Awol One talks in a wheezy, stoner-dude voice, one that is friendly and cordial but speaks to hard living. Approximately halfway between Cheech N Chong and the Great White North, its inflections imply ...

As a graf artist, DJ and MC, AWOL came up in the same California underground scene that gave birth to such respected hip-hop artists as the Shape Shifters and the Project Blowed crew. He’s released a ...

Many underground rap fans will know the rapper AWOL One best as a member of the huge and endlessly creative Los Angeles hip-hop collective Shape Shifters, which has on more than one occasion performed ...

[SUBTLY ODD HIP-HOP] Collaborations with the bat-shit Awol One and Oldominion's Sleep set transplanted Portlander Josh Martinez on firm experimental footing. But in his case, it's more a mindset and ...