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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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Ten cool things to do in Chicago in July
What to do now that summer is officially here
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gossip Wolf: Surachai’s scary semimodular synth
Surachai’s scary semimodular synth, the Empty Bottle’s silly staff podcast, and more