Blue eyes and blonde hair, Charles Andrew Bothwell looks like the Midwest, but his features aren't the only way he represents the region. For the past two decades, the Midwest has been pumping out some of the most prolific hip-hop with Bothwell's hometown of Minneapolis, MN at the center of the movement. Bothwell aka Astronautalis joins the Twin-City hip-hop ranks in the company of Atmosphere, P.O.S., and Grieves, but make no mistake: his style, flow, and hybridity are all his own. His fourth album This is Our Science dropped earlier this month and the video for its first single "Contrails" hit the web yesterday. Joined by former tour mate Tegan Quinn (of Tegan and Sara), Astronautalis strolls the street as a well-dressed lyrical blind man, spitting out that Midwest rhyme and diction like it's his first language.
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