
In 2003, Cole Mercer thought he was on the way up. On a small Portland stage under bad lights and borrowed noise, he called himself The Grinch and mistook a crowd's ragged cheer for the start of something permanent. Two decades later, what remains of that dream is a...

He was Portland's underground king. Now he's just a ghost livestreaming from a piss-stained garage. Matt Wade, once a rising rap star known as Grinchmobb, ruled the city's stages with dope-fueled swagger and raw lyricism. But fame curdled fast. Scandal, addiction, and a sex crime...