In case you missed J-Hud’s Holiday special, I’ll Be Home For Christmas, here it is for your viewing pleasure. The Grammy and Oscar award winning star brought her tour bus back to Chicago to film performance shots at various locations around the city including her old high school (Dunbar), the Chicago River and Navy Pier….

P.A. Smooth – “Right Back”

20 years after the Berlin Wall drops, Pugslee comes through to crush the buildings with a quick 16 from his hotel room.  I swear Pugs has been in Europe for about 4 months.  Word on the street is that he returns next week?

“If I wanna have 10 hoes, I can have 10 hoes” I caught a few minutes of this on Friday morning, and I kept thinking to myself “Damn, Diddy sounds delirious.  I don’t think he’s slept in a few days”.   It’s pretty evident dude was exhausted while making his Chicago rounds.  At first I…

Off Scheme’s upcoming mixtape, Same Rebel, New Cause.  Dropping in February 2010. Scheme – “Follow The Leader” 

Young Verse borrows his Westside bredren’s beat for his own rendition of “Shining Down” Off the 5th City Bandits mixtape. Versatile – “Shining Down”

The above quotes were lifted from Fest’s Twitter page today.  For his tweets to make sense, please read from the bottom up. If you didn’t already know, Jay iLLa is working on his latest mixtape, Revenge of the Backpacks 2: Welcome To Chicago, and one notable track is a remake of LL Cool J’s legendary 1997 posse cut…

Not sure if he’s singing about his FNF contract, but I doubt it.  This is a live recording of Matthew performing “Break Free”, as part of Frequency TV’s interview and studio series, the first of which I posted yesterday.

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from The Iceberg.  Here he returns with Will Smith’s nephew (nepotism!) K Smith and Chicago’s own Sincere.  I’m serious about mine, I’m so sincere. Yung Berg feat. Sincere & K Smith – “Bring Ya Girlfriends”

Move over Curtis, the Lottery Pick has jacked your beat and murdered you on your own ish.   I applaud YP for his work ethic and recent output.  Keep them coming. YP will be performing this Saturday at the “Best Of Both Worlds” Showcase (US Beer Co-1801 N Clybourn Ave) at 10 pm YP – “Hold…