Blog: Beats & Bombs

This has become a hip-hop holiday tradition where Skillz schools us to the events that have happened this past year throughout the entertainment industry and pop culture. These things are cool because he puts his own hysterical spin on each and he always brings up subjects that I have already forgotten about by the year [...]

"I'm never gon' drink again...ever" For all the weed songs we get in rap it is nice to hear a drinking song to relate to and after the holidays this is the perfect video to remember all the drunken debauchery that took place during it (or you can choose not to watch if you want [...]

Lyriciss delivers a video full of cameos for his latest single called "Give 'Em A Show". A night in the life of Lyriciss, as he performs at Hustlepalooza DC at U Street Music Hall on October 26, 2010. Cameos from (in order of appearance): Hustle Simmons, Rockie Fresh, Uptown X.O. (of Diamond District), Nike Nando, [...]

Another awesome collaboration (the others being, unofficially and for Laker fans, "Purp & Yellow" and the official "Black & Yellow [G-Mix]") between not only one of the biggest legends and one of the best newcomers in the game, but also between the king and the prince of raps weed game.  Rumored to be off an untitled soundtrack to [...]

Gilbere Forbala gives us his latest offering from his 87 Dreams project and it is visually a great video. If you have ever been on an airplane it is safe to say you can relate to simple footage (probably from a phone) that captures the essence of traveling. Also the views of the sunrise/sunset are [...]

On Past, Present(s), Future (mixed by one of the greatest of all time, DJ Premier), Diggy lays down his new-school rhymes on the mixed beats of old-school classics, which, in turn, adds a new perspective to the classics and brings the tracks back into the public consciousness. Diggy goes in hard on his freestyles and proves [...]

The Brothers of Chico Dusty (Big Boi vs. The Black Keys) by wick-it Two of my favorite albums this year mashed on to an 8-track mixtape? Merry Christmas to me. Wick-It puts in the work to mix Brothers and Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty seamlessly. I'm often very skeptical about mash-ups [...]

Death of a Pop Star is definitely an interesting combination of two extremes in the hip hop world. David Banner has built his career around being the King of Mississippi Crunk, with hits like "Like a Pimp", "Play", "F**k 'Em", and the softer anthem "Cadillac On 222s"; so, I was a little apprehensive of how [...]

The Kid hits us with his latest remix project and judging by his prior releases it will be some chill, dope ass shit. The Frank Sinatra Remixed EP was created as the soundtrack for Beautiful Warriors 3, an annual series of black & white fine art films directed by Tishaun Dawson of Battalion Armour. In [...]

Every time I hear this I wish I was from Pittsburgh and now Khalifa brings it to the next level with all these people hopping on the remix. Snoop and Juicy J add nicely to the song while T-Pain sounds out of place but I'm sure like everything T-Pain, if you heard it in a [...]

Tabi mashes together two of his singles from his latest album, Fresh, onto one video for your viewing pleasure.  Here is what Cool Kids Forever Films had to say about the video they shot for him. DMV Superstar Tabi Bonney and CKF Films top gun 6ix Shoota team up once again to give you visuals [...]

It is good to get a new (and by that I mean remixed) KRIT track to play for the holidays because it reminds me to go back and listen to his highly acclaimed tape KRIT Wuz Here. We were a little late on KRIT over here at the studio hangar but it quickly climbed up [...]

RA continues to tear it up on the mic and we finally get a visual off of her Heart of A Champion project. Don't sleep on this girl for long though because she has a mixtape dropping called Victory Lap which is dropping sometime "soon". The video itself demonstrates the dream of becoming a rapper [...]

I haven't heard much from the Wale camp recently but since this released a couple days ago there is a flurry of news. First, let's talk this song, it features Wale on the verses with a an interesting up and down flow and the nasally stylings of Roscoe Dash on the AutoTuned chorus and final [...]

Damn this beat reminds me of a classic one that I can't put my finger on at the moment but if you can help me out hit me up in the comment section. Vizzy finally gets some visuals for this joint off of Vizzy Zone and it is what I like to call a mixtape [...]

It is hard to not think Detox will be here at some point over the next several months now that we have an official single out with a video. The video isn't cheap either with lots of cool camera tricks and different sets that all mesh together to show the artists' ballin lifestyles. Don't worry, [...]

Here is an interesting concept for a video that helps us delve deeper into who the artists actually are as people and what motivates them. ThisIs50.com and Court Dunn spotlight different artists in this series called "This Is Hip Hop" and for this episode they focus on Tabi and how he defines hip-hop. I normally [...]

The King of Pop is back with a new song and video which features Akon and a bunch of little kids grooving to the music. I am typically skeptical of these collaborations with the new artists (and this is why you haven't seen many of these leaks up here) but the last time these two [...]

Alright, the fact that we have not covered anything off of Pilot Talk II since "Michael Knight" came out is a little depressing, especially since "Airborne Aquarium" is not only one of the best tracks on the album but is, what I would consider, one of the best tracks of Curren$y's career thus far.  The [...]

• Curren$y - Airborne Aquarium » 01-currensy-airborne_aquaruim.mp3

"Last Nite" is the first Gilbere song released after his mixtape 87 Dreams made some waves in the blogosphere back in July. The song has a chill vibe with Selena Carrera singing some ambient, new wave sounding lyrics on the chorus and Gilbere kickin' his easy flow on the verses. Gilbere has a knack of [...]