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Home » Controversy

Tag: Controversy

Posted inMusic

Life was just a party: Prince’s 1999 and Chicago house music

by Jack Riedy November 20, 2019October 24, 2022

Prince could hardly have avoided influencing Chicago house, whose earliest, most ardent fans were queer Black and Brown kids.

Posted inMusic

The uprising against Riot Fest continues

by John Greenfield August 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Activists refuse to be quiet about Riot Fest, but boosters say their claims are off base.

Posted inBlogs

Twista digs up a Kanye-produced mixtape track in tribute to Prince

by Leor Galil April 22, 2016August 18, 2021

This morning west-side rap veteran Twista uploaded “I Can Make You Say,” which samples Prince’s “Do Me, Baby.”

Posted inBlogs

Prince could go anywhere he wanted—and he took us with him

by J.R. Nelson April 22, 2016August 18, 2021

The Purple One could make sheer perfection feel possible for anyone—even a ten-year-old white kid from Crystal Lake.

Jamil Khoury
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Silk Road Rising’s “Mosque Alert” enlists the global community

by Deanna Isaacs March 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Silk Road Rising’s play in progress, “Mosque Alert,” crowdsources controversy.

"Keef has done more to publicize the fact that Chicago has a crime problem than the crime problem has publicized Keef," says hip-hop journalist David Drake.
Posted inMusic

Chief Keef: Chicago’s most promising antihero

by Leor Galil September 26, 2012August 19, 2021

Chief Keef: Chicago’s most promising antihero

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