Navarro Blends Worlds On Modern Mexican Art: Radio Sondido

“I done paid my dues and have some changed left.” Navarro, known well throughout Chicago’s underground Hip Hop scene as Scheme, returned in April of 2018 with a new album centered fiercely on identity and story-telling. The LP, Modern Mexican Art: Radio Sondido, plays out like a documentary set in Chicago’s Mexican neighborhood and narrated by […]

Saba returns with “Busy” Video

“Tell me, how are you said? You got all of these friends, you got all of these fans.”  Man, it feels good to write about Saba again. One of my favorite artists, and former students, Saba is back in 2018 with a new haircut, new music, and a new nationwide tour. While that’s all cause […]

Stream TOWKIO’s New LP, WWW

It’s finally here. TOWKIO formerly Toyko Shawn fomerly Preston San has dropped his debut album, WWW. The LP is years in the making, and TOWKIO has grown tremendously since he started making music. Congrats are in order for the kid, for sure. Earlier this week, DJBooth released a pretty in-depth interview with TOWKIO where he discussed […]

Listen To Phoelix’s new jam “Drip”

I was on a massive cruise ship with Phoelix one time, out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, watching Gallant and drinking alcohol.  It was fucking amazing. But that’s irrelevant right now. What is relevant is Phoelix’s new joint, “Drip”, which is equal parts crunchy and raunchy. The vocals are dirty both in delivery and […]

Bars! Listen to Seven1’s “The Only One”

“Told my momma, ‘fuck school, I got a plan bigger’/ she said, ‘you’re ass grown, you make your own dinner.’ Come get these bars… Seven1 was someone who caught my attention my first time around on rubyhornet with his poignant and menacing take on the violence impacting Chicago. In my time away, Seven has continued […]

RH In The Studio With: Ajani Jones

When I started rubyhornet damn near 10 years ago, one of the biggest things for me and Virgil was being the studio with artists. Just the idea of “the studio” was a magic place, something like behind the curtain of the Wizard of Oz. I remember those early days fondly of being in the studio […]