Earlier today, MTV2 Sucker Free featured a quick preview of this week’s release from Closed Sessions Vol. 2. The newest single and documentary is called “This Is How We Treat’em” and was recorded over Pitchfork weekend 2010 with Ninjasonik, Million $ Mano, Hollywood Holt, and Roofeeo. The session was quite a trip, and you can...
In the very early days of Closed Sessions, the early-early days, we would sit around and talk about our hopes for the label and what we wanted to do. I remember at those earliest meetings, we would throw around the names of our favorite emcees and make a hopeful list of future Closed Sessions...
Yesterday, MTV2 Sucker Free featured a preview of our forthcoming Closed Session song and documentary with Raekwon the Chef. In case you missed it on the TV, I decided to go ahead and post the preview up here if you want to check it out. The full documentary and single will be released on Weds...
Shortly after we secured Action Bronson to play the November edition of Digital Freshness, I told him jokingly via Twitter that Chicago’s finest meats and cheeses awaited him in the windy city upon arrival. I say that to many of our guests, but this time it took on a new meaning given Action’s former career...
“We don’t just want to add to the catalog, we want to be on top of the catalog,” says Moonie, one half of the Chicago Hip Hop crew, L.E.P. Bogus Boys. The catalog he is referring to is the Closed Sessions catalog of original music and documentary footage compiled over a 2 year span that...
Closed Sessions Vol. 2 is our new album that’s been nearly two years in the making. Our first session for this project took place in May of 2010 and the last one finished in February of 2012. In between we recorded music and captured footage with some of the time’s most relevant artists including Raekwon,...
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire was in Chicago earlier this year for a Digital Freshness performance and Closed Sessions recording. While we released one record from those sessions, “Good Pussy In Chicago”, we’ve kept the other record under tight lock and key. Last night on Twitter, I started getting hit up about the other song we recorded,...
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...
Earlier today Thelonious Martin, Scheme, and Alex Wiley all hit SoundScape to work on some new music for Thelonious Martin’s Closed Sessions project. You can expect to hear the record very soon. This was the first time Alex Wiley and Scheme met, but the vibe was there early and both share a disdain for veggie...
We were at SoundScape studio today working on our Closed Sessions project with Gzus Piece when Chance The Rapper came through for an interview. After the interview, Chance stuck around and decided to lay a verse on the Gzus Piece song we were working on today. Gzus Piece has been at SoundScape over the last...
