
“I want people to feel like they’re in a Basiqaut and Brantley-inspired painting when they’re listening to this EP.” The inspiration to the cover art for the EP, it’s “an ode to Basiqaut and Hebru Brantley who are my favorite visual artists,” says Ric. “I feel like people don’t appreciate rap as an actual art form, which is insane because there’s an art to rhyming, every beat is a colorful canvas and every lyric and rhyme is a stroke of mine.”

“When I dropped out of college to do music, I caught myself trying to explain the music I do in a different light than what it really was because I was scared of other people’s perception of my ‘rap music,’ Ric says.

Chicago stays winning and bringing dopeness to the world… The latest local artist that is well on his way to turn heads nationwide, Ric Wilson has announced his new EP, BANBA and is set to be released on May 18th via Innovative Leisure.īANBA is Wilson’s first release since 2017’s acclaimed Negrow Disco EP.
