The stage name is a street address. Chauncey Kory Graham grew up on the 4200 block of Indianapolis's Far East Side, near 42nd Street and Post Road, and when he started rapping he took the block with him: 4200Kory. "I'm a product of the Far Eastside," he told Mirror Indy. "I tend to wear that on my sleeve and just about everywhere else on my body for the world to see."
On Sunday, October 25, 2026, that block comes to Broad Ripple. 4200Kory headlines FAR FROM IGNANT at Turntable, in what the venue bills as his first hometown headline — a full hour with a live band, on his own terms. King Dierre and P.S. Maldonna share the bill, with DJ Gemz on the decks between sets. The show is co-presented by Slum Baby Family and SoundOff Naptown, and sponsored by Naptown Votes. It is general admission, 18 and over, with photo ID required.
The title carries two meanings at once, and both are the point. The people onstage are far from ignorant — and all of them are from the Far East Side. It is a slogan built out of a neighborhood's reputation and turned into a compliment.
That neighborhood is the whole story of 4200Kory's music. The oldest of seven children raised by a single mother, he has spoken plainly about what he came out of: poverty, a stretch of homelessness when he was 10, a mother working to make ends meet. His father died when he was 11. He has said he wasn't much of a rap fan as a kid — the materialistic subject matter made him feel left out, and he thought a lot of it was corny. Then he found he could use it as an outlet, first writing about how he felt and what was going on day to day, and eventually rhyming. His friends heard him and pushed him: you're actually kind of good, you might as well get after it.
He has also been candid about the cost of the years that followed. Losing nearly 20 close friends before he turned 21 pushed him toward advocacy as much as toward music; his first project, Rest Easy, came out of that stretch of loss. "A lot of the things that influenced people to do wrong, I took them and I let it develop me into a more positive path," he told WRTV. "I'm trying to look for ways to be of direct impact to my community at all times."
His debut full-length, Cobra Son, arrived on August 20, 2025 — a date that matters, because it is the anniversary of his father's death. The record is a coming-of-age account of how trauma shaped him, and an ode to the city. "I was brought up to believe that all my scars are what make me who I am," he told Mirror Indy. "Not in the sense that it makes me any weaker, but these are battle scars." Since then he has kept moving: a 2026 album called 4ubu and a run of singles, all while drawing attention from Mirror Indy, WFYI's Cultural Manifesto and WRTV. He has played the city's stages before — Chreece, the all-day hip-hop festival that spreads more than 70 local artists, DJs and producers across eight venues in Fountain Square, among them — but always as part of someone else's bill.
That is what makes this one different. A rapper who built a catalog out of a specific block, a specific family and a specific loss gets an hour of his own in a room built for listening.
Turntable is a fitting host for it. The venue opened in October 2024 in the former home of the Crackers Comedy Club at 6281 N. College Avenue, a project of Forty5 Presents, the boutique promoter behind The Vogue and Rock the Ruins. Forty5 CEO Jenny Boyts has said the idea came together in January of that year as something of a passion project — staff swapped Pinterest boards for months and built the place without hiring a designer or a contractor. The result is deliberately hard to spot from the sidewalk, an homage to listening rooms and speakeasies: more than 20 vinyl albums set into a ceiling light fixture, a front bar with cocktails and mocktails, the room getting darker and the music louder as you climb the stairs. It is a small room with a big sound and a habit of booking national touring acts alongside local ones — the night before this show, Prince Daddy & The Hyena; the week after, Genitorturers and Willi Carlisle.
Putting a Far East Side rapper in a Broad Ripple listening room for his first headline set is the kind of booking that says something about where Indianapolis hip-hop is right now. The scene's center of gravity has been Fountain Square and the near east side; the Far East Side has supplied much of the talent without always getting the marquee. On October 25 the marquee reads FAR FROM IGNANT, and the name on it is a zip code.
Tickets are required. The show is general admission, seating is not provided, and seating upgrades may be available for purchase. All guests must be 18 or older with a valid government-issued photo ID; two forms of identification may be required at the door. All tickets are non-refundable.