Chicago hip hop blog
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Plainro (feat. Tiffany Hines) – CHNLS (New Track)
Chicago’s Plainro dropped one of the year’s best EP’s in LEAVES. It hit the web in late October and should have gotten way more buzz as the multi talented artist has a great ability to switch up genres and make every song sound beautiful. His newest offering, CHNLS has his signature sound containing breezy vocals…
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Ye Bandz – Po It Up (Video)
Ye Bandz has some upcoming projects in the vault (his debut The Notebook and Major Setbacks) that will be impacting soon. To hold us over he’s dropped the video to the first single off The Notebook titled Po It Up. The instrumental is relaxing and hazy with an appropriate video to match. It’s mostly a chorus,…
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Matt McGhee – Playing It Safe/Selfish (New Track)
Matt McGhee hit my SoundCloud stream last night with Playing It Safe/Selfish and I automatically pressed play. No surprises: it was great. Previous release Carnival (below) was a genre bending beauty…automatically one of my favorite songs of the first half of the year. Playing It Safe/Selfish is a two part track done exactly right. The…
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femdot. – to(u). (New EP + Extensive Review)
femdot.’s debut project femdelacreme was my introduction to the young emcee. I lost touch with his music as he dropped the king dilla EP, but jumped right back in with fo(u)r. I wasn’t expecting three more releases…and that they would all be connected. 2016 has been his year as thr(we). hit us in the summer. We’ve just gotten another EP…
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branDun DeShay -goldUn Child 2 (New Project)
I recently read an excellent interview (from years ago) with branDun DeShay right before he dropped the first installment of his GoldUn Child mixtape. I hit Apple Music right away and gave it a listen and it was great. It’s hard to find Asian inspired hip hop, but I always enjoy the music that comes out of it.…
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Ajani Jones – Liberators (New Track)
Ajani Jones is back again with another single featuring orgenA. If you didn’t read our last post, let’s catch you up. Ajani is the new featured artist on the award winning Columbia College Chicago record label AEMPP. He’s taken a different approach to his music career this time around and it’s been working very well…
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Interview with Shon Goner on track ‘The Chase’ (Dissection Interview Series)
Another day, another dissection. Shon Goner submitted The Chase to us a few weeks ago and we adored it…so much so that we hit him up about being a part of our series. It’s a gritty, slow tempo song with a brilliant chorus that sounds almost too good to be true. There is so much…
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Rob Hicks – Perception (New Track)
Rob Hicks evokes 5 personalities in his new track Perception. There’s dark cooing, high pitched vocal stretching, a squeaky distorted background and even toned rapping. His energy level doesn’t cease in the 3 and a half minute life span that is the song. Not only does he sound like multiple characters, the topics switch back…
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