I was a part of the church choir, elementary school choir and high school choir.” “I’ve always been around music in some capacity.
Stevo is Nigerian and was raised on the North Side of Chicago in a close-knit Nigerian community. We would go to all the African parties and perform for the aunties and uncles,” he explained. “When I was in fifth grade, me, my brother and my cousins used to call ourselves a little band. Before he was turning up concert crowds as OG Stevo, he had a musical childhood that included turning up at family parties and singing with his band. “All those people in the crowd who don’t know you or your music, you have to give them something to cheer on. “I look at it this way As an up-and-coming artist, most people aren’t going to know the words to your music to be able to sing along with you,” he said. We talked about his return to the stage at the Promontory earlier that month, his ability to move a crowd and how invaluable his team has been in building his career. On July 14, I caught up with Stevo at LSD Studios. In today’s exceptionally talented pool of Chicago up-and-comers, what sets Stevo apart from the others is his unyielding ability to share the energy he gleans from the community that has formed around his burgeoning music career when performing for even the least familiar of crowds.
Whether during performances, studio sessions, business trips or photoshoots, Stevo is usually surrounded by his family and labelmates. Together, the crew creates the illusion of the audience spilling on and off the stage, adding to the interactivity of the OG Stevo experience. And the fact that the stage is teeming with the biggest Stevo fans of them all, his OG family, shuffling, moshing and rapping along, only adds to the excitement. Stevo’s energy is infectious - so much so that the crowd doesn’t feel like they’re just watching a concert, but that they’re part of it. His 2019 track “Salsa” is the perfect vehicle for the OG shuffle, a dance he and the OGs popularized in the accompanying video for the DJ Balor-produced song. He raps from atop the speakers, crowd surfs and hands the mic off to fans to finish his verses. While the songs themselves are head boppers, it’s Stevo’s stage presence that takes the performance to the next level. While Stevo’s discography hasn’t exactly reached ubiquity, when the DJ drops the needle on some of his hits such as “Lemonade” and “Salsa,” it’s enough to ignite the crowd each time. If y’all turnt, why wouldn’t I be turnt right with y’all.”įlanked by his fam, the Original Guap Getters (OG), he stormed the stage at the Promontory, rocking one of his trademark Von Dutch trucker hats. I’m trying to give y’all your money’s worth,” Stevo told The TRiiBE in our July 14 interview. “A lot of people get on stage and want to act too cool.
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