Brooklyn, NY’s Rotating Gallery “Meat ‘n Potatoes” is now online featuring work from Sean Stewart, Shane Lavalette, Bob Celii, Gina Clyne, Sydney Shen, Jessica Williams, and Katie Armstrong.

Dedicated to Japan’s rackgaki (graffiti) scene, this book illustrates the work of major graffiti artists working in Japan today. It showcases the creativity that lies within this new and relatively unexplored form of contemporary Japanese art. Includes a DVD.

This thing is pretty funny. Make your own here

Check out the dope first single from Robust’s forthcoming sophmore release of the same name “El Foto Grande” (mp3). The album is produced by LA veteran Mike Gao (Mestizo, Qwel, 2Mex, Offwhyte) alongside newcomer Nick Sena. Look for El Foto Grande in stores July 24th!

Check out Muchmusic’s program Going Coastal this Sunday (June 24th) at 10pm Manitoba time for an interview with our Gorilla suit wearing Winnipeg homies DJ Hunnicutt & DJ Co-op.

You don’t know Canadian rap unless you know who Chaps is. Here he shows you how to bowl hip hop style; don’t sweat the technique. (read more)

Check out the dope new 100% Canadian Rap mp3 blog Living Underwater, by Birdapres, Fritz tha Cat, and DJ Moves. “Let us know what you want to hear… hdv? maestro? eq? hip club groove? dream warriors? old stuff, new stuff, commercial, underground, unreleased, demos, whatever… we’ll get it up here if it’s rap music from canada…”

Now more than ever, a full fledged rap superstar. Check here for some more pics of his forthcoming shoe.

Issue 40 of Arkitip is now up for sale on their site. The main feature is homeboy Ricky Powell and his wonderful photos of all that is New York. The issue comes packaged with Ricky’s Italian Espresso Coffee Blend (Makes 10, 12 cups of coffee), produced exclusively for this edition of Arkitip. Hand packaged & numbered ltd. edition of 1500.

Joe Dub’s new album on Side Road Records drops in July. Produced by Factor and featuring Awol One, Ellay Khule, Kirby Dominant, Matre, Mestizo, Nolto, Cam the Wizzard, Kay the Aquanaut, Topic, DJ Marz, and Weez-L. Look for Joe on tour this summer, including performing at this years Summer Fling hip hop + art festival in Saskatoon.

01. hired hands
02. mic theatre
03. ask marz (w/ dj marz)
04. day dream (w/ kay the aquanaut & topic)
05. closed mouths don’t get fed (w/ ellay khule & awol one)
06. glen park revisited
07. duke ellington (w/ mestizo)
08. autobiographical (soul w/ cam the wizzard & kay the aquanaut)
09. baghdad by the bay
10. canadian summer (w/ kirby dominant, matre & weez-l
11. worst way
12. live in ‘75
13. voice mail w/ nolto