From Orchard Park and The Wiseguys to The Sonic Memoir, 30-Plus Years of Boston Hip-Hop, Brotherhood, Reinvention and Giving Back
Boston Hip-Hop never needed permission to exist. Long before the city’s rap history received its proper flowers, artists were already putting their neighborhoods, experiences and voices on wax. Orvell Hairston—better known as Mann Terror—was there helping lay that groundwork.
Raised in Roxbury’s Orchard Park Projects, Mann learned early that bein