Hip-Hop
3D Na’Tee | What We Do T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #010 (Video)
September 24, 2018
RAW! One of the best freestyling beats to rip over. When Na’Tee touched that Freeway beat with this rhyme though… What she do is RIGHT! It can’t get no righter #WordToChrisTuckerMF
And LOOK: He gave her the cosign to do this joint!!!
– @ojones1
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Tags: 3D NaTee, 3DNaTee, MME, Monday Morning Exercise, Natee, T-Mix, What We Do T.Mix | 
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Too $hort – “Go $hort Dog” (Video)
September 21, 2018
Been ballin. Been a pimp. Been swimmin’ in ya main women… and still has had time to drop a few platinum plates to date. Been a wild ride for Too $hort, and he ain’t done yet. Well, “Go $hort Dog” (get ’em)!! Off “The Pimp Tape.”
Look at the ‘scrapbook’ in this vid though. Wow. Just. Wow.
TOO $HORT – THE PIMP TAPE (ALBUM)
– @ojones1
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Go $hort Dog, Go Short Dog, The Pimp Tape, Too $hort, Too Short | No Comments »
Chip – “Fire In The Booth†(4th Freestyle) [Video]
September 21, 2018
Been keeping an eye on the ‘Fire In The Booth’ freestyles since Drake blessed that. Looks like Charlie Sloth got more fire, more fire, mo’ fi-yaaah! Apparently, this is far from the first time that Chip has been there. Shows. This one’s pretty dope.
Chip’s 4th Fire in the Booth with Charlie Sloth on Radio 1 & 1Xtra.
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 1Xtra, BBC, BBC 1Xtra, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, Charlie Sloth, Chip, Chipmunk, Fire In The Booth, Jahmaal Fyffe, Radio 1 | No Comments »
The Miami Style Gods Speak On The Rush And The Danger Of Doing Street Grafitti In Miami (Documentary)
September 20, 2018
Wow. Right from the start, the dude calls his graf ‘vandalism’… NOT art. But still seems driven about it. Real out there in the streets about the spray game; folks can get shot for real (or worse). VICE investigates.
All across Miami, you’ll find countless tags done by MSG—the Miami Style Gods, a graffiti crew that’s been around since the early 90s. And two decades later, they’re still bombing as many walls, highway signs, bridges, billboards, and abandoned buildings as they can find.
VICE met up with members of the crew—who believe their trade is vandalism, not art—to find out why they’re so dedicated to a trade that makes no money and is often dangerous, from altercations with the cops to dangling over busy highways.
– VICE SPECIALS
And this is about more than graf, though that is life to these guys; it’s life in the streets.
Posted in Art, Film, Hip-Hop, Human Interest, Investigation, Lifestyle, News, Videos | Tags: BOMBING, florida, Graffiti, Graffiti Godfathers of Miami, Miami, MIAMI STYLE GODS, MSG, TAGGING, The Graffiti Godfathers of Miami, VANDALISM, VICE, VICE Specials, WYNWOOD | No Comments »
Jay Electronica x Yasiin Bey – “Exhibit A” (Remix) [Live Performance] (Video)
September 20, 2018
If you are a true Hip-Hop head, to say Jay Electronica and Yasiin Bey performed together is enough. So that’s all we’re saying. In case you are not [yet] a head… go ask someone who is to join you as you watch this.
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: All Grind Entertainment, Exhibit A, Exhibit A Remix, Jay Electronica, mos def, Sony Hall, Yasiin Bey | No Comments »
Listen To DJ Statik Selektah’s “Tribute To Mac Miller” (Audio)
September 20, 2018
Man. This is an awesome share (and kind of a tearjerker). Statik Selektah knew Mac Miller… pretty much from jump. Check out what he just put out in Miller’s honor and memory. Reflect and remember; maybe learn something new about dude. Celebrate Mac Miller’s life #RIPMacMiller
Posted in Hip-Hop, Interview, Podcast, Radio, Throwback | Tags: A Tribute To Mac Miller, DJ Statik Seletah, Live On Shade 45, Mac Miller, RIP Mac Miller, Shade 45, Statik Selektah | No Comments »
Dave East x Styles P – “Feels Good” feat. Kehlani
September 19, 2018
Soul ain’t for sale. Ain’t none of these n!ggas buying me.
