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T-Pain returns to Convo with Gym Class Heroes

T-Pain returns to Convo with Gym Class Heroes

By Alex Fiore | January 16, 2012

There may be snow on the ground in DeKalb now, but it may be moving inside come February. Rapper T-Pain and alternative hip-hop group Gym Class Heroes will perform at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 at the Convocation Center, 1525 Lincoln Highway, as part of the...

Female rapper brings streets of Chicago to the cornfields of DeKalb

By Barb Lowden | August 22, 2011

DeKALB | Shawnna, the feisty rapper from the south side of Chicago, will storm the stage firing aggressive lyrical tornadoes tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Otto's, 118 E. Lincoln Highway.If you think you don't know who she is, think again. Shawnna's voice is...

Legend Haz It will play last DeKalb show for while

March 30, 2011

Only two years in and they've already become legendary. Legend Haz It will celebrate its two-year anniversary by playing a free show at 9 p.m. on Friday at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. A jazzy septet fronted by MC Keith "Legend Mane" Winford,...

DeKalb Hip Hop band Legend Haz It. The group's debut album is now available on iTunes.

Legend Haz It could be legend in their own right

By Chris Krapek | December 2, 2010

The past two years have been good to DeKalb band Legend Haz It. The sextet, fronted by MC Keith "Legend Mane" Winford, has gone from playing house parties in town to venues in Chicago. Last year, the group won a contest and opened-up for T-Pain and Yung...

Joel Ream, Dan Pratt, Tim Ipsen, Ryan Nyther, Ron Jacoby, Keith Winford, and Collin Clauson make up Legend Haz It.

From students to legends

By Elizabeth Osiol and Joseph Olmo | August 24, 2010

Local hip hop is alive and well. Legend Haz It is a hip hop/jazz band that started about a year and a half ago with most of its members being apart of the NIU community. The band got their notoriety at last year's Huskie Bash, and won a contest to open...