Spotted @ RR.

From the Put Me On It blog:

We are very excited to present Odd Summer, a (mainly) instrumental EP from Put Me On It family member Oddisee. It features three exclusive tracks – In Your Eyes, Sligo Creek, and That Day (instrumental). The photo in the artwork was taken by Oddisee, of Omdurman (Khartoum, Sudan), where he spent every summer growing up, swimming and fishing in the Nile.

Oddisee – Odd Summer EP

Follow @oddisee on Twitter.

Previously: Mic Legacy ft. Oddisee & Awon – Different World | Black Thought x Oddisee x CurT@!n$ @ The Jam Session | Diamond District – In The Ruff

Maurice says they’re shooting a video in LA next week for this.

Previously: Bobby Ray (B.o.B.) – Put Me On (Reebok Classic Remix)

Haterz Everywhere live performance after the jump.

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The first 7 or 8 years of our career you probably didn’t see UGK unless you saw us physically. We didn’t have a lot of major media or radio support. It was more of a grassroots ‘hey man have you heard these guys’. I guess if the internet had came out about 10 years ago, it might have spread a little sooner. But at the same time, we’re not as disposable to people. When we did get a fan, we tended to keep em. We may not have as many fans as other people, but my fans were down with me.

…Pimp was supposed to be on [Jay-Z's] A Week Ago with Too Short. Neither one of them wanted to travel. Keep in mind this was in the middle of the east coast/west coast thing. Jay was concerned about leaving the east coast, as a lot of artists were. Pimp for his own personal reasons was like “well I ain’t leaving the south, I guess we ain’t gonna do it.” So that kinda went by and then he came back and called up with another opportunity. I knew what it was and Pimp knew what it was.. I was prepared for it, ‘let’s embrace it, we need that shine.’ But Pimp was very concerned about that kinda image having a lasting impression. Because for some people that was going to be our first impression. And for others it was going to come across a certain way. People had to be sure that this was a Jay-Z song featuring UGK and that was just something we did for his album, and not a pathway that we were gonna try to follow.

Spotted @ RR via VIBE

A 30 Second teaser.

Previously: Wale – Chillin (Behind the Scenes)

Shouts to White Boy D.

Previously: Video: Killer Mike feat. Big Boi – My Chrome | Killer Mike – Man Up

Funny, the new Loud.com has a striking resemblance to VladTV…

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Shouts to The305.com / DerickG.com

Previously: Birdman ft. Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross – Always Strapped (Remix)

Behind the scenes video footage after the jump.

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via MTV News:

…Next Wave of Flav

On Ghostface Killah: “We cooking that up right now. The last three Ghost albums we been on. The last one we had five [tracks]. … The chemistry with Ghost is very good. It’s mostly an automatic thing. He’ll have a beat CD for a minute and when he’s ready, he’s like, ‘I want this one this one and this one.’ It just happens.” – Sean C.

On Clipse: “We got three on [their next album]. I’m exited about that. They spit your head off. It’s hard, straightforward, aggressive. They do what they do.” – Sean C.

“The beats don’t sound like us. One of them does, but the others don’t.” – LV

On Slaughterhouse: “We’re really in the beginning stages of it. We’re trying to scope a sound for Slaughter House so it’s their sound, not somebody else’s. We’re sending them joints, they got a bunch of joints they picked.” – Sean C.

On Wale: “I think he sounds real good. I definitely like the record we did. I like the Cool & Dre record. We went in a few times with him. The joint we did got Travis Barker on the drums. Wale got that done while he was is in L.A. The beat was done, then Travis played over it, then we played on top of what Travis did.” – LV

“It’s called ‘OG.’ He’s talking about how OGs schooled him to the game and how they was when they were young and how he listens to them. It’s not a street OG thing, but he touches on how things were different at that time.” – Sean C.

After the jump, Whoo Kid calls in to talk about a Em & 50 joint album idea that they’ve kicked around for years.

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