For the first edition of The Cipher (then known as Outside the Lines) we brought you a talk with one of our favorite rappers, Jean Grae. Jean’s sophisticated flows and rhyme schemes, hysterical wordplay, and good-old-fashioned violence has kept her at the top of our list since her debut with the group Natural Resource in the 1990s. Her latest release was Cookies or Comas, available free on jeangrae.com, and her album Cake or Death came out later in 2012.

See http://theciphershow.com/episode/1/ for full show notes and comments.