Todays music scene is heavily influenced by Trap and Drill Music. And Chicago seems to finally be in the spotlight. Seemed as if most rappers weren’t made famous by mainstream media until they were killed. There were plenty of Drill Music rappers even I had never heard of until they were publicized after death. Most journalists were chasing the dead rapper stories and real talent was being over shadowed.
Now that the hype around Drill music has died down and the landscape has become so deadly to maneuver very few underground Chicago artist have anything other to offer musically other than a new pack. Chicago rapper Hardknock is here to change that.
Releasing his most anticipated album “3620” Hardknock brings a familiar vibe to Bronzeville neighborhood he is from. Also known as the Low End the album title is named after the public housing buildings the Snoop World rapper grew up in.The very last few of Chicago’s public housing high rise buildings that weren’t demolished in the early 2000’s. The three building housing complex actually named “Lawless Gardens” stands across the lot from where the now demolished infamous Ida B Wells housing complex used to be. Overlooking Martin Luther King Drive a few miles north of “Parkway Gardens” also known as O Block.
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