Basement Made
Northern Culture, Art, Hip Hop & Working Class
Today (March 24, 2016), I published a big story on the Wisconsin Hip Hop scene to HipHopDX. Sparkle Pratt approached me with the idea – as I’ve been blowing her up with Wisconsin and Midwest rap music since last March – and since she’s been spending a lot of time in The Mil lately. Together,...
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...
Og Esco dropped his long awaited The Pink Room tape recently (September 6, 2015), despite being incarcerated. The rapper-Camera God and de-facto leader of 1947 Sdot Gang has been on a vicious indie grind for many years now and his newest shows that better than ever. All the years of production have taught Og Esco...
