Beautiful art work done by: Swopes Photo by @Bradleyamurray & @WhitneyMidds Pursuit of Dopeness loves Jamila Woods… We’ve been waiting for this album for awhile now & we’re so excited it’s out for everyone to hear. Listening to this album feels completely magical. Woods writes odes to Chicago.. healing.. […]
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You might have just seen her on Jimmy Fallon with Chance The Rapper performing “Blessings.” When Jamila isn’t putting her beautiful touch on Chance’s songs she’s creating beautiful music of her own. The Closed Sessions artist just released “Heavn.” Jamila’s beautiful voice & lyrics over a Roots
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[iframe id=”http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1172967″] 2016 has been very good for independent Chicago record label Closed Sessions and today it’s only getting better by being the focus of a segment on the beloved daytime Chi-Town TV show Windy City Live. The show interviewed CS leader Alexander Fruchter about the booming Chicago scene and
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In exclusive announcement on Billboard, Jamila Woods announced that she’s signed with local indie label/purveyors of cool, Closed Sessions. RTC/Alex Fruchter said of landing the rising Chicago star: “Jamila Woods is an incredibly talented artist that also stands for something… Her addition to Closed Sessions brings great new music to the table,
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DJ Rude One has finally returned with some new material after a 12-year hiatus. The latest from the Chicago Hip Hop vet is titled “Mr. Goodbar” featuring Your Old Droog and released under Closed Sessions. Not only can you hear the long anticipated new track, but you can also
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Kweku Collins has been making waves recently in the buildup to today’s release of his second EP, Say It Here, While It’s Safe. The production on this is typically very bright and warm, with some Caribbean music undertones, and Collins’ vocals follow the same style to fantastic results. The
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Kweku Collins lands back on our pages thanks to his release of new track “Kings.” This track is the latest cut from Kweku’s forthcoming Say It Here, While It Safe EP that is due out on July 21st via Closed Sessions. The Closed Sessions cosign is pretty much a guarantee of
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Alex Wiley is back with a super dope track called “Top Of The World” which released earlier today on Huffington Post. Ryan Kristobak from Huffington Posts makes a pretty accurate description of comparing this particular track to Something from Kid Cudi’s “Man On The Moon” series. Without doubt this track
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WOW! A-Villa completely snapped with this joint! The Chicago native brought together three lyrical warriors, Big K.R.I.T., Termanology, and Inspectah Deck to “The Colosseum”. It looks like the homie DJ Scend did some work on the track as well. Make sure to circle November 4th on your calendar,
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http://www.vevo.com/watch/USA2P1433800?syndicationid=bb8a16ab-1279-4f17-969b-1dba5eb60eda&shortlink=8xW5ov&country=US Alex Wiley released his “Splash Game” video through Billboard earlier today. The Closed Sessions rapper took his talents to Toronto while on tour and filmed the video there with Visual Mecca on the directing and J-Spazz Art the animations. We definitely like how this video came out. Peep It
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As the homie, Statik Selektah gets ready to release What Goes Around.. we get a nice little track featuring Alex Wiley called “Future Guns”. It looks like the track might be listed as a bonus track. The track is rather short, so it gives Wiley a chance to drop one
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Alex Wiley and Mick Jenkins linked up for “Own Man” back in February, today we get the visuals for the super dope collab. The track was produced by Odd Couple and the visuals were taken care of by Andrew Zeiter and Bryan Lamb.
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