2 Chainz "Good Drank" Feat. Gucci Mane & Quavo (WSHH Exclusive - Officia...

Twista ft. NamedBran - Tribute to Whitney Houston

Tribute To The Late Great Whitney Houston

NamedBran Update: Exclusive music, plus Doughboy Television episode 11, New Sarcastik video and more

NamedBran Update: Exclusive music, Doughboy Television, New Sarcastik video and more....

Time is slowly but surely winding down as I know it, right before my very eyes, but the grind is relentless!!! No such thing as stop.

First and foremost I am releasing the Tryin Hard Under God project this year. I have been working on it for quite a while and am quite pleased with the results. At this point its all finishing touches.

You can expect Tryin Hard Under God to be released on itunes this spring (2013)

Next month (February) I'll be releasing a mixtape project with a mix of original tracks from various producers as well as a few industry remixes.

Me, Myself & I: At Da End Of Da Day Volume 1

includes features from Sweeney Todd, Number 2, Phive10, Sarcastik, MP Gutta, ItsFee and more...

Heres another lil taste of whats to come... ride wit me and da squad!!! We be Tryin Hard Under God!

And the Tryin Hard Under God project coming in the spring of 2013

Shout out to DoughBoy Television Chicago for keeping a playa in the rotation. This is episode 11 and it just so happens to feature a live performance at the Rap Factory by me & the CRMA/FlightCrew/6Rings fam. Plus GLC and a host of other dope artists and videos and thangs.... Know whats real! Tune in to DoughBoy Television Chicago every Wednesday on Comcast channel 114 at MIDNITE!!!! Like the fan page on facebook and stay in tune with the movement!

DoughBoy Television Chicago on Facebook

The homie Sarcastik just released the video for his single Lunatic which is available on itunes

Check it out and shop with him! Its a movie baby!

ChiRaq Dont Sleep on it this 1 #AtDaEndOfDaDay - Produced By SupaProducer EloDaEpidemic

New Banger Produced by SupaProducer EloDaEpidemic

AT DA END OF DA DAY

by

NamedBran B. Hi

on youtube

Download this banger for free!!!!

Follow @EloDaEpidemic on soundcloud and shop with him! He got straight #HEAT

Dope New Chicago Music TV Show: Building An Empire hosted by Chasyn Foxx

Dope New Chicago Music TV Show: Building An Empire hosted by Chasyn Foxx

Ashley Coleman being interviewed by Chasyn Foxx

Okay if you haven't checked it out yet, get in tune with Chasyn Foxx and her new show Building An Empire. She interviews people that are on their grind, in between hot new videos from local artists and major artists alike. I was honored to be invited as a guest on her second episode! Its a dope concept in general, and her show is straight heat, so make sure to check her out this Friday 1/5/13 on Channel 19 at 12am and subscribe to her channel on youtube as well so you can catch every episode! BUILDING AN EMPIRE TV http://www.youtube.com/user/buildinganempiretv

Check out my favorite episode so far

Episode 2: Featuring an interview with NamedBran B. Hi 

And here's episode 1 in case you missed it...

And while you here, let me borrow your ear for a minute... check out this dope new banger
At Da End Of Da Day produced by Supaproducer EloDaEpidemic http://www.facebook.com/supaproducer.johnson?fref=ts

ChiGrindMagazine Issue #3 is now on stands ft/ R.Kelly, Jeremih... NamedBran article on page 5

Amanda So Iceey Graces the cover of ChiGrindMagazine featuring R. Kelly & Jeremih & more...

Article on NamedBran B. Hi inside on page 5.....

Open publication - Free publishing - More art

#FlightCrewChicago presents The LAYOVER in Forest Park is This Friday 10/12

Flight Crew presents the LAYOVER in Forest Park! Yes, its goin down again!

