Tree

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Just because Tree is breaking out of Chicago's drill scene doesn't mean the "soul trap" MC is leaving the Windy City behind. In his new…

Windy City MC Tree keeps racking up accolades following the January release of his @MCTREEG EP, a powerful follow-up to his Sunday School II: When…

Kari Faux, "House of Avalon"Little Rock, Arkansas' Kari Faux discovered a way to merge cloud rap and hip-house on this go-for-it rap — over and…

Chicago MC Tree is dropping a surprise set on January 21 — the @MCTREEG EP, which so far seems chock-full of the rapper-singer's signature soultrap…

Tree is another of Chicago's rising rap stars, emerging from the city's drill-music scene with a soulful mix of smoky melody and thoughtful rhyme —…

Chicago MC Tree has shared a new video in honor of his super-solid May mixtape Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out. As one might expect…

Tree is an old soul in the Chicago rap scene. He self-describes his music as "soul trap," which means that he takes samples by artists…

Chicago rap is more aesthetically diverse than it gets credit for, and one of the city's less well-known rappers whose carved out his own niche…

Sunday School, Chicago rapper/producer Tree's mixtape from earlier this year, boldly reconfigured the crate-digging boom-bap style which defined the '90s, and later on went grandiose…

Alternate title for this little listicle: THE FIVE MOST SLEPT-ON ALBUMS OF THE SPIN NO TRIVIA ERA. Cutting the year into quarters and gauging where…