The Motto (official music video) / Drake feat. Lil Wayne & Tyga
Here’s Drake, Lil Wayne, and Tyga getting hyphy, showing love to the Bay Area and paying respect to the departed Mac Dre (Dre’s mother introduces the video). It features Drizzy cruising around in a black Chevy Impala and a cameo of Mr. Hyphy himself (Slanguage Master!), the legendary E-40 aka Captain Save-a-Hoe. It’s good to see E-Fizzle […]
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Yoga Girl / Fog and Smog
The creators of the classically comical viral hit Whole Foods Parking Lot are back at it with another funny and satirical music video. Hailing from the Bay Area and based in Los Angeles, DJDave and his Fog and Smog crew are a collective of composers, musicians, filmmakers, ad-people, and witty creatives. in this homage and […]
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American Iconomics: James Charles
The Shooting Gallery, in San Francisco, just wrapped up a dual exhibition featuring works from artists, Akira Beard and James Charles, titled, American Iconomics. The curatorial theme dealt with American icons of our contemporary culture. Here is an excerpt on James Charles’ clever popular culture monetary mash-ups from the Shooting Gallery press release: As of […]
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Slick Talk by Rocky Rivera (teaser)
Bay Area’s Rocky Rivera drops a cold verse over J-Dilla’s Fuck the Police instrumental. Listen to the entire song or download the Pop Killer Mixtape (FREE!) here. Rocky Rivera is a Hip-Hop journalist by day, MC by night, who found international acclaim by winning a Contributing Editor position on MTV’s docu-series I’m From Rolling Stone […]
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Gucci Gucci / Kreayshawn
Best comment by a YouTuber, refch: “Pitchfork approved? hipsters will come” Second best comment, iraleecantellia: “It’s? like Soulja Boy and Die Antwoord had some scene kid babies.” So true. Might this be the Hipster One-Hit Wonder of the Day? Hopefully there is more. She brings an infectious energy. Gucci Gucci s the latest, comically hipster-hop […]
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