Music, Videos, Photos, & plenty of words about stuff we like.
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BLU! This cat is dope (shout out to Exile) and if you don’t know this by now, let us try and help. Listen here as Blu introduces his “On The Record” playlist, but you must have an imeem account. You can hit him up on his MySpace and/or download some tracks here. Then check out episode 2 of Crash TV’s “Not Just A Hobby” featuring Pacific Division as they tear it up freestyle on the rooftop.
While another Valentine’s day is behind us (thank God), its not too late to enjoy the latest sketch bit from It’s The Real with their “Ode to Valentine’s Day: Dedicated to the One I Thug Love.” I laughed, personally.
More V-Day video goodness with this throwback to the 1997 when D’angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Ali Shaheed, & ?uestlove lay it out down on the Chris Rock show. Those.. were.. the.. days..
More from Crash TV in the memory of the late great J Dilla. <a href=”
http://www.uber.com/mypage/?entity_id=243604452&flyer_id=156″ target=”blank”>Watch the clip that highlights the artists that Dilla produced and the movement that he was responsible for … TURN IT UP! Then read this swipe where D12’s Mr. Porter describes introducing Dilla to Dr. Dre. Memories..
What the heck happened in Olympia last night at a dead prez show. Oh damn! (props to Nahright)
Check out our boy Deka’s portraits of Common, Kweli, and Mos Def that were commissioned by NFL player Alan Branch. Deka hails from Brownsville Brooklyn and is currently making a film called “From The Hood To The Woods” documenting his adventures in snowboarding. Check out his one-of-a-kind custom Big Daddy Kane board. Say word.
Wrapping up our post pre-Grammy Jam coverage, we’ve got these three gorgeous moments featuring Seal, Jack Davey, & Corinne Bailey Rae from our party in L.A. captured by the lovely Soulsol. Then settle in for this 9 minute video of Bilal wildin’.
Jean Grae is taking questions about “love and relationship” over at HipHopDX (that should be interesting) and we are posting more sssslusive stills from the “Love Thirst” video… coming soon.
Speaking of ssslusive, MySpace has got it with the early album preview of Nicolay & Kay’s TIME:LINE, in stores this coming Tuesday.
Before we head into the weekend, let us leave you with two joints well worth checking out in our Now Hear This! First up, Droppin’ Science, every crate-digger’s dream. Blue Note has carefully selected some of their most treasured works, reviving the jazz, funk and soul greats who gave the legendary label their trademark sound. Take a listen to cuts from Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, and David Axelrod and David McCullum among many others and then make sure to cop, this one is in stores now!
Finally, we’ve got Pete Rock’s newest effort NY’s Finest which drops Feb. 26th. Peep our NHT page and listen to his single “Till I Retire,” look at some pics, watch the EPK video (featuring Kanye West, Just Blaze, Pharrell, Timbaland, and more), and hit up Pete’s page on MySpace.
-dantana