5 Dope New Chicago Videos; Lil Reese, Chief Keef, Tommy Gibbs, Trinity, & Dutchess DD

Lil Reese ft/ Chief Keef - Traffic

Tommy Gibbs - From Da Go

Trinity - Chicago Summer

NamedBran B. Hi - FallBack

Dutchess DD - Left Eye Back

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NamedBran Featured on My City My Dream

NamedBran has been featured on My City My Dream twice in the past year.....

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Catch NamedBran B. Hi LIVE - Upcoming Show Schedule

If you haven't noticed, I been out here heavy on the scene this year doing shows all over the city. Gracing the very same stages as some of your favorite major artists! Even rockin crowds out in NYC and other cities to come soon! Stay tuned!!!

Here's a quick run down of upcoming shows that I assure you, you dont wanna miss!!!

I guarantee you ONE HELL OF A PERFORMANCE anytime NamedBran be in the building! And you never know who I might have rockin with me! So make sure u make it your business to catch me in the act!

August 22nd I'll be on the West Side for #WhadammWednesday's at the Marquis Room on Madison! Details coming shortly!

September 2nd Im rockin with JLyn & GLC at the Red Kiva

SEPTEMBER 8th @ The Pressbox with King Louie & Lil Durk plus others.....

Turn Up CHICAGO!!!

Chicago Tribune Acknowledges The Progression of the #ChicagoMusic Scene

Chicago's insurgent rap scene is all the rage, and Chief Keef is at the head of it

Chief Keef, the most influential name on a Chicago rap scene that has suddenly acquired a national footprint, does not want to be interviewed. It's been rumored that the first piece of advice Kanye West gave the 16-year-old rapper was to stop doing interviews, and he has seemingly heeded his very successful counterpart's word. His management team pleads and cajoles. The young rapper shakes his head, almost imperceptibly, "no," a petulant teen with a superstar's disposition.

It is 6 p.m. on the final, sold-out day of the recent Pitchfork Music Festival and AraabMuzik is onstage making some 18,000 people dance. Keef and his crew of 16 — three managers, his publicist, recently signed rapper Lil Reese, his sometimes producer 18-year-old Young Chop, a bevy of friends — have just arrived. Keef and Reese are scheduled to make an unannounced two-song cameo at the end of AraabMuzik's set. This will be the biggest hometown audience that Keef and Reese have ever played to, before the diverse, indie-focused Pitchfork audience.

If you don't know who Chief Keef is, you will hear more about him soon. Last month, the South Side-born Keith Cozart (Sosa to his friends), signed a record deal with Interscope Records. The deal includes his life rights for a biopic, his own line of headphones ("Beats by Keef") and his own label to issue records of other artists in his crew — effectively making him the youngest label head ever.

Chief Keef is the prince of violent Chicago rap, his insurgent popularity raising the profiles of a dozen other local artists with him — no mean feat given that it had been six years since the last Chicago rapper got a major label deal. Since February, nine acts have been signed, with a handful of others in the works. Some, like King Louie, have put years into developing their careers. Others, like Lil Reese, have been signed off the strength of a verse and proximity to Keef.

The last rash of outside interest in Chicago hip-hop that even broached the current level was roughly 15 years ago, when elder statesmen Do Or Die and Twista were fresh prospects. Suddenly, where there was no ladder to the national spotlight and little evidence of a Chicago scene, there is now a cottage industry of managers, labels and burgeoning talent putting the city on the map.

Chicago's scene has always been noted for either the ones that got away (West, Common), who left to find success, or the almost-huge, such as Twista and Lupe Fiasco. Rappers who make it big while staying home are rare. But this Keef-centered scene that has popped up without the help of any current movers and shakers, fueled entirely by mixtapes and underground shows. And it's all happening without the blessing of any former Chicago rappers such as West, who remixed a Keef song only to have the tune's producer complain that the Grammy winner changed the feel of the song.

Keef became a phenomenon via YouTube this year with the low-budget video for "I Don't Like" (now with almost 10 million views), a song full of bleak, menacing rhymes. It also features a few frames of the young rapper with a handgun in his grip — made all the more notable given that for the first half of the year he was on house arrest for a gun charge.

For Larry Jackson, an executive vice president at Interscope who signed Keef, his initial reaction was visceral.

"It scared me," Jackson said. "And I knew it was going to be huge. It felt disturbingly powerful. Nobody really talks about Top 40 music anymore because the music is like wallpaper — it doesn't make you feel anything. ('I Don't Like') pushes people, but it also resonates."

Jackson said the reason they gave Keef his own label was in order to grab other Chicago talent that comes bubbling up. "We did it to widen the net — so that anything that comes within 50 feet of Keef, we can catch it."

