Wilmette native Kristine Flaherty, aka rapper K. Flay, had to leave home to find inspiration in another onetime local: Liz Phair. Last year Flaherty told Billboard that when she discovered Exile in Guyville in the late 2000s, it introduced her to a universe of alternative rock acts fronted by women “who are such bad asses—and not being bad asses for the sake of it, just being themselves and saying something and standing behind something.” The Billboard story skewed towards Flaherty’s interest in rock because the genre is all over her second album, last spring’s Every Where Is Some Where (Interscope/Night Street), but in a year where emerging rappers were celebrated for embracing the genre, K. Flay was largely left out of the conversation.…
Wilmette native Kristine Flaherty, aka rapper K. Flay, had to leave home to find inspiration in another onetime local: Liz Phair. Last year Flaherty told Billboard that when she discovered Exile in Guyville in the late 2000s, it introduced her to a universe of alternative rock acts fronted by women “who are such bad asses—and not being bad asses for the sake of it, just being themselves and saying something and standing behind something.” The Billboard story skewed towards Flaherty’s interest in rock because the genre is all over her second album, last spring’s Every Where Is Some Where (Interscope/Night Street), but in a year where emerging rappers were celebrated for embracing the genre, K. Flay was largely left out of the conversation.…