Don’t you just love Chicago? I do. I had to work there for a handful of months in 2008, and I really enjoyed my stay, but more than anything I enjoyed the music scene in Chicago. The Windy City is famed and notorious for its deep culture. Ground-breaking architecture, legendary crime, and gorgeous art can be found in Chi-Town, but my favorite, and I mean my favorite part of Chicago is the music scene. I’m not a local, but a tourist who may have overstayed his welcome, but from what I gathered, Chicago is known best for the glorious hip-hop legends she has given birth to; and its easily given credit has the come to Hip Hop’s new school. Chicago also has an impeccable electro/dance music scene that I came to love night after night. Of course, some of my favorite memories of Chicago were when these two styles mixed within themselves, and to my surprise, it happened often.

BBU (or Bin Laden Blowin’ Up or Black, Brown and Ugly) are next in the long line of exquisite Chicago talent that is about to blow up. In their self-released single, “Chi Don’t Dance,” BBU showcase a raw energy and caliber of originality and skill that hasn’t been seen since Chicago’s own Cool Kids, Lupe Fiasco, and dare-I-say, Kanye West.

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