D.J. Special Blend from Chicago's Blog, page 19
January 9, 2016
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs January 3 – 9, 2016
The Weeknd rides his cut “The Hills” for another week to hold on to the Number One Spot. Missy Elliot and Pharrell Williams move up to number two, while “Crazy” by Amiah leaps five places to number five. Tory Lorenz gets a huge push to move up seven places to number six. That makes “Say It” the hottest single of the week.
“Oui” by Chicago’s own Jeremih is up six positions of its own to land at number fourteen. “King Me” by JP One rocked U-Hype Live enough last week to move into the number eighteen spot. Fantasia has a new jam out. Kanye West raps his way back onto the chart again, and Adele is every-freakin-where, so she makes and appearance. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top songs January 3 – 9, 2016
December 31, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago 2015 Year End Countdown
Nique from Aurora, IL has the number one song of the year on BMS Radio Chicago. “Legendary” has been in heavy rotation since May. Geechi Mouf’s smash single “Cold Turkey” holds down the number two spot. Nina Macc does it again with her single “Where Was These Hoes,” and QuoKane lands at number four for the year with “The Norm.” Nina Macc and QuoKane both land top five singles two years in a row. Dawn Duchess ends up with two top ten songs on the year-end-countdown with “Do Work” and “Champagne Bottles.”
RdG had a good twelve months. His single “Like Me” comes in at number six for the year. Miss Cashley scores a year ending top ten cut with “Pull Up.” Joslrs shows up at number thirteen. Amiah and Jerry White both have current releases out that may have a chance at 2016’s year end chart.
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Top Indie Songs of 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs of 2015
Nique from Aurora, IL has the number one song of the year on BMS Radio Chicago. “Legendary” has been in heavy rotation since May. Geechi Mouf’s smash single “Cold Turkey” holds down the number two spot. Nina Macc does it again with her single “Where Was These Hoes,” and Quokane lands at number four for the year with “The Norm.” Nina Macc and Quokane both land top five singles two years in a row. Dawn Duchess ends up with two top ten songs for the year with “Do Work” and “Champagne Bottles.”
RdG had a good twelve months. His single “Like Me” comes in at number six for the year. Miss Cashley scores a year ending top ten cut with “Pull Up.” Joslrs shows up at number thirteen. Amiah Mariee and Jerry White both have current releases out that may have a chance at 2016’s year end chart.
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Top Indie Songs of 2015
December 26, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs December 20 – 26, 2015
The Weeknd glides into the number one spot on this chart for the first time as a solo artist with “The Hills.” Byson Tiller has made it all the way to number two. Missy Elliott leaps four more spaces to land at number three. Amiah Mariee’s “Crazy” is officially a top ten hit single, and so is “Used to Be” by Jerry White.
New music on the chart this time from Jerimih with “Oiu.” R. Kelly also has a new jam out there called “Switch Up” that features Jerimih and Lil Wayne. Rick Ross is up another spot to number 17, and “Where Ya At” by Future and Drake is up to number four. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs December 20 – 26, 2015
December 19, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs December 13 – 19, 2015
R. Kelly tops the chart in the middle of December with a cut called “Backyard Party.” Byson Tiller is up two spots to number four. Travi$ Scott is knocking on the door of the top ten, and so is “Crazy” by Amiah Mariee. Big Sean and Chris Brown are all the way up to number two with “Play No Games.”
New music on the chart this week comes from Drake and Future’s mixtape. Trixx enters the chart this week and JP also makes his debut. “Just Right for Me” by Monica is still on the countdown. “Elf Lean” by Robbie the Elf is hot Christmas music this season. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs December 13 – 19, 2015
December 14, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs December 6 – 12, 2015
RdG featuring Ziplocghost and Fatboii earned the top spot this week with “Like Me.” Alessia Cara is right behind at number two. Future and Drake leap seven spots and land in the top ten, which makes “Where Ya At” the hottest song this week. Amiah Mariee moved up six places of her own and landed at number 15 with “Crazy.”
New music on the chart this week from Chris Brown named “Sex You Back to Sleep.” Kendrick Lamar enters the countdown with ” These Walls.” Christmas music by Robby the Elf named “Elf Lean” rounds out the new singles. Check Robby the Elf out at RobbyTheELf.com. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs December 6 – 12, 2015
December 7, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2015
Alessia Cara gets another week on top of the chart, with the song about isolating in the middle of a party. The Weeknd enjoys his best solo hit ever on this chart. Missy Elliott leaps five spots to land in the top ten. That makes her jam the hottest song of the week.
Amiah Mariee is up to number 21. Jerry White glides to a respectable number 13. Geechi Mouf is still in the top five. Recording Artist: Submit your music to the longest running podcast in Chicago that features Hip-Hop music here. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs Nov 25 – Dec. 5, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs Dec 25 – Dec 5, 2015
Alessia Cara gets another week on top of the chart, with the song about isolating in the middle of a party. The Weeknd enjoys his best solo hit ever on this chart. Missy Elliott leaps five spots to land in the top ten. That makes her jam the hottest song of the week.
