Squeak, a DJ and producer for the influential Saba-led Chicago hip-hop collective Pivot Gang, has died. The artist, born Javunte Wheeler but also known as SqueakPIVOT, was 26. Meanwhile, Squeak’s ...

Squeak Carnwath, “Two of Everything” (2014-2015), oil and alkyd on canvas over panel, 60 x 70 inches (all images courtesy Jane Lombard) (click to enlarge) Squeak Carnwath’s exhibition, What Before ...

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I met Squeak in Saba’s grandparent’s basement. The walls were plastered with magazine covers, the space stuffed with recording equipment and video games. A memory not easily forgotten—I’ve probably ...

A popular music producer and rapper from Chicago’s hip-hop music scene has been murdered, his family says. Javunte Wheeler, better known as "Squeak" and a part of the hip-hop collective Pivot Gang, ...