Before he became the renowned hip-hop artist Tech N9ne, a young Aaron Yates spent every Thanksgiving night watching the Country Club Plaza lights come on. So it is monumental, he says, to be the one ...

Perhaps the artist to define the Kansas City music scene the past 25 years, rap icon Tech N9ne is a Midwest original. His faithful following — which includes the Columbia audiences who flock to ...

"It is kind of weird in a way," said Stephen Johnson, a 44-year-old Tech N9ne fan who attended Boulevardia for the first time to see the Kansas City artist. "I can remember going to a Tech N9ne ...