Calling in live from Chicago, “NATO Headquarters”, Lupe Fiasco held a conference call with Atlantic Records to discuss his forthcoming LP, Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Part I, tentatively scheduled for September 26th. The call was moderated by DJ Whoo Kid, who asked Lupe a series of questions about his new...Read More
Rockie Fresh is the definition of winning right now. The Chicago emcee went to Diddy’s house, is being courted by Rick Ross, and is one of the faces of Chicago’s surging Hip Hop scene. Last week Rockie hit SoundScape Studio to work with Thelonious Martin and Closed Sessions. Maybe there was something in the water...Read More
Saturday night we hosted a special Chicago Hip Hop edition of Digital Freshness with MTV2 and Sucker Free. The party was 100% free and featured a diverse lineup of performers ranging from Vic Mensa to Ebone Hoodrich, JUICE to Hollywood Holt, and Scheme to GLC. Sir Michael Rocks took the stage with the Toothpick Clique,...Read More
Someone recently asked me to describe Chance The Rapper. After thinking for a while, I told them that Chance is really best described by the music. Not just in the sense of the music he makes, the words he raps or sings, but the music. Lil’ Wayne created the I Am Music Tour, Chance The...Read More
Today we present to you Sloane Peterson, the debut mixtape from Chicago’s Supreme Regime. The young crew has assembled quite a product, complete with 13 tracks that vary in their sound, style and vibe. Starting from the down-tempo intro “Digital Communication”, containing the audio of MJ’s infamous ’shot’, the tape goes full circle and ends with “Beach House”...Read More
Smokers unite yet again for the aptly titled “Ashtray”, off of Smoke DZA upcoming Rugby Thompson project. Fellow Harlem native Harry Fraud produced the entirety of the project, sampling 2Chainz for “Ashtray”. With a banging baseline, Domo Genesis and ScHoolboy Q do their part to elevate this stoner anthem to another level. Stream below and preorder...
The homie Jon James has been grinding heavy on his LP Living Out Loud, ever since I first got ear of his music around the time #OTTN was in it’s beginning stages about a year ago. Today we get a taste in the form of “YE$$IR”, a head nodding cu in which Jame$ proclaims his...
“This is food for thought, so go ahead and eat it up.” Martin $ky just sent over his latest record, “Sawed Off”. While did not produced this one, he definitely supplies the raps. Raps on raps on raps. Listen to “Sawed Off” below and also download it for the free. Martin $ky: “Sawed Off” [Audio...
El-P goes ahead and tops the release of “The Full Retard” with the release of its music video. I love the buddy-puppet style videos where the puppet completely wyles out. The squirrel in this clip can go up against any other music-video puppet, and probably drink them under the table. Watch the clip below and...
Some may not have heard of experimental Hip-Hop producer A.Chal, but now is the time to get familiar. As the Flosstradamus inspired style of Trap/Electronic music will undoubtedly take full form this summer, acts like Ball Trap Music, Morri$, and A. Chal will be leading that storm. Today he gives us “Paid In Full” a...
“Hopefully the haters ain’t your motherfucking neighbors.” Scheme and Astonish are a dope musical duo. They were both the youngins in the Molemen camp a couple years ago, and are now both coming into their own as vets in the Hip Hop game. They will be taking their show to NYC this Friday for a...
I discovered Amadou and Mariam at Lollapalooza a couple years ago. My friend went to see their mid-day set, and came back saying it was one of the best performance he’d ever seen. The reason was their energy and care with their music and for each other. They are a married-duo, who are both blind. ...
Toro Y Moi plays the role of selector, contributing a new playlist to Andrew Meza’s BTS podcast. The mixt includes a lot of indie music that I’ve never heard of (wah wah), and what is believed to be a new record from Toro in the form of “Hood Dreams”. It also includes some Danny Brown...
