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

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

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.

Author

  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning host and producer of CultureShift on 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She’s a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, and a former host/reporter for Arizona Public Media. Amanda is also an artist, certified intuitive and energy healer, and professional tarot reader.