Wu-Tang – Drunk Tongue (Video)
It’s martial arts paired with a RZA beat. Nuff said. Wu-Tang’s Legendary Weapons album is in stores today.
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Footage of Rakim and Nas performing at Paul Rosenberg’s (Eminem’s manager) party.
These videos dropped a couple of days ago, but if you missed them, they are well worth a look. Check them out below. Rakim – Eric B. Is President and
Big K.R.I.T. Live in Nashville – Video
This video is courtesy of Break on a Cloud. It features some footage of K.R.I.T. going in on Just Touched Down and a montage of his experiences on the road.
Here’s a cool video of Russell Simmons talking about what led him to Rick Rubin.
Check out the video below and click here to listen to our playlist of Rick Rubin hip-hop productions.
There have been a lot of Kendrick Lamar freestyles floating around lately. This one is a little different.
First and foremost, he is truly going off the top of the head instead of kicking a pre-written verse. Secondly, he’s rhyming with a live violin player. Check it out.
Jay Rock is joined by his Black Hippy crew on Say Wassup.
Check out the video ft Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar. Jay Rock’s album, Follow Me Home, drops on 7/26. Top Dawg Entertainment is killing it. Support good hip-hop.
Here’s a short film on the making of Watch the Throne.
It got yanked from YouTube already, so watch it while you can… Watch the Throne drops on August 5th. Click here to download Kanye and Jay-Z’s Otis ft Otis Redding.
Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon Hip-Hop Medley Video
Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon did a hilarious hip-hop medley several months ago. Last night, they reunited to do a part 2. It’s not as good as the first one
Here’s some footage of Q-Tip and Kanye West performing at the Brooklyn Hip-Hip Festival.
Kanye does a medley of 3 songs. The audio is through the boards, so the sound is right. Check it out. Update: Here’s some additional footage from Karmaloop TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wgZJf6ellk&feature=player_embedded
After 25 years in the game The Beastie Boys are still innovating.
Check out the video for Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win ft Santi Gold, Ken, G.I. Joe and others. Not surprisingly, this is from the mind of Spike
Here’s Skewby’s new video for his verse on Actual Proof’s Super Genius.
Last Halloween, Actual Proof dropped Super Genius, a song with socially conscious lyrics and a meditative 9th Wonder track. The song featured Skewby, Cutlass Reid, Naledge, Add2TheMC, Kendrick Lamar, Brittany
Here’s a new video from Fabolous. Check out Y’all Don’t Hear Me Though ft Red Cafe.
This is from Fabolous’ The S.O.U.L. Mixtape. If you missed it, click here to download it.
Freeway kicks a true freestyle. 3+ minutes of ill lyrics straight off the dome.
The rhymes aren’t perfect but the passion in the delivery and the fact that he is truly going off the top of the head more than make up for it.
Kendrick Lamar now has co-signs from 2 of the dopest producers in hip-hop.
Dr. Dre thought highly enough of him to have Kendrick in the studio working on Detox. Now check out this video where Pharrell gives him major props. Click here to
Dr. Dre has said for many years that he prefers working with new talent rather than the hottest established artists. Check out the good Doctor as he listens to newcomer Tito Lopez spit over a blistering hot unreleased track that sounds a lot like it was produced by Dre.
Tito BRINGS IT and gets some much deserved props from Dre. Here’s the video.
New Phil Ade. Check out the video for One in a Million.
It’s a hip-hop love song that’s not corny…kinda like this one:
Here’s another ode to Summer. Check out the video for Asher Roth’s Summertime.
And, if you missed it, click here for The Kid Daytona’s remake of DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince’s Summertime.
Kendrick Lamar has solified his place in that increasingly rarefied class of MCs with clever lyrics and a compelling message with Section 80.
Check out this video where he breaks down the meaning of HiiiPower and how Tupac has inspired him. If you don’t have Section 80, it may just be the best
Here’s a great behind the scenes look at the making of Ghetto dreams. Common, Nas and No I.D. were interviewed in the studio during the recording of the song.
