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Veteran rapper Slick Rick is performing with a live band, The Lifted, in NYC on July 31 at Stage 48 with Don Dada. Tickets for that show are on sale now…

Hard to believe, but our BrooklynVegan “Blog Radio” show has been airing weekly on satellite radio for over 6.5 years. It started on Sirius which then merged with XM and became Siriu…

‘Chicago Hip Hop Insider’ David Newman posted a list of the top 20 Chicago rappers of 2012. rubyhornet reposted that list with reasons why they do not agree…

Chicago rapper King L (fka King Louie) hails from the same burgeoning Chicago scene that produced Chief Keef and Lil Reese (but so far he hasn’t given us a reason to believe he might end up in jail) and though he might not have a party starter like “I Don’t Like” under his belt, he does have some pretty promising singles out at the moment…

Sasha Go Hard is yet another rapper to emerge from the burgeoning Chicago rap scene, having begun to pick up buzz with her second mixtape, Do U Know Who I Am, which she dropped over the sum…

MTV2’s Sucker Free, Fake Shore Drive, and others are throwing a huge Chicago hip hop show at Adrianna’s in Markham, IL on Sunday, May 20…