Cuzo Key, Autumn Rainwater, Makeda Iroquois, and Belmont Jon

Cuzo Key, Autumn Rainwater, Makeda Iroquois, and Belmont Jon

Saturday, January 7, 2022 at 10 p.m.

Snug Harbor
1228 Gordon St.
Charlotte, NC 28205

Tickets: $10 plus 

An offshoot event of the social audio app Clubhouse forum Himalaya Playas, founded by north Charlotte rapper Cuzo Key, Snug Harbor will host a blend of local R&B and hip-hop talent. Headlined by Key himself with his signature laid-back fluid Southern raps over mood-setting production, he’ll be joined by lo-fi R&B singer-songwriter Autumn Rainwater, Makeda Iroquois and rapper/producer and singer Belmont Jon. The promotional material also suggests there will be a special guest.

Cuzo Key

In recent years Charlotte’s Cuzo Key has steadily built his name as one of the area’s premiere kick-back rappers. Cuzo takes heady, downtempo beats from a slew of local producers and infuses them with bursts of lively rhyme schemes to add complexities to these already dense soundscapes. Tracks like “Norf Charlotte Wings” serve as a superb display of this, with a slow-burning sax sample and hissing vinyl crack, Cuzo skates across the lush production with tightly packed rhymes.

Autumn Rainwater in an R&B/neo-soul singer-songwriter born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Rainwater released her latest project, lowkey highkey., in July of 2021.

Makeda Iroquois is a singer-songwriter originally from Long Island, New York and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. Iroquois’ style blends jazz, R&B, neo-soul, and hip-hop exhibited in her debut project, DEMO, released in 2021.

Jon Graham a.k.a Belmont Jon (formerly known as Matrix P), is a singer-songwriter and producer from Belmont, North Carolina who has released three albums: Creek Water Hymns (2016), Southern Fryed (2018), and Oh Laawd! (2021). 

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