We are Lowerlipdrip, an artistic duo from Chicago made up of blackrobeBLACKROBES and Dew Haydn.

We met just going to the same shows in the underground Chicago music scene. Eventually, we linked up to work on music. Both of us have very similar goals and aspirations regarding music, art and creativity, which helped us click. At the beginning of 2019, we started making music together.

In terms of our collaboration, Robes does the majority of the production and Haydn comes up with most of the track concepts. Overall though, we are capable of handling both producing and writing as we have grown and learned from each other over time.

Since our first release together, Home/Hurts, the two-track idea has been our thing. We wanted to bring back the feeling of the “45, which had one track on each side of the vinyl. In the current streaming landscape, we wanted to use the two tracks as a more digestible experience because it is becoming more and more difficult to capture people’s attention with a full ass album. The two-track release process has also helped us focus more both sonically and artistically so that when we are ready to make and put out an album, the tracks will mean as much to our fans as they will to us.

The EPs are the pages of the story. Read them and you will find out something new every time. We don’t want our message about the projects to dictate how audiences interpret them. 

People are going to view our work as political no matter what we say or do. Going forward, though, we don’t want to make music that is immediately categorized as politically motivated or socially conscious necessarily. We want our music to be an escape while still providing our take on the current social climate.
Our primary message to our current and future fans is to not take shit from anybody and be whoever you want to be, look however you want to look, and disregard any judgement that outsiders want to spew at you. Hence, one of our mottos is ‘Be yourself, you’ll always be in fashion.’ But also, the music is always going to be inherently political, the same way anything you read or see is.

There isn’t a specific effect we are trying to convey necessarily. We are just growing and learning new things as we go. Each EP is just a reflection of how we’re feeling during the period that we made and released it. Our sound is just a summary of our emotions personified into songs. However, the listener perceives the art is on them. We are just blessed to have the ability to create.

We are trying to better ourselves for every new release, and Everything Is Fare was no different. We take inspiration from the people we surround ourselves with as much as we do each other. Whether the energy is positive or negative around us, we try to embody it as honestly as possible. We strive to be ourselves as much as possible and any production, sampling, or writing ideas comes directly from the soul. It is a difficult process but that’s the fun of it.

Everyone in our collective holds different perspectives of the world from an artistic standpoint, so we are just thankful to have a crew of talented friends and artists that continue to motivate each other to make the best work possible.

In the next few months, we definitely plan to work on our album. Our fans have been waiting on it for a while now. Who knows, we may already have one done, only time will tell! In the meantime, we will continue to build the LLD brand and further ourselves mentally and artistically so that in five to ten years, we can look back at our careers and be proud of how we will have influenced the next generation of artists.