Dave East & Styles P get down on a track again. And do the work right! And the result… It “Feels Good” (track featuring Kehlani on the hook).
– @ojones1
Smif N Wessun – “Let It Go” (Prod. By 9th Wonder)
September 19, 2018
Recognize you f**king with some grown a** mans!
Any thought you had of stepping to Smif N Wessun – because maybe you thought you thought they’d lost a step – “Let It Go” suckas. The Duckdown duo has still got it. And they are putting out music to let y’all know.
9th Wonder on the beat, too. Step off!
SMIF N WESSUN – LET IT GO (ITUNES)
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: 9th Wonder, Boot Camp, Boot Camp Clik, Duck Down, Duck Down Music, Duck Down Records, General Steele, LET IT GO, Smif N Wessun, Steele, Tek | 1 Comment »
T.I. – “Jefe” feat. Meek Mill (Video)
September 19, 2018
‘Jefe’ in English means ‘Boss.’ You knew that, right? And once you found out that T.I. and Meek Mill hopped on a track together with a title like that, you knew they ‘bossed’ up on it, right?
Well, they did!
(Do matadors walk out to a bullfight to music? Because they should consider this joint for an entrance theme if they do. Banger!)
– @ojones1
Apollo Brown x Joell Ortiz – “Timberlan’d Up” feat. Royce Da 5’9
September 19, 2018
From the forthcoming collabo LP from Apollo Brown & Joell Ortiz, “Mona Lisa” (due out October 26, 2018). This is a “Timberlan’d Up” (featuring Royce Da 5’9).
In my ears, this is what the painting Mona Lisa sounds like. The music is straightforward. That’s all I ask for when I’m the listener, so that’s all I give when I’m the creator. No bullsh!t. None. I provided the canvas, and Joell provided the honest brushstrokes. This album is a relatable body of work that everyone can listen to and appreciate. It’s growth within a gold frame. Open your ears and enjoy.â€
– Apollo Brown
APOLLO BROWN X JOELL ORTIZ – TIMBERLAN’D UP FEAT. ROYCE DA 5’9 | MONA LISA (PRE-ORDER)
Posted in Album, Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: Apollo Brown, Joell Ortiz, Mona Lisa, Royce Da 5'9, Timberlan'd Up | 5 Comments »
Styles P – “Block Fear” feat. Nino Man
September 18, 2018
Styles P is trying to tell y’all these rappers out here is TRASH! They ought to be scared when real emcees roll up the street. “Block Fear” (featuring Nino Man) manifested because the lyricism got ’em shook!
STYLES P – BLOCK FEAR FEAT. NINO MAN
– @ojones1
Fred The Godson x Joell Ortiz – “Talk Dat”
September 18, 2018
Iiiiiiit’s GORRRRDO and Joey O! Two venomous spittas on a dope track channeling that “Simon Sez” vibe. How much doper can it get?? Fred and Joell, please “Talk Dat” … and give ’em the Godzilla level lyricism, will you!
FRED THE GODSON X JOELL ORTIZ – TALK DAT
– @ojones1
Eminem – “Lucky You” feat. Joyner Lucas (Video)
September 18, 2018
Move out the way and let Joyner EAT! Oh, don’t feel like moving? Eminem… MOVE ON ‘EM! Now on the other hand, if you are an emcee that knows better and does better, “Lucky You.” Off Em’s latest album.
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Smif N Wessun (Video)
September 18, 2018
Not like they don’t belong on this forum. They do. Just did not expect to see them featured in their own Tiny Desk Concert. Very glad Smif-N-Wessun are though!
Brooklyn-bred Hip-Hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser. Their music, inspired by their gritty and pre-gentrified Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville neighborhoods, offers the vocabulary of veterans who survived the grimy streets. These original members of the Duck Down Records group Boot Camp Clik represent quintessential ’90s true-school Hip-Hop from the bedrock, when Timberland boots were standard issue. Backing Steele and Tek for the first time is D.C.’s own Black Alley band.
