Last night, Ryan showed us one vision of New York City – Jeremy Lin, a massive posse cut, bright lights and big stories. But Ka illuminates another part of the city with the video for “Vessel,” off his freshly-released second album, Grief Pedigree. Read the rest of this entry »

I didn’t want to believe in Jeremy Lin at first. Dude burst onto the scene with a miracle game – after being cut by the Warriors and Rockets earlier this season, he dropped 25 points and 7 assists for the Knicks against the New Jersey Nets on Saturday night. Read the rest of this entry »

The Interlude II dropped just a little while back, but The Kid Daytona’s here again to drop a little goodness for y’all. “Angela’s Sister” is a freestyle which finds Daytona doing his thing over the theme from Taxi. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a great week for dunks, to say the least. LeBron James jumped over John Lucas III on Sunday. Blake Griffin “Mozgov’d” Kendrick Perkins just a day later. But there’s no rest for the NBA faithful – the highlights just keep coming. Read the rest of this entry »

Fiend’s been known to make a few laid-back songs. There’s no need to rush or get hyped, after all, when you’re living that Jet Life. But even by the man’s normal standards, “Aqua Flow” is especially relaxed. Fiend describes it as “chiller than Valiums on a beach,” and that sounds about right to me. Read the rest of this entry »

C.J. Miles is a role player, bouncing between the starting lineup and the bench for the Utah Jazz. Few casual fans know his name. He plays in Utah, so off the top, no one thinks he’s cool. But luckily for us, he isn’t willing to accept this lack of notoriety. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night, in the waning moments of a long, hard-fought contest, the Toronto Raptors found themselves trailing the Indiana Pacers by just three, 93-90. Their leading scorer and go-to player, Andrea Bargnani, was ailing on the bench, having missed the game because of a strained left calf. If the Raptors were going to pull off the upset, someone, anyone, would have to come up big. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenneth Faried’s finish, fundamentally, is the craziest part of this clip. The young man from Morehead State scored his first two NBA points in spectacular fashion Wednesday night in the team’s 110-83 victory over the Sacramento Kings, rising up to dunk a ball that was, as the Nuggets’ color-commentator says, floating up by the square on the backboard. Read the rest of this entry »

Man, I have to hand in my late pass. Shady Blaze and the rest of the Green Ova Underground crew have been on my radar this year, but I’ve been sleeping. Call ‘em a casualty of a new-age problem – too much easily-available, great music, too little time to listen to it. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a while since a floppy-haired, skinny kid named Ricky Rubio shocked the world by hanging with the best point guards America had to offer in the 2008 Olympic Gold-Medal Game. Expectations are, to say the least, high for his rookie season. No worries, though. Rubio lived up to the hype with ease in his debut against the Thunder last night. Read the rest of this entry »

Asher Roth is a battle-tested veteran at this point. He’s been replaced again and again as the latest, greatest “it topic” in Hip-Hop’s collective consciousness. But forget the past conversations and controversies – right now, he’s just chilling. Pabst & Jazz dropped a few short days ago and, right on its heels, here’s the video for “Common Knowledge.” Read the rest of this entry »

G-Side travels between the gulf between the heavens and Earth with ease. They can become one with the cosmos, letting the natural beauty of our world shine. At the same time, they can firmly fix their feet on the ground and give the world a haunting, intimate look at Athens, Alabama. Read the rest of this entry »

Fiend embodies that old, famous No Limit work ethic, putting out new tracks and videos with an almost feverish intensity. He’s also a firm believer in the virtues of the Jet Life though and needs to find a few moments to relax, smoke a little something and appreciate the good things that life has to offer. So, like few before him, Fiend has found a way to have his cake and eat it too, Read the rest of this entry »

Last year, Ka ripped the only guest appearance on Roc Marciano’s Marcberg. But afterwards, to my dismay, he seemed to slip through some crack in our rap world. The rest of last year, and most of this one, went by with no word from the Brownsville spitter. But under the radar, he continued to walk his path, dreaming up some fresh heat for the masses. Read the rest of this entry »

With Well Done’s release date peeking over the horizon, Action Bronson and Statik Selektah let loose the video for “Not Enough Words.” It’s my favorite joint that’s leaked off the album so far – not just because Bronson’s ridiculous with the pen, because he is, but because there’s a little of the man behind the words in this track. Read the rest of this entry »