Category: Chicago

I woke up this morning to find this information waiting on me in my inbox – needless to say, today started off on the right foot: The 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival invades Chicago’s Union Park from July 18-20. We’ve already revealed 13 of the 41 scheduled acts– including Public Enemy doing It Takes a Nation…

Brandon over at Double Threat Entertainment sent me a joint from local artist J-Kwest, who cranked out this track in honor of Chicago’s own Barack Obama. You check hear more from J-Kwest at his blog and website. The song is picking up some serious steam and just yesterday was picked up by Allhiphop.com. Congrats fellas……

It’s finally here. The first single from Really Doe’s debut album, First Impression. You heard it here first. Exclusive of ’08 for Fake Shore Drive? I think so… Really Doe feat. Kanye West – “Plastic” Big props to Shon!

Chicago producer and emcee Mush Millions is no rookie to the music industry. Discovered in his early teens by executives at Warner Brothers, the child prodigy Mush was quickly singed to the label and moved to LA to record his debut album. However, Industry Rule #4080 caught up with Mush, when a young upstart by…

For all of you fans of the British sect of Dipset [*tumbleweed rolls through*]. This song/video is a few years old, so I’m not exactly sure why the “exclusive” behind-the-scenes footage just leaked. Anyone? Oh well, I figured some of you Kanye stans might be interested. He does some rapping/freestyling/dancing around, etc. Wonder if he’s…

Spotted via Rock The Dub

At 12:00am on May 13, 2008, Chicago emcee Phil G plans to release his album, Refined Swagger, as a digital download only release via his myspace page. The album features guest shots from GLC, Really Doe, Que Billah and many more. If you’re interested in checking out a sampler of the album, stop by his…

Hiiiiooooooo…. Another interview done by Roosevelt Treasurechest over at Ruby Hornet, this time with Chi-Town sensation Mic Terror, who also happens to be one of my favorite MC’s in the city. If you missed it, check out Terror’s mixtape, The Terrordome Vol. 2, for free download here. Also see some of his live set a…

Kind of an unexpected collabo?  Whatever, this track gets the big cosign from me.  Can the Cool Kids do no wrong?  I’m diggin’ the Carps as well here – from their EP, Waves & Shambles, dropping on April 8th. The Carps feat. The Cool Kids – “Heaven’s Gates & Hells Flames” Courtesy of Sir Rizoh

Chicago’s “Starving Artist” and blogosphere favorite, Bless 1, just hit me with some unreleased material from an abandoned project he’d been working on, pairing Bless with some of his favorite producers. The first of these tracks is the J.Dilla produced “The World”. If you missed my last post on Bless 1, you can download a…