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WorldStar’s Chicago Hip-Hop Documentary “The Field”
WorldStarHipHop’s new documentary on Chicago hip-hop and violence is essential viewing. Just keep a critical eye open. Earlier this week, WorldStarHipHop released the 40-minute documentary The Field: Violence, Hip-Hop, and Hope in Chicago, which you can watch above. Link
Read More »Artists, ex-drug dealer warn of ‘poisons’
November 21, 2010 BY LISA DENEAL, POST-TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT GARY — Thanks to modern tecnology, “Freeway” Ricky Ross spoke at Indiana University Northwest after all, even though his probation officer wanted him back in Los Angeles from Chicago. Through a Skype connection, convicted drug trafficker Ross told the small crowd in …
Read More »Oddisee, Traveling Man, Spotlight on Indie Hip-Hop
“Traveling Man,” released Jan. 26, 2010, is Oddisee’s new instrumental album. Let me be the first to say that “Traveling Man” is one of the coolest hip-hop concept albums I have heard in a long time. The concept behind “Traveling Man” is best explained by the creator himself– The album …
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