Articles by Dylan Deprey

It seems like every hip-hop head’s worst nightmares has come true… Desiigner’s “Timmy Turner” will be a definite song. The single artwork surfaced on his Instagram early Monday morning on July 11. The “Panda” rapper’s recent 2016 XXL Freshman Class Magazine cypher had people scratching their heads wondering, “Did he just say Timmy Turner?” His […]

Album: 2x. Artist: Lil Durk. Label: OTF, Coke Boys, Def Jam. Released: July 22, 2016. Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap. Price: $11.99. Through the glitz and glamour that emits from downtown Chicago, shadows are cast onto the surrounding neighborhoods. Whether it is a heroin addict overdosing at the bus stop or a child never making it to the […]

Album: Blank Face LP. Artist: ScHoolboy Q. Label: Interscope/Top Dawg Entertainment. Released: July 8th, 2016. Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap. Price: $12.99. ScHoolboy Q’s days of drug dealing and gangbanging are behind him but his legacy will forever be wrapped in a blue bandana. “Groovy Q” has been a Hoover St. Crip his entire life and always will […]

Kanye West’s recent G.O.O.D. music signee, Desiigner, has leapt from 19-year-old Brooklyn native with zero previous projects to the number one spot on the Billboard charts. He recently earned a spot on the XXL Magazine Freshman Class cover. There is no doubt about it that the song “Panda” bumps, but if it were up to […]

We are going back to the Sesame Street days and playing “guess which thing is not like the others.” Here we go. Spain, Italy, Portugal, Wisconsin. Do you have your answer? If you guessed Wisconsin, you were right. The true meaning of the answer is not because Wisconsin is a state and the rest are […]

The streets of Milwaukee are the skateboarder’s urban playground. Stairs and handrails are normally seen as a necessary piece of architecture but to skateboarders doing a trick down it can be the final banger for a video part. The rough ground can gash the palms of any innocent skateboarder mistakenly hitting a single pebble. It […]

For a map of Milwaukee’s best skateboarding spots, click here. The blaring punk music of Riverwest’s Fuel Café reverberated in patrons’ eardrums as they walked through the door. Rob Owens, a veteran of the skateboard industry, sits in line like any other normal customer. Once outside, the brisk October wind blows the smoke of his […]

The frigid November wind whipped the door of the split-level house in Shorewood, WI. At 87-years-old, Raye David hobbled down the cascading stairs with a hand fashioned cane. As she sauntered back up, her teal pajamas accented the crimson walls. Paintings caressed every inch of her living room. Sculptures that spanned from crystal to porcelain […]

Feb. 27, 1969 was just another normal day at Naval Support Activity Da Nang, South Vietnam. The LCU-1500 was unloading ammunition when a rocket collided with the side of the ship and destroyed it. On that ship was Bruno W. Demata. At the age of 18, Bruno DeMata decided to enlist in the United States Navy. […]

It was emotional as the sounds of crying and sniffling emanated from a crowded courtroom, where every spot in the gallery was full as Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Wagner sent defendant Do Thao to prison for more than four decades in the double homicide of Bee Lee Chang and Jack Yang. The Friday sentencing […]

As James Christensen walks into the UW-Milwaukee Cambridge Common, he’s ecstatic as usual. His security badge picture matches the smile on his face. Wrapped around his neck is a bowtie, the one thing he’s especially known for around campus. He clocks in. He straps on a heavy set of keys to his belt. He sits […]

Kyle Noll is working on getting his master’s degree in volcanic studies at UW-Milwaukee. In his free time, he uses his favorite past time and love for billiards to teach students at the UWM Union Rec Center. Dylan Deprey reports.