Rusty P's
One of Milwaukee's longest-served hip-hop groups, the Rusty P's have a new album out, LMNOP's. It's a collaboration with LMNTylst, a producer who shares the group's taste in off-kilter funk and has some shared history with them. He'd previously recorded an album with Rusty P's rapper Phantom Channel as The Lab Partners, and some of that record's scope carries through this collaboration as well. You can stream LMNOP's below, ahead of the P's Summerfest gig opening for Public Enemy tonight.
Milwaukee rapper Wave Chapelle, meanwhile, is preparing to release his new full-length. The Yo-Gotti signee's upcoming #W is titled as a nod to both "Wisconsin" and "winning." Watch him silence his haters in the video for the first single from the project, "Quiet."
Brew City upstart Renz Young, meanwhile, may not have Yo-Gotti's backing, but he's been refining his voice and he's beginning to build a following on Soundcloud. His latest single is "Home," which isn't the uplifting love letter to the city you might expect from the title. "We in love with a city that don't love us back," Young raps, over a track that channels some of Kanye West's chip-on-the-shoulder orneriness.
Credit Young for this, too: He's handing with the right crowd. He's a member of the newly minted Midwest collective/label Cultured SECT, which also claims Milwaukee rappers Pizzle, Vonny Del Fresco, Job Jetson, Jae Ace and D.Bridge, among others. This week the collective released its first online compilation, 'RESPECT THE SECT Vol.1: A Cultured Sect Collection, which gathers some recent highlights from the crew. It's a great listen.
