As promised, Tree & Tony Baines delivers “The Lit“… Enjoy…

Tree x Tony Baines – The Lit

This is the second leak from Tree‘s latest mixtape venture “The Lit“, produced entirely by Tony Baines. Hopefully this’ll hold you over for a few hours until the 6pm release of “The Lit” TONIGHT!!!

This Mike “Maserati” Myers produced track is set to be featured on Paypa‘s “The Andre Paypa Thomas EP“… Expect that to impact some time in the near future…

This Tye Hill produced track comes from Digital Plugg, DJ Cinemax, & Dough From The Go’s “Meet Da Plugg 5” mixtape hosted by none other than Tree…

New video from Tree, “BEST“, off of his critically acclaimed mixtape “Sunday School“!! Track produced by @beatsbyned. Video shot & chopped by Bobby Rockwell (@dudegotbars).

Download “Sunday School” by clicking the album cover below.

Project Mayhem Music artist & New Deal Crew member Chris Crack gears up for the release of his sophomore mixtape project “Kitchen In The Bassment” by hitting us with the P-Cutta (New Deal Crew) produced banger, “The X-File“. Enjoy…

Gutter City & Mayhem Music rapper/producer Tree takes to the internet airwaves to tell his story on the Andrew Barber (FakeshoreDrive.com), David Drake (SoManyShrimp.com), & Ernest Wilkins (Redeye Chicago/Chicago Tribune Media Group) hosted weekly show, “Disrespectful Radio”, on Fearlessradio.com. Listen as the hosts give Tree free range to speak on everything from his Cabrini-Green Housing Projects up-bringing to his musical influences and past, present, & upcoming projects. Click the link below for the full interview…

DISRESPECTFUL RADIO 7/10/12

Produced by the #SoulTrap curator Tree himself, Stomp is set to be featured on Drank & Dank‘s “Dripped Up Vol.#3″ project. Featuring SL Jones, the Little Rock, AR emcee from Killer Mike’s Grindtime Rap Gang camp, Tree tells us how he puts his foot down…

Congratulations to both Project Mayhem & Tree for making Fakeshoredrive.com‘s short list “The Top Ten Chicago Mixtapes of 2012 (So Far)“. Middle America & Sunday School made the list at numbers 8 and 2, respectively. Hit the jumps below to read the write-ups on both mixtapes & click on the album covers for free full downloads of each…

#8. Project Mayhem – Middle America

#2. Tree – Sunday School

Mayhem Music artist Tree‘s Collab with up-comer Young Giftz, “Nino“, is featured in Fakeshoredrive.com‘s “FSD’s Favorite Chicago Songs of 2012 (So Far)“. Read the write-up & peep the Heart of the City directed video for the Tree Produced “Nino” below…

Excerpt from Fakeshoredrive.com:

2012 has been a breakout year for Tree, but newcomer Giftz has also seen his profile rise significantly this calendar. So its only right they celebrate their new-found notoriety by teaming up to craft an ode inspired by the king of the Carter.

Tree’s beat is so heavenly, you almost forget they’re likening themselves to a crime lord here. Giftz rides the track in a calm, cool and collected manner; dropping calculated punchlines and clever couplets throughout, while Tree’s contrasting voice is literally cracking over the track. This hasn’t left rotation since it leaked in the spring, and not since Ice-T has someone made a song this dope about Nino Brown — and that was 20 years ago.