Late last night, a Rhymefest associate took to his Twitter account to announce that ‘Fest had been rushed to the emergency room at risk of falling into a diabetic coma after his sugar levels were 739 (normal levels are around 80). Apparently, the Chicago emcee/activist had the disease for years and had no idea. Scary…
Category: Chicago
SmooveSmoove – XBox (Prod. by Hurt-M-Badd)
Obviously, I get a ton of artist submissions everyday, and it can be quite the daunting task to try and sort through them all. However, this submission in particular grabbed my attention, as it’s not everyday you get something with “Produced by Hurt-M-Badd” in the subject line. I’ve never heard of SmooveSmoove (he’s from Chicago),…
Mixtape: Billy Da Kid – Audio Mature
Eastside-representer Billy The Kid recently inked a deal with D&D Management (the Chicago label that has a digi deal with Def Jam), and just dropped off his new mixtape Audio Mature. Check it out, and also view his new video below the hop.
Kanye West & Jay-Z Spotted In SoHo, Album Dropping on Def Jam?
It’s not uncommon to see celebs strolling the streets of SoHo, but to catch Kanye and S. Carter wandering around with no security? Well, that’s a site to see. Thursday, TMZ caught the duo on a ‘business walk’ with Bu Thiam, the brother of Akon and exec at Def Jam; presumably discussing Watch The Throne?…
Video: Pugs Atomz – 16 Bars From Brazil
Pugslee takes his freestyle series to South America. That view is too crazy… Just came from Brazil where we (The Electric) headlined the Converse Block Party in Rio 2500 people rocked out with us @the historic CIRCO VOADOR. The people showed so much love I can’t wait to go back. I kicked this verse on…
Video: Co-Still – We Servin’
Directed by Da Visionaryz. In his latest visual, we find Co-Still servin’ and I’m not talking about sandwiches. No Big Gipp.
Video: Vic Spencer – A Fried Mentality
The newest video from Vic Spencer comes off his upcoming project Vic Greenthumbs and is titled “A Fried Mentality”. Follow Vic as he takes you through what he refers to as a Fried Saturday. The video is directed by Mani & J of Low Slung Films, also known as the guys who brought you Sledge…
Video: Kidz In The Hall – Break It Down
Directed by Noah Banks. Kidz In The Hall’s latest single gets the visual treatment. Is it me or does that guitar riff sound really familiar?
Video: Bo Deal feat. Waka Flocka – Gun Clappin’
It’s great to see all of Bo’s recent accomplishments and successes – he’s definitely making some big moves out here. Today we have his new video for “Gun Clappin”, featuring his BSM accomplice Waka Flocka. As you know, a while back these two announced that they were doing a mixtape together, so let’s hope we…
Lid Law – Lightworks (Smoke)
If you didn’t already know, the original Jrunk Unk, Lid Law, just dropped a new album this week entitled Lid-it-ure : Unforgiveable Knowledge. It’s currently available on iTunes, so be sure to pick that up right here, right now. In other Lid news, he recently secured a deal with The One watch company based out of…