Basement Made
Northern Culture, Art, Hip Hop & Working Class
Sierra DeMartino sings the kinda music that’ll make a woman forget her problems and “hair flip it off” (April 18, 2016). She likes the sound of Jeremih and Toni Romiti. Outside of his personal decisions, she also admires Chris Brown for the singalong, dance and sassy qualities in his music. “Something that can make someone...
B. Ortiz is no longer doing Dussy Music 3 with Ted Park. He will, however, continue to lace records like this “Nowhere” joint with PDub. The Madison, Wisconsin-raised artist just hit his “Plug” flow with Captain Hook too. “I’ll do an EP soon but these one’s are just tracks,” he told me today (February 9,...
B. Ortiz recently moved back to Orlando, Florida but he’s only getting colder with the music (November 22, 2015). Here, the emcee collaborates with Reeks and Kathryn Grey on a serious “Never” record. The emcee in the artist comes out with that one-two on “Never”, reminding us that he can flow about women or other...
3rd Dimension is one of the most dynamic Hip Hop groups in America. They hail from Madison, Wisconsin, a place not typically associated with Hip Hop, so they have to be cold. Today, the tight-knit collective dropped their heavily hyped Things Have Changed on the world, along with a music video for “Chosen”. (November 12,...
Mad City Hip Hop is a fucking mess. Government officials force heavy sanctions onto local Hip Hop events and employ other scare tactics to discourage people from the genre. Frank Productions, who books all performance spaces in town, banned local acts from their venues a while back. They told me this when I tried to...
Cole Jordan is back in the game (November 4, 2015). He and B. Ortiz (The Flock) unfortunately deleted their “War” collaboration, which was a vicious winter-set video of them rapping in the woods, in a hideaway, after they popped some guy in the head. Put that shit back up, I know ya’ll didn’t delete it....
B. Ortiz and Ted Park got caught up in their music careers and forgot about their booskies (October 9, 2015). Ortiz is plotting Dussy Music 3 and Ted just dropped his Chevy Woods collab. Both have worked plenty with Chicago’s PDub The Producer in the past, so this is really their sound – Movement Shit...
B. Ortiz was speaking that “Nostalgia” last month, today (August 25) he’s looking for “Euphoria.” Drugs and love. These three Madison, Wisconsin artists come together on this smooth joint in a way that can’t be imitated on this planet. “Euphoria” is Midwest soul at its finest. PDubTheProducer created the sounds and will be all over...
