Young Chicago-based crew Closed Casket rap like they’re breaking down a door

For six years or so, rappers Jimmi Gordon and Jay Post have performed around the Chicago scene as the duo OutPastMidnight , making fun, exuberant hip-hop. But when they rap alongside Kenny Morningstar and Moses the Marauder in the group Closed Casket, they go gritty. In addition to Moses (who’s from Brooklyn) and Kenny (a Milwaukee native now based here), Closed Casket includes Chicago producer S.Rock. In 2023 they self-released the EP Death at a Funeral , where the four MCs approach the mike like they’ve been prodded out of a circle of hollering friends and have to spit each line with a terse, percussive snap even to be heard. The track “Damo Arigato” especially ought to win over anyone who’s collected every Rawkus Records 12-inch from the 90s. Closed Casket haven’t performed live in