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Madison, Wisconsin Hip Hop duo Neu Dae just released their fully featured album, “the past extended”, and GYBU was more than happy to give it a track by track review. Neu Day is comprised of Neumy on vocals and Evaridae handling the production end. This is their sophomore release, following up their December 2014’s self titled debut. The album is …

At only twenty-two years old, SamuelThe1st has overcame many of life’s diversities yet remained strong and focused on his craft, as evident on his debut release, “1st of the Kind”. With production provided by the likes of Luke White, Canis Major, Ryan Brammeier & Seeo Beats, the Portland, Oregon emcee fairs quite well in establishing himself as a solid artist. The …

Best known for his freestyle battling skills, Madison, Wisconsin rap artist MCity is set to release his long awaited mixtape titled “City Lights”. Clocking in at fourteen tracks with only two guest features, the battle rapper turns on his song creating abilities to show he can pen some quality tracks on top of his freestyle game. Let’s take a closer …

Breaking the stereotypical norm of Chicago is a new artist poised on setting good to a city gone bad on his brand new mixtape project titled, #ShareThePositivity. His name is Marcus Alexander and the aspiring emcee has set out to create music that’s uplifting and brings about good spirits. Combined of fourteen tracks, #ShareThePositivity borrows radio hits of today from …

Dogs Of War is a five member band based out of Wisconsin consisting of Anthony Salas (guitar/ lead vocalist), David Payne (drums), Dustin Harmon aka “D”  (bass/engineer) and Dexter “Tefman” Patterson & Samhain Bane (emcees).  The group is set to drop their debut, self titled EP first locally at The Frequency on January 3rd and then online via Bandcamp & Soundcloud the 5th. …

Chicago, Illinois native & Independent Ear Records associate Clifton Derrell is set to release his brand new album “The Day Job” on January 15th. Featuring nineteen tracks (5 of those being skits) and collabs from the likes of Watch City’s Angrous, B.A., Theo Write, North the Emcee and Cire. To sum up “The Day Job” it’s a story driven, semi …

SDL Inc. owner & Tomahawk Music Group affiliate Suave Da Lyricist mixes soulful production over gritty Chicago influenced lyricism on his latest album, “BOS (Based On Strugglin)”. With a fourteen song tracklisting and features from Griffen (Facemob), J. Hollins, Lungz, Elementz Emcee & Bennie Franks as well as production from 42 Keez (Twista, YP, Griffen), ILL Brown (Freddie Gibbs, Bun …

My how Chris LaBella has evolved as an artist & musician since switching his moniker from FreeQuenC and since DRT MiNDZ dropped their mixtape, “FTW” a couple of years back. With his debut EP “Flyaway” dropping November 11th, Chris aims to not only re-introduce himself to the music world but to set the bar for which all his future projects …

Kadesh Flow isn’t your typical emcee per say. The Alabama transplant hit college and earned his MBA and is now working for a major healthcare IT firm. Though he has released music in the past, he has recently released his first, full length project titled, “Gateways”. The fifteen track project features music samples from role playing video games such as …

The 420 Krew’s Tas Raww delivers his latest mixtape “Raww Musik 2”. Mixing original music with remakes of popular songs Tas never sounds out of place. Enlisting the likes of Mac, Flame the Ruler, LJG, Wisko Swiss, Lotice, Lewy V and frequent collaborator Lil Chief the energy remains high from beginning to end. While Tas Raww does a great job …