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ABM. Photo: Keaton Beach
Posted inMusic

Discombobulated and Dark, Angry Blackmen Are on the Rise

by Donna Das July 7, 2021July 21, 2021

“e constantly want to reinvent our sound,” Quentin Branch tells me. “We’re seeing how to bend music in a certain way,” Brian Warren adds. “We’re trying to get weird and go all out.”  Branch and Warren are the Chicago-based rappers behind Angry Blackmen (ABM), and since forming in 2017, the pair have become known for […]

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