August 2008
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“This is showing us first how time flies, and also how new blood is brought into...”
– KRS-One formally welcoming Soulja Boy to hip hop.
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“The sale is a great business decision, we are delighted. We look forward to...”
– Jay-Z officially announcing the sale of his 40/40 Club located at the Palazzo Casino in Las Vegas for an undisclosed sum.
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WatchThis is major. An hour-long documentary on the creation of Reasonable Doubt that includes interviews with Mary J. Blige, Ski, Irv Gotti, DJ Premier, Foxy Brown, and the Jigga man. Jay gets in deep with explaining the meaning behind his lyrics showing why he is one of our greatest lyricists. Hope this becomes an ongoing series on classic hip hop albums as we need some sort of oral history for these...
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WatchThe moving pictures video to Common’s “Announcement (featuring Pharrell)” off his soon to be released album Invincible Summer. Damn, those Dr. Dre Beats headphones are making an appearance in almost every video. Hope there’s a nice cut for the product placement.
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“This project allows me to voice and magnify the all too often ignored opinions...”
– Mr. Lif on digitally releasing one to two singles every week culminating in an album, titled I Heard It Today, to be released January 20, 2009, the day of the next American President’s inauguration.
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Rakim Inks Deal, Preps First Solo Album In A... →
About damn time.
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WatchAfter having a bootlegged debut months ago when it was recorded off a screen at a special event for the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s ©MURAKAMI exhibit, the official video for Kanye West’s “Good Morning” has been released. It’s drawn and directed by world renown Japanese artist Takashi Murakami who also designed the Graduation album cover. Arigato.
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“It was a song that Kanye and I had done first; me featuring Kanye. An idea had...”
– T.I. discussing the “S.L.U. (Swagger Like Us)” track that got leaked onto the internet on Friday.
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WatchIt’s not too often that you get a chance to eavesdrop on an artist and producer candidly discussing a yet to be released album. Especially when it’s the likes of Mos Def and Kanye West talking about the final Black Star album, but homeboy Consequence gives us that access via this video blog. It’s not a lot of info, though Mos Def definitely has an idea of who he wants to produce...
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Prime Cut: Hands down one of the dopest collabo...
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Tastes Like Selling Out? Mountain Dew Launches... →
The Cool Kids defend their decision of releasing the new track “Delivery Man” via Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound.
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Prime Cut: Today’s track is a bittersweet...
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“I’ve been playing this shit since you was in diapers. You was 3 years old when...”
– The Game accepting Bow Wow’s $100,000 Madden challenge.
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WatchAfter his amazing collaboration with The Game on “Dope Boyz”, Travis Barker continues his foray into the hip-hop world by partnering up with soon to be rap superstar Wale. This is in studio footage of both of them working on a Wale album cut, “G Told Me”.
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“The music was way more grounded than it is today. Today, you don’t feel...”
– Method Man speaking about hip-hop and rap in the early 90s.
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WatchI haven’t seen him for a minute, but Copywrite reappears with a lo-fi music video, “Money for Nothing”, looking like something out of Bum Fights. He had some great potential in the early part of the decade, but has slowly been fading away. It’s sad really as he is ferocious on the mic and this video proves it.
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A cover of the Notorious...
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WatchAlwaysHustle.com caught up with Murs and 9th wonder at a recent promo video shoot for Murs For President.
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Prime Cut: Comes from super producer...
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The Album Cover Is Dead? →
Peter Saville who designed iconic album covers for New Order, Joy Division, Pulp and Suede thinks so.
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“This looks like a lazy or medically incapacitated individual duping his most...”
– From “An Open Letter To MF Doom,” written by The Cunninlynguists’ DJ Kno. The entire letter can be read here.
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Prime Cut: Boston supergroup The Perceptionists...
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“I’m on a mission to restore it to the community that gave birth to it and...”
– L. Londell McMillan, the new co-owner of The Source which is about to celebrate it’s 20th anniversary.
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Michael Phelps' iPod →
Olympics swimming god Michael Phelps, with six gold medals and counting, is seen sporting iPod earbuds before each race. But what’s he listening to? Eminem, G-Unit, Outkast and a lot more rap and hip hop.
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