Abdu Ali On Growing Up In Baltimore, Being A Gay Rapper And Working Across Genres

And now, another installment in our series on local musicians.  Producer JonnaMcKone sat down with rapper, DJ and writerAbdu Alito talk about his music, his influences and the regular dance party he organizes.

On January 16^th, he performs with Lower Dens atOttobarand on January 30^th he hosts the dance party Kahlon atThe Crown.  And Ali has a new mixtape called MONGO coming out in February.