Author: Andrew Barber

Check out Part 2 here. Thanks to Chelsea for sending over.

A lengthy three-part interview with ‘Fest.  He discusses Obama and the altercation with Lupe Fiasco – did this guy steal his interview questions from me? Part 2 Part 3

6.) Telling the world he’s making an album with Q-Tip, then threatening to retire, only to drop an album this summer. Via Sohh

Spinning Studio from kwest on Vimeo. Yeah, I really don’t get it either.  Thought some of you kids might enjoy…

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Last night GemStones stopped by UIC Radio for a pretty in-depth interview.  Gem discusses his upcoming mixtape, touches on Chilly’s impact in the machine, the reason why the name Gemini is dead and much more.   He mentions that the mixtape could possibly drop tomorrow, but we’ll see about that.  I feel like I heard…

Billboard.com has a preview and a tentative tracklisting up of Common’s summer-slated album, Invincible Summer. Sounds interesting, but very, very tentative.  I see he hosted this special listening session for Invincible Summer in NYC, but when’s he going to play it for the home team? I wish more Chicago artists would bring their music home…

If you keep up with the site, then you probably peeped my videos from the event I posted a few weeks back.  Here is Vimby’s interpretation, featuring Mano, Hollywood Holt, The Cool Kids, Mic Terror, GemStones and more.  I’m sorry to report that Andrew Barber does NOT make a cameo.  

New music from the homie D-Win.  From his mixtape, I Love You So Much It Hurts, D sends over his new single, “Stupid Fresh”.   The kid is, for lack of a better term, stupid fresh (Zing?).  Just sayin… D-Win – “Stupid Fresh”

I told you guys about this track a while back, when Shala dropped his Obama-inspired “Audacity of Hope”.  I’ve been sitting on it for a few weeks because I wanted to wait for the right time to put it out there.  I guess now is as good of time as any as this track is…