– Abby O’Neill, NPR Music
(That “One Time” they wrapped with sounds extra nice.)
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: ABBY O'NEILL, Boot Camp, Boot Camp Clik, Duck Down, Duck Down Records, General Steele, National Public Radio, NPR, NPR Music, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, Smif N Wessun, Steele, Tek, Tiny Desk, Tiny Desk Concert, Tiny Desk Concert Series | No Comments »
Nicki Minaj – “Barbie Dreams” (Video)
September 17, 2018
Holy moooooley!!!
Nicki Thicky put out another vid that will make you wanna quickie. Heard there was supposed to be some heat around some of the shots she tossed out in this video. Don’t know, and don’t care to follow up. Would rather spend that time and energy LOOKING at all that voluptuousness #Daaaayuummm #BarbieDreams #RIPBIGGIE
– @ojones1
Eminem – “KILLSHOT” (Machine Gun Kelly Diss Response)
September 17, 2018
Okay. It’s a response. Not sure how much longer this Eminem–MGK beef will go on. But I can say that both combatants fired shots and inflicted damage. Here’s the latest. Em calls it a “KILLSHOT.”
Could be. We’ll see…
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Music | Tags: BEEF, Eminem, Eminem Diss, Eminem esponse, KILLSHOT, Machine Gun Kelly, Machine Gun Kelly Diss, MGK | No Comments »
The Hoodies – “They Say” + “4, 3, 2, 1” (Freestyle) [Video]
September 17, 2018
Hard to kill off two n!ggas that’ll kill for each other!
Brothers gonna work it out! Still Hoodie season! Early!! Young Poppa and E-Class smash another freestyle. Easy work. At least they make it look that way. These brothers doing their thing always brings a smile to my soul… the part that still holds a place for real Hip-Hop. One time for The Culture!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Videos | Tags: 4 3 2 1, 4321, Bars On I-95, E-Class, Freestyle, Hoodie Season, Shade 45, The Hoodies, THEY SAY, They Say Freestyle, Young Poppa | No Comments »
3D Na’Tee | Wild Thoughts T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #011 (Video)
September 17, 2018
When DJ Khaled hollers, “WE THE BEST!” I wonder if he hopes that someone the lyrical caliber of Na’Tee will come behind his trackwork and let off a couple of shots. Skills + Sexy. Na’Tee gone “work you out like a Bowflex” and you will LOVE her for it #MondayMorningExercise
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 3D NaTee, 3DNaTee, MME, Monday Morning Exercise, Natee, T-Mix, Wild Thoughts T.Mix | No Comments »
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Mac Miller (RIP) [Video]
September 14, 2018
One more time for Mac Miller man. RIP to the young emcee we will sorely miss. He did leave us with a dope Tiny Desk Concert. Small comfort, but good stuff nonetheless.
Aug. 6, 2018 | There was a shift in Mac Miller’s boisterous demeanor as he started the third of his three-song Tiny Desk set. It’s the first time he’s performed tracks from his new album, Swimming, in front of an audience. On “2009,” he rubbed his chin with clenched eyes, looking like a young man who’s beginning to crack the code. Backed by a piano loop and a string quartet, he reflected on his journey’s peaks and valleys…
– NPR Music
Got Thundercat in there, too. Nice!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Joe Cleveland, Justus West, Kendall Lewis, Klynik, Lelia Walker, Mac Miller, Melanie Hsu, National Public Radio, NPR, NPR Music, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, RIP Mac Miller, Robin Fay-Massie, Thundercat, Tiny Desk Concert, Tiny Desk Concert Series, Tiny Desk Concerts, YaShauna Swan | No Comments »
Dublin | Freestyles On Flex (Video)
September 14, 2018
This cat Dublin spits hot FIYAAAH! Noticed that they did not number this ‘Freestyle On Flex‘ though. Wonder if that’s the way now. If it means more emcees featured, with more fire BARZ, I’m for it!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Dublin, Freestyles on Flex, Funk Flex, Funkmaster Flex, Hot 97 | No Comments »
