Detroit Hip-Hop Artist Mister and Baltimore Rapper Height Keech Are Keeping It Weird

October 25, 2019

The pair are wrapping up a national tour with a skeleton-themed show this Sunday at Deluxx Fluxx in Detroit.

Mister and Height Keech

Baltimore rapper and podcast host Dan Keech has been performing since 2000 under the name Height Keech.

His latest release, “Raw Routes,” features Detroit hip-hop artists Goldzilla, Illingsworth and Mister, the stage name of Kresge Artist Fellow Bryan Lackner.

Height and Mister are longtime collaborators who are bridging the music scenes of Baltimore and Detroit.

“There’s totally differences, but I would say that what I tend to notice are good similarities, outside of a traditional hip-hop model.” – Height Keech

The pair are wrapping up a national tour with a Halloween-themed show on Sunday, October 27 at Detroit’s Deluxx Fluxx.

Click the player above to hear CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire talk with Keech and Lackner about finding the right stage name and why skeletons are the great equalizer of Halloween costumes.

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  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning journalist and managing editor and lead reporter of WDET's new environmental series, the Detroit Tree Canopy Project, as well as WDET's CuriosiD podcast. She was the host of WDET’s CultureShift and a founding producer of the station’s flagship news talk show *Detroit Today*. Amanda also served as a Morning Edition host at WDET and previously worked as a host, audio and video producer, and reporter for Arizona Public Media.

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