Chicago hip-hop has become synonymous with Kanye and Common, but there is a different side to the Windy City story.  Enter David Cohn, a.k.a. Serengeti.  On his first solo release Family & Friends, Geti runs the gamut of emotions, but spends most of his time on the darker side of the tale.

Minimal beats and straight-forward rhymes, Family & Friends is hip hop without all of it’s current effects.  Forget the bling and the entourage, this is Geti stripped and on point.  Whether he’s rhyming through a blues riff or a plucked violin he never loses sight as to why he’s here – to tell the story the way it went down.

While Serengeti and former partner Polyphonic have currently parted ways, he has brought a few new friends along for this ride.  Yoni Wolf from the group Why? and Owen Ashworth have delivered the beats on Friends & Family while members of the Australian group Otouto have given vocal support.

When the time comes for all true hip-hop heads to be counted, Serengeti will be standing at the front of the line.