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Kromow Is One to Watch After ‘Look at the Sky’ Turns Grief Into Ambition

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Kromow Is One to Watch After ‘Look at the Sky’ Turns Grief Into Ambition

Most 19-year-olds from Hilversum aren’t producing records with 200 million streams behind them, but Kromow already has a credit on “Self Esteem” by Lambo4oe and NLE Choppa and has worked alongside Blxst. 

Release: 11 Sept 2025 (Veli Brand Records) “Look at the Sky” is where he steps forward as an artist rather than the person building someone else’s sound.

The track is a meditation on grief, survival and ambition, written from the perspective of someone who has lost people, made promises to his crew and is determined to see them through. 

He samples Brent Faiyaz’s “Full Moon. (Fall in Tokyo)”, pitching it down over melancholic synth pads and drums that feel like they’re carrying weight.

What makes it work is what Kromow is actually saying over it. He raps about missing his grandmother, about loyalty, about the crew he describes as “locked in for life.” 

“Used to look up to them n*ggas now they call me big homie” lands differently when you remember he’s 19. 

So does “I done lost too much / They like lil’ Kromow you came in clutch / I can’t give up no more.” Neither line reaches for drama. 

They’re just stated, which makes them hit harder. The closer says it plainly: “Been through the cold, been through the fire / Look at the sky.” The sky isn’t decoration. It’s the only ceiling he’s willing to accept.

Faiyaz co-signed the track at a point when Kromow had fewer than 2,000 Instagram followers to his name. 

That kind of attention from that level of artist, for a two-minute self-produced record from the Netherlands, says something. Keep a close eye on what he does next.

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