TO JOIN The LAYOVER IN FOREST PARK CLICK HERE

ModestLiving ✈ The Flight Crew Chicago present... ✈ ✈ ✈THE LAYOVER ✈ ✈ ✈ Featuring: Chandler London Philosopha Cadillac Duke Grade Aplus ShowYouSuck Hosted By: Phive10 (MC) DJ 3rd World (DJ) Location: Pioneer Tap, Forest Park IL ✈ ✈ ✈DON'T MISS THIS FLIGHT ✈ ✈ ✈ ✈ ✈ ✈Hosted bar from 8:30p-9:30p by Phive10✈ ✈ ✈ Drink Specials and Pizza prices at the bar.

TO JOIN The LAYOVER IN FOREST PARK CLICK HERE

Safe to say Friday's in Forest Park be CRACKIN ever since the #FlightCrew turnt up in the 708!!! Here's a sneak preview of how WE do! Who is we??? The #TryinHardUnderGodSouljahs of course! That would include everybody I get down with!

Fight Crew Captain Phive10

Follow @Phive10 on twitter

8/31/2012 - FLIGHT CREW FRIDAY #2 Was A Huge Success

NamedBran & Sweeney Todd sporting FlyBoy Apparel t-shirts by Rell Real Inclothing Morgan

Ok so I was supposed to co-host the 2nd official #FlightCrewFriday event at Pioneer Tap in Forest Park, however I was so turnt up that I ended up just kickin it instead! Plus it was the homie Doughboy Television Chicago's birthday party, and he was still workin the event! Take a look for yourself, and see how we had Forest Park crackin!

Flight Crew 1stLady Felicity & Friends

Shout out to Ily Rose. She did her thang!



All we do is turn up! #FlightCrew

TO JOIN The LAYOVER IN FOREST PARK CLICK HERE

Shout out to Phive10 under the #FlightCrew act jack! I couldn't wait for #3 which went like this....


Doughboy Television hard at work again lol I see why he loves his job!

My, My, Myyyy

Free Shots of Ciroc!!!!

TO JOIN The LAYOVER IN FOREST PARK CLICK HERE

TO JOIN The LAYOVER IN FOREST PARK CLICK HERE

What The Gutter Took From Us by EccentricAngel

What The Gutter Took From Us

Now anyone that knows me, and anything about my Tryin Hard Under God campaign knows that I love positive people, and do my best to surround myself with them. Make sure you all check out my friend India EccentricAngel Bunch who is a poetic dynamo, and a fantastic author, with a wonderfully uplifting spirit, who shares her soul with the world! She's releasing her novel "What The Gutter Took From Us" and I am a fan of the book already, and have only read the excerpt!

This is a movement in effort to restore what was taken from us. Come out and support your Eccentric Angel on her new release. This release raises awareness and educates OUR youth on a harsh reality that calls for change. Be a part of the solution!!!

RELEASE PARTY FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9th @ Cafe Latte from 6pm-9pm

RSVP on FB HERE

 WHAT THE GUTTER TOOK FROM US BOOK RELEASE PARTY

(Excerpt from the book)

{Who can take this lil 10 year old Kanata?}

We stay on the Westside of Chicago right off the ave in a 

three-bedroom apartment over the store; I’m glad we moved, 

because where we use to stay was really bad. Every night it 

was all kind ofshooting. Girls was always fighting over boys 

that didn’t care about neither one of them. You always saw 

the same girls walking up and down the street with their hair 

not combed, and too little clothes on thinking they are so 

cute. Now that was on a good day, because most of the time 

they would have on pajamas outside like nothing was even 

wrong with that. If I saw one more girl that was like 13 or 14 

with tracks hanging, and  glue in all the wrong places I was 

just  gone die. Ooooweee! and if I saw another girl with all 

kind of dumb colors in her head and a baby on their hip, I 

was gonna call the ghetto patrol myself! The colorful 

hairstyles wouldn’t have looked so bad if it was done right at 

least.  What made it so bad was you could tell somebody that 

didn’t know what they was doing did it, for them AND…with 

the wrong kind of hair, looking like a long fat fluffy wig. I got 

too tired of seeing dirty old men watching lil girl’s booties 

then have the nerve to say lil dirty old man stuff like “uhm 

uhm uhm.” On our old block you would always see wanna-

be-thugs with yellow tank tops on that use to be white.  

