Album
MondayFriday – “Classmates” feat. Sean Emcee x Senor Kaos x Blctxt (Prod. By Illastrate)
Monday’s “Classmates” is dope! Features by Sean Emcee, Senor Kaos (shout out to the homie on the West Coast now) and Blctxt. Beat by Illastrate. This is actually a BONUS track that will NOT appear on the “Monday/Friday” project Monday is dropping today. But worry not, got ’em both linked.
MONDAY – CLASSMATES FEAT. SEAN EMCEE X SENOR KAOS X BLCTXT (PROD. BY ILLASTRATE) | MONDAY/FRIDAY
Dynasty – “After Laughter†(dSessions Remix) [Video]
Dynasty keeps doing it! Check out this dSessions remix and visual for her “After Laughterâ€Â – originally off the “A Star In Life’s Clothingâ€Â LP. Sweet!
DYNASTY – A STAR IN LIFE’S CLOTHING
– @ojones1
Cordell – “Downtown” (Prod. By Abo) [Video]
Respect to Free Onsmash for finding this gem. Check how Abo chopped and screwed the SWV sample into the track for the song aptly named “Downtown” (visuals above).
Everybody wants to go someplace where everyone knows your name, and in Cordell’s hometown of Harrisburg, PA that place is Downtown. Regardless of which hood you claim, everyone will cross paths Downtown in good spirits. Check out the first official video from Cordell’s “Seven7teen: A Love Story.”
– The Produce Section
Fabolous – “Gone For The Winter” feat. Velous (Video)
Head high, middle finger higher!
– Fabolous
Surely you don’t expect ‘Loso to stop going loco with the flows? No! And don’t think he is going to tone down being one of the coldest in the game out now. Not that either. What it is… visuals for “Gone For The Winter” (featuring Velous) for you to review and nod to. Off “The Young OG Project” (out now, linked below).
Dark gritty visuals. Watch.
Lauryn Hill Performs “Feeling Good” Live on ‘The Tonight Show’ (Video)
L Boogie sang that! You can admit it, once you watch. She was Jimmy Fallon’s guest on The Tonight Show – doing her tribute cover of “Feeling Good†(off the “Nina Revisited… A Tribute to Nina Simone” compilation) with a live band.
Joell Ortiz x !llmind – “Lil’ Piggies” (Video)
People take my kindness for weakness. I look at your kind and see weakness.
– Joell Ortiz
Dope visual for the single off the Ortiz x !llmind collabo LP “human.” Free stream project below of that below (got the iTunes link to cop if you want, too). But the dope video for “Lil’ Piggies”…check that out above.
Wowww… gotta love !llmind’s security… and him giving Joell the hit list at the table. Truthfully, !llmind’s credits are a hit list. We can add one more now. Enjoy!
R&B: Teedra Moses – “That One” feat. Anthony Hamilton (Video)
Did she say they played hide-and-go-get-it? Yoo, Teedra just don’t know. Whew! “That One” video (this one) for the lovely Teedra Moses is beautiful. Featuring Anthony Hamilton rounding out the single and playing one lucky son-of-a-gun in the visuals. Great vibe to this. Enjoy. Lookout for that “Cognac & Conversation” album dropping Friday, August 7, 2015, too.
Public Enemy – “No Sympathy From The Devil” (Video)
Yeah! Who’s still down with the P.E.? You reading this post, you’ve gotta say ‘ME!’ And here’s why – videos like this. Mista Chuck D not giving a what-the-f#ck spitting that fire! Check the imagery in case the lyrics about the ‘devil’ are not clear enough for you. This visual is for the single “No Sympathy For The Devil” off the Public Enemy LP “Man Plans God Laughs.”
SkyBlew – “The Weakness” (Prod. By Backdraft)
Still getting those banging beats from Backdraft, eh SkyBlew? Stilling putting dope lyrics to them, too. YEP! I see you, homie! Thanks for blessing with this leak, and now (drum roll) I pass that blessing on to the Hip-Hop faithful. This is the latest single from “Race For Your Life, SkyBlew” (out now, linked below) – “The Weakness.” Take a listen. North Carolina stand up!
– @ojones1
SKYBLEW – THE WEAKNESS (PROD. BY BACKDRAFT) | RACE FOR YOUR LIFE, SKYBLEW
Apollo Brown – “Detonate” feat. M.O.P.
In advance of the album “Grandeur” (due out September 25, 2015), Apollo Brown drops his first single “Detonate” (featuring M.O.P.).
“Detonate” displays the grandiose grit of high octane boom bap meets action flick energy. From Detroit to New York, not all that glitters is gold. Grandeur is coming 9.25.15.
