If the name Jarred A.G. isn't one you know, "Risk" is his best track so far and the one to get to know him on. The track is produced by Green Iris, Supreme Regime's production duo of Mulatto Beats and Smoko Ono (who coincidentally is A.G.'s younger brother), and it a perfect backdrop for Jarred A.G. to link with Scheme. The Moleman/SNRC has been killing it lately, doing so again here, dropping a…

"La Clicka what I'm repping, if you ain't down with it, you ain't what I'm representing." This artwork is so dope, I can't even crop it to meet our settings...  Matching the artwork's crispness is Scheme's lyrical presentation on "Young Chavez".  It's the latest in Scheme's remake series, in which he takes some of his favorites and makes them his own. He brings along DJ Scend to remake this…

"Ride around and get it while I kick it with La Clicka." Today we finally get "La Clika", a new record from Scheme that also represents a bit of a new direction for one Chicago's best spitters.  Scheme had some difficulty balancing his Mexican roots with his upbringing and emergence within Hip Hop.  "La Clika" sees Scheme find a better balance, as the emcee raps predominantly in Spanish with…

"Lights Out." Scheme's acoustic series with Oscar Castillo is something I really dig.  It's great to see and hear Scheme continue to progress through music and move out of his normal comfort zone of spitting razor-sharp daggers over more traditional boom bap records.  While I'm a fan of that music til the end, you gotta move things around to really grow the fan base.  Scheme is doing just…

Earlier this spring, Scheme and Alex Wiley connected with Thelonious Martin for a Closed Session at SoundScape.  I had a feeling that Scheme and Alex Wiley would make a good record together because they can both straight up spit.  Scheme is arguably the best pure-spitter in Chicago, and out of the new class, few are really touching Wiley in that same regard.  Thelonious supplied the perfect…

"Hopefully the haters ain't your motherfucking neighbors." Scheme and Astonish are a dope musical duo. They were both the youngins in the Molemen camp a couple years ago, and are now both coming into their own as vets in the Hip Hop game.  They will be taking their show to NYC this Friday for a performance in the boogie down Bronx (478 Austin St.).  Before they head out, they give us this…

The City of W1n Vol. 1 compilation will be released online later today for a free download.  One standout track you will find on the project is "Kingdom" featuring Scheme, Mig Mora and Chandler London.  Scheme hit me with an advance of the record, and I love it.  Musically, Stefan Clark's production is pretty upbeat and paced, however, Mora, Scheme, and London use it to air out political…

Scheme and DJ Scend have been a really dope thing going in their 2 Turntables and A Mic series.  Each edition pays homage to a great Hip Hop producer, as well as the elements and the history between the emcee and the DJ.  Plus, Scheme is a ridiculously dope rapper so...  This latest edition pays homage to Pete Rock.  They dropped the audio a couple weeks ago, and linked up with Sense Hernandez of…