Peoria Hip Hop
Back at Frazer’s basement studio in Peoria. Previous | Next Hip Hop in [...]
Peoria Hip Hop
Killa Koumity performing at the Chrome Club in Springfield, Illinois. Previous | Next Hip Hop [...]
Peoria Hip Hop
The audience at a Killa Koumity show at Club 21 in Galesburg, Illinois. Attendance at some shows is [...]
Peoria Hip Hop
This is Buru, a cousin of half-brothers Marshall and Curtis, who share a mother. Buru would sometimes perform [...]
Peoria Hip Hop
Marshall (in white) and Frazer to his left looking straight to camera before performing a show at the [...]
Peoria Hip Hop
Frazer Matthews in his basement studio. Throughout Peoria, you’ll find a number of makeshift studios set up not only [...]
Peoria Hip Hop
Marshall Payton (foreground) and Curtis Johnson of the Peoria rap group Killa Koumity with Marshall’s nephew. Previous | [...]
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