Hip-hop prodigy Kaicrewsade puts community first - Chicago Reader

Hip-hop prodigy Kaicrewsade puts community first - Chicago Reader

When I played my friend “Match?” and “Slow Dancing to Liv.e,” the newest singles from Chicago rapper Kaicrewsade, she immediately knew she was hearing something special.  “Match?” opens with smooth string swells spangled with harp runs and driven by a hushed, restrained beat, and its sonic garden grows to add nylon-strong acoustic guitar and touches […] The post Hip-hop prodigy Kaicrewsade puts community first appeared first on Chicago Reader.

Hip Hop Since 1987

The tension between internet personality Shamarco and rising R&B star Iam Shamar has officially spilled into music, as Shamarco recently teased a diss track via Instagram Stories—just hours after Iam Shamar made a public statement that he would not entertain negativity online. The drama stems from Iam Shamar’s claim that Shamarco has been using a name and image uncomfortably close to his own, blurring lines between originality and imitation. Iam…