Directed by Picture Perfect.

Roc Marci on the beat.

Watch the all new gameplay trailer from Far Cry 4 game, featuring the track ‘Crawl’ and created in collaboration with Childish Gambino. Childish Gambino, is the alter ego of rapper, actor, writer, comedian and producer Donald Glover.

Longtime hip-hop scribe, Jeff Chang, explains the origins of the term hip-hop for Cuepoint. His new book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, is out on October 21st. whowebe.net How Hip-Hop Got Its Name

Words from Jonathan Kim: “Great new live video from Oddisee and his band Good Compny for the song “The Goings On.” Although the studio version was originally released on Oddisee’s mixtape “Tangible Dream,” (one of my personal favorites from the project) Oddisee has been busy promoting the upcoming Diamond District album alongside group members yU [cont.]

HiPNOTT Records and Crazy Noise Productions come together to bring you the new single “Chess Never Checkers”, featuring Hip-Hop giants Kool G Rap and Guilty Simpson. Produced by DJ Dez and DJ Butter, this new banger can be found on the duo’s latest album, A Piece of The Action, available now on iTunes.

Treacherous: “Mark Morrison’s recently released up-tempo single “2Morrow” (ft. Erene, Devlin & Crooked I) gets the official remix treatment from Treacherous COB in-house producer Aktive. Stripping back to focus more on lyrics and piano, the track now takes a leftfield turn into emotional‎/motivational territory‎, this time featuring fellow Treacherous COB artist Horseshoe Gang and Crooked [cont.]

Hard Knock TV: “Nick Huff Barili of Hard Knock TV, in collaboration with www.GRAMMY.com sits down with Common for in-depth interview. In part 1 Common talks to Nick Huff Barili about working with some of Hip Hop’s greatest producers J Dilla, Kanye West and No I.D. Not only does Common share some of their similarities [cont.]

From the label: “Last year, Kid Tsunami brought you The Chase, a collaborative album which featured Masta Ace, KRS-One, Kool G Rap, Kool Keith, O.C. and Sean Price (among others). Now the DJ/Producer from from Perth, Australia returns with a new single, “Behind Barz,” featuring 2 Chainz, LeBomb James and The Corynthian on the hook; [cont.]

Las Vegas native, Dizzy Wright is interviewed by Prince Paul and Mr. Dead on this episode of the Scion AV All Purpose Show.

Aoki’s new album, Neon Future I, is in stores now. Here’s the remix of “Boneless” featuring Kid Ink. Directed by Golden Wolf.

From the label: “‘Dare You 2 Move,’ the next single from DESTRUCTO’s upcoming WEST COAST EP, finds the producer and DJ collaborating with Compton rapper Problem. The song makes its debut today, October 9 and will be released commercially on November 4 via Insomniac/Interscope Records.”

Head on over to Cuepoint to read Andreas Hale’s new piece on Nas’ seminal debut album and its accompanying film, Time Is Illmatic. How ‘Illmatic’ Saved Nas

Directed by UZI.

Directed by GOLDRUSH. Produced by Dizzle.

Official label descrip: “This collaboration was initially inspired by the WWE’s “Wyatt Family” and from there spawned into something epic. Sure to be a fan favorite amongst Wrestling, Rock & Hip Hop enthusiast alike, “The Whole World” is an Anthem of Global proportions and is available on iTunes now.”

For #BlackOctober Jarren Benton is releasing a new track every Wednesday to lead up to his new EP dropping later this year. Produced by Kato.

Official label description: “Although it hasn’t been that long since the legendary Grand Wizard Theodore invented scratching and helped birth an entire genre in the process, it seems like the current generation is more concerned with fame and ratings than making timeless music. Here to squash the nonsense and educate the youth is the Queens’ [cont.]

Chris Bridges is the latest to jump on ILOVEMAKONNEN’s “Tuesday.”

“Party Supplies burst out of the gate swinging with the one-two punch of debut album Tough Love and the beloved mixtapes, establishing a signature sound that mixes woozy classic rock chops with head-nodding MPC hip-hop like none other. They ride that vibe even further into the sunset on jammy new song “The Light In The [cont.]