It’s impossible to keep up with the newest hip-hop releases. While streaming sites such as Spotify and Apple Music highlight them, they only do so once a week with almost no coverage of “less established” rappers. I write about music for … Continue reading The Chicago Round Up (Monday, October 2nd)
Looks like MFn Melo’s Melodramatics is coming sooner than we think. His newest release, The Giver, is one of his strongest offerings of the year, and mostly likely a single off his highly anticipated debut project. It features two incredibly … Continue reading It’s a Chicago Affair As MFnMelo Grabs Femdot, Saba & Jacob Denzel For His New Single “The Giver”
Chicago. My city, my inspiration, the place I went to college, and where I fell in love with hip hop. Fakeshoredrive and Ruby Hornet gave me the tunes, I listened, and learned. I listened to a new mixtape on the … Continue reading Chicago Hip Hop History Lesson In 25 Songs (Compilation Tape)
There are hundreds of thousands of instrumental EP’s on SoundCloud. If you lived to be 200, you still wouldn’t have time to listen to them all, as new bodies of work are uploaded every day. For fans of the genre, … Continue reading Cory Grindberg Steps Into The Spotlight On His Debut Instrumental EP ‘Uma’
Many of my readers may not know that I started a pretty successful hip hop blog in 2011. I had just enrolled at Columbia College, a well-renowned arts school in Chicago. Majors included (but not limited to) photography, animation, theater, … Continue reading Throwback: My First Compilation Tape Off My Old Hip Hop Blog Featured Saba! WTF?!
Since the inception of flowsfordays, we’ve been interested in covering artists outside of music. It’s taken some time to make it happen, but we’ve started off right with Cia Gambino. Through my always informative Twitter feed, I was introduced to … Continue reading Photographer Spotlight: Cia Gambino
Hello faithful readers. Welcome to our bi-monthly series The Better Half. flowsfordays will be curating a playlist showcasing the best SoundCloud releases in the last 15 days (give or take, depending on how many days are in the month.) Instead of perusing through … Continue reading The Better Half – (Best SoundCloud Songs From October 15th-31st)
I can’t think of one hip hop fan that hasn’t craved something new from Chicago superstar Saba. He’s gearing up for his highly anticipated LP Bucket List, and today we get Church / Liquor Store, the first single from the project. … Continue reading Saba featuring Noname – Church / Liquor Store (New Track)
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