VALEE & HARRY FRAUD - Virtuoso These two are almost veterans. Harry Fraud and Valee, indeed, have been two promising people over the 2010's. By the beginning of the decade, the former became a trendy producer after he collaborated with French Montana. […]
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 starts buzzing outside of Chicago, BlockOnDaTrack, a local beatmaker, decides it is time to offer a feminine voice to this virile sound. He convinces his cousin Kiara Johnson - a student […]
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 […]
CHIEF KEEF - Back From The Dead It is no coincidence if, in February this year, Chief Keef announced the release of a mixtape called Back From The Dead 2. While titling it as the release that revealed him, the figurehead of Chicago's drill music scene […]
ALL NATURAL - No Additives, No Preservatives The story of All Natural is typical of indie rappers. Here we have, by the end of the 90's, a promising band coming from Chicago - by then not a rap stronghold yet. These guys start negotiating a contract with the Wild […]
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 […]
