J. Cole Announced to Headline Common's Aahh Fest!

After an all too long hiatus, Common is FINALLY (The Rock voice) bringing Aahh Fest back to Chicago! I was lucky enough to be in attendance for the inaugural event, and I am STILL reeling from all the emotions it opened up for me as a hip-hop stan fan.

AAHH Fest 2014: Set-By-Set Review

Last night, Chicago hip-hop legend Common treated his hometown to one hell of a show, and I was lucky enough to bare witness to it all (well most of it). The name: AAHH Fest. The venue: Union Park. Let's just say I got to cross a few things off my musical bucket list last night.

Here's my rundown of possibly the greatest homegrown hip-hop concert in the Windy City's history.

(Sidebar: Much love goes out to DJs Jermaine, Vince Adams, Timbuk2, and Wayne Williams who all spun masterful sets with nothing but grown folks house and hip-hop jams.)

June Misses

Happy Independence Day people! Just so you know, I worked pretty damn hard to get this list done in order to provide you all a proper soundtrack to your  BBQ-ing festivities tomorrow. You throw on a few of these joints and your guests will think you have good taste in music, and for that, here's a premature "you're welcome."

iTunes Decoded: Track 16

Alright. So a while back, we'll say 2009-ish, my desktop crashed. I ended up getting a new laptop, but at the time, I was not technical disaster ready, so I never backed up my hard drive. That's right, all my pictures, documents, and music were just lost. Through a YouTube tutorial, I discovered that I did have back up for my music in the form of my iPod.

I followed the step-by-step directions, and voila! I was able to recover all 10,000 plus of my songs and put them on my laptop. One hiccup, 25% of the tracks lost all their descriptive info (title, artist, album, etc.). They were either re-named a track number (ex: track 12) or a non-descriptive 4 letter code (ex: BVTH). Nonetheless, I was happy to have my music back, so I dealt with the missing info. In other words, I was too lazy to manually enter in all the info myself. 25% of 10,000 is a lot of damn songs.

So here I am 5 years later and I have finally grown tired of playing the guessing game. I haven't been able to find Erykah Badu's I Want You in forever, and that's one of my all-time jams. I will now update all of my unknown track info, one track at a time and document it for your reading pleasure. This is the first installment.

Daily Throwback: Erykah Badu - Bag Lady

The Shuffle God seems to subliminally still be on his New Year's kick with this classic from Mrs. 3000, Mrs. Sense, Mrs. Electronica, Mrs. Badu. Leave that 2013 baggage behind, and create new 2014 fresh baggage. Just playing...you're welcome.

October Misses

Its been while since I've been able to put something in the Misses file. You knew I was going to bring it back, seeing that I foreshadowed the success of Pharrell's Happy, Lana Del Ray's Summer Sadness, and Lorde's Royals I had a little bit of free time today, so I decided to hit you with the 10 best songs you might have missed out on in October.

There's a lot of good diversity on this list. I hate to admit it, but Justin Goddamn Bieber almost made the list with his Hold Tight track that he released last month. If this kid pulls a Timberlake on me, so help me god!

Anyway, let's begin shall we. Oh yeah, before I forget, you're welcome.

New Music: Classic Kobe Edition

Quality music seems to be coming out at a feverish rate lately. Maybe artists are trying to make that last ditch effort to get a summer anthem on the airwaves (yeah, like Robin Thicke would ever allow that). Whatever it may be, I like it. and I hope it continues. Once again, my lazy ass doesn't feel like producing 8 separate posts for the heat I discovered this week, so I lumped them all in one. Enjoy.

Daily Throwback: Kid Cudi ft. Kanye West & Common - I Make Her Say

Good morning and happy Monday.  Today, the Shuffle God presents us with the only song that I find Lady Gaga's voice tolerable.  This song was in constant rotation in my car the summer it came out, and after today it could easily find its way back.  Enjoy.  Week Sauce will be coming today, and maybe another Just Sayin'. You're welcome.

Big Sean ft. Common - Switch Up

"Oh gawd!!!" This weekend, Big Sean dropped the first single from his sophomore album titled Hall of Fame.  It features his G.O.O.D. Music associate and Chi-Town god Common.  When I first heard the beat, I thought it worked for Sean, but I didn't know what Common was going to do with it.  Boy, did Mr. Sense shock me.  Not only did he go in on the beat, but he sounded like he had fun with it.  Common is forever showing his versatility on the mic.  Overall, a solid cut that will get play in the HHR.  Go ahead and give it a listen. You're welcome.

Talib Kweli- The Traveler (Prod. J. Period)

It's always nice when Talib decides to bless us with a gem.  This is from J. Period's latest mixtape, Rage is Back.  Common and Black Thought both went in on the mixtape, so you know Kweli was not going to disappoint.  There are two words that best describe this track...1) Hip 2) Hop.  You're welcome.