God Bless The Child mixtape coming soon.

Ali Vegas – D.O.A. (Death of Anarchy)

N.O.R.E. – Club Is A Zoo

Previously: N.O.R.E. says “Don’t Support S.O.R.E.”

Previously: Ghostface’s Wizdom of the Week #5

Recession music FTW. Off Birdshit’s upcoming solo album, Priceless.

Props to BlaqSheep

Previously: Drake feat. Lil Wayne – Money To Blow (No Birdman)

To be fare, the full quote is:

“Def Jam is the dopest label in hip-hop, in the culture of hip-hop,” he said. “There really would be no hip-hop as we know it today if it wasn’t for Def Jam. But you don’t get that respect without also being the label that single-handedly destroyed hip-hop.”

via XXLMag

Here’s episode 3 of and John Public and Nah Right’s NahMean man-on-the-street opinion series. In this segment we tackle a sensitive topic: God and Hip-Hop.

John explains:

God and Hip-Hop have always had a complicated relationship. We wanted to explore first whether fans of the music wanted to talk about God, but also if the two can successfully co-exist in a mainstream capacity. What we found was unexpected: people WANTED to talk about it and there were a wide-range of opinions on the topic from both artists and fans that raised the question of if the industry and pop culture are truly in touch with what people on the corner and in their homes are talking about. This episode features Skyzoo, stic.man of Dead Prez and a good number of opinionated music consumers talking back and revealing some surprisingly honest perspectives on a topic considered taboo.

To be honest with you, although I’m happy with how this episode turned out, I was initially hesitant when John suggested this topic. Whereas we usually flesh these things out in a couple of e-mails or over Gtalk, we actually had to jump on the phone in order to discuss and agree on how to approach this topic. As somebody with strong personal feelings about the concept of a higher power, religion and spirituality, there are a bunch of opinions set forth in this clip that I disagree with, or just straight up feel are horse shit. I guarantee that had I been the one walking around interviewing people, half of those interviews probably would’ve ended in screaming matches…ha ha.  So yeah, it’s probably better that John handles that portion of the series. I could probably argue talk about these topics for hours, but I learned a long time ago that it’s damn near pointless to argue with human beings about what they believe.

Previously: NahMean Episode 2: Sensationalist Journalism in Hip-Hop

This leaked a while back, and Ra’s label freaked out and asked everybody to take it down because it wasn’t the final art. So here I give you the final version of The Seventh Seal cover.I’ve included the press release and the original leaked version of the cover after the jump so you can compare the vast differences yourself.

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Kiss does his own rendition of Toni’s “He Wasn’t Man Enough”.

According to 88-Keys he is.

I’m sure we all figured that he was, but it’s good to hear that it BANGS.

Spotted at Amajanese via herfection

This goes kinda hard. [ll] J.O.S.E. 2 in stores October 6th.

Fat Joe ft. Swizz Beatz & Rob Cash – Blackout

Fat Joe ft. Raekwon & TA – Ice Cream

After the jump, check out some footage of Joe at his album listening session courtesy of Ms. Drama.

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