Mos Def-initely: Kendrick Lamar Gets An Assist From Yasiin Bey For Live Performance Of “Alright” (Video)
Like the song said, we gone be Alright…we already Alright. However, turning up to it live with Kendrick Lamar made the Canadian crowd gathered more Alright. Now, what do you think happened to the “Alright” levels of the crowd when Yasiin Bey joined Kendrick onstage during his Osheaga 2015 festival performance of “Alright” (off the “To Pimp A Butterfly” album? Watch and see (and feel).
PREVIOUS: KENDRICK LAMAR – ALRIGHT (VIDEO) | TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY (ALBUM)
Potatohead People – “All The Way” (Instrumental)
Montreal’s (Quebec, Canadia) production duo Potatohead People (Nick Wisdom & AstroLogical) have an EP out entitled “Big Luxury Instrumentals, Remixes & B-Sides.” The latest single off the project is “All The Way.†Stream the fly instrumental below. Clickable links for the single and EP are there, too.
POTATOHEAD PEOPLE – ALL THE WAY | BIG LUXURY INSTRUMENTALS, REMIXES & B-SIDES (EP)
The Foreign Exchange – “Asking For A Friend” (Video)
In a word…WORK! FE checked all our boxes with this video. Cool groove music. Fun visuals featuring lovely ladies. Music on the way with a firm release date. What’s not to love?
“Asking For A Friend” is taken from the album “Tales From The Land Of Milk And Honey” dropping 8/21/2015 on +FE Music.
– Foreign Exchange
THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE – TALES FROM THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY (PRE-ORDER)
R&B: Miguel – “…goingtohell” (Video)
Yeah. Taking notes. So, next time baby wants to go somewhere sexy… telling her we’re going where Miguel goes. To the museum! Check him out checking out some fine art. FINE art. Sexy, slim masterpiece. Got to go in for a closer…’look.’
This is yet another hot one off the “Wildheart” album. You can get that where we linked it at (here).
Oddisee – “Belong To The World” (Video)
Never was the cool dude… never was the suave guy… more like the odd guy…
– Oddisee
One more from “The Good Fight” LP. Oddisee presents visuals for “Belong To The World.”
“Belong to the World” is a song about making a transition from feeling like I didn’t fit into anything, into understanding we belong to everything. It is a song about understanding that the world is bigger than the small things we want to be a part of.
– Oddisee
SkyBlew – “Race For Your Life, SkyBlew” (Album)
Haha! SkyBlew had the ‘Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown’ flipped for his cover art. Dope! Here is his latest album – entitled “Race For Your Life, SkyBlew.”
“Race For Your Life, SkyBlew” touches on a few things including: The human race, the race for our lives, the race for time, [some] of his personal stories, which he has NEVER spoken on in his music… Overall, he wants to INSPIRE with his message/story, to spread LOVE and PEACE!
– MegaRanMusic.com
Seeing the Bandcamp, and inferring a closeness from recent Facebook communications, SkyBlew appears to have a new ally in this Hip-Hop game. You know Mega Ran, right? Yup!
Enjoy this album now. And salivate as you ponder the possibility of a collabo in the future!
– @ojones1
R&B: The Weeknd – “Can’t Feel My Face” (Video)
New visuals from The Weeknd’s forthcoming LP “Beauty Behind The Madness” (due out August 28, 2015). This is for “Can’t Feel My Face” – one of the singles available for immediate download at the pre-order link.
R&B: Miguel – “N.W.A.” feat. Kurupt (Video)
Gangsta! Miguel doing his thing with even more edge. Kurupt The Kingpin in the ride for this one, too. Westside feel. Definitely R&B ish but Kurupt does not slack with the raps. Great visual vibe. Enjoy!
Capone-N-Noreaga – “U.M.A.R.†feat. Tragedy (Video)
A little over a week and we get visuals for the “U.M.A.R.” (featuring Tragedy). C.N.N. doing the w.o.r.k. in this biz. Keeping the momentum going for their “Lessons” LP (out now). Of course we got links below for you, of course!
SlaughterHouse – “R.N.S.” (Video)
Wooohhhoooo! Just Blaze AND AraabMuzik on a heavy bang-bang-BOOM-BOOM beat. The way is paved for the Slaughterhouse to do some “R.N.S.” (Real N!gga Sh!t) on the track.
‘R.N.S.’, from the Southpaw soundtrack, out now on iTunes. See Southpaw, in theaters July 24th.
VARIOUS ARTISTS – SOUTHPAW (MUSIC FROM AND INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE)





