Another year, another seven albums coming from E-40. Not that that’s a bad thing, I’m just saying. 40 Water drops a lot of albums every year. This one will land on one of the discs from The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 4, 5 & 6. YC
Stalley – Raise Your Weapons
Stalley unleashes a new joint from his forthcoming project, which features Block Beataz flipping Deadmua5’s “Raise Your Weapon”. Stalley can explain this one better than I can: Written as a reaction to the complacency of his generation, the Block Beataz produced “Raise Your Weapons” calls attention to the constant fight for justice. “We recorded the…
The Best Chicago Rap Songs Of 2013 (So Far)
Words by Tyrine Howard (@TYKIDD), Alexander Gleckman (@andfeedingyou) and Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) With all of the press and media attention Chicago Hip-Hop received in 2012, many thought the scene would fall off and dry up completely in 2013. All hype, no substance some claimed. The good news, however, is that those claims were unfounded. Chi…
Vado f/ Kirko Bangz & Fabolous – Straight For The Summer [Prod. by John Blu & Tylann Durrett]
The Chi’s own John Blu and producer Tylann Durrett provide the backdrop for Vado’s new single, featuring Fabolous & Kirko Bangz. This one definitely lives up to its title. Listen below via NR.
EMP DASME – The Consortium
Produced by Different Sleep I don’t know much about Different Sleep, but this beat is smackin’. This is something spacey from EMP’s upcoming project, The Consortium.
Lil Durk Released From Prison, Dropping New Music Tonight
As of June 5, Lil Durk was having a great 2013. He’d broken ground on his Def Jam debut, with the label releasing his first official single, “Dis Ain’t What U Want.” He’d worked with elite industry figures, and even joined forces with French Montana’s Coke Boys crew. Everything was going great until a probation…
PHLI Unveils New Summer Tees
Summer is about halfway over (or halfway beginning for you optimists), but PHLI continues to roll out dope new merch for you to rock during the high temperature months. Today they unveil their PHLI Skyline and their PHLI Flag pieces, which you can view above and below. Both are available now at their website. Go…
FSD Giveaway: Caleb James ‘The Jones’ Baseball Shirts
As you should know by now, Caleb James dropped his stellar sophomore mixtape, The Jones, yesterday afternoon. As you should also know by now, the concert in celebration of the release is tomorrow night at Reggie’s at 6pm. There are still a few tickets left, so I suggest you grab a few now. In the…
Jeremih – Ex-To-See
Some new ex-to-see as in ecstasy (get it?) from Jeremih. Still no word on when his Def Jam album is due out, but the rumor mill keeps telling me he has another mixtape on the way. Could it be true? Let’s hope, Late Nights is still in heavy rotation. Fader
Capital K & Pavy – Presidential
The SUH connect for something “Presidential.” Bump this in your oval office. SUH’s compilation, The Syndicate, drops this Tuesday.