Archive for November, 2011

Video: Elite – Gone

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Directed by Charlie Zwick. Off Elite’s Awaken mixtape.

Previously: Elite ft. Sean McVerry – Imagination Day

Mobb Deep ft. Nas – Get It Forever

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Here is the Mobb Deep and Nas collaboration off the Black Cocaine EP dropping on Black Friday.

Download: Link

Previously: Mobb Deep – Conquer

Video: DJ Premier ft. Nas & The Berklee Symphony Orchestra – Regeneration

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Visuals of Nas writing and laying down some verses over Premo’s concerto no. 1.

DJ Premier was given Classical and began his immersion into the genre with Bruce Adolphe, a former classical music professor at Juilliard. They met at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music not far from DJ Premier’s home in NY. After learning about classical music theory, the inspirations of some of the genre’s most profound composers and how traditional pieces are structured, DJ Premier went out and bought tons of classical symphonies on vinyl to mash up his own creation. We then took that mash-up and orchestrated it for sheet music. In the first step of the actual recording process, DJ Premier partnered with Stephen Webber, a professor and conductor at the Berklee College of Music. Stephen taught Premier how to conduct and helped him in studio with the 58-piece Berklee Symphony Orchestra you hear on the track. Of all the takes, the one you hear is the “wild” version (which means they recorded it without the metronome in their headphones) DJ Premier conducted himself. Then DJ Premier brought that instrumental track back home to NY and Nas laid down his rhyme on top of it.

Download: DJ Premier x Nas x The Berklee Symphony Orchestra – Regeneration

Props: VIBE

Video: Slim The Mobster ft. Snoop Dogg – What Goes Up

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Off Slim’s War Music.

Previously: Slim The Mobster ft. Snoop Dogg – What Goes Up

Derrick Hodge ft. Common – We Live Today

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Common appears on the lead single from musician Derrick Hodge’s new album Live Today.

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Props: FSD

Previously: Common’s The Dreamer, The Believer Listening Session (Video)

Notes to Self ft. Evidence – Nobody (Recoil Remix)

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Toronto rap group Notes to Self will be dropping their free album Used to be Dark (Recoil) in December. The music video for this song drops next week.

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Previously: Notes To Self ft. Fashawn – Mr. Polite

Video: Naughty By Nature ft. Joe – Perfect Party

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Treach, Vinnie and Joe hit Vegas for the visual to their big single.

Previously: Naughty By Nature ft. Joe – Perfect Party

Video: Emilio Rojas – Middle Finger

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Produced by M-Phazes, video directed by Vid Arroyo. Look out for Breaking Point, presented by Billionaire Boys Club and hosted by DJ Green Lantern to drop shortly.

Previously: Emilio Rojas – Middle Finger (Behind the Scenes)

T-Pain ft. Lil Wayne – Bang Bang Pow Pow

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

New release from T-Wayne off T-Pain’s upcoming album rEVOLVEr dropping Dec 6th.

Download: Link

Produced by T-Minus.

Previously: T-Pain ft. Wiz Khalifa & Lily Allen – 5 O’Clock (Video)

Snoop Dogg – Weed Wars

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Snoop lands the title track for this (unscripted) new show about medicinal marijuana premiering on the Discovery Channel December 1st at 10pm.

Weed Wars follows Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, the nation’s largest medicinal cannabis dispensary serving over 94,000 patients. The series introduces the Harborside staff as well as the growers and “patient farmers” whose job it is to provide the “medicine” – the buds – that will be eventually purchased and used by thousands of clients.

Download: Link

Spotted @ THR

Also, Snoop & Wiz are dropping their film Mac and Devin Go To High School in December along with the movie’s soundtrack.