The world just cannot get enough of Freddie Gibbs or Statik Selektah this week. LRG and Karmaloop TV emancipate the next set of visuals of the pair’s Lord Giveth, Lord Taketh Away EP. “Keep It Warm For Ya” has one of the dopest beats of the entire project and enhanced by the four stellar, accompanying verses laid. Directed by Derek Pike, the video is essentially a better edited, HD look inside Statik’s pad, so if you tuned into their Ustream when they were recording the project, the scene will definitely look familiar.

Sidenote: I nominate Smoke DZA to be the next emcee to do a full-on collaboration with Statik Selektah since the DJ’s production seems to light a fire under the Kush God’s ass. Between his verses on “Harlem Blues” off Population Control and here for “Keep It Warm…,” something just seems to click for him when he raps over a Statik beat.

Previously: On Freddie Gibbs And Madlib’s “Thuggin” EP

Now that Steve Williams is in the unemployment line, he may find work in Harlem and the Bronx, where Smoke DZA and The Kid Daytona hold council. If their putting game turns out to be as nice as their rhyming abilities, Tiger will have double the Black competition come the next PGA Tour. Read the rest of this entry »

Smif-N-Wessun and Pete Rock. Pete Rock and Smif-N-Wessun. A trio of well-versed New York Hip-Hop staples trying their hand at purposefully creating something of epic proportions. Or should I say something Monumental? Such is a life when the aforementioned contingent join forces and highjack a tourist bus to show the people the real side of Hip-Hop. Derek Pike’s trusty camera lens was on site to capture all the action. Read the rest of this entry »

T.Shirt doesn’t have to explain anything to us. Sure, his video for “For The Record” raises a few questions. What kind of place is he in, with a jarringly-normal door cut in the stone wall? Read the rest of this entry »

The lyrical gunner by the name of Laws is looking to take his next project back to a golden era of music. No, he’s not following eLZhi’s footsteps and recreating Whut? Thee Album album or anything. As an avid Paul McCartney fan, he’s personifying his songwriting skills into the legacy of the former Beatle to create Yesterday’s Future, a collaboration with LRG, Mick Boogie and Don Cannon. Read the rest of this entry »

Live and direct from the U.S.A.’s Spanish terriority, The Kid Daytona is broiling his vowels—The Interlude, exotic and international—in the pot until the ingredients are seasoned with utmost flavor. The “Bobby Flay of this game” cooks up another awe-inspiring visual in San Juan with his mean team, LRG for your Hip-Hop entertainment needs. Kiss the ring, suckas. Read the rest of this entry »

That good ‘ol peanut butter & jelly utensil may not be the sharpest tool in the drawer, but don’t think for a second you won’t get cut with the quickness in the true thick of things. Raekwon alongside LRG continue their deadly tandem and Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang onslaught which takes The Chef back to the crime side. The New York Times side. Read the rest of this entry »

Fresh from receiving the nationwide spotlight on 106 & Park, Daytona the Kid is celebrating in Manhattan with Gangsta Gibbs and plenty of groupie love with yet another drop from The Interlude. Cook Classics took a serious hit of the “chronic” and carved out a sinister number, straight from the rolling papers of a Dr. Dre classic so incorporate some West Coast flavor into the East Coast and Midwest. Read the rest of this entry »

If you can’t tell by now, Emilio Rojas is a pimp, swindler and bona fide ladies man. For all those double entendre’d finishers/cramming-28-bars-into-16-bar-stanzas/motor-mouthed lyrical acrobatics he likes to pull off, he never hesitates to let you catch him with a woman. Any type ranging from wifey to hooker tramp, he’s got ‘em—in his videos. Read the rest of this entry »

Def Jam’s Gorilla took some leisure time in his natural habitat in between shooting this video to pound his chest in front of Derek Pike’s camera lens. Even a few lionesses came out to congregate in the concrete watering hole. You can never know what to expect in the heart of the D-Block jungle. Read the rest of this entry »

Not content with just being a branch on the Grammy Family tree, Consequence is going Hollywood once with the sequel to his blockbuster mixtape with Movies On Demand 2. (That’s in case you haven’t noticed). Elevating his acting chops with some nimble punchlines that sock Cam in his mouth with knuckled up rebuttal for his treason, Read the rest of this entry »

A few months ago, when director Derek Pike was brainstorming up ideas for the video to Joell Ortiz & Novel’s everyman anthem, “Night Train,” the former NYU student didn’t have to get too elaborate on his storyboard. As visual as the BX Slaughterhouse member spits, the blueprint was right there in the bars. Read the rest of this entry »

Real O.G.’s know this rap ish don’t always keep the heat on so a career in street pharmaceutics can always bring in a little extra cashflow. The L.O.X. are kingpins in the studio but crime lords in Yonkers. Styles will test the work and make sure it’s murderdeathkillhomocide with extra ketchup. Jada ensures that the public is loving more than Mickey D’s while Sheek oversees all the operations. When you learn and learn off experience, business can be a beautiful thing. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s like we don’t even need to intro this. With said MC and track title, you know exactly what type of song you’re going to get. The problem lies in the fact the time removed from said artist may have left your memory needing to be jogged. Read the rest of this entry »

When the lyricism, production and overall execution all align to create an ominous glow, you better have the volume all the way turnt up to damage your inner ear canals. I’m talking hearing aids at age 22 type-ish. Screw it. Hip-Hop is in the building by way of Duck Down Records x Skyzoo x !llmind and the speakers are on blast. Read the rest of this entry »