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Artist
Red Pill
12+ albums
underground hip-hoprapMello Music GroupHip-Hopunderground rap
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Note: Red Pill released his newest album "Portraits" under the name Chris Orrick. Chris “Red Pill” Orrick was born and raised in Detroit until seventh grade, when his grandfather evicted his family from a house he owned for failure to pay rent. He, his parents, and his three younger brothers moved to the rural city of Howell, Michigan. Around this time, he began writing raps and initially admired mainstream acts like DMX, Eminem, Jay-Z, and Nas, but later studied underground titans like Atmosphere, Jurassic 5, and Pharaohe Monch. But the words in Pill’s notepad narrated his own hardships: his mother’s alcoholism (she later passed away from the disease), growing up poor, and the desolation of moving to a new town with new friends. “I connected more with music that I could find a way to relate to,” he said, “and I wanted to write songs that connected with other people.” In 2012, another unofficial SXSW showcase garnered the attention of Fat Beats, which agreed to digitally distribute The Kick. Red Pill and Hir-O teamed up with DaJaz1 to release Dream Within A Dream, an EP that respected rap journalist Kevin Nottingham placed in his year-end Top 10 list. The duo also won a fan-determined trip to Brooklyn to compete for a slot in the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. The singles and music videos for The Kick have landed on HipHopDX, COMPLEX, and other top notable publications: most notably, MTV RapFix’s “Get In The Game.” On the weekly show, Sway Calloway interviewed them and Machine
