Category: Chicago

No Kriss Kross.  Purely Redman. Turn the volume up a notch and watch the bu-bump, bu-bump. Add-2 has been working hard on his upcoming mixtape Add-2 Presents: Tale Of Two’s City Vol.3 which will be the follow up to the acclaimed Vol.2: Return Of The Menace. The new mixtape will feature production from the previous…

Mikkey is currently live, via UStream, from Soundscape Studios putting the finishing touches on Chicago: The Photo Album. You can chat with him live on Twitter and ask him any questions you’d like. I know you have some. Update: Mikk will be back live at 1PM CST.

Everyone knows that I’m not too heavy on juke over here at FSD, but I do get the occasional request for it.  And well, since Young Moola’s “Every Girl” is pretty much inescapable right now, I figured this would be a good joint to post. Nick Catchdubs over at Fool’s Gold just passed along this…

Not to be confused with this. Now, my Twista catalog is pretty extensive, so when I recently came across this track and had never heard of it, I was quite dumbfounded.  Not to mention the fact that I’m a hip hop nerd and the album in which this appeared pretty much never existed: The Union Presents…

Remember Danny Boy? Of course you remember Danny Boy; the other crooner on Death Row Records during their heydey in the mid-to-late 90s. You know, “Picture Me Rollin”, “I Ain’t Mad At Cha”, “Slide N Slide” ?  No? A lot of people forget that he was originally from the Westside of Chicago and came in the…

Okay, this is my speed right here.  New Vice Verse! “While you’re stuck in one gear talkin’ ’bout you’re gonna” Vice Verse – “Killa Verse”

In case you’ve been living under a rock (not the same one I’ve been under), Rock The Bells hits Chicago ON SATURDAY.  Yes, this Saturday.  This will be the last FSD contest, so if you don’t win the tickets here today, then you’ll need to pick them up here.  The good news is that all…

Just in time for Taste, BJ The Chicago Kid drops off his A Taste Of Chicago Mixtape.  I haven’t listened to it yet (sorry), but feel free to test the waters and share your feedback.  BJ The Chicago Kid – A Taste of Chicago Props to Mr. Laurice Trotter.  Hit the jump for the tracklist…01….

Here we go inside the listening session for YP’s upcoming album Classified. YP’s listening session for his album “CLASSIFIED”…..Pugs Atomz, Gutta, RasRok, Briahna G, The Outfitters, HipHopLivesStupid, ChiGround, Big E & BigHomie D.O.E. all slid thru! Catch YP performing tonight at the Budweiser joint at SubT and immediately after at the Darkroom!

From Austin, TX all the way back at SXSW. By the way, did anyone else hear about Big Wiz falling off stage during his performance the other night at Joe’s?  I guess he pulled a Trouble T-Roy (Ouch!) and cracked his head, requiring stitches.  But Wiz, being the soldier that he is, got back up…