With Kendrick Lamar, Blxst has become the sound of L.A. hip-hop

A man performing onstage.

On a suffocating afternoon in early September, the cavernous Hollywood Palladium was unnaturally empty. Inside, the South-Central hip-hop artist Blxst (pronounced “Blast”) ran through a soundcheck before his second sold-out show at the 4,000 capacity […]