Kane Mayfield Says Farewell to Baltimore with “Dream Killers”
VICE · Al Shipley · September 04, 2015
Kane Mayfield Says Farewell to Baltimore with “Dream Killers”
In March,Kane Mayfieldreleased one of 2015’s most accomplished independent hip-hop albums,The Return of Rap, deftly mixing uproarious punchlines and storytelling verses with social commentary inspired by imprisoned civil rights activist H. Rap Brown. The album was the culmination of the Long Island native’s decade in his adopted home of Baltimore, where he moved in 2005 and aligned himself with the local label Mania Music Group. As Mayfield likes to say, “I came to Baltimore for the weekend, and ended up staying for ten years.”