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- Music, Music Review Jul 31, 2020
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Chicago rappers SD and Brian Fresco combine their distinctive styles for the whimsically joyful Muddbruddas
- Music, Music Review Mar 26, 2020
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Chicago rapper Sterling Hayes travels down his own unusual path on Flirting With Death
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 26, 2018
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Chicago band Diagonal do mid-90s shoegaze so well they might have a time machine
Plus: Save Money rapper Sterling Hayes talks mental health on a new mixtape, and Bad Sons throw down an EP of classic street rock.
- Music, The Block Beat Feb 14, 2018
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Vic Mensa revisits his vanishing Hyde Park
The rising rapper considers his teenage stomping grounds home, even though gentrification has killed his favorite hangouts.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 9, 2018
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Chicago rapper Kami has a big hit in the making with ‘Payload’
The standout single from Kami's June EP, Superstar, gets the party-video treatment for the new year.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 2, 2017
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Fake Shore Drive founder Andrew Barber on ten years of blogging and the evolution of the Chicago hip-hop scene
Fake Shore Drive has grown alongside Chicago rap, becoming an institution in its own right—and it celebrates its tenth anniversary by reuniting Big Tymers for a show at the Portage.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 1, 2017
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Knox Fortune learned his trade in hip-hop, but he wants to make his name in pop
The producer also known as Kevin Rhomberg headlines his first show as a solo artist to celebrate his debut album, Paradise.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2017
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Mick Jenkins’s DJ, Green Sllime, takes a break from the turntables to host a talk show
The newish YouTube series Sllime's Broke Ass Low Budget Show caters to Chicago hip-hop fanatics.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
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DJ Oreo talks about footwork, booking a Chicago party from Australia, and Sunday’s birthday battle with Elz the DJ
West-side native DJ Oreo throws himself a birthday party at East Room on Sunday that doubles as an informal turntable battle with his best friend—and then he hits the road with Lil Yachty.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 29, 2016
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Dividing Chicago hip-hop into ‘Chance and friends’ and ‘the drill scene’ insults its richness and variety
Stereogum's recent survey of Chicago hip-hop gets a lot of things wrong, but it also serves as a reminder of how much there is to discover here.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 27, 2016
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Can Vic Mensa radicalize Lollapalooza?
The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 7, 2016
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Save Money rapper Brian Fresco realizes his ambition with Casanova
Save Money Summer continues with the release of Brian Fresco's Casanova, whose best moments don't come from the collective's best-known members.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 30, 2016
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Chicago singer the Mind makes romance sound huge and feel intimate on his debut mixtape
After adding his voice to music by the likes of Mick Jenkins, Chance the Rapper, and Joey Purp, the Mind steps out on his own with Summer Camp.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2016
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Vic Mensa gets personal and political on his Roc Nation debut, There's Alot Going On
Chicago rapper Vic Mensa doesn't always strike the best balance of politics and pop, but he never fails to get his point across.
- Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2016
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The Palmer Squares defy the stereotyping of Chicago hip-hop with the new Planet of the Shapes
Local rappers Acumental and Terminal Knowledge, aka the Palmer Squares, don't fit any prefab notion of a Chicago MC, but their new album is selling like hotcakes.
- Music, Music Feature May 25, 2016
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How Chicago made Joey Purp
The Save Money rapper’s new iiiDrops comes from a perspective shaped by neighborhoods on both sides of the city’s racial and economic divides.
- Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2016
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As Beyoncé and Drake's big albums rule pop, Chicago rapper Sterling Hayes gets intimate
Save Money rapper Sterling Hayes gets bleak on his debut mixtape, but his music isn't without its highs.
- Music, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
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The happy return of Mad Decent Block Party
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2015
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West-side rapper Yung Stakks is a good reason to get to Oreo Fest early on Saturday
Yung Stakks joins King Louie, Save Money, Katie Got Bandz, Hurt Everybody, and several other great locals at Thalia Hall this weekend for a mini festival celebrating DJ Oreo's birthday.
- Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2015
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Producer Thelonious Martin is graduating from college, but he's had a lifelong hip-hop education
The Wunderkid producer has already done so much for someone his age.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2015
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Local rapper-producer Martin Sky's new single hints at a huge year for Chicago hip-hop
The Chicago hip-hop scene didn't slow down for the start of the new year, and Martin Sky's dropped one of the best tracks this past week.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 26, 2014
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Funk Trunk Records opens in Rogers Park
Plus: Stefan Ponce brings a hip-hop who's who to the East Room, and Brittany Lee Moffitt drops her first solo EP.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 1, 2014
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Chicago rapper Brian Fresco extends Save Money and Tree's winning streaks with SoulMoney
When local rapper-producer Tree and Save Money member Brian Fresco team up the results are unsurprisingly great.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 23, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: Fame spotting at the Pitchfork Music Festival
Plus: Taylor Bennett's antiviolence fund-raiser for Kids Off the Block
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 9, 2014
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Never mind the cover art, listen to Leather Corduroys' new EP
The Save Money duo dropped an EP on April Fool's Day and, despite the look of the cover, Porno Music Vol. II: This Shit Fucking Raw is no joke.
