As I mentioned earlier Common had a secret show last night in New York City in conjunction with NBC.com. My friend who was in attendance told me Kanye unexpectedly showed up to perform “Heartless” and “Robocop”. You can catch a little bit of his appearance here at the end. His show in Chicago is TONIGHT.

Courtesy of Pugslee.

Here’s another Holiday rarity for you.  This one comes from the legendary Chicago trio known as Psychodrama and features Kanye Tudda.  A lot of people ask about PD quite frequently, so hopefully we’ll have more from them coming soon…I actually just connected with Buk [II] last night. This joint was produced by Firewater and featured on Mike Love’s…

Pronounced Audacity. Here’s something from Awd’s Fresh Out The Box (The Shark Tape), which drops on December 19th.  Here he goes in over Buck & 9th’s “No Comparison” Awdazcate – “Fresh!!!”

So they used this as the UK bonus cut for Universal Mind Control even though you can find the original on Finding Forever.  Why?  Why not, I guess.  This would be opposite of the time I had to listen to the Dave Chapelle live version of “The Food” for an entire year until the Be…

PUBLICENEMY #1- RENO CHINATI from mike tyson on Vimeo. Reno Chinati has a new mixtape dropping on December 26th entitled Public Enemy #1. Enjoy the first leak below and check out the promo for more details. Reno Chinati – “Public Enemy #1”

My Rhymefest mixtape drop continues.  As I’ve previously mentioned Fest’s upcoming mixtape, It Lives, will be dropping in the very near future, so we’re letting all of his previously released mixtapes go courtesty of Plugg City. City On My Back dropped in 2006 and featured appearances from Twone Gabz, Mikkey Halsted, Kanye West, Talib Kweli…

I magically got my hands on a track from the upcoming GLC x RTC mixtape, Similar to the Letters, which drops next week.  I’ve heard the mix and it’s tougher than leather – it features a slew of unreleased GLC tracks (with some live performance material!) with DJ RTC on the cuts.  This one features Soulstice… GLC feat….

In honor of the Holidays, I’m going to be liberating some rare and unreleased music from the Chicago vaults.  I have some real special stuff coming, so stay tuned. Here’s a hard-to-find banger (zing!) from Bumpy Johnson.  Bump J – “Keep My Banger”