Growing Critical Recognition
In recent years, DVS Mindz has received growing critical acclaim as a seminal rap group in the Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka music scene. In 2008, Topeka journalist Zach Trimble wrote that “DVS Mindz virtually created the Kansas rap landscape”
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