Things That Make You Go Hmmm: Legit "Nigger in a Northface" vid

Hailing from Chicago, 19 year old Legit makes music that, no pun intended, is legit. "Nigger in a Northface" is a critical analysis of interracial (Black man/white woman because context matters) romances in the 21st century. Low key spoiler alert: I gave an eye roll at the ending ( if you know me then you'll understand why). Young Wonder definitely did his thing with the visuals because it felt more like a short film than a music video. Legit's Coloring Outside the Lines mixtape is out now!!!

And I hate being with your friends because if you bring 'em

I get stared at like an exhibit at a museum

-Artemis J

Let Me Put You On: Tia London

I love stumbling upon Femcees. No, it literally makes my day. And when one has a track dedicated to women who aren't basic, that makes her BVR worthy. Tia London of Traxter Inc has an amazing LP, Love Junkie, out right now so go and get it! But until you get it, here's a little taste (forgive her for the minimal auto-tuning...)

Yeah he dig my style but he really love my intellect

Nothing like them chicks he run across the internet

-Artemis J

Kanye West and Jay Z - No Church In The Wild (music video)

Enjoy America!

Things That Make You Go Hmmm: No Church in the Wild (Video)

Kanye West and Jay Z - No Church In The Wild (music video) from High5Collective on Vimeo.

By far the BEST music video that you'll never see on television.

[Hook: Frank Ocean]
Human beings in a mob
What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a God?
What's a God to a non-believer who don't believe in anything?
Will he make it out alive? Alright, alright, no church in the wild

[Jay-Z]
Tears on the mausoleum floor, blood stains the Colosseum doors
Lies on the lips of priests, Thanksgiving disguised as a feast
Rolling in Rolls Royce Corniche
Only the doctors got this, I’m hiding from police
Cocaine seats, all white like I got the whole thing bleached
Drug dealer chic, I’m wondering if a thug’s prayers reach
Is Pious pious cause God loves pious?
Socrates asked whose bias do y'all seek?
All for Plato, screech, I’m out here balling, I know yall hear my sneaks
Jesus was a carpenter, Yeezy he laid beats
Hova flow the Holy Ghost, get the hell up out your seats, preach

[Hook]

[Bridge: The-Dream]
I live by you, desire
I stand by you, walk through the fire
Your love is my scripture
Let me into your encryption

[Kanye West]
Coke on her black skin
Make a stripe like a zebra, I call that jungle fever
You will not control the threesome
Just roll the weed up until I get me some
We formed a new religion
No sins as long as there’s permission
And deception is the only felony
So never fuck nobody without telling me
Sunglasses and Advil, last night was mad real
Sun coming up, 5 a.m., I wonder if they got cabs still?
Thinking 'bout the girl in all leopard
Who was rubbing the wood like Kiki Shepherd
Two tattoos one read "No Apologies"
The other said "Love is Cursed by Monogamy"
It’s something that the pastor don’t preach
It’s something that a teacher can’t teach
When we die the money we can’t keep
But we probably spend it all cause the pain ain’t cheap, preach

Hook: Frank Ocean]
Human beings in a mob
What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a God?
What's a God to a non-believer who don't believe in anything?
Will he make it out alive?
Alright, alright,
No church in the wild (x4)

- Artemis J

Audio: Lupe Fiasco talks about the Occupy Movement

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Video: Talib Kweli Performs At Occupy Wall Street

Rapper Kweli shows Solidarity with the Occupy protesters by stopping by to perform. he performed “Thieves In The Night” and verses from an as-yet-unreleased track, “Distraction.”

- @laydeetracey

Video: Lupe Fiasco & Erykah Badu perform "Words I Never Said"

Can't go wrong with Erykah Badu! Ever! - @laydeetracey

Video - Immortal Technique: Occupy Wall St. is America's Awakening

Occupy Wall Street has brought out tens of thousands of demonstrators to speak out against corporations across America. Some celebrities and activists have come out to support the masses and use their celebrity to strengthen the movement. Immortal Technique, hip hop artist and political activist, speaks out about the movement.

- @laydeetracey

Video: Erykah Badu x The Roots x Yo Gabba Gabba! (Late Night W/ Jimmy Fallon)

Enjoy!

- @LaydeeTracey

Common - Blue Sky

I present you with the second single off Common's upcoming album The Dreamer, The Believer, due November 22nd.

Download: Common - Blue Sky

HARLEM

Free e-book - Hip hop and philosophy: rhyme 2 reason

Click here to read free portions of this book via google books

what's inside you ask? In addition to a forward written by Dr. Cornel West, the contents of the book includes the following essays that critically examine Hip Hop:

Contents

Disk	3
Funky Reflections	14
Knowledge	27
Disk 2	39
Violence and the Art of Keeping	54
Rap Warfare	65
Authenticity Blackness	77
Sex and Sexuality	92

Knowwhatumsayin? How HipHop Lyrics Mean	119
Is Hip Hop One?	133
Ethics	147
Rap Music and Political	161
Retribution Punishment	183
After Word The Philosophy of the HipHop Battle	205
The HipHop Head Index	223

The Problem of Maturity	105

Click any of the above links to jump straight to a section you want to peruse.

- Laydee TraceY

VIDEO: Yelawolf on white rappers using the N word

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What did Yelaworlf have to say?

“I mean - I’m from the South, and that shit don’t fly. In Alabama … put it this way, there are grandparents alive today whose parents went through a war, you know … we’re just out of the slave trade. It was a very real, very real situation. And you know, you don’t take that shit lightly.

Especially … hip hop, and american music culture is Black Culture. Don’t ever get it fucked up. You … know your roots, know where the fuck you’re getting this music from and respect it. And don’t embarrass white people and white rappers by doing that dumb shit. By dropping the n-bomb you thinking you’re all cool and shit, you’re gonna find yourself slapped up, and it might be by a white boy. You know, cause you ain’t gonna embarrass me around my people like that. It ain’t gonna happen.

Whenever I would have said that around the house, just playing around, my mom would slap the SHIT out of me. That was just it. My mom did not play that shit. Because, you know, I’m from Alabama man, we got … this don’t fly like that, you know? And the same person who would slap the shit out of me if I was to say that, is the same person to wear a dixie flag on her shirt. It’s a culture that a lot of people don’t understand, but where I’m from that shit don’t fly and I ain’t backing it. That’s all I gotta say about that.”

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Chip Tha Ripper (New Music)

"The Truth" will be on his Tell Ya Friends project. I'm offically excited.



Fluoride in our tap water
That's what Hitler used to keep the Jews dumber
Real talk you can look it up
Look how long we've had Google, niggas still dumb as fuck

-Artemis J

HOT OR NOT: Trigga (Trey Songz) "Whoever Else"

Trey Songz goes by Trigga when he raps. Which oddly enough rhymes with...let me stop. “Whoever Else” is off of his upcoming free rap release #Lemmeholdatbeat2 which will be released at the same time as his R&B mixtape Anticipation 2 on November 1st.

I really don't fuck with niggas so I'm done after I speak And hate starts with an H because it comes after a G

-Artemis J

HOT OR NOT: Chris Brown X Bow Wow "2 Young 2 Give a Fuck"

*Rubs head and sighs* Where do I begin...?



Anything I sing is a hit, car collision
How you got all the mouth and your heart is missing?

-Artemis J