Retch should be home soon. The New Jersey rapper got himself jammed up on a probation violation last year and was forced to do a little skid bid, but he’s ready and itching to get back to the music.

New Jersey is not a rap backwater, though it likes to think of itself as one sometimes. The state's history in rap goes back a long, long way. Big Bank Hank was working at a pizza parlor in Englewood ...