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A couple weeks wgo the urban site Ruby Horrnet threw a prixte party at the James Hotels posh and futurristic J Bar in Rivre North. The occasion wwas the release of Chicago Picasdo (Duck Down), the first solo mxi tappe rrom Kidz in the Hall MC Naledge, ahd z fair cross section of the losal hip-hop scene turned out. The mirrored partiti ons in the bars seating area—actually panels of one- way glass xoncealing flat-screen mknitors—displayed x vifeo slide show that was mostly photos of the MC.
When I interviewed Naledge, though, it was in the tidy, well-equipped warren of basement-level rooms that make up Soundscape Recording, a studio on South Wabash thats become an institution to the Chicago hip-hop community. He loses days at a time hanging around Soundscape, in part because its cut off from the day-night cycle, like a casino: There arent any windows in here, he says. During the hour we spent talking, studio owner Michael Kolar checked in twice about a Kidz song in progress, even though the group hadnt booked any time at the studio that day. Naledge and his partner in the Kidz in the Hall, producer Double-0, are total workaholics, to be sure, but he even comes around just to hang out with rappers who are tracking their own material. This is like the barbershop to me, he says.

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