Kweku hysteria continues. The Closed Sessions artist is having one helluva year, and today he keeps the train rolling with another cover — and this time he lands on the Red Eye. Josh Terry did a dope profile on the Evanston-born rapper, who has been garnering acclaim from near and far:
Throughout his life, Collins has been primed for this path. “Music was just always there. My first memories were being a little guy and playing drums at the house. It was before I could even get my head up to edge of it,” he says. Collins was born in upstate New York to a musical family—his father was a drummer who had a background in jazz and African percussion, while his mother was a dancer at SUNY Brockport. He remembers, “I was born into this shit. I was born into a house where drums were 90 percent of tiny little space we had in upstate New York.” When he was 4, those drums followed the family on the move to their new home in Evanston. “When people think of Evanston in Chicago, they think of the north side of it—they think of Northwestern, where my neighborhood was much more diverse and had a mix of everything,” he says.
Read the full piece here.