Defcee’s new album forgives but doesn’t forget
thefader.comAdam Levin (Defcee) has been grinding toward a rap career since his teenage years. He started out in the Young Chicago Authors program, making his rounds at open mics across the city, crossing paths with generational talents such as Chance the Rapper, Noname, and Mick Jenkins, and eventually running his own rap and poetry workshops with the program.
As an adult, he dove into education, working as a public school teacher on the city's East Side and giving classes in prisons, always using hip-hop as a vehicle for knowledge.
Last year, he caught his first major break when billy woods' Backwoodz Studios released his last album, Trapdoor. He also became a father recently, and though he'd spent much of his career with a chip on his shoulder — feeling both owed and unworthy of hip-hop status — these new developments helped him put these insecurities in perspective.
This paradigm shift is the basis of Levin's new album, For All Debts Public and Private, premiering today with The FADER and out tomorrow via Closed Sessions.
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