Category: Chicago

Almost 20 years in the game and Twista can still drop an album that lands atop of the Hip Hop charts.  Category F5 moved 45,291 units in its first week on shelves, which was enough to give him the #1 rap album in the country. On the R&B charts he came in at #3, while…

Vicksburg Kid’s Vicksburg City: The Movie mixtape is scheduled to finally drop on the internets any day now (they had a soft launch in the streets), so to prep for that, check out the official promo, as well as a joint from the mixtape, produced by Tony Baines. Vicksburg Kid – “We Up In Here…

While the editing is being wrapped up, here are some additional photos from The Cool Kids’ GL Joe-directed video, “Champions”, courtesy of one of the Chi’s best photographers, Clayton Hauck. Clayton’s shots are from Day 2 (still waiting on some goods from Day 1) and here you can see the stills from the Wicker Park…

The good looks [II] for Jeremih continue on, as we go behind the scenes for his upcoming video for “Imma Star (Everywhere We Are)”, directed by Marc Klasfeld.

More work for Da Internz.

For Loud.com’s Favorite Verse series, Twista kicks one of his favorites from Kool G Rap. To be more specific, it’s Kool’s verse from “Kool is Back”, which may have been an early influencer in Twista’s rhyming style.  G Rap gets off (Pause?) on that one. Fun fact of the day: “Kool is Back” was on…

Yes, he had two. Here we go behind the scenes with J-Real and Diggler Inc. at Twista’s Category F5 release parties last week in Chicago at both the Victor Hotel and Rednofive. Skooda Chose, Toxic, George Daniels, Wildstyle, Buk of Psychodrama, Keith Murray (?), Liffy Stokes, Triple Darkness, Ben One and MarVo all make appearances. …

Fooch and The Brainiac Society Present: The Dilla Chronicles, a weekly series from Fooch Tha MC, where he spits over his favorite tracks from the late-great James Yancey.  From Donuts to any number of Dilla’s beat tapes, we know that his catalog of instrumentals is long and thorough, and it appears Fooch is up to…

…Putting the finishing touches on his debut album, First Impressions, which drops everywhere on August 18th. 

Yep, another one from The Chixtape.  I’m guessing Criss will be at the Three Kingz show tonight at the Wild Hare, but I’m not 100% sure. Miss Criss – “Crissy from the Block”