Video: Black Hippy - Zip That Chop That

Think about getting your ass kicked. Rather, think about the moments that lead up to you getting your ass kicked. If you are about to get into a fight, it would be nice to have some backup. It’s not that you can’t handle yourself, and you need your friends to do the work, it’s more about the comfort and security of it. Like if anything gets out of control, you’ll be okay. Some of those friends may be smaller and weaker than you, therefore not worth much in the fight. Some of those friends may [...]

Footnotes is the section in our magazine where we take a longer look at the work mentioned in our features. Read Andrew Noz' FADER #78 cover feature on LA rap crew Black Hippy here, and ... read more �

Woooooweeeeeeeeee! TALK ABOUT A JAM! This is one of those samples I have always been waiting for somebody to flip (in a headbanging type of way, that is. People have done it, but it's never lived up to what I thought it could!), and finally, my dream has come true. Remember that article I wrote a week or so ago about the Talented Mr. Lamar? Well, within that post I talked a little about Schoolboy Q , one of the four members of the Black Hippy team (if this all sounds strange to [...]

Jay Rock was elected to the 2010 Freshman class by XXL magazine, which allowed him to follow one of the oldest trends in hip hop - once you get on, you put on your people. Jay Rock is putting his efforts into his crew called Black Hippy with Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar. I've yet to familiarize with the entire group, but with a name like Black Hippy and the style presented in the video for "Zip That, Chop That" the group teeters between The Pharcyde and N.W.A.