Dew Tour’s Nike 6.0 BMX Open is coming to outside Soldier Field featuring 2 days of insane bmx competitions, high flying fmx action, Motion City Soundtrack concert (w/ New Politics as opener) and tons of free food, drinks and gear inside Festival Village. 200 of the world’s best Pro Bmx riders will be competing including: Dave Mirra, Jamie Bestwick, Garrett Reynolds and Mike…
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Preview: Twista – The Perfect Storm [Part 3]
You’ve seen Parts 1 and 2 of Twista’s preview of his upcoming album, The Perfect Storm, and now we’re back with Part 3. We find ourselves midway through the album, and past some, but not all, of the big name features and collabos. For the duration of the album, T pretty much handles business for…
Update: Kanye West – Good Ass Job [Tracklist + Production Credits]
This could be a whale’s tale, but Thunder Kush is claiming they got their hands on the *rumored* tracklist for Kanye’s Good Ass Job, which won’t even end up being called Good Ass Job. Got it? This lineup seems almost too good to be true – which will probably be the case here. I’m going…
Video: Dwayne Wade Raps For Jay Leno
D-Wade kicked one of his “kiddie raps” for Jay Leno, his audience and millions of viewers last night. Apparently, Mr. Wade had aspirations to rap as a child and wrote this little diddy as an 8-year old. Not bad for a young man, but rapper? Don’t quit ya dayjob. Spotted RR
Chicago Director Taking Hip-Hop Play To Broadway
Chicago’s MetroMix (via RedEye) has a dope interview/write up with Chicago playwright, Wendell Tucker, who created and directed the Hip-Hop play I Still Love H.E.R., which has been running in Chicago since 2005. Wendell recently got the greenlight to take this operation East (NYC to be exact) for a run at the famed Apollo Theater…
Video: Onis – Catch Up
A promo video shot by Writer’s Wednesday, outside of the Pitchfork Music Festival. Onis’ On The Contrary project drops soon and is hosted by Jay iLLa
Snoop Dogg Bringing Youth Football League To Chicago
This is very admirable of Snoop. I’ve read countless articles on how positive this league has been for the children who have participated in it, so it’s great that he’s extending his hand to the City of Wind. Chicago is the first city outside of California that has received a team. Pretty classy move… via…
Sugar Ray Dinke – Cabrini Green Rap
How many of you remember or even know about this track? It was released in 1986 on I AM Records, which was then located on 323 E. 23rd Street. I don’t know a whole lot about Sugar Ray Dinke, or what became of him and his rap career, but I do know this was one…
Video: Rick Ross Chicago Listening Session
Last Ross post for a loooong time. I promise. Here is some footage of Ricky and John Monopoly at the Teflon Don listening session at club VIBE. The event was thrown by One Off Entertainment Group, John Monopoly, Happy Lewis and 3 Deep. In other, final BAWSE news, RubyHornet caught up with Larry Hoover Jr.,…
JUGRNAUT x Chip Tha Ripper T-Shirt
Chicago boutique JUGRNAUT is teaming up with Cleveland emcee Chip Tha Ripper for a new special edition tee-shirt that will be available at the JUGRNAUT in-store prior to Chip’s July 29th show at the Wild Hare. This shirt is f’ing dope, and hopefully someone will be nice enough to hit me with one. Ha! The…