Nas & Damian Marley are joined by Oliver Stone, K’naan, Busta Rhymes, Saul Williams, & DJ Green Lantern to talk about the creation of the Distant Relatives album. The whole concept is about raising awareness about Africa, hope to see this project blossom into something great.
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A couple of weeks ago Diddy gave you a look at some behind the scenes footage of this video shoot and now he’s been kind enough to give us another look in a trailer format. Waka!
31Mar2010
Via XXL:
“With fans clamoring for their highly anticipated debut albums, Drake and Nicki stand on the cusp of being crowned hip-hop’s new reigning king and queen. XXL Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten sits down with Nicki for a candid Q&A, while editor-at-large Benjamin Meadows-Ingram documents Drake’s rise.”
The issue hits newsstands on April 20th. I love how one of the main articles featured on the cover is “What’s wrong with New York Hip-Hop?”. What do you guys think of the cover?
31Mar2010
Warped got their hands on an upcoming Nike SB Dunk Low which has yet to be named. As you can tell from the photos, it features a green/black/mustard colorway along side perforated leather, suede and a unique swoosh. The sneaker also features a “stash” pocket just like the ‘Skunk High’ we showed you last week. This may or may not be a Quickstrike drop for April but you can be sure to find more info on this sneaker here at ImFlashy once it drops. More photos after the jump.
I know you’ve probably seen this earlier, but here is clearer footage of his sold out crowd at NY’s S.O.B.’s. Again, drop the record.
31Mar2010
Boombox premieres the Day In The Life Of Jim Jones, which is a very well done documented video of Jimmy promoting his Ghost Of Rich Porter tape.
31Mar2010
For Smoke DZA’s video we wanted to show a different side of Harlem primarily through Smoke’s eyes along with his friends, family and neighbors. We set out on a 4 day journey throughout Harlem capturing as much footage as we could. The entire team had an amazing time and had a lot of fun capturing Harlem.
Directed by: Sam Rogers, Kory Smith, & Treezy (@vizink)
31Mar2010
Complex recently sat done with Complex to discuss XXL, rappers reppin’ gangs, co-signs and more.
Complex: Does it bother you at all when certain rappers like Lil Wayne or Jim Jones rep Bloods?
Nipsey Hussle: If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you’re gonna pick up a rag and start bangin’, and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you’re a man? That’s cool, do your thing. My concern is the niggas that are really in the shit. I’m more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything. But to answer your question, I feel like it’s fraudulent. Straight up. If you ain’t put on to this shit, you wasn’t courted on, you ain’t going to the back of the buildings to fight, your homies didn’t get put on, you not from a gang. Not only are you not from a gang, if you ain’t press a line and put in work, not necessarily kill nobody but you know, put yours on the line. It ain’t just you a Blood when it’s convenient, cause you got a camera and it looks cool. When you around 100 Crips, you still a Blood. When 40-Glocc and them run up on you, you still a Blood. And I ain’t talking about Wayne. I got respect for they movement and I like the dude as an artist. But I’m just saying on some gangbang shit, when you go to the county jail and you walk in the court tank and it’s 50 of your enemies, you still gonna say the 60s (Rollin 60 Neighborhood Crips). Or you not a gangbanger. Your homies gonna hear about it, beat you up, kick you in your ass, and you was for nothin’. I know in the real world in this shit, a lot of niggas wouldn’t make it. So like I said, it’s an overstanding I got about it. I look at it like these niggas is totally out of character.
Read the full interview on Complex.
