Walking Tours is an album/site-specific art installation by Charlottesville, Virginia hiphop artist Fellowman. The project seeks to link the experience of listening to its songs with the tangible locations that inspired or are otherwise significant to them.

The installation consists of eight different QR codes posted in various locations in greater Charlottesville. Scanning the codes with a smartphone will take listeners to private links for each of the album’s songs. As of August 23rd, 2021, the only way to hear the full album is to visit each of the sites & scan the codes one by one.

The 8 songs of Walking Tours are all narratives in the hiphop storytelling tradition, specific to the Charlottesville area & focusing on systemic inequities arising from its racial & class tensions.

Encouraging listeners to travel on foot reinforces one of the album’s themes: the gulf between those accustomed to viewing the city from the sidewalk, & those who view it through the window of a car.