I, my friends, have a pair of tickets to give away for The Game concert brought to you by the good folks at Live Nation, this coming Sunday (March 29) at the House of Blues in Chicago.  Nipsey Hussle and Clyde Carson are opening up for Jayceon, so it’ll definitely be a dope show. Just…

Produced by Phil Gates This track will be featured on the upcoming Illnature mixtape Go ILL Factions 3 Illnature – “Move”

Yep, they’re all in the picture. Here’s a *Myspace* rip of Q-Tip’s remix for “We Fight, We Love” featuring ‘Ye and the Cons.  And yes, what I said about Kanye being the cameo king of ’09 stands true. Q-Tip feat. Kanye West & Consequence – “We Fight, We Love” (Remix) Update: CDQ version is HERE….

Something new from Molemen affiliate Scheme.  Here he teams up with his Molemen brother Astonish and Ton Pro.  This is to appear Scheme’s upcoming nine track project entitled The Manifesto EP.  The EP is entirely produced by the production crew Sound Merchants and features appearances from Jean Grae, Astonish and more. Scheme feat. Astonish &…

A throwback song from The Aaron Levi Experience EP.  In addition, “Full Of Fun” took the top spot over 500 entries in a recent Demo Contest held by The Chicago Chapter of The Recording Academy in partnership with ASCAP. Aaron Levi – “Full of Fun”

And I say company, only because I wouldn’t be able to type everyone’s name in the title box with out it being five lines. Phil G, Que BILLAH, Big Wiz, Mike 100s, Tony Baines and Agacee (of Ivy League) travel like soldiers down to the Taste of Chicago SXSW to rep for the ‘Go.

SXSW Asher Roth & The Cool Kids- Black Mags x I Love College Doing “I Love College” and “Black Mags”

Earatik Statik’s The Good, The Bad & The Ugly quietly dropped last week on Gravel Records.  Make sure you pick up the album and support indie Chicago hip hop.  Here’s a remix from the album that was done by the legendary Large Professor. Earatik Statik – “No Problems” (Extra P Remix)

Look Ma, new pics! Here’s a fresh one from YP a.k.a. The Lottery Pick entitled “Beware” (No Beware). Also, be sure to head over to Timbuck2’s site to vote for YP (at the very bottom of the page) to keep YP’s “I Hustle” in rotation on Tim’s Go ILL Radio.  Speaking of “I Hustle”, YP…

M-Eighty of the group The Almighty (formerly with Babygrande) and A&R for the Seattle-based indie label Sound Records, was in Chicago on Sunday to meet with various producers as he’s scouting tracks for an upcoming Canibus/Keith Murray collabo album as well as various projects for Sound.  Here you can catch M-Eighty at Cayex Illah’s studio…