Closed Sessions artist, Kweku Collins, is the cover boy for his week’s Agenda, which is a Sunday publication from the Chicago Reader and Sun-Times. It will include Leor Galil’s very-dope in-depth feature, which you can read right here.
Closed Sessions signed Collins last March. Fake Shore Drive broke the news in April by premiering his song “Start a Fire” alongside a get-to-know-him interview. Since then the 19-year-old MC, raised on poetry, West African percussion, and Bob Marley, has contributed vocals to several Closed Sessions releases, usually working with in-house producersOddCouple and Boathouse: the OddCouple full-length Chatterbox in July, the label compilation Spicy Caliente in September, and the Boathouse EPHibernation in February. Collins has also kept busy with solo work, dropping singles like a trail of bread crumbs for his fans—most recently “Ego Killed Romance” in late March—and the July EP Say It Here, While It’s Safe, his first for Closed Sessions. In the process Collins has become a marquee artist for the label, which has been an integral part of the local hip-hop scene since it launched as a multimedia experiment in 2009.
You can also catch Kweku’s headlining Nat Love release show tonight (4/15) at Reggies. A few tickets are still available right here.