The label has signed deals with rappers Fredo and SD, who are key parts of Keef's crew, GBE (Glory Boys Entertainment). Lil Reese and Lil Durk both recently signed to Def Jam.

Lil Durk was released from jail last month, after serving two months on a weapons charge.

For Interscope and the other labels that were courting the young rapper, Chief Keef's legal woes just added credibility to his swaggering image. While part of the appeal of this new wave of Chicago rappers is just that — the newness — hip-hop fans are eager to hear the real stories of the street, songs that are a true-to-life reaction to what's happening in Chicago, a city suffering a summer of staggering gun violence. Keef's gun charge, for better or worse, adds authenticity to the biography he relates in his songs.

"You look at the news and see who is doing most of these killings — he fits that profile," said Larry "Larro" Wilson, head of Lawless, the South Side record label that is home to King Louie and Katie Got Bandz. "Does it help that Keef is on house arrest? Absolutely."

At Pitchfork, as is the custom in hip-hop, Keef and Reese's handlers have demanded payment in full before the two MCs take the stage. This is not how things usually work at Pitchfork. Festival organizer (and Pitchfork majordomo) Ryan Schrieber is pacing in tight circles, drawing hard on his cigarette and impatiently redialing his iPhone. The person with the money and the contracts is not picking up. For these two songs, Keef is rumored to be picking up his regular show fee of $10,000. According to Schrieber, even at that per-song rate, Keef isn't the most expensive
act on the bill today. "Not even close," he says, smiling and shaking his head.

Between his concerts and purported $3 million album deal, Keef, who dropped out of high
school, is on pace to out-earn President Barack Obama in 2012.

For 19-year-old Lil Reese, it all seems a bit unreal.

Reese has known Keef since childhood. The two are still close; they have an air of brotherly collusion between them. Waiting backstage at Pitchfork, Reese's demeanor contrasts with Keef's — while no less a talent, he still seems like a kid, unaffected and wowed by the attention. Up until two days before the gig, he didn't know what Pitchfork was or that the music festival and e-zine of the same name were even a big deal — until he retweeted the e-zine's review of his new mixtape and noticed Pitchfork's nearly 2 million Twitter followers.

Backstage Reese is listless and wants pizza before he hits the stage but doesn't know where to get it. His manager J-Boogie presents him with the show contracts, which Reese
signs atop a garbage can lid.

The big difference between Keef and Reese is that Reese didn't expect this fame.

For Reese, the main thing that has determined his life and music is also the same thing he most wants to     communicate to the rest of Chicago and the world.

"I never felt safe," says Reese. "Still don't."

J-Boogie arrives and begins herding the dozen-plus group toward the stage, "It's time." Reese and Keef walk side by side in their spotless, head-to-toe white outfits — with Keef's popped-collar look urbane, more country club than in-the-club.

In Keef and Reese, Chicago has finally gotten the pop ambassadors it deserves — swaggering teenage wonders tapping into the zeitgeist like experts — telling their truth in blunt, steely lines.

The first measure of "I Don't Like" booms and about 18,000 pairs of hands reach for the sky, and scream as soon as the pair walk out from the wings. For the 10 minutes they are onstage, they are magnetic, Keef is incandescent — a natural — and suddenly, they are done.

Walking off the stage, Keef finally agrees to answer one question. Asked how it feels to have just played to his biggest hometown audience yet, he replies without pausing, "This? This ain't s---."

Tony Gunz (CEO of Teflon Media) Birthday Extravaganza

 Tony Gunz (CEO of Teflon Media Group/Money Sprinters Ent) is having multiple parties to celebrate his birthday cuz thats how bosses get down! And fuckin with Gunz, you never know who may be in the building! So I would advise you to get in tune with Teflon Media sooner rather than later!

Day 1: Ultra Lounge, Day 2: Sunset Cafe, Day 3: Cafe Lura

Ok, as you may or may not know NamedBran B. Hi be rockin with Teflon Media the long

way, and I'm considered a Teflon Affiliate, so of course I was invited to perform at one of

Gunz's birthday celebrations. I will be the final performer at the finale party on 8/18/12.

Thats what it is! #SaveTheBestForLast #InThatOrder #SALUTE to Tony Gunz and Teflon

Media/Money Sprinters Its definitely finna be a long week! You should already be in tune,

but if not, allow me to put you up on this weeks events!!!

Day 1 - 8/14/12 @ The Ultra Lounge with this dope line up of artists on deck!

Day 2 - 8/15/12 @ Cafe Sunset - Get Your Laugh On!

And the final party will of course be @ Cafe Lura where Teflon is known to shut shit down!!! Here's the message I got from the homie Gunz straight from the FB inbox....