The sneak peek of this dropped a couple of days ago. Check out the full video.
Cormega brought out a bunch of legends for his song Fresh. It features vocals from Parrish Smith, Grand Puba, KRS-ONE, Big Daddy Kane and DJ Red Alert.
Check out the video. Also, if you missed our Back in the Day mix featuring most of the above cats, check this out.
Here’s some interesting food for thought from Young Guru, one of the sonic architects behind much of the music of Jay-Z, Kanye West and many others.
For many years, Young Guru has worked as the engineer on much of the music to come out of the Roc-A-Fella camp, as well as on tracks by De La
Nas’ collabo game has been kinda crazy lately.
He laced Raekwon with some ill verses on Rich & Black and his feature on Common’s Ghetto Dreams has generated a lot of heat the last few weeks. Here’s a
Kool G Rap has not lost a step. In Too Deep has fire lyrics and a soulful 70’s sample.
Check out the video. And, check out our Back in the Day mix featuring songs from the late 80’s and early 90’s if you want to hear some vintage G
Jay Rock drops some heavy verses on Just Like Me. He goes in about the perils of gang-banging and the toll that selling drugs takes on the community.
Dude is official. Check out the video. Also, click here for the video for Jay Rock’s Hood Gone Love It.
Here’s another sneak peek at the upcoming A Tribe Called Quest documentary.
This one features a very candid interview about Phife’s ongoing battle with Diabetes. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest hits most theaters this month. Click
Kidz in the Hall have been making moves lately. They have a web series on MTV2.com and just dropped this hot new video.
Check out the video for My Diatribe and you can find episodes 3 and 4 of Here Now, their web series, below. Here’s Kidz in the Hall: Here Now. Episode
Curren$y’s This is the Life is one of the strongest songs on his new Weekend at Burnie’salbum. Check out the video.
Click here to buy Weekend at Burnie’s.
This video does a good job of showing how DJ Jazzy Jeff and Skillz get down when they throw a party (but the mixtape is even better).
Check out the video and the mixtape of their full set is below. DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mad Skillz – Live in the mix Click here to download the mixtape
Rapsody got her turn on Toca Tuesday Freestyles and she ripped it.
She went in on the beat Primo did for EDO.G, held it down for the state of NC and paid hommage to her brothers in rap and residence: Little Brother.
Ice Cube’s Behind the Music drops tomorrow. Here’s a sneak preview.
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Curren$y has the rare good fortune to be working 2 dope projects at the same time.
Smoke Break is not from his new Weekend at Burnie’s album, but it’s from the Covert Coup project he recently dropped with The Alchemist. Check out the video.
Here’s a super low-budget but engaging video from Chuuwee…all done in one take.
Check out This One is for You.
Here’s the latest from Kendrick Lamar’s Section 80 project. Tammy’s Song (Her Evils) is a cautionary tale about love gone bad.
Check out the video. Section 80 drops on 7/2.
El Prez’s Steady Mobbin’ is not a remake of Ice Cube’s classic, but he does kick verses about self-empowerment and a corrupt system–much like vintage Cube.
Check it out. Click here to download. And, here’s some of that vintage Cube.
Missy Elliott has always been one to push the boundaries of hip-hop and pop culture, generally.
She has been a pioneer musically and visually for nearly 15 years and she is the only female MC to have 6 platinum albums. Vh1 recently did a Behind the
Here’s a new video from Curren$y ft Young Roddy and Trademark Da Skydiver.
Check out Still. Curren$y’s Weekend at Burnie’s album is in stores now. Click here to buy it.
Mmm, mmm, mmm. Check out this documentary on Big Daddy Kane.
This is the latest installment of TV One’s Unsung series. And, click here if you missed our Back in the Day mix. It features lots of Kane and his contemporaries.
Here’s a new video from J Dilla’s 2006 Donuts project and it’s pretty awesome.
It’s a submission from a contest Stones Throw, Jay Dee’s label, is doing as part of their 15th anniversary celebration. With Dilla passing the same year of Donuts’ release, the