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Archive for March, 2008

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Blu & Exile – “Blu Collar Workers” [Video]

Blu & Exile – “Blu Collar Wo...

Brand new video for “Blu Collar Workers” from Blu & Exile’s debut album, Below the Heavens.

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WHY? – “Song of the Sad Assassin” [video]

WHY? – “Song of the Sad Assassin&...

Cool animated music video for “Song of the Sad Assassin” from WHY?’s new album Alopecia. Directed and animated by Mike ...

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The Knux – “Cappuccino”

The Knux – “Cappuccino”

Music video for The Knux – “Cappuccino”.

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Friday Five On It – Mar 21, 2008

Friday Five On It – Mar 21, 2008

Korg + Nintendo, Stealing Beauty in Ikea [video], Atmosphere - “Shoulda Known” [video], Toronto Hip-Hop’s Bad Rap, and ABC-3D Pop Up Book.

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Lupe Fiasco – “Hip Hop Saved My Life” [video]

Lupe Fiasco – “Hip Hop Saved My L...

Video For Lupe Fiasco “Hip Hop Saved My Life” Featuring Nikki Jean. From Lupe Fiasco Presents The Cool.

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Serengeti – “Margot” [video]

Serengeti – “Margot” [video...

Recently surfaced music video for “Margot” from Serengeti’s Gasoline Rainbows album, which was released back in 2006 on MF Grimm’s ...

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Look Daggers (2Mex & Ikey Owens ) – Suffer in Style

Look Daggers (2Mex & Ikey Owens ) –...

Look Daggers is a collaboration between 2Mex and keyboardist Ikey Owens (The Mars Volta, Free Moral Agents). Their debut full-length Suffer in Style drops a week from today, March 25th, on Up Above Records. The duo is backed by a full band and guests on the album include Daedelus, Existereo, and many more.

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Del on Freestyle 101

Del on Freestyle 101

Del The Funky Homosapien is featured on the latest episode of G4tv’s Freestyle 101.

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Serengeti

Serengeti

It has been almost a year since the last time I interviewed Dave Seregenti, and a lot has happened in that time. The man has since released two amazing albums, including Dennehy (Lights, Camera, Action!), which was just released on iTunes & Emusic. He also has at least a half-dozen new projects in the works, which will begin to drop this summer.

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Sole – Desert Eagle Volume One (pre-order)

Sole – Desert Eagle Volume One (pre-ord...

Crafted this summer in the mountain deserts of rimrock, AZ, sole's latest solo release Desert Eagle is available for pre-order from soleone.org and will ship on march 22nd (in commemoration of the Jamestown Massacre). Tracks from the album can be previewed on sole's myspace.

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Legends of Rap, Trading Card Deck

Legends of Rap, Trading Card Deck

Set of trading cards featuring 32 pioneers from the early days of hip hop. Really cool looking illustrations on heavy quality, full color illustrated cards complete with bios and discographies.

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Friday Five On It – Mar 14, 2008

Friday Five On It – Mar 14, 2008

Atmosphere TV Show, Saul Williams + Nike, Erykah Badu Speaks on Her Producers, The Word, and The Onion Movie trailer.

Living Legends – The Gathering
Living Legends – The Gathering

Living Legends – The Gathering

New EP featuring the entire Living Legends crew is set for release on Legendary Music, April 8th. Each song on this new EP features every single MC on every single track, and it is definitely the most well crafted batch since their inception. Check out the video for the first single "That Looks Good."

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New Atmosphere Album Pre-Sale

New Atmosphere Album Pre-Sale

Strange Famous Records has a pre-sale for the new Atmosphere album, When Life Gives You Lemons... Choose between a "no-gimmicks" edition and a limited deluxe edition (Includes: 40 page gold embossed hard cover book featuring an illustrated children’s story written by Slug and a bonus DVD with over an hour of live footage and extras). The new album ships April 22.

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Bash Bros & Scarub (Living Legends)

Bash Bros & Scarub (Living Legends)

West Coast Heavyweights Bash Bros. & Afroclassics (Scarub of Living Legends & Very) have teamed up with DJ Icewater to ...

The Grouch – Show You the World, in stores April 8th
The Grouch – Show You the World, in stores April 8th

The Grouch – Show You the World, in sto...

Almost three years in the making, Show You the World, the Grouch's first solo record in five year is slated to drop Aril 8th on Legendary Music. The 15-track album features guest appearances from Raphael Saadiq, MURS, Mike Marshall (Timex Social Club), Abstract Rude, Marty James (One Block Radius) and fellow Living Legends members Bicasso and Scarub.

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Mindbender – “Blame Canada” [video]

Mindbender – “Blame Canada”...

Mindbender performing “Blame Canada” from his new acapella album Invisible Rhythm Showcase. Filmed at The Opera House, Toronto.

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Bleubird – Live in Tokyo [video]

Bleubird – Live in Tokyo [video]

Video of Bleubird performing Sign One’s “Concrete” followed by a freestyle at the end. Filmed in Shibuya Tokyo at O-Nest, ...

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Off Centre DJ School

Off Centre DJ School

Video feature on Toronto's Off Centre DJ School, featuring it's founder Steptone, who is also one half of the turntable band iNSiDEaMiND.

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Friday Five On It – Mar 7, 2008

Friday Five On It – Mar 7, 2008

Two New Mindbender Albums, Telephone Jim Jesus - "Birdstatic", History of Adidas, Antimc - Mush Records Mix, and The Roots - “Get Busy” (feat. Dice Raw, Peedi Crakk & DJ Jazzy Jeff).