Archives of June 2014 (2)

The music of Chicago's Maintenance Crew was rather conservative, and as such quite aligned with the rest of the indie rap scene established in the Windy City, and elsewhere in the Midwest. The trio's first album, Eternal Sunshine of the Simple Mind, was indeed made entirely of good old jazzy loops, well balanced samples, and political and conscious raps about Chicago or their own lives, delivered in a way very close to spoken word. Maintenance Crew was, as a matter of fact, not too far from labels like Rhymesayers and Galapagos4, stylistically speaking, relying on a well-known and well-tried formula. But G, how good it was!