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'', said "We love incorporating all kinds of different genres in our music and challenging ourselves to always try something different." The band released their first album, ''Mic Check'', in 2017. Their second album, ''Are We Still Dreaming?'', was released in 2019 and reached 4th place in the Belgium Top 200 Albums. Their third album, ''No Sleep in LA'', was released in 2022 and peaked in first place for one week. In 2019, blackwave. was nominated for the

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in the 'Best Belgian Act' category, losing out to MATTN.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

Belgian hip hop groups Belgian musical duos English-language musical groups from Belgium {{Hiphop-group-stub