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DOORS 7 // MUSIC 8
Two rising stars out of the Backwoods Studioz universe join us for a night of hip-hop.

Layering thoughtful bars over jazz-soaked beats, Brooklyn’s AKAI SOLO has been creating his brand of laid-back lo-fi hip-hop since 2019. The head of progressive creative collective Tase Grip, the rapper’s influences range from anime and video games to the political climate in the US. With collaborations alongside fellow soul rappers Pink Siifu and billy woods, Pitchfork described 2022’s Spirit Roaming as an album “anchored by muted samples and soul-baring soliloquies”.

Sharif doesn’t look at his performances with the traditional lens that a normal rapper does, bukt treats the live show as a spiritual experience where Sharif and the crowd become married through raging and serenity. With being inspired as a child by Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, and Parliament Funkadelic it’s hard to put Fatboi in a box. Grit over glamour is the name of his game. Production wise, once he finds the right instrumental that speaks to him in his language, he’ll sit with it for a few weeks and sleep to it on repeat. he’ll dream and see certain visions, colors, and shapes that create an image on top of the production canvas. This keeps his music everlasting.