The scene

The keg is blowing little more than foam and air by the time Richard “Epic” Wallace of local hip-hop trio Bin Laden Blowin’ Up rushes into the room smiling ear to ear: His heroes have arrived. “Gant-Man and Slugo are here. It’s officially a juke jam!” The venerable South Side DJs—pioneers of the high-BPM genre juke—dropped by Humboldt Park arts space Quennect 4 to appear in the video for BBU’s juke-hop anthem “Chi Don’t Dance.” The track, which the group plans to release in mid-January on its first mix-tape, is more infectious than H1N1—and purely Chicago: twentysomethings Wallace, Jasson Perez and Michael “Illekt” Milam (pictured left to right) slip in a reference to Lake Shore Drive and declare, “Chi don’t dance no more / All we do is juke.” “I’m excited because it took us years to make this music more than just a South Side or West Side thing,” said Gant-Man. “Now it’s moving to the next generation.”

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