Amiah Mariee is up to number 21. Jerry White glides to a respectable number 13. Geechi Mouf is still in the top five. Recording Artist: Submit your music to the longest running podcast in Chicago that features Hip-Hop music here. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs Nov 25 – Dec. 5, 2015
December 4, 2015
Movie Review: Chi-Raq
After all the bickering over the title, Chi-Raq hit the theaters. This film is a traditional “Spike Lee Joint.” His movies, or “Joints,” do not follow the usual routes of character development. The actors frequently break out into entertaining musical numbers and short comedy skits about controversial topics. Spike Lee fans know to brace themselves for possible telephones that might fall out the sky from nowhere, or maybe an occasional upside-down camera shot. None of that happened this time. However, the cinematography does a fine job of capturing the city as the visual backdrop of the story.
The time and energy Chicago politicians spent on the title of this movie is ridiculous. The Mayor and city council feared Lee would glorify Chicago violence to the point where tourist would not want to visit Chicago.
First of all, the title of a film alone will not determine if a movie glorifies violence. Secondly, tourists already know the murder rate in Chicago is high. But they also know tourists aren’t the people passing away everyday on the South and West sides of the city.
The high crime areas are predominantly African American. Anyone who has ever seen a “Spike Lee Joint” knows he would never directly throw Black people under the bus on camera. As far as Spike Lee is concerned, Black people are always welcomed to get on the bus (no pun intended).
At the same time, this flick doesn’t offer any solutions to the sky high murder rate either. The visual backdrop is all the way Chicago, but the script and the voice of the characters are not. In that aspect, the movie took a hard swing but completely missed the ball.
However, Spike Lee is a master when it comes to exploiting important topics and getting up under people’s skin while making them think. That’s exactly what he did by naming this film Chi-Raq. Chicago politicians should now feel like buffoons, blockheads, and simpletons for spending so much time debating over the title of this movie.
At the start, the film blatantly states it is an adaptation of the play Lysistrata, by Aristophanes. That is a comedy performed in 411 BC, where a woman leads other women from Greece into withholding sex from men. They do this to try and end the Peloponnesian War. In this “Joint,” Greece metaphorically equates the streets of Chicago, and the Peloponnesian War is comparable to black-on-black crime.
Nick Cannon is the very fictional lead character named Chi-Raq. He’s an up and coming local gangster rapper with ties to a very fictional Chicago street gang. His girl, Lysistrata, is played by Teyonah Parris. She is fine as all get up. Somebody should be sopping her up off a plate with a biscuit, multiple times a day.
Samuel L. Jackson narrates the story. Wesley Snipes and Angela Bassett have supporting roles. These three big named performers have done prior work with Spike Lee on multiple projects.
The manner in which the characters execute their dialog shocked me. For the first thirty minutes of the movie, I asked myself, “Are they really doing this? No, for real? Angela Bassett is playing along, too?”
John Cusack carries out the role of Fr. Mike Corridan, a Caucasian preacher that is deeply involved with the citizens of the South side of Chicago. Fr. Mike Corridan is arguably the most endearing character in the movie, and he is overwhelmingly similar to the real life Rev. Michael Pfleger of Chicago. If this movie glorifies anything or anybody, it’s the Reverend Pfleger.
Chicago’s own Jennifer Hudson serves the role of Irene, a local single mother. Steve Harris, Harry Lennix, D.B. Sweeney, Dave Chappell, and Chicago’s own George Willborn round out an all-star cast.
With all the attention paid to the title of this movie by politicians, I expected it to solve a problem or something. I wanted it to cure a disease or end poverty. None of that happened. It does however suggest that those things should be done. At the end of the day, this “Spike Lee Joint” delivers the same message that Lee has tried to deliver for decades now. That message is, “Please, wake up.”
December 1, 2015
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs November 22 – 28, 2015
Alessia Cara takes the number one spot with her sleeper hit, “Here.” DeJ Loaf is still near the top, and so is Geechie Mouf. Missy Elliot and Pharrell Williams move up four places to number 15 this week. Big Sean and Chris Brown are up to number seven with “Play No Games.”
R. Kelly made noise at the Soul Train Awards with “Back Yard Party,” even though it is well into fall and it’s too cold to kick it outside right now. Bryson Tiller is still in there solid at number twelve with “Don’t.” RdG has a top five single on his hands. The Game is still on the chart with “100” featuring Drake. And “Crazy” by Amiah Mariee debuts on the chart at number twenty-five. Peep the full chart below:
BMS Radio Chicago Top Songs November 22 – 28, 2015
