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Tag: Frank Leone
Frank Leone’s hip-hop experiments make for a beautifully bizarre debut album
Rapper-producer Frank Leone grew up in the town of Monticello, just southwest of Champaign, and began taking music seriously after a chance meeting with Vic Mensa at a downstate Lupe Fiasco show in 2011. Since dropping his debut mixtape in 2015, he’s reworked his sound, moved to Los Angeles, and scrubbed the Web of large […]
Rapper-producer Frank Leone recruits Monster Mike for his relaxed, glistening new single
Onetime Chicagoan Frank Leone revisits “Cocaine for Kids,” an instrumental he initially made for rapper-producer Lucki Ecks.
Malcolm London broadens the Chicago hip-hop scene with ‘I’mPossible’
The activist, poet, and educator officially adds “rapper” to his growing CV, and the scene is better for it.
Ten cool things to do in Chicago in July
What to do now that summer is officially here
Carve out some ‘Me Time’ for the Odd Couple’s new album
The soul-heavy single “Me Time” is one of the finer moments from the producer’s new debut full-length.
Up-and-coming rapper Frank Leone discusses his debut full-length, Enter Wild
The 19-year-old talks about the influence of Vic Mensa, Chicago violence, and Phantom of the Opera.
Listen to rapper-singer Noname Gypsy’s ‘Cherrypie Blues,’ off the new cassette compilation from Two Syllable Records
This lovely, woozy ditty appears on Chicago Cassette Compilation: Volume 2, which comes out on Tuesday.
Frank Leone’s star is one to watch in the constellation of Chicago hip-hop
And his new B side cut, “0-Ahaaaaa,” is a great example of why you should pay attention.
Gossip Wolf: Surachai’s scary semimodular synth
Surachai’s scary semimodular synth, the Empty Bottle’s silly staff podcast, and more