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…

Gems speaks! Part II and III after the jump… via Sean Read more…

SEMTEX TV – DELA SOUL, MOS DEF, NAS, WILL I AM, KANYE WEST, DAMON ALBARN ROC THE MIC @ THE G.O.O.D. MUSIC AFTER PARTY from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo. Now this would have been ill.

via RH: We’re pleased to unveil our latest original series, “Welcome To Chicago”. This series features out of town artists getting hip to the Windy City via our own artistic tour guides. The jump off episodes features Cleveland’s Chip Tha Ripper getting a crash course on Harold’s Chicken, Chicago boutiques, as well as SoundScape Studios…

Damn.  This just came across my desk and is the type of shit I hate to have to report on. CBS 2 Chicago Reports: A Chicago-based rapper could be performing his next set inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center after being charged by federal authorities with robbing an Oak Park bank in 2007. He was wanted in…