Live The King- King Mez Is Raleigh's Latest Rising Rap Star

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The list of nationally-acclaimed rap artists from North Carolina is getting longer each year. The rise of Little Brother, Rapsody, 9th Wonder, and J. Cole, has solidified our state's place on the map of rap history. North Carolina's latest rap incarnation is Raleigh's . His newest album "," is helping him emerge from a more underground rap scene. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with King Mez about his latest album and the sound of Raleigh's hip-hop and emcee community.
 

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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