Rapper's Delight: Freeloadas

posted in: Artist Features • Urban

Besides being a part of the OurStage community, the Freeloadas are known as an ethnically diverse hip hop group based out of Baltimore. They haven’t found a great deal mainstream success, but their longevity and commitment to music is impressive: fourteen years of writing and recording with four independent albums released. The way the Freeloadas see it, anything they produce will become popular, not because it is mainstream, but because they are real and people can identify with that. And it’s true. Sometimes an artist will make it big and you really can’t take them seriously anymore as they rap about poverty and their financial woes. The Freeloadas have managed to keep that real factor by not selling out in over a decade of making music, and their music is a testament to that.

The Freeloadas are still very much active and recently dropped a massive 34 track double CD called Modern Art last summer. Check it out on their Web site or buy it at CD Universe ! Here’s a little teaser so you can see what you’ve been missing: