"Pugs Atomz Presents CTA Radio Chi City Hip Hop” feat. Common, Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest & More To Be Released February 21st

While Chicago is famous for the blues and jazz that came up from Mississippi during the Great Migration, its hip hop scene in recent years has emerged with the same soulfulness and relevance that its musical predecessors had. While Kanye West has managed the impossible by converting the barbershop flavor of Chicago into MTV content, for those people in and around Chicago, it is the underground college radio and vinyl network that keeps real heads tuned in and staying creative. As the host of CTA Radio on WHPK for the past 6 years, DJ, b-boy, emcee and graf writer Pugs Atomz has seen the rise of Chicago artists such as No I.D., Common and Rhymefest to name a few, hosting them on his radio program and helping to break their records.

On February 21, 2006 Raptivism Records will release a unique compilation encapsulating the experience of Chi City scene: “Pugs Atomz Presents CTA Radio Chi City Hip Hop”. This album is a reconstruction of Pugs’ seminal South Side radio show that airs every Wednesday from 9-12am on WHPK 88.5 in Chicago, and features freestyles, exclusive tracks, drops, and unexpected appearances.

For those in Chicago, this is long-awaited. For those outside, this is a unique first-hand experience of a Chi Town hip hop radio show, with some of their best emcees around town including tracks from Lupe Fiasco (Mean and Vicious), Common and Abstract Mind (Nostalgia), and Rhymefest (Dynomite). Also, many of the young artists bubbling under the surface of the Chi City scene will be featured heavily on the album. Vinyl celebrities like Iomos Marad, Akbar, and Masshisteria will get a chance to be heard on a national scale by those who are only familiar with Kanye and others.

“Pugs Atomz Presents CTA Radio Chi City Hip Hop” is an amazing, pioneering cd that will have people from Chicago and beyond wanting to hear more from the fertile scene and the creative Pugs Atomz.

Track Listing for CTA Radio Chi City Hip Hop:

1. CTA Intro
2. Double Speak-All Natural/Iomos Marad
3. Krushing Kizzle-Speechwerks feat. Casual
4. Fall Out- Masshisteria/Juice
5. Interlude
6. Judge Wisely- Ryan Officer/Akbar
7. CTA Radio Talk
8. Any Day Now- Typical Cats
9. Move-Long Shot/Vicious/Psalm One
10. Socialstudies-Primemeridian
11. Don't Steal My Thuunder-Thaione Davis
12. Sickplicity-Vakil
13. Mean and Vicious-Lupe Fiasco
14. Tear In Your Eye-Pugs Atomz
15. With in the Lines-Pacifics
16. Dynomite-Rhymefest
17. Nostalgia-Common/Abstract Mindstate
18. Know The Time-Steady Serv
19. WHPK Freestyle
20. Between The Lines-Prime
21. Nubians In Devistated Places- Infinito 2017
22. Driving By-Usual Suspects

For interviews, promotional materials and press information contact: RainDazedEnt@aol.com

Label Contact: Rishi@Raptivism.com

Pugs Atomz Bio
He is Pugs Atomz, a dedicated member of Chicago’s extraordinary Hip Hop scene. Since the early 90’s Pugs has been out and about Chi City as a fan , graffiti artist, battle rapper, freestyler, party thrower, promoter, Radio/TV personality and the list goes on.

He came up the ranks in the traditional way, earning props from corner ciphers at places like The Point (south side gathering place for teenagers hungry for hip hop in the mid 90’s) and Navy Pier.

1993 was the year he started a collective called the Nacrobats with far too many members to list but a legacy of artists making a name for themselves in their respected fields. With the strength of the collective, Five albums were made, numerous parties and battles were had and it pushed Pugs to take his music and art more serious.

His first solo album was “Thanks For Not Rhyming” on Galapagos4 Records. It boasted production from the Molemen, Meatyogre, Polyphonic and others, receiving a warm response from the underground.

The nineteen track album “24 Years Later” followed, released on his own co-founded label Birthwrite Records with production handled by Yoda, PNS, Flesh O.N.E. and others. This album has taken Pugslee touring all over the United States, Germany, Paris, Amsterdam and London, on the bill with the likes of De La Soul, Nas, Talib Kweli, Cypress Hill, MF doom, RZA, El-P, Atmosphere, El the Sensei and a host of others.

Hip Hop Canada says Pugslee “is most notoriously known for his clever wordplay and hungry delivery… [He] is the type of emcee you discover then slap yourself upside the head for sleeping on over the years… guaranteed to sooth the listeners ears.”

In the summer of 2004, Pugslee teamed up with Audio 8 Recordings to release his third album “Playing With Matches”, a tale of the trials and tribulations of a Chicago tagger in the 90’s and featured appearances by Seel Fresh IBC, Binkus, DJ Intel, and commentary from some of Chicago’s top graffiti artist.

Currently He has just finished a compilation for Raptivism Records entitled “ Pugs Atomz presents CTA Radio Chi City Hip Hop”. This cd is basically an exerpt of the Cta Radio show, he has been a part of every Wednesday night from 9-12am for the last six years. This is a definite must to any body digging the Chicago sound. Besides music, Mr. Atomz is an accomplished visual artist with work appearing in film/print media ("Light it up"), and also the host of Barbershop hip hop an internet and local tv show. (www.barbershophiphop.com)