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Styles P – “Ghost Dilla” feat. Fortes (Video)

New freestyle video from Holiday Styles a.k.a. Styles P and The Rapfest. He borrows the J. Dilla-produced “Red” for “Ghost Dilla” featuring Fortes.
– RapFest

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Sidney Max – “Angry Birds Friends: Here Come the Birds” feat. Dres (Prod. By DJ Premier) [Video]

Awwwww, this is beyond adorable! Blessed enough to have got on Dres’ (of Black Sheep) Facebook friend list, I caught wind of every tidbit of news on the development of this Sidney Max project. Sidney is Dres’ son; and Daddy’s got his boy coloring inside the Hip-Hop lines beautifully with this “Here Come the Birds” (produced by DJ Premier). This is wonderful on so many levels… You can’t debate it!

@ojones1

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Eye Candy: Tori Hughes (Video)

Okay, Oscar, get it together! Tori Hughes is all thick and sexy with it, definitely gorgeous beyond words. But a man’ll lose a woman if he cannot treat her right. So, with the Miguel music playing (nice), after I quickly consult Miguel’s video (here) for advice… I’M GOING IN!

Sure you can watch…this video of Tori.

MORE TORI HUGHES ON INSTAGRAM

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Police Brutality: Alex Landau’s Near Fatal Traffic Stop (Video)

Man, this ain’t the only work that StoryCorps is doing; but wow, capturing stories like these is so important! I can remember my late Grandma living across the street from a dear friend who had vivid memories of the earliest of Jim Crow times… but she NEVER spoke about it. When asked, she would quickly offer a monotone “we don’t talk about those times” response bereft of any emotional content. The truths and experiences that neighbor could have shared; but she didn’t want to. Respect shout to StoryCorps for giving a platform to those who want to share… in this case who NEED to share… even when the story is soooo AWFUL.

Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive White parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. But when Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in 2009, he lost his belief in a color-blind world — and nearly lost his life. Alex tells his mother, Patsy Hathaway, what happened that night and how it affects him to this day.

@ojones1

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Method Man – “Straight Gutta” feat. Redman x Hanz On x Streetlife (Prod. By Ron Browz) [Video]

Know how you heads are out here pining; hungry for that ’90s pure Golden Era boom-bap perfection? Okay, stop for a minute ’cause y’all are getting fed with this one! The excellence we came to expect from Meth & Red ain’t dead. And hope for the future… Hanz On and Streetlife are on this Ron Browz-produced banger doing the illest! Off the recently released to iTunes album, “The Meth Lab,” watch the visuals for the single “Straight Gutta” (aptly named)!

METHOD MAN – THE METH LAB

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Comedy: Craig Robinson Performs “Chocolate Muffins” (Video)

Baaahahaaa! Watch this. Craig Robinson a fool! Caught this online video of him performing “Chocolate Muffins” on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Hilarity! Watch out ladies: Craig The Bakerman is gonna stir y’all up with that wooden spoon…

@ojones1

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Styles P – “Energy” (Freestyle) [Video]

Styles P stairwelling and rooftopping it as he pops off bar after bar of heat in this hood video for his “Energy” freestyle. The Ghost goes in over the borrowed beat from Drizzy. Street lyrics paired well with visual delivery that is so gritty.

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Lexus Unveils It’s Brand New “Hoverboard” (Video)

Other hoverboard vids we’ve posted to date have been less than or different than what sci-fi has us expecting – like not that ‘real’ Marty McFly board we’ve been looking forward to. But this video is showing skateboarders riding and getting dumped, grinding rails and making jumps! Hey, if it walks, talks and squawks like a duck, it must be, right? Oh wait, this thing can ride across water??? Sh!t it can ‘hover’ like a duck? Incredible!

We’ve made the impossible, possible: The Lexus Hoverboard is here… The Lexus Hoverboard represents true innovation and imagination, together pushing the boundaries of technology even further.

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Dayne Jordan – “Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood” (Prod. By DJ Jazzy Jeff x James Poyser) [Video]

Dayne Jordan and Cristopher Schafer (for Visually Inklined) did the work for this visual for “Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood” from the “Memoirs of Dayne Jordan” LP. Incredible to suggest, with the title font and initial foreground images, that we were going to get a “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” video. But nah, this is Mr. Jordan’s neighborhood… sweet is balanced by bitterness – stoops and porches, dark alleys and overgrowth. Good heartfelt storytelling. Check it out above, and link back to an earlier post for the LP below.

DAYNE JORDAN – MEMOIRS OF DAYNE JORDAN

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Tame Impala – “Let It Happen” (Video)

Tame Impala with a video for “Let It Happen” that is… well, it’s kinda like… Look, you watch and figure out the heart attack, hallucinations, and talking sandwich stuff going on above. The single is from the Tame Impala album “Currents” (out now on iTunes).

TAME IMPALA – CURRENTS

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Gangrene – “Sheet Music” feat. Havoc x Sean Price (Video)

Respect and RIP shout to Sean Price. Check out this “Sheet Music” (featuring Havoc and Sean Price) video from Gangrene (Alchemist and Oh No). The single is on the Gangrene album “You Disgust Me” (out now).

