Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and interim Police Supt. John Escalante hopes their new five-step “de-escalation” approach will lessen crime.

Chance The Rapper has had a pretty good year: The Social Experiment’s Surf proved you can release music for free on iTunes and his collaboration mixtape with Lil B…

  If you’re one of the more than 10 million Americans that get the blues in the winter, Klassik’s EP might be just what the doctor ordered. WINTER EP is representative of just that- winter. A period of harshness marked for so many by isolation, depression, and frustration. And while that is certainly evoked, listeners won’t […]

Mapei was born in Rhode Island, but eventually split her time in adolescence between Stockholm, Sweden and Brooklyn, NY. She began as a rapper, releasing her EP “The Coco Butter Diaries“ in 2009 under Downtown Records. After a loss of inspiration and a thirst for something new, she branched out into singing, completing her sound with a fullness […]

Buzzing Chicago artist Chance The Rapper (pictured) was instrumental in a social media campaign that led to a quieting of the escalating gun violence in…