Kyle Taylor – better known as Stunt Taylor – is a rapper who rose to national prominence with ‘Fe Fe on the Block’ in 2013. The track’s celebratory, upbeat appeal to the dancers of Chicago exemplified the emergent party-oriented bop trend in the city at the time, and Taylor soon followed up with hot singles ‘Flee Amigo’ and ‘1Nite’. The West Side of Chicago wonder is credited with introducing the dance sensation known as “boppin” through his videos and songs.
A native of the K-Town area of the west side of Chicago, Taylor was a football hopeful as a teenager but was sidelined due to injuries and turned to rapping at the age of 15 after growing up watching his cousins rap. Influenced by the likes of Biggie Smalls and Young Jeezy, he began to make a series effort with his music career in his early twenties before earning a degree from New York’s Globe Institute of Technology, and in 2013 the rapper targeted dancefloors with bop-dancing anthem ‘Fe Fe on the Block’ and dropped his EP of the same name the following year. He then released several projects of greater length in the mid 2010’s, including Stunt’n on Turbo (featuring Twista and Chief Keef), Maison Margiela Music and Captain Hook. Taylor also saw himself in demand to appear on many cuts headlined by his fellow Chicagoans, and remains one to watch almost a decade on from his explosive arrival on the scene.
