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Best Of Our Culture

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  • Hip-Hop
  • Trap-Soul
  • Electronic

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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 BOOC, bitch.

THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC

Chris M | Best Of Our Culture (BOOC)

One Man. Four Personas. A Thousand Stories. One Pen.

Behind the voices, the genres, the characters, and the music stands one man: Chris M — the mind, the heart, and the pen behind Cee Dubs, Monty Lowe, Cook Kane Kitchen, and El Lobo Gringo.

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Elgin, Illinois // Culture Sector
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Movement // Hip-Hop // Trap-Soul // Electronic
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Throne construction, genre traversal, outsider mobilization
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Hip-hop, trap-soul, blues, Chicago house, juke, dancehall
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  1. Pulse Apocalypse cover

    01 Current Intro

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    03 Bachata Smoke Mirrors

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    04 Never Been Wetter

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    05 Call Me Marty

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    06 Cold Nights

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    07 Dont Be Mad

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    08 Empty Cup (BOOC Bounce)

    Pulse Apocalypse
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    09 Feeling Good Mashup

    Pulse Apocalypse
  10. Pulse Apocalypse cover

    10 How Could I Love

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    11 I Feel Like Skeletor

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  12. Pulse Apocalypse cover

    12 I Met Her in the City Round the Corner

    Pulse Apocalypse
  13. Eddy cover

    Eddy

    Eddy

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2271 spins in the last 14 days · 4613 in 30 days · 4762 logged since Oct 7, 2026.

  • Nobody Sends Flowers (feat. Elfoiii & Javi)296 / 30d · 318 total
  • Eddy296 / 30d · 317 total
  • Such A Good Day295 / 30d · 316 total
  • Knife Smiled (Remix)295 / 30d · 316 total
  • Right Girl Wrong Time294 / 30d · 315 total
  • Zero Gravity294 / 30d · 315 total
  • Cultchya Dem (feat. Herbie Diamond)292 / 30d · 314 total
  • Call Me Marty256 / 30d · 256 total
  • I Feel Like Skeletor255 / 30d · 255 total
  • Cold Nights 1255 / 30d · 255 total

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