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When an artist consistently creates at the forward edge, there are no guardrails. Quelle Chris has been comfortable at the boundaries, leading Hip-Hop since he started. A student of Detroit’s music scene, he cut his teeth with the group Crown Nation and came up with Danny Brown, producing many of his mostbeloved tracks including the frenetic“Monopoly.”

Quelle has been on an artistic dream-run with the critically and fan-lauded albums“Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often,” and “Everything’s Fine”with Jean Grae. He then went on to make“Guns,”before then landing the uppercut with“Innocent Country 2,”produced by Chris Keys. Quelle Chris continues collaborating with the industry’s most creative artists. From billy woods to EarlSweatshirt, Roc Marciano to Mach-Hommy, from The Alchemist to Mndsgn, to comedians like JamesAcaster, Nick Offerman & Hannibal Buress, Quelle’s vision extends beyond genre or format. He continued broadening his creative, Questlove-style ambitions, beyond his own rap albums when he and Chris Keys composed the score for the Oscar-winning film “Judas and The Black Messiah”with director Shaka King.

Known as one of the most dynamic live performers, Quelle Chris gives heartfelt, soul-filled, passionate stage shows. He spent the time we don’t speak of crafting a new, reflective album that hits close to homefor many artists and creatives. The new album,“DEATHFAME,”is a sonic treatment produced by Quelle himself, along with Chris Keys and Knxwledge. The record carries on like an incredible lost tape found atsome Baltimore flea market. It explores, unflinchingly, every moment of the trials the early 2020s hasbrought to all of us. Guests Navy Blue and Pink Siifu lend brilliance to the dynamic and unexpected new album coming May 13th on Mello Music Group.

Named after the leader of a slave revolt that took place in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1820s, Denmark Vessey is a hip-hop artist from Detroit. Combining raw, truthful lyrics with booming golden age-era production, he formed Crown Nation with Quelle Chris. The duo moved to Chicago in 2008, but they kept strong ties to the Detroit hip-hop scene, working with notable artists such as House Shoes, Danny Brown, and Slum Village. Vessey began releasing solo mixtapes in 2012, and he collaborated with Scud One for the 2013 full-length Cult Classic on Dirty Science. Following his 2015 instrumental release The Gift, Vol. 9, he teamed up with Gensu Dean for the 2016 full-length Whole Food on Mello Music Group. In 2017 he released a collaborative album with Azarias titled Buy Muy Drugs.

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