Dan Rys is a writer, editor and journalist living in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past few years, he has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, the Village Voice, Vice, the Couch Sessions, and Hot Press, covering hip hop, funk, soul, R&B, and the music industry, while also working as a contributing editor at Billboard.biz. While writing about the New York City hip hop scene, he has followed the career of rising rapper Joey Bada$$, a Brooklyn native with a penchant for making music that harkens back to the old-school NYC hip hop artists such as Nas and Notorious BIG.