Hard-Hitting Rap · Country Soul · Folk Storytelling
Kerstetter is a Central Illinois artist built from blue-collar grit, hard lessons, and a lifelong love of music. Known for layered wordplay and sharp punchlines, he brings real personality to every record—whether he’s talking reckless, confronting pain, or turning life experience into something others can feel. His hip-hop lives where dark production, trunk-rattling bass, crooked flows, and honest writing meet. But that’s only one side of his sound. Drawing from country and folk music, Kerstetter also leans into raw storytelling, stripped-back emotion, and songs rooted in family, faith, loss, love, and the realities of working-class life. Kerstetter doesn’t fit neatly into one mold, and that’s the point. His music can be aggressive and grimy without losing substance, vulnerable without begging for sympathy, or completely stripped down when the story deserves room to breathe. More interested in impact than image, Kerstetter makes music for anyone who has ever been counted out, underestimated, or forced to build their confidence the hard way. No matter the genre, every record comes from the same place: real life, told without pretending.
Hip Hop • R&B • Blackout • Melodic Rap
I’m Javi. I’m from Louisiana. Now I’m taking real shit, real thoughts, things I’ve lived through, and even things I just can’t get out of my head and turning them into music. I make melodic rap and hip-hop, but I’ve never wanted to stay stuck in one sound. You might hear R&B, trap, pop, alternative, or something completely different depending on where the song takes me. Sometimes I’m talking about myself, relationships, losing people, wanting more out of life, fucking up, or just trying to figure shit out. At the end of the day, I want to write songs you can live in, not just listen to. I want you to hear something and think, damn, I’ve been there before, or maybe hear me put words to something you couldn’t explain yourself. That’s really why I write. I’m also part of Alienated Individuals Entertainment, AIE. We all bring something different to the table, and that’s what makes it work. So tune in and give us a listen. Maybe you’ll find a song that feels a little too familiar. And who knows? We might, as a whole, become your favorite artists.
Singer-Songwriter · Multi-Genre · Storytelling · Pop
Steph Primo is sweet, sassy, and not afraid to get a little psychotic on a track. Her mission is simple: make you feel something. Whether she’s making you cry, laugh, dance, feel understood, or creeping you out, every song is an emotional roller coaster. She started writing lyrics and melodies at seven years old, turning made-up sibling roasts into a lifelong craft, and uses music to process real trauma and tell true stories. Genre? Good luck pinning her down. Inspired by Eminem, Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, ’90s rock, country, hip-hop, R&B, and dance, Steph blends big ballads, creepy hooks, comedy songs, and whatever weird combination her brain cooks up that day. From African-trap-yodel experiments to poop-joke comedy records, she writes whatever she feels—and wants you to leave thinking, “Holy shit, somebody else gets it.”
Songwriter · R&B · Hip-Hop · Country
Steve Lovins is a songwriter from a small town in Kansas who sings when the liquid courage hits just right. His sound pulls from R&B, Hip-Hop, and Country, blending late-'90s and early-2000s inspiration into something modern. He writes from the heart to help people through hard times and celebrate the good ones — strong messages, a little comedy, and the occasional club record. When you hear "lovins made it," don't press skip.
Movement · Hip-Hop · Trap-Soul · Electronic
Best Of Our Culture is an independent music and creative movement founded in Elgin, Illinois. Before the movement grew into BOOC, its founder first made his name as Cee Dubs—an organic hip-hop artist writing and recording from lived experience, raw emotion and an unmistakable Midwest perspective. Today, Best Of Our Culture pushes beyond one artist or genre. Its sound moves freely through hip-hop, trap-soul, blues, Chicago house, juke, dancehall, dembow and experimental electronic production without losing the human stories at its core. Every record is built from real scars, real relationships and the stubborn belief that outsiders should never have to soften themselves to be heard. The BOOC King represents that evolution: crowned by survival, armored in individuality and standing for every creator who built their own throne when nobody offered them a seat. This is more than music—it is pain turned into purpose, culture without permission and a world where being different is the crown. Established in 2006. Elgin raised. Built from the ground up. It’s the BOOK, bitch.
Melodic Trap · R&B · Confessional
Lamarr Major is a genre-blurring recording artist whose sound lives at the crossroads of melodic trap and confessional R&B. Blending street-edge honesty with intimate, late-night vulnerability, his music captures the tension between love, ego, desire, and self-reflection. His vocal approach shifts fluidly between smooth, melodic phrasing and conversational bars, giving his records the feel of diary entries set to 808s. Drawing from the emotional directness of contemporary R&B, Lamarr’s songs lean into toxic romance, complicated loyalty, pleasure, regret, and the quiet thoughts people rarely say out loud. Equally comfortable making slow-burning bedroom anthems, hypnotic trap confessionals, and reflective spoken-word–influenced records, Lamarr builds songs that feel lived-in rather than performed — music that resonates in headphones at 2 a.m. just as easily as it hits in a car with the bass turned all the way up.
Songwriter · Rap · Experimental · Weird Wop
Paige-Ro, also known as Uncanninati, is a Minnesota-based songwriter and artist whose music is rooted in rap but refuses to stay inside genre lines. Blending dark humor, raw emotion, strange concepts, and unexpected sounds, she creates music that moves wherever her imagination takes it. She is also the creator of Weird Wop—an evolving sound built on unusual combinations, hard-hitting pockets, unpredictable movement, and beats that never get too comfortable. Sometimes heartfelt, sometimes chaotic, and sometimes gloriously strange, Paige-Ro makes music for listeners who like their sound served with a little WTF.
Indie · Lo-Fi · Sad Songs · Alternative R&B
Elfoiii is here talking about how he feels through music. Elfoiii started because he needed somewhere to put all the sad, messy, honest parts of life — the nights you overthink everything, the days you feel like you're falling behind, the moments you miss people you shouldn't. He doesn't make music to go viral. He makes it because sometimes a sad song makes you feel more understood than any advice ever could. If you're here, you're probably feeling something similar. So thanks for listening. You're not alone in it.
Melodic Rap · Emo-Trap · Dark Pop
the.blkrosebud makes music for the parts of you that never healed but still got dressed. Blending melodic rap, emo-trap, and dark pop, he turns love, lust, addiction, ego, and self-destruction into records that hurt and still knock. Pain doesn’t always cry in his world—sometimes it gets fly, talks shit, and keeps moving. An archive of memory, emotion, and existence in sound.
