Scion A/V: “Currently ruling the streets of New York City, Black Dave is a rapper, pro skater, video director and budding culture media icon with over 2 million collective views on YouTube. Stream or download Scion AV Presents: Skate Life EP featuring five new tracks.”

From Kid Ink’s Full Speed LP, available now.

Directed By Jeff Reyes.

From Jarren Benton’s Slow Motion EP Vol. 1, released January 27, 2015.

NBC: “In honor of the Tonight Show’s week in Los Angeles, Jimmy and the Roots parody “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” opening title sequence.”

Munchies: “In this episode of Fuck, That’s Delicious we head to the land of juice bars and drive-by’s: California. While in the Golden State, we check in with The Alchemist during a recording session, catch a culinary performance at the Odd Future Carnival, and get some Hollywood power lunch tips from Simon Rex at Ink. [cont.]

Two officially released singles from Madonna’s upcoming Rebel Heart album, featuring Nas and Chance The Rapper, respectively. Nas snapped on this.

Directed by Inez and Vinoodh. Bonus, Cuepoint’s DJ Louie XIV hilariously weighs in on “The FourFive Stages Of ‘FourFiveSeconds’.” The FourFive Stages of “FourFive Seconds”

My latest piece over at Cuepoint examines 20 undeniable classic albums-across all genres-that were snubbed by The Grammys for the Album Of The Year category. 20 Classic Albums Snubbed by the Grammy Awards

Take a listen to Open Mike Eagle’s new A Special Episode Of EP via Bandcamp. Feautures help from Paul Barman, Exile, Gold Panda, and more. A Special Episode Of – EP by Open Mike Eagle

From Chris Brown and Tyga’s Fan of a Fan 2 dropping February 24th.

Essential reading and listening at Cuepoint today from Stretch Armstrong, in his latest installment of Cassette Culture. Stretch explores the impact of the Latin Rascals’ tape-edited mixes, and offers a live mix from them recorded in 1985. How The Latin Rascals Mastered the Megamix

History tells us that it is really difficult to make a decent group album. The larger the group, the more unlikely that you can make more than one great album, just ask Wu-Tang. If I was a white girl in college this is the kind of hip-hop I would be into. People used to call [cont.]

As Vast Aire and Vordul Mega, collectively known as Cannibal Ox, prepare for the release of their highly-anticipated sophomore album Blade of the Ronin, with the album’s first single, “Iron Rose.” “Iron Rose” features a stellar verse from masked super-lyricist MF Doom and is backed by a monstrously heavy beat by producer Bill Cosmiq, who [cont.]

Mass Appeal’s Dave East remixes “Main One” by Mila J.

Shot By @AZaeProduction.

AraabMuzik takes on Carnages’ “WDYW” with A$AP Ferg, Rich The Kid and Lil Uzi.

Produced by C-Sick.

Produced by DJ Toomp.

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