Jazz Brak

Jazz Brak is already on the Rock Werchter honor roll. He was there in 2018 and 2022 with STIKSTOF, the Dutch-language hip-hop collective from Brussels that he founded half a lifetime ago alongside Astrofisiks, DJ Vega and Zwangere Guy. In the group, he’s the writer and storyteller. Not surprising, considering that in his other lives, he’s a high school art teacher and a columnist for the Brussels magazine BRUZZ. The capital is his main canvas. Jazz Brak searches for the right words for what he observes from a distance. Hard and sharp but also dreamy and poetic. On his latest album ‘AUTOFOCUS’ (2024), he also zooms in on his family life. What’s notable is that he’s brought along five French-speaking rappers for the ride, including Gandhi, the guy he used to listen to back in his youth, and the first Belgian rapper to sell out the AB.