Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All

Tyler The Creator - N.E.R.D.'s Inside Of Clouds (Verse Remix).  Click here to download.


Tyler, The Creator Feat. Earl Sweatshirt - AssMilk.  My homie Travis says OFWGKTA on your asses.

B.O.B's response to Tyler, The Creator "Yonkers" here.

Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All

New Music Video For B.o.B's "Dr. Aden" Off His "No Genre" Mixtape

B.o.B. - Dr. Aden (Via.)

New Music Video For B.o.B's "Dr. Aden" Off His "No Genre" Mixtape

New J. Cole - Nothing Like It (Ustream Kanye West Instrumental Freestyle) + J. Cole x B.o.B + J. Cole x Wale x Melanie Fiona LIVE + J. Cole House of Blues Freestyle!

 (Via.)

Album art and title coming soon. . .

J. Cole - Nothing Like It.  Kanye West instrumental.


B.o.B Feat. J. Cole - Gladiators.


B.o.B & J. Cole in the studio making Heat!! (Via.)


J. Cole Feat. B.o.B - Pass Me By.


J. Cole x Wale x Melanie Fiona - Beautiful Bliss (Live). (Via.)


J. Cole freestyles into "Before I'm Gone" at HOB Sunset (Via.)

. . . Cole World!i
 

New J. Cole - Nothing Like It (Ustream Kanye West Instrumental Freestyle) + J. Cole x B.o.B + J. Cole x Wale x Melanie Fiona LIVE + J. Cole House of Blues Freestyle!

Check It. . .

My computer is out of commission so (for example) I just now saw I missed B.o.B's No Genre.  Doing what I can.  Dig it below, yo!

Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang is (now officially completed, but still) coming next year from Rae Allah: this is a track produced by one of my favorites, Bronze Nazareth.

Raekwon - Butter Knives - Shoalin Vs Wu-Tang [HD].

The Dr. Dre cosign is a good look sure, but with Ski Beatz calling for a collab I get excited on a different level.

Ski Beatz: "I want to work with J.Cole" (Via).  Oh & Ski Beatz is from Nawth Cackalack?  Worrrd.

...wondering what happened to Raaaaandy's mixtape?

Raaaaaaaandy-Dave Sitek Mixtape: Booty Blog #1 (Via).

Check It. . .

Magic

It's no Pinkerton, but . . .

B.o.B - Magic ft. Rivers Cuomo [Official Music Video].


Weezer - Pink Triangle.

Magic

Tightrope (Wondamix) Music Video

Tightrope (Wondamix) ft. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco

Janelle Monae | MySpace Music Videos (Via Atlantic Street.)

Tightrope (Wondamix) Music Video

Janelle Monae x B.o.B x Lupe Fiasco ! ! ! (AND B.o.B covers MGMT) ! ! !

Janelle Monáe Feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco “Tightrope (Wondamix)” ...

(Via Rap Radar.)

Click here to download.

Janelle Monae Feat. B.o.B & Lupe Fiasco - Tightrope (Wondamix) by The People's Poseur

(Via Underground Junkie.)

Click here to download.

B.o.B - "Kids (Live Lounge MGMT Cover)" by The People's Poseur

Janelle Monae x B.o.B x Lupe Fiasco ! ! ! (AND B.o.B covers MGMT) ! ! !

Two Totally Unrelated Music Videos

Wait, is hip hop dead?

"Hip Hop Ain't Dead (The Future)" by B.o.B, yo.


"Quand Est-ce Qu'on Arrive?" by Balkan Beat Box.

Two Totally Unrelated Music Videos

New Lupe Fiasco Music Video

NEW LUPE FIASCO . . .

"I'm Beamin'" by Lupe Fiasco off the upcoming Lasers, which doesn't yet have a release date (Via Rap Radar).

You can also check out the official music video for "Solar Midnite" by Lupe Fiasco here (which I'm not embedding because 1. it's for a Twilight movie, which I'm not down with and 2. embedding is disabled, but mainly reason #1 . . .).


"Horn Synth [Snippet]" by Lupe Fiasco Feat. Pharrell (No Video).

CRS (Child Rebel Soldier)? (Click here for more info).

     It shouldn’t be that surprising, but it still was: if you don’t get to a college hip-hop show on time it’s pretty much a given that you will miss the first act.  (I missed Kid Cudi when he opened for N.E.R.D. at Duke a couple weeks ago as well.)

     And with a first act like the up-and-coming B.o.B, a.k.a. Bobby Ray, the multi-instrumentalist signed to T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records who raps, sings and produces most of his own music, it’s truly tragic.

     I did manage to make it in time to hear the last riffs of B.o.B’s guitar-playing fade out.  In time for that and in time to wait industry-accepted interminable amount of time before Lupe Fiasco came out at UNC-Charlotte’s Halton Arena last Friday.

     Fiasco was backed-up by a guitarist straight out of the ‘80s, who never missed an opportunity to solo, by a heavy-set drummer, by a DJ – who was pretty mediocre for a hip-hop show that cost the general public $40 – and featured a bassist from another group on some songs.

     Fiasco is a tireless performer (having only heard "Kick, Push" when I saw him perform at Bonnaroo in 2008, his indefatigable performance of songs such as "Hip Hop Saved My Life (Feat. Nikki Jean)" made me a fan) who may yet earn the title of “hardest working man in hip-hop.”

     Not satisfied with simply playing songs from his first two studio records, Food & Liquor (2006) and The Cool (2007), or with debuting songs from his upcoming Lasers (2010), Fiasco also performed songs from his recent mixtape (download available here) Enemy of the State (2009), as well as his verses from the N.E.R.D. song (watch/listen here) “Everyone Nose (remix)” off the album Seeing Sounds (2008), which features hip-hop supergroup Child Rebel Soldier (comprised of Fiasco, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes).

     Fiasco brings a punk-rock ethos to his performance and, unlike many other performers, he made use of his hype man, who also doubled as his DJ at this performance, to enhance his entertainment value, rather than utilizing him so he could catch his own breath.

     If Fiasco’s hyper-lyricism doesn’t do it for you, do yourself a favor and wait until you see a live show before dismissing this Chicago emcee.

     Short shows and a whole bunch of white kids: college hip-hop.

(Content originally written for The Daily Tar Heel Diversions Blog, but unpublished.)

New Lupe Fiasco Music Video

Out Now: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray

Out Now: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray

Steppin' Lasers

Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B will be performing at UNC-Charlotte tomorrow night.  I saw Lupe at Bonnaroo in 2008 and he was one of the best performers I have ever seen.  We got Wale, J. Cole, & Janelle Monáe here at UNC-Chapel Hill, but (mea culpa) I didn't know who two out of three were at the time . . .

[UPDATE] Click here for "New Lupe Fiasco Music Video" and read my review of the show.

Steppin' Lasers

". . .Who Got Laid Off, I Take My Shades Off/ If You Look Straight In My Eyes, You Still Might See A Disguise. . ."

Janelle Monáe.  Andre 3K, Big Boi, B.o.B/Bobby Ray, Janelle Monáe, Freaknik, Rockstar x Adult Swim: ATL.


Dope-a-licious.

"Tightrope" music video Ft. Big Boi here.

"Whatever Floats Your Boat, Or Finds Your Lost Remote. . ."

". . .Who Got Laid Off, I Take My Shades Off/ If You Look Straight In My Eyes, You Still Might See A Disguise. . ."