Produced by The Legendary Traxster One of my most anticipated projects for the remainder of 2012 is without a doubt Mikkey and Traxster’s long-awaited collaboration album, MMM Season. Under the moniker (and sometimes rap alias) Money Making Mikkey, Trax and Mikk explore a new sound with all new records and concepts. With this and Castro…
Category: Chicago
Video: Travel to Chicago w/ Mountain Dew to Meet the City’s Rising Music and Art Stars
A few weeks ago, the good folks at Mountain Dew and Complex Magazine hit Chicago to speak with some of the figures within the music and art communities as part of Mountain Dew’s This Is How We Do Chicago campaign. The campaign is part of the DEWeezy launch, and also to celebrate a Chicago-centric can…
Video: Neak f/ MC ADaD, Rashid Hadee, Slot-A & Sincerely Yours – Who Do You Believe In
Directed by Domi V & APJ Films. The gang’s all here as Neak drops off the eighth visual from his Love Greater//The Prequel LP. Produced by Rashid Hadee. This is pretty nice.
New Album: Thelonious Martin – MCMXCII
Presented by RubyHornet and Dope Couture. In honor of his 20th birthday, Windy city beatsmith Thelonious Martin drops off a new instrumental album. Stream/download below and be sure to wish Thelonious a happy born day.
Jeih Rill f/ D-Edge & Tre-G – My Last Beat
Str8 Slammin’ representative and Gary native Jeih Rill recruits his Slammin’ brethren D-Edge and Tre-G for this joint from his recently released project, Loyalty. You can check out the full project here.
Kamilah Sumner – America
Chicago songstress Kamilah Sumner has a new project dropping on October 1 entitled, Life & Love. It includes production from Needlz, Sweat Box and more, with one sole feature — that being Mikkey Halsted. Here’s one last leak produced by David Ferretti entitled “America.” Check out what she had to say about the record: “America” is a…
Video: adidas Basketball: The Return of D Rose [Episode 3: Focus]
It’s all about focusing for Derrick in the third installment of adidas Basketball’s The Return Of D Rose, which documents his return to the court. D Rose shares his innermost thoughts on the hard work that brought him to the league and the struggles he’s faced being away from the basketball court during his recovery….
Kanye Throwing Kim A One Million Dollar Birthday Party?
I guess if you have a banger, you’ve gotta keep her happy. So why not drop a cool mill on a birthday party? The Sun is reporting that Kanye has plans throw Kim the party to end all parties in celebration of her 32nd birthday down in Turks & Caicos. “Kim has been really down…
Lupe Fiasco & Guy Sebastian Perform “Battle Scars” On X-Factor [Australia]
Lupe and Guy performed their bubbling single, “Battle Scars,” on the X-Factor in the land down under. Watch as this joint continues to climb up the charts. Lu’s F&L2 drops next week. RR
Video: Rockie Fresh f/ Rick Ross – You A Like [Remix]
Moments after premiering on 106 & Park, the full clip hits the internets. Hats off to Rockie Fresh for the accomplishment, and shouts to Joe Freshgoods for getting a shout out during primetime. Ha!