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Good googly moogly these three dudes stay hard at work!!! Dope new visuals from Mike Flo, partake and enjoy the scenery.

Davy Greenberg comes through and smashes the game yet again with another directorial gem of a video for Mikkey Halsted & Paypa of Project Mayhem‘s collaborative track “So Mean“. Partake!

By now you’re already fully aware of the tragedy that took place in Haiti this month and the devastation it has caused its people. Despite the decrease in coverage by major media outlets we must ensure that this event does not decrease in relevance in our own lives and we continue to do everything we can to aid and assist those in need. If you’re in or around Chicago on January 31st  support the The Every Drop Counts Chicago Benefit Concert and its cause.

Here’s a excerpt of Every Drop Counts’ mission statement taken off of their website:

“We began by establishing a Hip-Hop and soul benefit concert—scheduled to take place in Chicago on Sunday, January 31, 2010. The benefit is meant to create awareness of the fundamental need and human right to access clean water. Water is an essential resource to the vitality of human life, it engenders prolonged community building and development.”

Tickets are available now at Leaders 1354‘s downtown location at 672 N. Wells and on Every Drop Count’s website.

All proceeds from ticket and merchandise sales will go directly to World Water Relief

Shapow! 1st video release from Maja 7th & FSD’s The Breakout mixtape, which is dropping any day now. This shit is about to be an absolute PROBLEM. Freddie & Mikkey kill it. Shot and directed by Brandon “N2Ition” Riley

First time online today! So I’ve gotta lace you guys. Jay Illa sent over a preview of the “4,3,2,1” flip he commissioned from Rhymefest, Juice, Mikkey Halsted, and Twone Gabs for his upcoming release, “Revenge Of The Backpacks 2: Welcome To Chicago“. Shot & recorded at Soundscape Studios, it’s sure to give you that real authentic hip-hop feel. The rest of the Backpacks 2 project features slated tracks from Rhymefest, Juice, Mikkey Halsted, Twone Gabz, Marvo, Que Billah, the League, Project Mayhem, Naledge, Mic Terror, Erika Shevon, Add 2, Phil G, Pugs Atomz, Rashid Hadee, Prime Meridian, and even yours truly. It should be dope when it drops!

Alex from Ruby Hornet sent this my way, and they’ve been talking to me about Scheme for a good minute, putting a good push behind him and rightfully so. “Lose Your Soul“, produced by Panik of The Molemen and featuring Mikkey Halsted, is a very dope track with hard-hitting bars and a dope blaxploitation-esque beat to provide the background. I’ll let them tell it:

“Greed gets you,” says Mikkey Halsted.  “You might start out from a real place of real hunger, or real starvation or real poverty.  You’re really just trying to feed yourself.  But then feeding yourself and getting a roof over your head is not enough.”

We all know the story of once heralded sports stars banished for cheating.  Successful businessmen caught with hands in the cookie jar who go from rich to poor to behind bars in the blink of an eye.  Countless times we are introduced to characters such as Scarface that just don’t know when to quit and consequently become victims of their own greed. Such is the tale on “Lose Your Soul”, a song created by Scheme, an emerging emcee out of The Molemen camp, one of Chicago’s most respected crews.

“Lose Your Soul” was produced by Panik of the Molemen, and Scheme enlisted the services of Mikkey Halsted as well as Indianapolis based DJ Metrognome to complete the song.  Mikkey and Scheme came together at SoundScape Studios with RubyHornet to record the track, which will be featured on Scheme’s upcoming mixtape, Same Rebel New Cause.

This is dope to see Chicagoans using their music as a platform to address the violence among the youth in the city. Shouts to Fake Shore Drive, Mikkey and Lupe!