Brittney Carter thought she was just writing poems. Her classmates at Young Chicago Authors heard a great rapper in the making—and the rest of the city’s scene is starting to agree.
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Chicago rapper Sasha Go Hard searches for new ways to Make America Ratchet Again
Seven years ago, the rap world’s spotlight affixed itself on the first wave of drill with such intensity I wouldn’t have blamed anyone for thinking it’d be permanent. But the attention began to move on sometime between when Keef dropped Finally Rich in December 2012 and when he started serving 60 days for violating his […]
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Chicago rapper Sasha Go Hard sets an example of independence for her daughter
Sasha Go Hard’s new mixtape displays the fighting spirit that’s made her a force to be reckoned with—and gifts it to her young daughter.
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The year in music: 2015
Seven Reader writers drill down into rap, jazz, punk, metal, and more—instead of just rearranging the same records on everyone else’s best-of list.
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Chicago places in Chicago hip-hop
Rappers like to remind you where they’re from, often by peppering their lyrics with mentions of the spots they know best. Here are five of my favorite references to Chicago locations in local rap songs this year. Vic Spencer, “Sony Walkman,” The Cost of Victory Vic Spencer lets his familiarity with his gritty city surroundings […]
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West-side MC Lil Chris pays homage to Marvin Gaye
“Let’s Get It On,” the new single from Lil Chris, shares a title with Marvin Gaye’s knockout 1973 track, but west-side MC makes a version all his own.
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Straight Outta content: N.W.A’s legacy and Chicago’s newest rap group, W.W.A
Four Chicago rappers form a supergroup that pays homage to N.W.A as the iconic LA group’s biopic rolls into theaters.
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Psalm One and ProbCause have teamed up as ZRO FOX
The duo just closed out Tomorrow Never Knows and will release their debut EP later this week; watch their new video for “Might Not” (ft. Sasha Go Hard).
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Sasha Go Hard breaks her hiatus with a new single and a psychedelic video to go with it
The local rapper slips into a pixelated power trip in her new video for “Bricks.”
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The Reader’s guide to Pitchfork afterparties
Pitchfork afterparties: There’s no Bitchpork this year, but there is Rotted Tooth, plus plenty more.
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This rap video guide to Chicago restaurants will kill Yelp
Real rappers. Real reviews.
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Best shows to see: Baauer, Cody Chesnutt, Iris DeMent, Mikal Cronin
Eccentric neosoul, endearingly obnoxious EDM, and two very different but very good singer-songwriters
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 2/7: The Encyclopedia Show, local hip-hop at the Bottom Lounge, and Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, February 7, 2013.
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Brenmar’s strange groove
DJ and producer Bill Salas used to make noise music, but now he just wants to make people dance.
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Gossip Wolf: Sasha Go Hard won’t let up
Sasha Go Hard keeps the mixtapes coming, Fig Dish reissue their debut, and more