Qwel

Co-founder of Chicago-based underground rap staff the Typical Felines, Qwel constantly blurred the series between written prose and rap lyrics upon each successive record through the 2000s. Using a tone of voice uninflected in build, the cerebral MC aggressively delivers each phrase, structuring his verses into multi-syllable rhyme plans. His design was nurtured from as an enthusiastic participant from the Midwest’s (Chicago specifically) rhyme-battling picture during the period of the past due ’90s and early 2000s, which is certainly how he fulfilled rap co-workers Qwazaar, Denizen Kane, and DJ Organic to form Regular Cats. Qwel’s initial major documenting was the normal Felines’ self-titled debut, released in 2001 by indie record firm Galapagos4. That knowledge initiated an in depth relationship using the label which Qwel continuing to construct as Galapagos4 became a fixture within Chicago’s underground hip-hop community, also after it transferred its functions to California. Qwel’s single debut, If It Ain’t Experienced the Pawn Store, After that It Can’t Play the Blues, also found its way to 2001. It launched him like a organic rapper susceptible to building intricate ideas — a razor-sharp comparison to his rhyme-battling times. Greatest illustrating Qwel’s propensity for lyrical exploration and experimentation had been the group of collaborative albums conceptualizing collectively the four months as well as the four horsemen from the apocalypse (from your Bible’s Publication of Revelation). 2004’s The Harvest, a cooperation with fellow Chicagoan and Glue beatsmith Manufacturer, was the 1st in the series. The next in the series (and his 5th official work), Refrigerator Burner, presented the colder, lo-fi creation of labelmate Meaty Ogre and premiered in 2006.