Quelle Chris (Can't Knock the Shuffle Classic)

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Patreon.com/thequestionshiphop questionshiphop.com ORDER THE QUESTIONS HIP-HOP TRIVIA GAME Original Broadcast: May 3, 2021 After first making noise on a national scale through early collaborations with Danny Brown, Quelle Chris kicked off a prolific solo career of his own, including acclaimed albums such as Innocent Country with producer Chris Keys, his 2018 album ‘Everything’s Fine’ with fellow polymath Jean Grae, production work for some of indie rap’s finest, and contributing to the score for the film Judas and the Black Messiah. In 2022, he dropped the excellent album Deathfame,. That same year, he and his collaborator Chris Keys scored a major production and writing credit when Lizzo sampled their song Sudden Death on Innocent Country 2 for her song “Coldplay”on her album Special but we don’t talk about any of that in this episode because it hadn’t happened yet.  The seven songs we randomly explore in this episode: "Ohsh" feat. Hannibal Buress (w/ Jean Grae, "Everything's Fine', 2018) "Sickum" ('Lullabies for the Broken Brain', 2016) "Birthdaze" (prod. by Swarvy) ('Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often,' 2017) "Walk By Faith" (Homeboy Sandman 'Don't Feed the Monster', 2020) "Nothing Moves" (w/ Chris Keys, 'Innocent Country', 2015) "Another Blunt" ('Shotgun and Sleek Rifle', 2013) "Black Twitter" feat. Mosel and Nelson Bandela (w/ Chris Keys, 'Innocent Country 2', 2020)

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