Ladies and gentlemen, the face of New York rap today. Take it or leave it.
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Lupe over Neptunes beats is always a good look and this has a nice breezy, sipping a brew on your spaceship kinda vibe. We haven’t posted about him in a minute, but dude might be a strong candidate for GOAT in a few years, with the ways he’s going.
You got that Enemy of [...]

?uestlove presents rare footage of RZA’s screen test for Parks and Recreation. Wu-Tang forever.

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For those unfamiliar with the Suite for Ma Dukes project, Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson reinterpreted four J Dilla songs with a full orchestra and released their work as an EP in February 2009.
VTech and Mochilla put on a show in2009 featuring a [...]

Some very trippy imagery for Jay-Z’s newest video.
via DDotOmen.com

Black Milk plans on releasing three albums in 2010. Random Axe, his collaboration with Sean Price and Guilty Simpson; Searching for Sanity with singer Melanie Rutherford; and Album of the Year, his next solo album.
He previews material from all three in this video.

We reign all year round, from June to June/my raps bite immediately, if not soon

A stellar noir-styled video for one of my favourite songs of the year. Directed by Jimmy Giambrone.
We previously posted this album in June, appropriately enough. You can still cop it at that link.
Download: 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers – High Noon

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Here’s the video for the only listenable song on the Triple C’s album. Triple C’s is a group comprised of Rick Ross and his goon squad. This song has a cool West Coast vibe and a worthwhile Game verse and the video has some great action shots of Rawse’s beard.
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Up and coming rapper Koncrete just sent me this video he shot for his new song Exhibit K (a remix of Jay Electronica’s Exhibit B). He’s a fellow DMV person and a rapper that is definitely worth discovering. He sounds a bit like Big Pun, but with a heavy [...]

For a little context, Javelin are a Brooklyn based hip-hop instrumental group that makes incredible summery jams out of samples and keyboards. Their self-released album Jamz & Jemz is one of the best things I’ve heard all year. This video captures Ohio rapper Stalley and ML-fave Curren$y rocking over the Javelin track “Susie Cues”.
Hip-hop [...]