| About N.E.P.H.E.W | N.E.P.H.E.W. Its not just a name, its a philosophy, an outlook, an approach, a way of life. The 24-year-old Chicago rapper describes his music as hip-hop slash world, but dont expect to hear any tribal chanting or Brazilian drumwork from Nephew. Instead, prepare to take a journey into the mindstate of Chicagos best-kept secret. We all seen the same thing, we all lived the same pain, we all got the same struggles, man, one way or another, "he insists". The uniqueness of the music come cause everybody tell a different story, a different side of town, a different situation. Nephew returned to Chicago in 2006 with a renewed sense of energy and a desire to make a name for himself in Chicagos highly competitive hiphop scene. He immediately released a debut mixtape, Chi State of Mind, that created a small but very real splash. Nephew was on the map. In 2007, he issued a followup, The Prestige, that cemented Nephews status as a Chicago MC on the rise. He toured extensively and sold mixtapes from a dilapidated backpack. Within months accolades (and orders) poured in from around the globe, and Nephew built a substantial online following in Japan, Korea, Germany, Poland, and England. Nephews strategy paid handsome dividends. The resulting opus, Neph-ology (issued August 23, 2008 on his own Grind Mind Recordings imprint) is 13 tracks of lyrical firepower and rhymes as hard as Chicago steel. Combining headknocking beats with words that poke, provoke, and evoke, Neph-ology is nothing less than a first-round knockout. Neph-ology makes you think, it makes you dance, it makes you want to achieve the impossible or even go against the grain . Neph-ology takes you on a tour of the grimiest gutters but also reaches for the stars. At the end of the day, Neph-ology is not about the streets, Neph-ology is the streets. In a word, its passion. |
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