Three Midwest scenes converge here. Fort Wayne's Sankofa, one of the region's most relentlessly prolific voices with a Bandcamp catalog pushing past 80 releases built almost entirely on one-producer, one-friend collaborations, hands the boards to Detroit's Chef Mike of Common and Normal — a producer whose beat-tape work favors raw, discordant boom bap over polish. Defcee, the Chicago lifer whose Backwoodz ties (via billy woods, Curly Castro, PremRock) have sharpened his reputation over the past half-decade, brings his usual density: a former Young Chicago Authors mentee turned public school teacher, rapping like someone grading his own bars. The result plots survival routes through rising costs with clear-eyed rather than defeated energy.
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