Moving pictures visual to Kanye West’s “Heartless” single, directed by the one and only Hype Williams. Has a weird vector animation thing going that I’m not sure I dig. An E for effort though.
Q-Tip has teamed up with streetwear label Absurd to release this limited edition “The Renaissance” tee in celebration of his new album which came out last week. If you haven’t picked it up yet you need to as Tip is back in full effect. Peep here for more info.
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Prime Cut: Kanye West releases yet another track off his forthcoming R&B-tinged 808s & Heartbreak album. Digging the beat, but Kanye lay off the vocoder man.
Now here is the brand new full-length trailer for Notorious that goes more into the plot and characters including a good look at the characters of Puffy, Faith Evans, Tupac and Lil Kim.
Psycho Les and an alien introducing The Beatnuts’ new album, UFO Files - Unreleased Joints on Pit Fight Entertainment, available now online and at stores. I wonder if they got a Kurious track on there.
Nifty little video for Torae’s “Switch” produced by on-fire producer Black Milk. The video alludes to a lot of classic hip hop videos including the computer window stylings of the ATCQ/LONS “Scenario” video directed by Spike Lee.
Sha Money XL Says Eminem's Return Called The Empack
Is he trying to say the word “impact” with that title? Kind of strange. Either way it will be Eminem’s first solo release since 2004’s Encore. (Full disclosure: I’m an Eminem fanboy.)
Cover to Q-Tip’s The Renaissance due November 4th. Let’s hope it’s not underrated like his debut solo Amplified.
The master at work. Kanye West and GLC take us in studio for the creation of “Big Screen”.
The cover to Black Milk’s Tronic due October 28th on Fat Beats Records. The kid is the second coming of J Dilla.
Killah Priest and Chief Kamachi’s Beautiful Minds is due September 23rd from Traffic Entertainment/Good Hands. The second tier Wu-Tang members seem to be stepping back into it. Hell Razah just released his solo last week.
Moving pictures video for the song “Shutterbuggin’” from the Buck 65 album Situation. Damn, I love this dude’s delivery. A dry drawl, but with enough substance to keep it moving.
On a side note, why are Canadians killing us in the inventive rapper’s realm?
“ When I told [Biggie] I was just making it for myself, he immediately wanted it. I said sure, but didn’t think much of it. Then, next thing I know, I heard it playing somewhere. I’m over it now though.
Pete Rock on not receiving production credit for Biggie’s Juicy.
The first teaser trailer for the Biggie Smalls bio pic Notorious. Looks pretty damn legit. What do you guys think?
