Rodan

Rodan is a rapper, journalist, author, music producer, visual artist, dancer, entrepreneur, and radio show and podcast host based out of New York, NY. He was an original member of KMD, when it was still a graffiti/breakdance/rap group, performing under the name Jade1. Rodan would leave the group less than a year after formation (1988 or 1989) to finish high school. He returned to hip hop in 1996 and featured on [a=MF DOOM]'s 1999 album 'Operation: Doomsday' as a member of the Monsta Island Czars, a group founded around 1996/1997 by MF Grimm and MF DOOM. Rodan released his first EP "Flight Lessons" in 2002, "Rodan" EP in 2004, and would later release his first and only released album to date, 'Theophany: The Book of Elevations" in the same year.
Since then, Rodan has been relatively quiet, only appearing on a few X-Ray and [a=MeccaGodzilla] projects since. Around 2010, Rodan started using the alias Norrin Raddical. From 2010 until 2012, Rodan was a moderator of the website BoxingSocialist.com. In 2013, Rodan founded MACCAM, A boxing themed, social-community-oriented, programming and production, concept development brand. In 2014, Rodan became a co-host of the radio show Dontae's Boxing Nation. In 2020, Rodan published the novel 'The Social Politics of the Sweet Science: the Peculiar Case of Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao', a documentation of the fight. Rodan planned to release a mixtape entitled 'AmeriKKKan Inquisition" in 2013, but has yet to release the full album. He has been uploading tracks from it (13 of 20 planned) on his YouTube channels as recent as 2025.