“Always Detroit Basketball.” The campaign, narrated by Detroit-based Lifestyle Specialist Ty Mopkins, is a tribute to the city’s rich culture and its deep connection with…
Aww look at y'all still kinda looking like in high school gentlemen still riddling for the sake of rhyming pour up that Uncle Nearest small batch perfect timing now that's what I called Ergonomic (Aye) AML equals legacy let it…
On this day, 20 summers ago, my crew Athletic Mic League released our very first debut album, Sweats & Kicks. With this album, we were determined to make our mark in this rap game. We learned alot putting this together…
“First AN10NA” is short film shot and edited by artist, musician, producer, and AML extended fam Sterling Toles. It features the songs "Finish Line" and also "Complications" and "Cosmos"…
I was about 18 years old living that young Jersey City, NJ apartment life. Five of us from AML lived in that apartment together. Jamall, Tres, Vaughan, Wes, and myself. I shared a room with Vaughan T (Texture…
"The first thing my mom said to me when I got baptized was "Do you feel any different?" I replied with motionless emotion I said and felt nothing but little did I know something strange took place everything started to…
The Mic League celebrates the opening of Story, Word, Sound, Sway (SWSS) an 11 person exhibition of black alumni at the University of Michigan Penny Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor. Co-curated…
"I'm the future you can't plan for that's pregnant with a vanguard leave you where you stand while I'm a walking landmark Walk until i'm grandpa gold coffin in a black car loft in the afterlife laughing with…
"I heard that what you live by you die by in conversations so don't be surprised if I die from heart complications Been a long walk since cutting and pasting generated tones to owning P - Basses…
"If he tries to bite the style I don't care if the kids, teachers, and clerks liked his smile I'll still sheath knife the child Keep a sharp remark hidden underneath the fitted someone once tried to …
This is one of several sessions during the Richmond Retreat, featuring the The Lab Tech production crew behind the AML sound. In this episode, Me and 3Steez bounce off each other, while trying to recreate a jam session from the…
On the dawn of a looming worldwide pandemic Athletic Mic League held an epic 4 day retreat at Wes’s creative compound. This was the first time in over 15 years my crew were able to assemble…
This was the second night at our week-long AML retreat back in March. Trés had been asking me to play a beat all day that I was working on late the night before. Sometimes when I make what I…
"Two unclothed teenagers sit in a room dude on top missionary position assumed her feelings submerged in the rhythm of you and the boom box but just another pair of boots knocking to you nervous as the truth watches legs…
"Once again another AML testament the curtains rise drama disguised no choice but leaving hard surmises MIDAS'll vocalize the setting wetting the Jedi for weak competing med-i-c's is what you're getting for calling out the seven brethren unexpecting to see…
"Can you hear me? Are you listening? I am the voice who fought silence to make statements a minority That's how you rate greatness? light-skin but still looked at as the strange tint reminiscent of rapes, trades, ships…