[Video] Killer Mike: “Ghetto Gospel”

Killer Mike spent much of the past year crisscrossing the country, eschewing his own form of hip-hop gospel. In fact, his performance and subsequent message he delivered during his Pitchfork set was one of the more poignant moments of festival season for me. The man behind one of 2013’s hottest hip-hop releases in R.A.P. Music […]

Naledge: “Hole in My Soul” (Ft. Sulaiman)

Naledge is currently in the lab cooking up his latest release, Brain Power 2. As a sort of teaser to the upcoming project, he released this loosie track with fellow Chicago MC Sulaiman for this DJ Sean Mac-produced hors d’oeuvre. Naledge has been around the Chicago scene for a minute, since entering with Kidz In […]

[Video] Aaron Cohen: “Nickvanexelrose”

Seattle’s own Aaron Cohen is back with a new video for his track titled “Nickvanexelrose”. One of my favorite up and coming artists out right now, Cohen dropped the video via SPIN today in the lead up to his next full project release, Potential Fans, due out November 11. For now, enjoy the video below, […]

[Video] Eminem & Slaughterhouse on The Backroom

Eminem dropped his latest album this week, The Marshall Mathers EP 2, a follow-up to his seminal, larger than life, 2000 album that firmly cemented the Detroit MC in the upper echelon of hip-hop and popular culture. As part of the whirlwind media attention the project has been receiving, BET invited Shady and his crew, […]

[Album] Action Bronson: “Blue Chips 2”

Queens Chef-turned-MC, Action Bronson, released the highly-anticipated follow up to 2012s Blue Chips collaboration with production duo Party Supplies. Playing of the 1994 Nick Nolte movie of which he put out a teaser video, somewhat re-imagining the seminal scene when Nolte goes off Bobby Knight-style. To be real, Blue Chips was one of my favorite […]

[Album] theWHOevers: “Ridin’ Waves”

At long last the latest offering from DotKom and J. Arthur, better known as theWHOevers out of Chicago, is here with their latest release Ridin’ Waves which hit an Internet near you today. The album, a follow-up to 2012s well-received RedTape somewhat chronicles the last year for the duo, as the songs veer from sultry jazz […]