From the underbelly of Cleveland's blackened music scene rises a brazen group of innovators on a quest to crumble the walls of a genre and stimulate a new generation of creative minds. Reggae-rockers, Tropidelic, untie the knots of expectation and sow together hip-hop, funk and ska in a seamless display of unbridled realism, pulling from an amalgamation of influence never before seen in the cold Midwest. The end result is an in-your-face party suited Read more on Last.fm

Claude says:Tropidelic are Cleveland's answer to what happens when reggae, funk, and hip-hop stop pretending they're in separate rooms—they're loose, psychedelic, and unapologetically genre-agnostic. You caught them through their Nick Hexum collab and keep circling back, which tracks for someone who digs music that refuses to sit still.