Artfull Dodgers

Flint, MI, indie rappers B-Gozza (Brady Gasser) and Jackpot (Rex Demski) founded the Artfull Dodgers (the name deriving from a character in Oliver Twist) in 1996 in order to continue making music, since their previous, larger crew, collectively called the Juggernaut, had dissolved. The duo's first effort, the Dusted World EP, arrived quickly the following year on Midwestern Union Records, and their debut full-length, Lazy Eyes, was released in 1999. Praise from local press and their underground single, "One Mic Then Pass," gave Gozza, who doubles as a producer, and Jackpot mom...