ALBUM LINK (EARLIER POST): GANGRENE – YOU DISGUST ME
PREVIOUS (EARLIER POST): DONATE TO SUPPORT SEAN PRICE’S FAMILY

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R&B Legend “Marvin Gaye” Once Tried Out For The Detroit Lions (Video)

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: 1968 Detroit Lions standout (and eventual NFL Hall-Of-Famer) Lem Barney was out playing golf near R&B great Marvin Gaye’s house and was like ‘why not get his address and stop by and meet Marvin?’

No?

Well, we hadn’t heard of such either… or that Gaye (a sports fanatic as much as a Motown music phenom) had ambitions for the gridiron… until this ESPN segment. Wow! Watch above.

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Scarface – “Steer” feat. Rush Davis (Video)

Banging visuals (intense!) to further promote Scarface’s banging azz single “Steer” (featuring Rush Davis) – off his forthcoming album entitled “Deeply Rooted” (due out September 4, 2015). Linked below in an earlier post.

SCARFACE – STEER FEAT. RUSH DAVIS | DEEPLY ROOTED (ALBUM)

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Eye Candy: A Weekend At The Victorian House (Video)

Out there in the Dominican Republic, in the town of Sosua, there was this shoot at The Victorian House. Sounds royal, right? Well, I’m ready to share the crown with any or ALL the Honeyz in this video. Introducing my beautiful sun-kissed queens Lesa Nichole, Koi Grand, Sunny Monroe, Siamone Lauryn, Kaylia, Brini Colee… Yeah, it would be good to be the king over there in my D.R. getaway. Bet that up!

MORE LESA NICHOLE ON INSTAGRAM

MORE KOI GRAND ON INSTAGRAM

MORE SUNNY MONROE ON INSTAGRAM

MORE SIAMONE LAURYN ON INSTAGRAM

MORE KAYLIA ON INSTAGRAM

MORE BRINI COLEE ON INSTAGRAM

You’re welcome!

@ojones1

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Rapsody – “Don’t Need It” feat. Joey Bada$$ x Merna (Prod. By Young Guru) [Remix]

Imagine that dope Hip-Hop collab you’ve been wanting to hear… Quick, hit play above and close your eyes. Was it Rapsody & Joey Bada$$? Was it over one of those Young Guru beats with Merna spicing up them veges just right? Welp, that’s what’s on the menu; a tasty remix of Rapsody’s “Don’t Need It.”

RAPSODY – DON’T NEED IT FEAT. JOEY BADA$$ X MERNA (PROD. BY YOUNG GURU)

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DJ Khaled’s New Restaurant Is ‘Finga Lickin’ In Miami (Video)

Wow… DJ Khaled… his new restaurant… Finga Lickin… soul food… Miami style… the Best! Looks delicious. But saying he doesn’t know who Food Network’s Guy Fieri is; wonder if that was a shot or a tactic. No matter. Look at what’s coming out of the kitchen, maaaan!

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Krondon x Chase N Cashe – “Hang On” (Video)

Steel sharpens steel. That’s what the real say.
Krondon

Visuals for “Hang On” from the new EP “Green N Gold” from Krondon (aka KRNDN) and Chase N Cashe. The EP dropped on iTunes August 14, 2015. We linked it below in case you wanna jump on that after enjoying this.

KRONDON X CHASE N CASHE – GREEN N GOLD (EP)

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Talib Kweli – “F#ck The Money” (Album Stream)

How about that?! Talib Kweli went a step further with putting out his FREE “F#Ck The Money” LP for y’all. Now, instead of going to the site and joining (as we posted here), you can just stream the whole deal on SoundCloud (still a FREE download link there, too). You can stream that above (even easier). Linked below.

DOWNLOAD: TALIB KWELI – F#CK THE MONEY

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Aretha Franklin’s Unreleased Documentary ‘Amazing Grace’ (Trailer)

One of the most interesting things to come of the theatrical and commercial success of “Straight Outta Compton” is the explosion of discussions about the ‘next’ biopic. Some word has been floating about regarding a sequel to the N.W.A. biopic that focuses on Snoop and Tupac. Before that, there was substantial rumor mill grist generated by talk on a possible Public Enemy movie. Well… how about telling a story outside the rap genre? That TLC movie raised quite a ruckus, and that was a straight-to-cable work.

What say we consider a movie, more documentary-like, that was shot in 1972… edited and likely re-edited over the decades since… and set to surface at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival (running September 10th to 20th)? It was billed as a ‘gospel concert’ movie for Aretha Franklin – constructed with extensive footage captured while Re-Re recorded her “Amazing Grace” album. Check out what was to be the trailer in 2010 above.

We will all just have to wait on the new new version. The world will get it when Toronto does.

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Jay Rock – “90059” (Prod. By TaeBeast) [Video]

TDE going kinda ODB-meets-ADD-and-DVT (with all that ruckus rapping, all-day riding, and those pills they’re popping)! This visual for “90059” (produced by TaeBeast)… CRAZY… and that is an understatement. It’s a worthwhile viewing experience though. Go ‘head and click play to witness Jay Rock wildin’ out!

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