I’d like to begin by saying “thank you” for accepting my offer

to perform [Saturday, August 18] at the 3rd and final event 

of my BIRTHDAY WEEK. The artists at this event, as well as 

with all of my other events this week, have been hand-

picked by me. Now that may not mean shit to you, but it 

does to me. It means that I like your music and appreciate 

the time you’ve spent perfecting your craft. 

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share in your creative passion!

TonyGunz

CEO / Money Sprinters Ent./ Teflon Media Group
828 Davis Street, Evanston, IL 60201
847-424-1335 office or 773-556-4869 cell 

Now Here's the dope finale line up!

10-11pm: F.A.M.E., Irene, Sean Nitty, TONE GUNZZ, Shottaz World, Lyrically Yourz 

11pm-12am: Chicago Getter, Tequilla Boyz, Mike Feen, Tragic, So Hood,CodeRedGwopLady

12-1am: C Rock, Jae Pidd, Kaution, Smokie Dolla, Ed Brooke, Suanye 

1-2am: Self Made Aye, JauQueen, Million Dollar Smile 

2-2:30am: Yung Rell Ent., J-Nite, & of course NamedBran in the buildin!

MY BIRTHDAY SHOW WILL START ON TIME! DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU THERE OR NOT…

Come on out and get it in with Teflon this week! You know you want to! Just a take a look at what you be missing, by not rockin with the team.....

#Winning Wednesdays at Adrianna's

If you don't know about #WinningWednesdays at Adrianna's YOU SLEEP! Allow me to wake you up right quick and put you in tune with this demonstration. IT BE CRACKIN!!!! Dope ass upcoming artists, and not to mention it be having some sexy ass twerk dancers on deck in addition to all the lovely ladies that already be in the building! Church, Preach & Amen!!! If you have never been, I would advise you to make it on out and enjoy ya self at least one time under the act! Shoutout to Murdock, Great Lakez and of course DJ Citi cuz he be having that joint turnt up to da max!



I slid up there this week to support my homie Doughboy Television Chicago who was covering the event! Tommy Gibbs Da Inspiration was down for the ride and ended up performing his Chicago anthem called The Go, so we ending up having a good ole time like we always do. You know Code Redd = Love Spread and thats exactly what we did! Spread the love! Salute to Murdock, Great Lakez, Kesh Kashyaout ChiCity, Sinatris, Chi-P, Mike Feen, Chico Billions & Monster Musik who were all also in the building. Safe to say Adrianna's be turnt up to da max! Have a look for yourself via Doughboy Television Chicago's work with an assist from u know who.... NamedBran In The Buildin!!! We'll start with the pics I took lol....

Keshia Kash & Doughboy Television Chicago

Tommy Gibbs Da Inspiration & Doughboy Television Chicago

The ladies killed the stage

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Here's a taste of last weeks #WinningWednesdays via @DoughboyTelevisionChicago

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DONT MISS THIS WEEK! @NamedBran B. Hi is one of the featured acts, as well as Tommy Gibbs Da Inspiration, so Code Redd is definitely in the building this week, not to mention plenty of other dope artists from all across the city! #WinningWednesdays #BridingTheGap #Str8up

#FlightCrewFridays featured artists Sarcastik & Ego

Flight Crew Fridays Takes Off in a Major Way

The first official #FlightCrewFridays was put together and hosted by Phive10 was held on 7/27 at Pioneer Tap in Forest Park, and safe to say we turnt that joint up to the max! Forest Park aint never seen a demonstration quite like that before and its only gonna get better! The line up included Sarcastik of Rich House Productions as well as Ego who flew in all the way from NYC to get it in with the team, as well as DearChi! Phive10 was scheduled to do a full set, but due to circumstances beyond our control, was unable to do so, however he still performed a couple joints. And of course NamedBran was in the building doin what I normally do! Shout out the the illustrious Doughboy Television for always being on point at the events! #SALUTE

Take a look at these pics and video's, and get a taste of what you missed, and make sure u dont miss the next one which will be the last Friday of August! Every last Friday of the month is #FlightCrewFriday so don't miss the next #TakeOff

Sarcastic Announces He's Signed With Rich House Productions

Sk8Board-T takes the stage with NamedBran for their smash hit #TurnYoGoofyDown

Ego of Rich House Productions from NYC Performing Live in the Chi

And you know me and the homie Ego sent it to the moon with our single Rodeo off Rich House Productions compilation album -The Movement album -  (premiered on #RawTVRadio this past Sunday on Power 92.3) Check out the official video here.

Support The Movement and purchase the single or entire album on itunes The Movement Album On itunes

Dont miss the next #FlightCrewFridays demonstration cuz its gonna crack even harder!