In 2007, a local Belgian producer by the name of Chillow was looking for an extra spark on a project he was working on. He reached out to El da Sensei of the iconic Artifacts crew
and sent him a beat, thinking he’d never hear back from him.

He replied.

”Holy shit. Let’s get to work.”

That was the birth of an international collaboration, not just with Sensei but a long list of dope East Coast emcees such as Reap, M-Dot, El Gant, Nutso, John Robinson, Shabaam Sahdeeq and others.

The result is a series of albums, recorded in both New York and Kortrijk, that combine gritty raps, hard-knocking drums, jazz samples, live instrumentation and soul vocals into powerful musical statements.

Now, after multiple setbacks and years of traveling back and forth, the closing chapter of the series – the Sensei ‘n’ Chillow album – is finally out.