Atmosphere’s rapper Slug didn’t harbor any aspirations that he and producer Ant would have a long career when they started releasing music 39 years ago. Their hometown of Minneapolis wasn’t exactly a ...

Before picking up a microphone and putting lyrics to the beats of Anthony Davis, AKA Ant, Sean Michael Daley was a courier driver, loving every second of it. “I was delivering stuff, and I probably ...

From college radio stations in 1996 to Epitaph and MTV in the 2000s, Atmosphere heralded the wave of introspective underground rap. The prolific duo, rapper Sean Daley (Slug) and producer Anthony ...

“We’re definitely one of the Indiana Jones’ of ‘sad face rap,’” Daley decided during a recent Zoom call. “I don’t think Drake’s ever heard of Atmosphere, so please take what I’m going to say with a ...