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Pwelbs "Top 153 Chicago Records of 2011 ( @Pwelbs ) Here we have it – in no particular order here are my top 15 personal favorites from Chicago artists in the year 2011. A solid year for Chicago in my books. We saw major releases from Kanye, Lupe and Common. We finally saw the release of The Cool Kids debut album, Rockie Fresh up'd the ante for Rookie of The Year, LEP absolutely exploded, Jeezy chained Gibbs, we met King Louie and we got spoiled by a year of spectacular production from No I.D. and Blended [...]

Kids These Days – Clear Eyes (Prod. by Blended Babies) Can these Kids be stopped? Beautiful new visuals from Chicago's own. This truly shows the versatility this group has. A simple collaboration from only two of the seven members. The groups debut album Traphouse Rock coming soon! Written and Performed by Nico Segal of Kids These Days. Of course, featuring Vic Mensa of Kids These Days. Directed by Austin Vesely for Elephilms . Produced by the Blended Babies.

This is without a doubt one of my favorite videos to drop this year. The Tribe & Big Cats! are killing it this year...so happy to have caught their set here in Chicago a few weeks ago. A real nice guest feature from Smoke DZA too. Download this track and the crews entire Make Good series over at The Tribe & Big Cats BandCamp page .

Visuals for the lead single off Drake's sophomore album, Take Care . Due out October 24th.

brandUn DeShay – All Day DeShay: AM Dope new music from this Chicago spitter. Guest features from Rockie Fresh and Vic Mensa of Kids These Days. Spotted at Fake Shore Drive .

This is by far one of my favorites songs to drop this year. I'm so happy to say it's the latest single from my good friends - Minneapolis based hip-hop trio The Tribe & Big Cats! The duo recruit BJ The Chicago Kid for an incredible hook and fellow Minnesotan Greg Grease for one hell of a verse. Off TT x BC's 'Make Good Series'....check out all the action at CallUsTheTribe.com .

This is by far one of my favorites songs to drop this year. I'm so happy to say it's the latest single from my good friends - Minneapolis based hip-hop trio The Tribe & Big Cats! The duo recruit BJ The Chicago Kid for an incredible hook and fellow Minnesotan Greg Grease for one hell of a verse. Off TT x BC's 'Make Good Series'....check out all the action at CallUsTheTribe.com .

I've played this lovely tune off DJ Shadow's new album soooo many times over the last few days. Brilliant. Genius. Beautiful. It has given me goosebumps several times the past few rainy days we've had here in Chicago. I think it's time for me to visit Little Dragon's discography. DJ Shadow's "The Less You Know, The Better" hits iTunes on Oct 4th!

I've played this lovely tune off DJ Shadow's new album soooo many times over the last few days. Brilliant. Genius. Beautiful. It has given me goosebumps several times the past few rainy days we've had here in Chicago. I think it's time for me to visit Little Dragon's discography. DJ Shadow's "The Less You Know, The Better" hits iTunes on Oct 4th!

19-year old Chicago native Kirby Kaiser has just released her first official EP. The EP is incredibly soulful and full of heartbreak. This girl is full of talent and I expect her to be making some serious noize in the coming months. Shes's also been named to Fake Shore Drive's Freshmen List . The EP is available for a few more hours over at GroopEase.com . If ya snooze...ya lose! I'll upload the rest of the EP when the deal ends. The lead single from the project - "There's A Boy" can [...]

• Kirby Kaiser - There's A Boy

19-year old Chicago native Kirby Kaiser has just released her first official EP. The EP is incredibly soulful and full of heartbreak. This girl is full of talent and I expect her to be making some serious noize in the coming months. Shes's also been named to Fake Shore Drive's Freshmen List . The EP is available for a few more hours over at GroopEase.com . If ya snooze...ya lose! I'll upload the rest of the EP when the deal ends. The lead single from the project - "There's A Boy" can [...]

What's good all? As I'm sure many of you regulars have noticed - PWELBS.COM has slowed down quite a bit as of late. In all honestly, this is a good problem to have! I'm in a position to be working on projects that I only dreamed of a few short years ago. For the first [...]

This might be up for album of the year. I love all the Chicago representation on this one. Finally Famous drops June 28th. Yeah boi! 1. "Intro" (Produced by: Kevin Randolph, Key Wane) 2. "I Do It" (Produced by: No I.D., The Legendary Traxster) 3. "My Last" f/ Chris Brown (Produced by: No I.D.) 4. [...]

An unfinished version of this leaked a few weeks ago. We finally have the final version and holy shit was it worth the wait. Epic visuals from Mr. West. This one will go down in the history books.

Sometimes it's mind boggling the amount of high quality hip-hop coming out of Minnesota. Big Quarters, leaders of the pack, drop fantastic visuals for an already stand out track off their latest album From the Home of Brown Babies & White Mothers. Buy now on iTunes: http://bit.ly/lvJKUV | Amazon: http://amzn.to/ioNgX3 Order CD online @ http://www.bigquarters.com [...]

Kidz In The Hall – Break It Down This one has definitely landed on my summer playlist. Although, Kidz In The Hall have been around a minute I've been feeling their most recent releases the most. This is the lead single off Kidz' upcoming EP (recorded in LA while recording an online mini-series) dropping later [...]

Kanye West & Jay-Z spotted with Def Jam Exec (also Akon's brother) Bu Thiam in NYC. Well...we are obviously anticipating this. Rumors...rumors..rumors...no release date. 1. Lift Off (Feat. Beyonce & Bruno Mars) 2. Murder To Excellence 3. Illest Motherfucker Alive 4. Why I Love You So(Guilt Trip) 5. That Shit Crazy 6. Living So Italian [...]

The Rockie Fresh moving in full force as usual....I caught Rockie live the other night and the live show is getting real sharp. Live Bands>>>> Rockie Fresh's song "Sofa King Cole [Redux]" off of his upcoming project "The Otherside Redux". The song is a revamped full-band version of the original track "Sofa King Cole", which [...]

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf ?clip_id=24496125&server=vimeo .com&show_title=0&show_byline= 0&show_portrait=0&color=00adef &fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop= 0 Cudi drops some day-in-the-life type visuals from the past few years as the backdrop to a cut off his latest proejct MOTM2. In related news, Cudi dropped a forgettable track of his upcoming rock album Wizard/2 Be Continuum. KiD CuDi – Perfect Is The Word Spotted at illRoots.

Directed by Davy Greenberg for Elephilms. Chicago's bunch drop summertime visuals off their Hard Times EP - which will be available online June 28th. Don't forget to catch Kids These Days at Lollapalooza, Aug 5-7th here in Chicago. Good to see Ends/Wealth reppin' hard.