Standing in the same place all day and night calling they self 

selling drugs, but they never got nothing to show for it and 

you never saw them clean. Ooh I take that back, the only one 

you use to see clean was Maaaario ­­­­ -­Boom!  But the other 

ones, I bet they just use to wake up in the morning and go! 

now imagine how that smelled. One day one of the boys 

named Skully tried to talk to this girl that was going in the 

store, cause I told you they always in front of the same ole 

store; anyway He gone say “Hey lil Mama, let me get a 

number outcha.” She turned around and said “For the last 

three days I’ve walked past the store, you had those same 

clothes on.” Then she said “Now why would I want to give 

you my number?” Guess what he said; he gone say” lil Mama 

I’m grinding, these just my hustling clothes.”  I was thinking 

eeeewwwww, for three days though -Really!  I gotta look up 

what grind mean for real because grind gotta mean same 

dirty and nasty clothes on for three days. I can’t even repeat 

what he called her when she made it in the store. You know 

how I heard all of that? Because, I was sitting on the porch 

next door to the store. I was even listening to these girls 

argue. They had the same baby daddy, and to tell you the 

truth; I don’t think neither one of the babies was his. Where 

we stay now, it’s just how it was where we use to stay; 

errrrbody know me. People on the block be wanting me to sit 

on their porch and tell them all the juicy news. I gotta real 

good view, because we stay like four houses from the corner 

and my room is right in the front. Now you see why I’m so 

glad we moved, and we moved right in time for my birthday. 

Jamal said he’s gonna throw me a big party. Mama said she 

would, but I’m still waiting on the other nine parties she 

promised me… HA! I bet I won’t be holding my breath 

waiting on it, or I’ll pass out for sure. Mama never do stuff 

like that, Jamal always gotta do it.

Doughboy Television Chicago's hottest new show airs on Comcast Ch. 114 Wednesdays @ Midnite

Doughboy Television Chicago TV Show

If you want to take your career to the next level Doughboy Television Chicago is now accepting video submissions for next weeks episode like his page on facebook!!!! Here's the last episode if you missed it! IT AIRS EVERY WED AT MIDNIGHT COMCAST CHANNEL 114!!!

! TUNE IN TONITE FOR THE SECOND EPISODE ITS GONNA BE HOT!!! Hell you might even see me on it fool, I know Doughboy Television got plenty NamedBran B. Hi exclusives!!! lbvs!!! #GetInTUNESTUPID we got A WHOLE TV SHOW with +MILLIONS of viewers? #SALUTE to Kelvin Mccollum & The S.M.A.E TV fam too!

SUBSCRIBE TO Doughboy Television Chicago Youtube Channel

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If ya didnt know (because you been sleepin under a rock somewhere) Doughboy Television also does photography! Check out this preview of the Halloween Shoot with German Jackie....

Exclusive Photos by Delfin Vegas Photography!!! 

FOLLOW @ DBOY6RingsENT ON TWITTER if you want a video, photography, or if you 

want to be on the show and or air your videos on Comcast Channel 114 Wednesday nights 

at 12 midnight

Here's episode 2....the show just so happens to kick off with a video from yours truly with my homie Ego of Rich House Productions. Track produced by Joe Dirt.....

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

I Am ChicagoMusic!: Fallback - @NamedBran B. Hi

I Am ChicagoMusic!: Fallback - @NamedBran B. Hi:

'via Blog this'

NamedBran Featured on My City My Dream

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

Nothings Gonna Stop Me

Welcome to the C-H-I

Stay in tune with My City My Dream and keep up with some of Chicago's rising talent!

My City My Dream on Youtube

Or visit their website -----> http://www.mycitymydream.com/

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---."