Sa-Roc

Rapper Sa-Roc combined technically acrobatic flows, socially conscious lyrics, and clean production for a series of releases that established her as a formidable force in independent hip-hop throughout the 2010s. She went from self-distributed mixtapes to signing with the Rhymesayers label, which released her 2020 album The Sharecropper's Daughter. Sa-Roc was born Assata Perkins in Washington, D.C. at the end of 1981. She was involved in both music and activism from an early age, rapping as early as 2002. It was around then that she dropped out of college and left D.C. for At...