Luck-One - Breaking The Portland Curse

In basketball circles Portland is known as a city of missed opportunities. It was Portland that drafted Sam Bowie ahead of Michael Jordan. It was Portland that drafted Greg Oden ahead of Kevin Durant. Comedian Fred Armisen has a hit show on IFC called Portlandia, which depicts Portland as a place where the 90s never died. No one mentions Portland hip-hop. Portland native Luck-One has an inkling as to why–there isn’t very much of it to speak of. Now residing in Seattle, Luck-One recently released True Theory, an album broken up into three distinct acts. Luck-One’s own life has almost been broken up into three distinct acts–his childhood, his half decade of incarceration, and his current status as one of Portland’s few shining hopes in hip-hop. Will Luck-One be able to be the replacement for the Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant Portland missed the opportunity to have? Will he be the one to bring the city into the present day? Only time will tell, but we caught up with him to find out more about his life, his music, his activism while he was in prison, and why he no longer partakes in activism now.

Read the full interview at: RapReviews.com.