First Listen: Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, 'Everything's Fine'
The recently engaged creative partners give birth to a wellspring of sociopolitical satire on their new collaborative EP.
If the dystopian future is now, thank god for flower-crown selfie filters. Be it resilience or ignorance, human beings seem innately programmed to fend off the worst of times by pretending everything is fine. Fortunately, Jean Grae and Quelle Chris have come to read us for filth.
On their new collaborative album, out March 30), they reveal complacency to be the real opiate of the masses. But their Mello Music Group release isn't some self-serious attemptfrom a civilization on the decline. Calling them rappers almost isn't fair: They might be the most lit comedic duo since Cheech & Chong. And when tasked with offeringan escape from reality or confronting it head-on, they inevitably chose both. Not that reality gave them much of a choice.
