Tag Archives: Elgin

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard from Elgin, Illinois artist Kris Leshaun here at GYBU. His solo work and cyphers have graced our pages in the past, along with releases from the FlyLive$ crew. Kris is known to crossover frequently in his music offerings. He can freestyle his ass off, something he inherited from his father, Ben “Maintain” Hahs. Leshaun …

Watch City representative Moore drops another conscience record in “Can’t Stand By”, taking direct aim at modern society. The presentation is the second visual to be treated from the Elgin emcee’s latest album, “Shop Local”. With Cool Kennedy at the production helm, Moore delves into a more modern inspired flow yet keeps his content thought provoking. With the aid of …

Moore of Elgin’s Watch City collective takes a stab at remixing “R U DOWN” by Chicago duo, theWHOevers. Aside from his emceeing, Moore actually is a skilled drummer, among other instruments. The original had a Bruno Mars, early eighties vibe to it. What Moore does with his rendition is slap some flavor to the number along the lines of a …

It’s been a while since we’ve heard something from the Elgin, Illinois collective known as Watch City. Well, that silence has now came to an end as leading member Moore debuts a crispy Selwyn Hansana-directed flick for “Getaway”. The soulful, stress relieving single was produced by Lowkey and features cameos from members of the WC group. Give the video a …

From his early days of ripping thru records with Elgin, Illinois rhyme squad Rec Center (known for their classic underground album “Lonely People”), G/NO has continued to not only create songs but produce as well. On November 15th, the Mental City native debuted his official, self-titled solo album. The brunt of the production was handled by Shawn Hibbler with contributions from Profound, Veeno, …

Just like that, Elgin native Maintain debuts a brand new loose single titled “Starbucks”, featuring production from Gramatik. Having paid mad dues coming up alongside K-Solo and Rec Center, Tizzle has been working behind the scenes alot more these days and helping manage his son, Fly Live$ Kris Leshaun. However, he’s just been recently spotted in the studio with Killa …

Kris Leshaun has been hard at work traveling to and fro from Illinois and California, rigorously crafting his song writing abilities. He’s been seen frequenting one of Snoop Dogg’s recording studios and just recently, performed at Club 10 in Newport Beach, California. Together with childhood friends from his hometown of Elgin, they formed a Hip Hop collective by the name …

Fly Live$ member and Elgin, Illinois native Kris Leshaun has been quite active with releases as of late and in following suit, debuts a super smooth production titled after one of his all time sports favorites, “Bo Jackson”. Having been blessed with the opportunity to live in Cali for a lengthy time thru 2013-14 seems to have helped in expanding …

The 847 strikes back with razor sharp precision on the samurai influenced “Attack Of The Ronin”. Protential Media Group’s Young Rooky, Ill Quote, Miskeen and The Fame Bravo provide some street flavor with a show stealing verse from Kris Leshaun of Fly Live$ fame. The Far East fused trunk banger was provided by beatsmith MiLLDizzy and gives the track a …

Elgin, Illinois hip hop trio Rap Bastards release a stoned visual to back their latest effort, a Cloud produced track simply titled, “Weed Rap”.