[Video] Exit Ghost: "Elston"
Chicago has a very vibrant scene all the way around, one that largely gets misconstrued as wholly hip-hop and nothing else. Local rock band Exit Ghost, noted as a RubyHornet First Glance last month with their song, "Speaker" took some time to detail the process they took in crafting their latest album, Elston. The video is a collaboration by Jack Mayer, Jacob Goodman and the band and details "what it is like to make a video about a band" It was shot from May-August of this year as Exit Ghost rehearsed, wrote and learned from one another during a residency at Chicago's High Concept Laboratories, working on Elston. Watch below as the band learns to deal with the natural reverb of a brick wall in the cozy, sunny room at HCL in the video below and keep an eye out for Elston, due out in November.
[Album] Wes P.: "Blow Your Mind"
Chicago producer Wes P. released his EP, Blow Your Mind, earlier today on DJBooth.com. The project is executive produced by fellow Chicagoan and often collaborator ProbCause, as well as John Basics. It is a genre-packed tape with everything from trap and house to hip-hop that can appeal to a wide range of fans and listeners. Take some time out of your day today to check out what Wes cooked up this time.
[Video] Gianni Blu: "Hotel Infinity"
Gianni Blu made a bit of a name for himself engineering and producing for the likes of Kind Louie and Lil Bibby on their trap/drill track "Crazy". Talk about range. "Hotel Infinity" is about as night and day as you can get from the drill scene. It's a house banger with well-placed ambient vocals and a video to match. APJ Films continues to do his thing once again with this video as well. Check it out below!
http://youtu.be/-l51CWAyPiA
Roman Flowrs: "No More" (Feat. Thomas Davinci and AJ Peace)
Roman Flowrs has been making a name for himself over the past few weeks with well-timed releases like th elead single off his upcoming #OneHellofaPromo project due out next week, October 8. Today, Flowrs drops the second single off the tape, "No More" featuring Thomas Davinci and AJ Peace. Check out the song below, as well as the impressive tracklisting for #OneHellOfAPromo which includes a who's who of Chicago artists like Nico Segal, Cam Osteen, The Gift and more.
Tracklisting:
1 Hello tomorrow (prod by Evil Needle)
2 Lake Shore Drive f/ Donnie Trumpet (prod by Cam for J.U.S.T.I.C.E League)
3 Roun Town (prod by SANGO)
4 Flex Season II (prod by IAMNONODI)
5 All for you f/ TaylorAre(prod by Roman Flowrs)
6 Summer of 06 (prod by The Gift)
7 Local $elebrity f/ Wonda (prod by SANGO)
8 Dom Hennessy (prod by Betty Ford Boys)
9 Rose Petals (prod by Uyama Hiroto)
10 Into the light (prod by Saux & ESTA) f/ Thomas Davinci & TaylorAre
11 No more f/ Thomas Davinci & AJ Peace (prod by Sivey)
12 King pin f/ Dart (prod by Patrick Pryor)
13 Next year's pool party (prod by Roman Flowrs)
14 Beginnings (prod by Luminaire)
[Video] ShowYouSuck: "Big Gulp"
They may not appreciate Big Gulps in New York, but here in Chicago the oversized frosty drinks get major play. No one knows this more than the one and only ShowYouSuck who today released the visual for his video "Big Gulp". It's "an ode to large drinks and smart women" because it's just not covered enough in rap music these days. The video is done by George Sol and fits with an overall aesthetic of radness that Show fully embodies. Speaking of radness, ShowYouSuck is currently working on his next project, Rad, due out in 2014 with a preview, The EP Before Rad to drop before then. He'll be playing a couple dates in Kentucky and Iowa soon, check the links under the video below.
http://youtu.be/r7PU_kDmzxc
UPCOMING SHOWS
THURSDAY OCT 3, 2013/ The New Vintage// Louisville, KY
FRIDAY OCT 11, 2013/ Vaudeville Mews// Des Moines, IA
[Album] Nasim Williams: The Symbiote
Nasim Williams has been garnering a buzz around the Chicago hip-hop scene for some time now. The Treated Crew member has had steady DJ sets around the city and has built his name by producing for the likes of Vic Spencer, Sulaiman, Impolite Society and more. Check out the five song album, Symbiote, released today via Jugrnaut.
Smoko Ono: "Pass The Flame" (Feat. Jarred AG, Saba & Sterling Haze)
Chicago's own Smoko Ono offered up this single, "Pass The Flame" off his upcoming Smoko and Friends project due out later this year. Smoko has been putting in his time around the city and "Pass The Flame" is a dope glimpse into what he's been cooking up. For now, check out the single, featuring some fellow Chicago cats that do their thing, per usual.
"Boy don't drink your life away/Make them bloggers type away."
[RH Feature] Vic Mensa Takes Over The Innanetape
Photo By: Bryan Lamb
It's ten o'clock at night in late March and I’m fighting sleep. Sitting almost horizontal on a massive, black leather couch as my photographer, Bryan Lamb, and I watch Chance the Rapper racing back and forth from the booth behind us to the computer in front of us, occasionally taking frantic puffs from his cigarette.
His counterpart, Vic Mensa, lounges on a couch nearby, staring intently at a Macbook perched carefully on his lap, analyzing the first cut of the video for “DiditB4”, the lead single off his September 30 release, Innanetape directed by fellow Savemoney member Austin Vesely. The pre-rendered cuts are too quick for the computer and the screen stops on a scene of Mensa, in a white coat and goggles, holding a cow brain. “That shit was too raw, Austin drove to some farm to get it,” said Mensa.
By now, you've most likely heard of Chancellor Bennett, the 20-year-old artist who turned a ten-day suspension from high school into a pair of nationally-recognized mixtapes. You also likely have heard of Vic Mensa, the 20-year-old former front-man of the now-defunct Kids These Days who announced via an XXL interview in April that the band was done.
Together, the pair make up the leadership team of "Savemoney"-an eclectic collective of young artists, musicians, students and more based in Chicago that have helped elevate the city to the top of hip hop's collective consciousness. That rise was aided heavily by Chance’s April release, Acid Rap. Mensa’s Innanetape is poised to blow the roof off the Chicago scene.