Chase “Flow” Bradley’s musical journey has been as dynamic as his hip-hop compositions. Starting out as a rapper in his home town of Philadelphia in 2005, he released his first original project in 2006 and soon after discovered a passion for creating beats. His pursuit of musical excellence then led him to Hollywood in 2010, where he attended the Los Angeles Recording School, and soon after, discovered a niche market for creating beats for film and TV.
“I moved out there to Cali hoping to take my career to the next level,” Chase said. After graduating in 2012, he was inducted into the LA Recording School National Honor Society and along with the various gigs he performed and connections he made, Chase also landed a job as an instructor at RYTMO teaching music production.
“I had heard good things about RYTMO from a friend who was teaching there and told me they were looking for instructors.” Along with teaching, Chase continued to experiment with sounds and add new skill sets to his repertoire. He recalls dabbling in DJing in 2017 and eventually moving into working with composers for film and TV.
“So my thing was collaborating with a lot of composers…I kind of created a little niche for myself and I started doing programming,” Chase explained.
“A lot of composers would hire me to come on and work with them on their score teams and they would have me do sound design or drum programming.”
In 2019, a friend of Chase’s asked him to work on the documentary College Behind Bars which explores the story of men and women struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes.
“So for this particular project, I was just making beats like I always do. And then I would make it specifically in the style of the score the composer was working on. And then basically, they would take my production, strip certain elements away, and then integrate it into the score.”
College Behind Bars is a four-part PBS docuseries produced by Ken Burns and directed by Lynn Novick. It received nominations for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary and Outstanding Sound at the 41st Annual News & Documentary Emmy® awards in 2020, and is now available on Netflix.
Combining his industry and education experience, Chase began his own program for underserved youth in Philadelphia called the Chase What Matters Music Program (CWMMP), with classes ranging from an intimate group of 10, to attracting as many as 40 students at a time. Since becoming a nonprofit in 2022, CWMM has expanded to four locations across the North East and Chicago.
“I’m just taking all my skill sets and putting them into a classroom setting,” Chase said.
And even though it’s been over 10 years since he worked with RYTMO, Chase always remembers the impact the staff had on him.
“You never forget where you came from – where you got the encouragement from,” he said. “And I feel like with Mike, he was just one of those people that really had such a positive impact. And so now that I have my own thing going, I didn’t forget who gave me my start.”
Chase reached out to RYTMO’s Executive Director Mike Anderson in 2025 to share the news of his program and to see if they could collaborate in any way.
This year, Chase will be launching a program that incorporates RYTMO’s curriculum into his program to complement his classes in songwriting, DJing, and music production. The CWMMP model also involves working with Indigo Station in New Jersey to place students in apprenticeships within the music and film industry and give them paid, hands-on experience.
As part of the collaboration, Chase will also be a guest instructor in the CA-based RYTMO classes.
“RYTMO is just an amazing program,” Chase said. “I’m very, very fortunate to not only revisit my old stomping ground, but now to be a part of the new generation and their legacy. RYTMO gave me my roots as an educator and then gave me the power to be able to create my own thing.”
