Kanye West and his band of dancing GOOD Musicians (and hey, is that Mark Ronson doing the Cornholio at the beginning?) performing “Heartless” live in London. via Perajok

As if you haven’t already heard just about everything on here (hey there’s still a few that haven’t leaked yet) but some of the tracks do sound a bit different that the original leaks – and there’s no sign of Shark Radio or that Extravagansta Radio dickhead.  Amazon is currently hosting snippets of all the…

The Certified Block Boyz are a quartet (ha!) consisting of RasRok (Chicago), J-Hurt and Steve Soulja both from Dallas, and Kaution from Compton, CA.  That’s a hodge podge!  Check out their first single, produced by Lokey, below. Certified Block Boys – “Back To Da Sto”

Chicago emcee Longshot is a finalist in Jake One’s Rhymesayers competition that I mentioned the other day.  Basically, the dopest emcee over one of Jake’s beats gets some studio time and some free production from the man. So Longshot would be more than appreciative if you stopped by to vote for him, so he can…

At Sneaker Pimps performing “Gotta Stay Fresh”

What you are seeing is the :57 rough cut of Drunken Monkee’s “Go Bezerk” music video. The song for “Go Bezerk” is only 3 minutes long, but the final clip will be 7-8 minutes long (they’re calling it a “mini-thriller”), and the concept is that Drunken and his gang of apes escape from the “Chicago…

At least that’s what Common and Kendra G have to say. Oh word?

D-Win and Johnny Rocket sat down with illroots.com for a in-depth interview Part II after the jump…Read more…

It’s just been a rough couple days for Chicago hip-hoppers. West was arrested at a hotel in Gateshead, England early this morning after allegedly getting into a tussle with a photog on his way out of the Tup Tup nightclub in Newcastle. After a short investigation, West was released from police custody without charges… …According…