Tag Archives: Rockford

GYBU has had an eye on The Last Wordbender since he first appeared on our platform with his video for the “Rocktown (Remix)”. Since then, he’s dropped his first full length album, “B-Side Love Songs”, along with 2 singles and a video to accompany one of them, “Now is the Time 4 Me”. Having a good relationship with DJBrickrock, who …

Back earlier this year, The Last Wordbender dropped “The B-Side Love Songs”, a 12 track project full of soulful sampling, Boom Bap drums and you guessed it, love and heartaches. Listen To  “The B-Side Love Songs” One of it’s main producer’s was fellow Rockford resident DJBrickrock. After a number of live performances and brainstorming, the duo decided to revisit the album …

Rockford, Illinois emcee The Last Wordbender continues the campaign of his debut album “The B-Side Love Songs” with the second officially released single, “Wild Horses”. THe production was handled by DJ BrickRock, who is also responsible for a majority of the project’s production. With a feel good soulful vibe, TLW pens a tale of twisted love, which also plays a …

Rockford, Illinois Hip Hop artist The Last Wordbender released his debut album, “The B-Side Love Songs”, on March 23rd and the project consists of twelve, originally produced tracks with guest features from Akeem Kizart, The ImFamous KenFlow B, Miss Ambitious, TRIM Forte, Carla Michelle and Shony Jones. The combined lyricism oozes of raw, organic hip hop. The brunt of the …

Well Buzzers, we are back with another installment of our “Buzz’N” iNterview series and for this edition, we are joined by a highly talented artist out of Rockford, Illinois. Not only did he just release his debut album, “The B-Side Love Songs”, but also is a spoken work poet and a Hip Hop activist within his community and was able …

Hip Hop artist The Last Wordbender releases his debut album, “The B-Side Love Songs”, twelve originally produced tracks with guest features from Akeem Kizart, The ImFamous KenFlow B, Miss Ambitious, TRIM Forte, Carla Michelle and Shony Jones. The combined lyricism oozes of raw, organic hip hop. The brunt of the production is provided by DJ Brickrock and a sole track …

Rockford, Illinois hip hop emcee The Last Wordbender delivers a Rocky inspired visual to his lead off single, “Now is the Time 4 Me”, which carries a feature from fellow artist Akeem Kizart. DJ Brickrock does a wonderful job providing an eighties themed production complete with a clever vocal sampled chorus line. Wordbender & Akeem make the perfect tag team …

Rockford, Illinois recording artist WBC teams together with videographer Arissa Washington once again to ask the burning question of “Where Were You” as the young rapper explains how people only come around when you’re doing well for yourself but not there during the struggles. With a nice auto tuned chorus line, “Where Were You” is a nice offering from WBC.

Rockford, Illinois’ own Jewelry Boi teams up with WBC for their FlyGuy Films visual for “On Me”, a smooth, street styled record that details just what you can find on the fellas possession on a day to day basis. https://youtu.be/ODUbnurIkvA

Rockford, Illinois’ WBC paints a vivid picture of his pain and struggles in his Arissa Washington video for “Never Really Mattered”. Composed of an emotional instrumental provided by Jay Jay, WBC paints his life story thru music touching on the tragic events of his mother and father’s passing, his brother’s court case involving a life sentence term and wrongful accusations …