Chicago

You may remember Chicago-based great upcoming singer and songwriter, Alex Banin. From us highlighting her early last year. As our very first New Artist Spotlight of 2020 and the new decade. While now af...

When Vic Mensa dropped his I TAPE, EP, back in March. By far one of the more standout tracks and a lot would even argue the best track on the whole project. Being the Just Blaze and SC co-produced track, VIC...

Chicago emcee, G Herbo, has been on quite the roll since releasing his mostly critically-acclaimed third solo album, PTSD. Towards the beginning of last year. Also releasing the very gritty single, Statement...

When it comes to bringing Hip-Hop with a purpose and message like such legends as Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube and Scarface. Did before him. Chicago emcee, Vic Mensa is one of the emcees at the forefront ...

Westcoast emcee, Topic626, is back at it again. A little over a month after dropping his newest solo album, Checks & Balance. As well as the video for his newest single at that time, Vision. He retu...

Chicago emcee Philmore Greene dropped easily one of the best albums of the year in 2020. With his three weeks ago released critically-acclaimed new sophomore album, The Survivor Scroll. While today Green...

Late last night Chicago emcee, Vic Mensa premiered through Vevo, his new video for his soulfully raw new single, MACHIAVELLI. That finds Mensa taking it back to the essence of rapping with straight bars and p...

You want those old-school R&B refreshing and loving vibes. Look no further than Chicago’s very own, Lyric. The fellow Chicago native, who me and the rest of the team here at TheHipHopDemocrat are ...

Chicago emcee, writer and youth mentor, Add-2 is not only arguably the best emcee in all of Chicago right now and has been for the past several years.  But one of the best emcees period.  Especially with the ...

Chicago emcee Vic Spencer is getting set to release his highly-anticipated next solo album, Psychological Cheat Sheet, a week from today on Feb. 28th.  So to prepare fans the Chicago native debuted his first n...