Lor Scoota News Today

A new contest from The Sun posed a simple but revealing question to Baltimore teens. Read the five winning essays and a selection of others.

Baltimore city’s music community is mourning the loss of a rising star.According to police, 28-year-old David Boykin, a local artist who went by the stage name

Police have identified a man killed Saturday in the 2500 block of Edgecombe Circle North, in the Parklane neighborhood as Davonte Robinson.

The death of popular rapper Lor Scoota is an example of how the crude system of street justice can move laterally, striking not just perpetrators, but also family and friends. Supporters say Scoota had largely turned away from street life in order to pursue a promising career in music. He still wound up in the crosshairs.

J.M. Giordano reflects on how photography has helped define City Paper's legacy.

Open share drawer The Baltimore rapper continues to earn his “Captain Hook” nickname on an album full of Murda Beatz’s sometimes too-spare production.  Every city with a buzzing rap scene can relate to Baltimore: Throughout the 2010s, as the city’s rap scene caught fire, tragedy after tragedy prevented artists from taking off the same way that their punch-in, flow-obsessed neighbors in the DMV did. The 23-year-old rising star Lor Scoota died in 2016 and local phenom Young...