BY LISA MROCK
Sidewalk Chalk is Chicago hip hop with big band attitude and theatrical style, and their upcoming album An Orchid Is Born is yet another extension of this defining aesthetic. The first track released from the album, the darker-toned and slightly industrial “Dig,” is a bristly commentary of how it feels to be afraid of the places you know, with a few references to the ever-happening innocent shootings of African-Americans by trigger-happy cops who shouldn’t have guns in the first place. The second track called “A Suite For Black Lives” is pretty self-explanatory, so come get woke with Sidewalk Chalk this summer.
