CHIEF KEEF - 4NEM In the last few years, Chief Keef didn't stop being the prolific rapper we know. He collaborated with Zaytoven and he provided follow-ups to the Leek and GloFiles mixtapes. None of these, though, pretended to be an […]
POLO G - Die a Legend Polo G, as we know him, was born in a prison. Before he was incarcerated, Taurus Bartlett, like other Chicago rookies, used to deliver some generic kind of drill music. But in 2018, behind bars, he decided to change his […]
QUEEN KEY - Your Highness Queen Key is the embodiment of rap's take on feminism. Instead of desexualizing women, she talks about lust, loudly and proudly. Her approach, though, is different from CupcaKke's, her Chicago colleague,. Ke'Asha McClure […]
KATIE GOT BANDZ - Bandz and Hittaz By 2011, just when drill music started buzzing outside of Chicago, BlockOnDaTrack, a local beatmaker, decided it was time to offer a feminine voice to this virile and aggressive subgenre. He convinced his cousin Kiara […]
CUPCAKKE - Queen Elizabitch According to her Twitter profile, Elizabeth Harris is "going to suck 2017 dicks in 2017". No surprise then, if her first official album – or her second, depending on how they are counted – remains quite similar […]
NONAME - Telefone The wait was long, before Fatimah Warner's first project, Telefone, was disclosed. Released in 2016 only, it was first announced three years earlier, when Noname Gypsy – now just Noname – made a name for herself with her […]
QWEL & MAKER - The Harvest Prior to this album, Qwel was mostly known as a member of the Typical Cats, one of the main acts of Galapagos4, an indie rap label from Chicago. His two albums, If It Ain't Been In a Pawn Shop... and The Rubber Duckie […]
