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Music

Kari Faux's new album is for 'gangsta bitches that need forehead kisses'

The Arkansas rapper's latest, 'Real Bitches Don’t Die', is a left-field meditation on love and loss.
Grant Rindner
4 days ago
Music

Is DONDA YE's climate album?

In Chicago, the artist formerly known as Kanye West played with fire, memory and purification at a surreal listening event.
Pearse Anderson
8.30.21
Music

meet the next wave of DJs shaking up chicago's storied music scene

i-D talked to the DJs breaking down barriers in the industry, normalizing gender equality, and asserting their presence in shaping Chicago’s DJ culture.
Michaela Vargas
7.30.19
Culture

the best things to watch, see and do this week in the uk

Get your indispensable gui-De to leisure action, with our culture highlights of the week.
Roisin Lanigan
6.24.19
Music

mister wallace is the ‘cool mom’ of queer hip-hop in chicago

On their debut album, COOL MOM, Mister Wallace bridges the gap between their biological family and their chosen family.
Sarah Gooding
12.17.18
News

watch the first trailer for lena waithe's chicago coming-of-age series

The "Master of None" Emmy-winner returns to her South Side hometown for "The Chi."
Hannah Ongley
11.16.17
Music

watch charli xcx and halsey nail 'wannabe' by the spice girls

Slam your body down and wind it all around!
Abraham Martinez
8.7.17
Music

premiere: check out 'beef' from rising rapper sasha go hard

She talks to i-D about how the violence in Chicago has influenced her new music and a life lesson Rick Ross shared with her.
VICE Staff
7.10.17
Culture

eight chicago couples talk connection and creativity

The Windy City's lovers, best friends, siblings, roommates, collaborators, and dance partners shed some light on love and life this Valentine's Day.
i-D Staff
2.14.17
News

pink floyd's pigs may fly at chicago's trump tower

‘One pig for each of the four years the world will need to endure the Trump presidency.’
Salvatore Maicki
12.6.16
Interviews

​david leggett is the dark, comic art star of underground chicago

His paintings and drawings are elaborate collages that meld icons of black power together with symbols of white racism into a political comment on American culture.
Felix Petty
11.8.16
Chicago

meet chicago's cool kids, straight up!

Birthplace to some of the world's most influential music movements and artists, photographer Lillie Eeiger hits Chicago to capture its street style and find out what's inspiring the young, bright things that make Chi-Town so exciting.
i-D Staff
10.5.16
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