People want authenticity. I often ask my students, ‘what don’t you like about music?’ One of the biggest responses is the lack of honesty they perceive from artists of all genres who pretend everything is always going well. It’s a common theme, and a common criticism. In recent years though – and many younger people […]
KAMI- PAYLOAD
[iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/bHszTNbMO6Y”] KAMI rings in the new year with a jubilant new video for “PAYLOAD”. With his excitable delivery and a synth heavy instrumental the track is a certified banger. Starting off with a grainy IPhone video the video morphs into a behind the scenes experience showcasing KAMI and the Savemoney crews carefree antics. The […]
Vic Mensa performs private show for Summer of Collaboration
Summer of Collaboration presented by AT&T partnered with Vic Mensa for a private show at Chicago’s AT&T Michigan Ave store with street photographer Vivian Maier’s. Maier was street photography’s best kept secret. Maier worked as a nanny in the Chicago suburb North Shore in the late 1990’s. That’s where while working she took what would become […]
Chance The Rapper releases new album ‘Coloring Book’
Chance The Rapper just dropped his best work yet with his highly anticipated third album, Coloring Book. Formally known as Chance 3, Chance’s Coloring Book features heavyweights like Kayne West, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Future, T-Pain, and Justin Bieber. Chicago talent is also present with features from Saba and Towkio. The fourteen track album is Chance’s biggest […]
Chicago Acts to Look Out For in 2014
Photo by Bobby Reys Chicago has been on lately. The Second City has always been known as a musical city and the current rate at which it has produced talent as of late is only adding to that legacy. As festival lineups roll out as we transition into Spring, it has become common to find […]
[Video] Scoolboy Q, Vic Mensa & Vado on ‘RapFix Live’
Wednesday might as well have been “Come Up Day” over at the MTV RapFix studios in New York City. I say that because Sway, wearing a SaveMoney sweatshirt nonetheless, found himself flanked by two of the most aggressively progressive artists in hip-hop today in Vic Mensa and Schoolboy Q who were also joined by Cam’ron […]
Chance The Rapper Hints at New Song
Chance The Rapper has been making the rounds while taking a break from the harsh Chicago winter out in Los Angeles. While on the left coast, he has been spotted in the studio with the likes of Skrillex, Justin Bieber, Jeremih, Common and No I.D., among others. All that time in the booth had to […]
[Mixtape] Dally Auston: “The Westside EP”
Chicago’s Dally Auston, part of the vaunted SaveMoney clique that has been steadily making their impact felt on the larger Chicago hip-hop scene and nation-wide over the past year, has been quiet since the summer when he dropped the critically-acclaimed project The Wood back in March of last year. Whereas The Wood took Auston from […]