Kind of an unexpected collabo?  Whatever, this track gets the big cosign from me.  Can the Cool Kids do no wrong?  I’m diggin’ the Carps as well here – from their EP, Waves & Shambles, dropping on April 8th. The Carps feat. The Cool Kids – “Heaven’s Gates & Hells Flames” Courtesy of Sir Rizoh

Chicago’s “Starving Artist” and blogosphere favorite, Bless 1, just hit me with some unreleased material from an abandoned project he’d been working on, pairing Bless with some of his favorite producers. The first of these tracks is the J.Dilla produced “The World”. If you missed my last post on Bless 1, you can download a…

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I’ve been hounding Mikkey for some new material for the longest, but have subsequently been coming up shorter than a midget on his knees (© Ice Cube). So imagine my excitement when I found this gem on Pugs’ CTA Radio Vol. 2 Mixtape (just in case you missed the full thing here). I think it’s…

MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Entertainment News Finally MTV got their shit together and decided to cover Rhymefest’s Man In The Mirror Dedication Album (*ahem* the only dedication album).  In the video ‘Fest discusses some choice tracks from the album and two of my personal favorites “No Sunshine” and “Can’t Make It”.  Can we get…

Too much video today? Naaaaah. Here’s a dope interview my man Alex from Ruby Hornet did with “Chicago’s Man of the People”, Pugslee Atomz, down in Austin for SXSW. Enjoy.

Is Vimby omnipresent or what? Seriously, these guys are everywhere. In fact, they did an Easter shoot over at my Grandparents house yesterday. Ayo? [*crickets*] Yeah, I knew that would be a stretch. Anyhoo, the folks at Vimby caught up with Mic Terror, Holywood Holt, Shala and Million $ Mano, collectively known as “The Movement”,…

Eurweb.com is reporting that Common has come to the aide of his recently embattled longtime Reverend, Chicago’s Jeremiah Wright. Common, who grew up a member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, where the retired Reverend spent most of his career, feels Wright was misinterpreted: “He never really was against white people or another race….

From Phil Michael aka Phil G’s album, Refined Swagger. Coming Soon.