COMBO PACK, by The Era Footwork Crew

COMBO PACK

by The Era Footwork Crew

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1.	Blessed 04:18		buy track
2.	The Era Footwork Crew - Who Betta feat. DJ Spinn & Jana Rush 03:25	info	buy track
3.	Time 02:50		buy track
4.	We Gone Step (Remix) 02:59		buy track

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Footwork supergroup The Era brings us COMBO PACK, a fresh EP with three new anthems plus “Who Betta,” the battle track with the triumphant hook “Tell me who betta,” which came out earlier this year as a single. Telling stories with their feet and the mic, they trade off giving you a deeper look into the Chicago underground. Effortlessly flowing in unison through a maze of drums, they’re creating a new mold for the future of footwork rap or, as they call it, “Footwork with words” to come.

Produced by Teklife co-founder DJ Spinn and with the help of his protege Taso, they bend soulful samples and synths to fit inside the narrative that the Era paints with their words. Classic hip-hop production informed plenty of footwork in its early days, and here, they layer that past with the present, creating their own faster, more cut-up version of boom-bap. And just like the hypnotic repetition of a sample when it gets caught in a loop, their voices are similarly mangled to complement their verses. While they might be riding on top of the production, they’re also a part of it.

The importance of storytelling in footwork is often overlooked, and we usually get the tale through the abstract. Vexing synths, unorthodox drum patterns, and stuttering words leave it up to our imaginations to assemble the puzzle pieces. The Era brings us a more concrete version of the allegory through their masterfully crafted bars. They employ themselves as narrators of the streets they walk and, in the process, are making new connections between the world of lyricists and their homegrown Chicago dance culture.

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released October 4, 2024

PHOTO BY Spencer Hopkins
COVER BY ashes57

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