Continuing my long running creative partnership with Chicago polymath Marvin Tate, we will present a duo set as part of the Monday night free music series at the Empty Bottle.

Additional sets from Glad Rags and Rahim Salaam (record release)

More about Rahim Salaam:

After a music career spanning four decades in Chicago, local underground arts legend Rahim

Salaam now takes time to look back. His first label release “The Amateur Method: A

Retrospective” arrives July 7th via Sinkhole Sounds and comes in the form of an 80 track

compilation spanning the 45 solo albums he’s released independently since 2012.

The prolific artist and producer grew up in Cabrini Green (now affluent Lincoln Park) and came

of age during Chicago’s golden era of hip-hop in the 90s and early 2000’s. Performing under the

monikers Doctor Who and Rageing Salaam, the helmet-adorning emcee was a member of Blunt

Crew, Immortals, and notably had features with Sadat X. While these formative years sculpted

his creative process, as Salaam expanded his musical exploration he began to feel limited in his

creative expression due to judgment from peers while continuing to reckon with the racist image

expectations the music industry places on Black artists.