[Review] The Smart Studios Story

The Smart Studios Story Director: Wendy Schneider Rating: N/A Release Date: March 16, 2016  The Chicago International Movies & Music Festival (CIMM Fest) opened last night with the first Midwest screening of The Smart Studios Story, at The Music Box, and it did not disappoint. The documentary revisits the legendary Madison recording studio that helped birth the […]

[Video] Lucki Eck$: “Boomin”

The economy may not be doing well still, but Chicago’s own Lucki Eck$, who popped up onto the national radar last year with his sinewy, shadowy rhymes calmly detailing how he served folks on the corner dropped a new video today to debut his fresh track, “Boomin” which details how he has invigorated himself with […]

[Album] Psalm One: “Hug Life”

With all the talk of the violence in Chicago and ‘Chiraq’ this and that being hawked by out-of-towners on the daily, mucking up the Second City’s image for personal gain, it can be easy to forget that there is still plenty of positivity in the city’s streets. Chicago’s first lady of hip-hop, Psalm One is […]

[Documentary] Chicago Hip Hop Profiled in “The Field”

[iframe id=”http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/embed/65971″] WorldStarHipHop, the website best known for knock out videos and general ratchet-ness, decided to bring their cameras to Chicago for a special video special titled The Field, detailing the in and outs of not only the Chicago hip-hop scene, but the social and socioeconomic ramifications that surround it as well. Shot by Sher […]

Chance The Rapper Covers The Source Magazine

It’s 2014 now, but not much has changed for young Chance The Rapper, as the accolades continue to roll in. The Chicago native was recently named The Source Magazine’s fourth “Rookie of the Year” in the publication’s latest edition. Posing as his own Ventriloquist dummy, Chance joins  the likes of past winners, Kendrick Lamar, Big […]

[Video] Bmac: “Till I OD”

Bmac is a rapper from Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood on the city’s North side. Currently working on his upcoming debut project, Hate On This  hosted by DJ Sean Mac, Bmac dropped the first single, complete with video accompaniment in promotion for his project, which drops on New Year’s Eve. For it’s part, “Till I OD” has […]

Maya Symone: “Perfect”

Earlier this year, during the summer, we posted 18-year-old R&B artist Maya Symone’s track, “Summertime Chi” which caught our eye because of the young Chicago native’s haltingly beautiful voice. Much like fellow young songstress Lorde, Symone touches on the things that young girls touch on: relationships, finding the right one, realizing they’re not. But she […]