Supa Bwe’s ear for melody and taste for sweet hooks make him one of the city’s best rappers. Since breaking out in 2014, he’s amassed a cult audience with performances that blend screamo intensity and R&B sensuality, and he was doing it years before Soundcloud rap introduced a cohort of shouty rappers who sounded like […]
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Dead Rider come home to push a queasy new single at the Hideout
Dead Rider come home to push a queasy new single at the Hideout, Artie Do Good drops an EP of delicate indie pop and oddball boom-bap, and more.
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Chicago rapper-singer Supa Bwe continues to cut his own path on Just Say Thank You
Beginning in 2014, Chicago rapper-singer Supa Bwe made his name threading together powerful rapping, forcefully melodic singing influenced by third-wave emo, and intensely vulnerable lyrics that address depression with considerable weight. His work inadvertently blazed a trail for every SoundCloud rapper with more face tattoos than original ideas who’s gotten big over the past few […]
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Sunday’s storms actually improved Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash
Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash has grown into Chicago’s biggest rap festival in just its second year, but it needed a nudge from the elements to get its act together.
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Operation Hennessy digs a new channel for Chicago hip-hop
Keen-eyed rapper Qari hooks up with producer Green Sllime for Operation Hennessy—and opens the floodgates on his friend’s reservoir of irreverent old-school beats.
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The DJs of Windy City Soul Club celebrate ten years of getting asses moving
The DJs of Windy City Soul Club celebrate ten years of getting asses moving, Sunny Woodz throws a release party with a bonkers bill in West Chicago, and more.
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Chicago rapper Supa Bwe laps the pack
Supa Bwe brought pop-punk melodies to hip-hop years before the current crop of Soundcloud rappers, and he’s still evolving on the new Finally Dead.
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Supa Bwe is about to drop one of the best Chicago rap albums of the year
Supa Bwe’s recent Saba-assisted single, “Down Comes the Spaceman,” demonstrates why he could break big with the new Finally Dead.
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Chicago blog Lyrical Lemonade shares its juice with rising rappers
By showing love to potential stars as well as certified sensations, hip-hop outlet Lyrical Lemonade has built a community alongside its brand.
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Chicago rapper-producer Supa Bwe sounds steps from stardom on the first cuts from Finally Dead
Since 2014, Chicago rapper-producer Supa Bwe has celebrated Independence Day by releasing new music. The first couple years he did it as a member of coulda-been-huge experimental rap group Hurt Everybody, and then last year he dropped his solo mixtape Dead Again 3. Supa planned to follow the tradition this year with Finally Dead, but […]
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RIP Chicago rapper-singer Dinner With John, cofounder of Pivot Gang
Dinner With John, born Walter Long Jr. and formerly known as John Walt, was stabbed to death yesterday at age 24.
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Former Hurt Everybody rapper-producer Supa Bwe focuses his powers as a solo artist on Dead Again 3
Supa is in peak form on the taut, minimal mixtape cut “Come Close (Get Away).”
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Track premiere: Local rapper Rich Jones has that old-school ‘W.o.W.’
The Second City Citizens member teams up with Hurt Everybody’s Supa Bwe on this smoky old school track.
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Supa Bwe, Tree, Marvo, and Twista form the local rap-team version of the Avengers
Sunny Woodz assembles some bright Chicago rappers on one track.
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New moments of strange bliss from Chief Keef and Supa Bwe
Both local MCs dropped new material the past week, and the new tunes exhibit some alluring strangeness.