Playlist, Video

Weekend Visuals: Playlist 190

Your weekend playlist of the videos you should be watching.

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Emcee, Fashion

Kendrick Lamar’s Reebok Ventilator Shoe Inspires Unity Among Gang Members

Kendrick Lamar’s first sneaker in collaboration with Reebok proves to be a memorable one. Not only does Kendrick help provide a great looking iteration of the Ventilator, he also continues his anti-gang violence rhetoric through powerful details on the shoe. The references are clear, with each pair donning either “BLUE” or “RED” on the back, and “NEUTRAL” inscribed […]

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Emcee, Video

Peep This: Kendrick Lamar is “Alright” and We Will Be Too

  In a follow-up to a riveting BET Awards performance, Kendrick Lamar continues to shed light on just how powerful To Pimp a Butterfly is by dropping the visuals to “Alright.” Directed by Colin Tilley and shot in stark black and white throughout varying locations in California, KDot continues to fire (figurative) shots at the […]

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Emcee, Video

Peep This: Schoolboy Q – Hell Of A Night

Picture yourself creating the most drugged out Jamba Juice smoothie ever – I’m talkin’ pills, lean, weed and any other narcotic – sipping it from a family-sized red cup and then proceeding to the wildest house party that perfectly represents the very meaning of debauchery itself.  Sounds like one hell of a night to say […]

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Emcee, Video

Peep This: Schoolboy Q ft. BJ The Chicago Kid – Studio

Look Q, why you’re sitting in a studio with nothing but dudes recording music is beyond me, what with your own fly piece sitting at home waiting for you in nothing but a freshly Colgate-brushed smile.  But then again he also gives a lesson on the proper way of catching a satisfying preview via facetime.  […]

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Emcee, Media

Jam On It: Isaiah Rashad ft. SZA – Ronnie Drake

Isaiah Rashad and SZA, the newest members of the TDE camp , have linked up on a new track entitled “Ronnie Drake” that’s equal levels of undeniably smooth and head-nod-worthy dope.  The Tennessee spitter is right at home over the laidback beat, dropping quality bar after bar and showing within every rhymed line just why […]

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Emcee

One Year Later: good kid, m.A.A.d city

It’s been a year since Kendrick Lamar’s critically lauded major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, took the hip hop world by storm. Without question, the album is one of the successful hip hop releases of the past five years, and it has been deemed an insta-classic by rap die-hards and casual music fans […]

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Media, Video

TDE x SZA

Top Dawg Entertainment houses a roster of Ab-Soul, Jay Rock, Black Hippy, Schoolboy Q, and some guy named Kendrick Lamar.  After fleeting rumors of Jhene Aiko and Action Bronson being the next signees to TDE, SZA has emerged as the most recent addition to the team.  

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Emcee, Media

Jam On It: Schoolboy Q ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Collard Greens”

Could the rest of 2013 be a Black Hippy takeover?  With their remix of Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.” and now this new track from Schoolboy Q featuring Kendrick Lamar, “Collard Greens”, it’s definitely looking like it.  Just from my first play I was already feeling the infectious sing-song melody and cadence.  The fam chemistry between the two […]

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Emcee

XXL’s Freshman Class of 2013

For the Freshman Class of 2013, XXL immediately sparks debate with two words emblazoned boldly on their cover: BEST EVER?.  As with all lists, it’s highly and naturally debatable.  Which is what the comments section below is perfect for.  So what say you vigilant readers?  We’d love to get your thoughts for this year’s XXL […]

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