On a gray, windy day, just off the main commercial strip in Columbia City, two of the Seattle hip-hop scene’s brightest stars are meeting at Vietnamese coffee shop Coffeeholics. On one side of the table you have Burien hometown hero Travis Thompson; on the other, gold-plated producing legend Jacob Brian Dutton, aka Jake One.
Both artists are storied creators in their own right. Thompson made his bones in the rap scene as a teenager hanging outside the Crocodile in Seattle, tagging in for stage time long before dropping much-beloved 2016 album Ambaum and penning tracks with the likes of G-Eazy. Dutton, a generation older than Thompson, was raised
→ Continue reading at Eater