Tag Archives: Illinois

“Jasmine” is a never-before-heard song from “The B-Side Love Songs” recording sessions. Keeping consistent with the sound of the album, DJ BrickRock provides a soulful backdrop on which The Last Wordbender tells the story of pursuing a girl from a higher social class, using the metaphor of a loveable street rat pursuing a well-known princess. “Jasmine” is available to stream …

Turo Krazy is back and in full effect on his latest club effort, “Da General”. You’re probably thinking, TK only does underground Hip Hop and street bangers but this isn’t some watered down commercial release. Think back to the nineties when all the crews had that one amped up anthem on their projects. This is Da General’s take on that. …

Get familiar with Seven Oddities Records, an insanely talented underground Hip Hop collective that’s been doing it since 2000. 7oddz strives on creating all releases in house and are continuously performing in Chicago and surrounding areas. Well, the fellas just recently announced a brand new installment in their “Out For Blood” releases. This will be the third release of the …

Suave Da Lyricist and Smokey Da Bandit are putting on in their latest video effort, “Goin Down”. The song is taken from the tag team’s upcoming project, “From The Low 2 Da Town 2”, the follow up to the original 2011 release. Over the Koto produced record, the two emcees hit the city streets of Chicago in this crispy, P. …

Freshly checking in for 2016 is the self proclaimed dopest whiteboy from Chicago, Nathan Knew, with John Walt for the eloquent audio single, “New Year”. Producer BLCK MRKT does a sensational job on the production, with sweeping pads, crashing drum patterns and synth strings. Join in on festivities by pressing play below.

The Central Illinois Hip Hop scene is overflowing with talent and one artist decided to put it all on full display. Shaun (Sheezy) Sorenson took on the task of putting together “Homegrown” a compilation mixtape boasting 20 tracks and over 20 contributing artists. With so much quality music being produced from the area Sheezy took on the painstaking task of …

Illinois artist ClarkAirlines has caught heavy notoriety for his recently released project, “11PM In Chicago” and in high spirits, premieres a self directed video to bring “This Year” to life alongside KO. The video follows the song perfectly, with a convo starting off in front of a local CVS store between Clark and female counterpart. The video concludes on a …

Fueling his creative juices by paying homage to the passing of his grandmother this year, East St. Louis emcee Ackurate premieres his very first video for the beautiful production of Ckwnce titled, “1991”.

The Southside of Chicago has a highly talented R&B artist emerging from the scene by the name of Amiah, who just released a sensational audio single titled “Crazy”. The song focuses around the power of love and attraction and the production is top notch, a record to play while spending time with that special someone that has you “Crazy” in …

Long Island rapper John Reilly continues to strike out on his own with his slick-talking new single, “Do That Shit”, which is aimed squarely at the heads of all the wack emcees out there cluttering the airwaves. When he rhymes, “Grab the microphone and do that sh*t/ We’re tired of hearin’ rappers who can’t spit/ They gettin’ booed at quick!” …