B-Dub & Kevin must have known it was going to take something more than coffee & cigs to reinvigorate me after this past weekend’s activities. Found in la inboxo…

Your Favorite White Boy, Nappy Afro and Kevin Nottingham have cooked up a great concept mixtape to get you moving on this Monday morning. As you can see from the tracklist, we mixed it up: we’ve got some classic joints from Run DMC, Ice Cube and Brand Nubian, plus some new tracks from the young cats in the game like Skyzoo and 88 Keys.

After the break, peep the short teaser they created, check the back cover & tracklisting, then holler back @ me around lunchtime. I need a few moments to get my life back in order. Read the rest of this entry »

The closest you’ll be getting to waking up with Ciara in the morning is seeing this video this morning.

Alinna D Penta. Muy Bueno Monday. Yes Yes Y’all!

Kardashian Sisters to Bare All for Playboy [The Insider]

Repo Men Swipe Method Man’s Navigator [RGF]

$237 For The Average Seat At A Yankee Game [YB]

Air Jordan 1 Do the Right Thing Pack [Upon Thingz]

Gasoline Prices Take Slight Dip [CNN]

The North Face Messenger Bags Purple Label Camp [Weekly Drop]

Venezuela’s Chavez Calls Obama “Ignoramus” [Reuters]

Retro Pinstripe 59Fifty Fitted Caps [SF]

The Home-Entertainment Makeover [NYMag]

ABC Radio Reporter Stabbed To Death [Gawker]

Sports Illustrated Shows How Athletes Go Broke [RTNY]

How to be a Supervillain [Gunaxin]

Teen Dies After Police Use Taser On Him [AOL]

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No Mike behind the microphone this time, as the homie Grim handles those duties. He asks some key questions though, specifically regarding longevity in the music business and a few questions about Blueprint 3.

Previously Posted — UNN & Killer Mike Present GrindTube: The No ID Interview

Been sitting on this track for a hot minute, waiting on the greenlight to share it. The skipper Read the rest of this entry »

First of all, a big middle finger to the Fader Fort for being so out the way of everything else SXSW-related and being such pricks about getting the wristbands (despite RSVP’ing) thus I missed out on last night’s G.O.O.D Music event. But I’ve seen Kanye twice, met GLC the night before (who complimented me on my Crooks & Castles shirt) and I wasn’t trying to be in that crowd after being here 3 days, running on 8 hours of sleep max. At least that’s what I keep telling myself.

What did happen is we caught the show at The Austin Music Hall and got to see Bun B rock the stage for the home state crowd, who virtually Read the rest of this entry »

Praise Jehovah, Cudi isn’t retiring.

In case we didn’t make it abundantly clear already, the B&T show was the talk of Austin. We had artists stopping by all day to witness the future of Hip-Hop be brilliant on our stage.

Two of those artists were 88-Keys and KiD CuDi. If you peeped our review of The Death of Adam or my endless praise of “Day N’ Nite,” you’d understand why I darted to the middle of the street to get a few words from Yeezy’s buddies. Cudi talks about his non-retirement, how “down to earth” Kanye really is, why he doesn’t do a lot of collaborations and shouts out Even Stevens and High School Musical.

BONUS — Mistah F.A.B. & Curren$y take a minute to talk to the TSS cameras. Read the rest of this entry »

More VLS action, this time one of my favorite Souls’ songs from their debut. Hit the break for the link. Read the rest of this entry »

I got lucky & spoke to Mike on Friday morning when I got to Austin, hoping that he was going to get there a day before his “Put The A In Austin” performance. He told me that he was headed to Kentucky Read the rest of this entry »

Created in between sets @ where else Read the rest of this entry »

Over ten minutes of footage of Bobby Ray interacting with the crowd & performing “Lonely People” & “Haterz Everywhere” live @ the GOP.

Shoutouts to Bobby, B. Rich & TJ for coming through to perform last night. And bow down to greatness in the presence of B.o.B.’s drummer, Alien. I saw dude perform twice yesterday and Read the rest of this entry »

When MF DOOM (“All Caps when you spell the man’s name” – Madvillainy) umm…dropped his album last week, I may have been the only member of the Crew that was jumping for joy.

There were comments about his “gibberish” and how difficult his albums are to listen to. At one point, a few people co-signed that Asher Roth was more enjoyable to Mr. Dumile. Instead of getting my Flea on and cursing you fools out, I decided to take a more rational approach. Read the rest of this entry »

Things have surely changed. Read the rest of this entry »

…is if it has a feature starring Tony Starks.

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Pleasure P feat. Ghostface – “Boyfriend #2″ (Remix)

“Jets, aggin!”

More footage I was able to upload this morning. This time, a short clip of Spitta performing “Movie Writers, Businessmen & Gangsters” off the Fear & Loathing… mixtape.

Previously Posted — Video: Curren$y – “Modern Day Hippie” @ SXSW | Video: Blu & Exile – “No Greater Love” Live @ SXSW