Veteran rapper and activist Rhymefest remembers an all-star festival by and for the community.
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Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade
Pivot Gang cofounder John Walt is memorialized in Saba’s Care for Me—and by an arts nonprofit that bears his name, which holds its flagship concert fund-raiser this weekend.
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Rhymefest works the links between hip-hop and the blues
Che “Rhymefest” Smith’s devotion to Chicago’s black cultural legacy finds a new outlet in a Billy Branch remix.
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Rhymefest: ‘We were black lives doing’
The Chicago rapper on how to rebuild the community from the inside.
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Common and Kanye West make Aahh! Fest a great end cap to festival season
Common, Kanye West, and a cast of friends helped make Aahh! Fest an excellent new edition to the overcrowded festival season.
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Gossip Wolf: Rhymefest crowdfunds a lavishly packaged new LP
Rhymefest crowdfunds a lavishly packaged new LP, Willis Earl Beal and Jennifer Hudson turn up in Wicker Park, and more