Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune recently ranked his top 1o indie Chicago albums and the homie Cap D snagged the top spot. Cue the applause! Psalm One & Rhymefest’s albums were also featured in the list, landing the number 5 & 9 spots.
How to define success? David “Cap D” Kelly offers a few ideas that suggest it’s about more than accumulating immediate financial reward. For more than a decade, this erudite MC has been forging his own path with his label and group (both named All Natural), as well as his solo projects. He is criminally under-recognized nationally, but he takes a back seat to no MC with his sharp mind, incisive flow and increasingly robust tracks in the Chicago dusties-soul tradition. Though typecast as too high-minded for an art form that puts a premium on swagger, there’s nothing soft about these rhymes. In “Chicago Five-O” he’s as ominous as a shiv in a back-alley rumble, exposing the brutal politics of race relations in the streets of his home city. A landmark release from one of the best MC’s this city has produced.
Congrats to Cap. You can check out the full list here.
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