Hip Hop

What the devil? Socks on another level! The unbeatable MF Doom let Stance use his trademark mask and his logo on a mini collection of socks. Latverians and the rest of EU can get the socks from Overkill.

(PG-13: Language) Chance the Rapper finally got around to visiting NPR Music’s office. He performed Juke Jam from his latest album, recited a poem that he wrote just for this set, and finished with a cover of Stevie Wonder’s They Won’t Go When I Go.

(PG-13: Language) Hov is back. The stereotypes in the video for Jay-Z’s single complements the song’s message about how even successful African-Americans can’t escape, and should not, turn their backs on racial issues. From his sick new album 4:44.

(PG-13: Language) Mass Appeal Records compiled 14 tracks used throughout the four seasons of Silicon Valley, including the title track Stretch Your Face, Nas and DJ Shadow’s recently released Systematic, and Wu-Tang’s new track Don’t Stop.

(PG-13: Language) “And we be saucin’, I love her so you know I got to floss, and I’m not a dentist but a man flossin’, I’m fresh to death, they say I should be coffin.” Young Thug grows up with this mainstream summer banger. He’s still trollin’ Weezy though.

(PG-13: Language) We already know that rapper Mac Lethal has mad skills. Here, he takes on some of the many different sub-genres of rap and hip hop from the lighthearted braggadocio of the 1980s to horrorcore to Miami trap and everything in between.

(PG-13: Language) “How y’all let a conscious man go commercial while only makin’ conscious albums?” Kung Fu Kenny invades Metro Boomin’s chill beat for Future’s mega hit song and quickly makes it his own. Damn. Just skip to 1:54.

(PG-13: Language) From Biggie to Beasties, and KRS to Kanye, The Hood Internet presents a fantastic, but far too short tribute to the first four decades of hip hop music in just under four minutes. Stream/download available on Soundcloud here.

DJ and Producer Chris Read of the awesome website WhoSampled dropped by London’s Point Blank Music School to provide an in-depth workshop on the origins of sampling in hip-hop music, modern sound layering, and how music has been derivative for hundreds of years.

(Flashing images) “JVC is nice; I’ve been around Japan; It’s electronic, calls me Viktor; High on the scales, off the Richter.” Director Kris Merc’s dope visual feast is the perfect complement to hip hop legends Kool Keith and MF Doom’s track about a rapper with super powers.

(PG-13: Language) The rumored collaboration between T-Pain and Lil’ Wayne actually happened. We don’t know when exactly Teddy and Tunechi recorded this mixtape, but it certainly sounds like a late 2000’s throwback. Nothing more, nothing less.

(PG-13: Language) Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike managed to score a one-on-one interview with legendary funk musician and producer George Clinton, and hung out in one of his barbershops to chew the fat about hip-hop, doo-wop, haircuts, counterfeit cash, and more.

(PG-13: Language) Killer Mike and El-P have been murdering ears their whole careers, but they became something more when they teamed up as Run The Jewels. Scott Green looked at the hip hop duo’s interviews and lyrics to see why they’ve become so relevant.

(PG-13) “Bitch that phrase don’t make no sense why can’t fruit be compared?!” With the help of Giant Propeller, Lil Dicky finally released a music video for one of the best tracks on 2015’s Professional Rapper. It’s about LD and his brain being dumbfounded by his date’s beliefs.

(PG-13: Language) “I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DNA. I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DNA” Kendrick Lamar is about to f your s up. He dropped jazz and funk for more conventional beats, but his tongue is as sharp as ever.

“I was that kid that wanted the Jordans.” The latest episode of Complex’s Sneaker Shopping was with none other than The Answer. Iverson talked about his first pair of sneakers, the NBA’s silly “dress code” back in his day, and more.

(PG-13: Language) Go Fozzie. It’s your birthday! America’s favorite stand-up comic bear parties his ass off in Mylo the Cat’s latest Muppet remix video. The clip got us wondering just how does a Muppet ingest liquor and weed, since they have no esophagus or windpipe.

(PG-13) “I blew cool from AC, ayy, Obama just paged me, ayy, I don’t fabricate it, ayy, most of y’all be fakin’, ayy, I stay modest ’bout it, ayy, she elaborate it, ayy” Kendrick Lamar advises listeners and competitors to know their place, sit down and be humble.

Brit rockers Kasabian talk about an unexpected source of inspiration – rap and hip-hop music – and turn in a dialed down cover of the Cypress Hill classic Insane in the Brain during their recent appearance on Triple J’s Like a Version.

“If someone should come collecting sooner than we’re all expecting, at least the life you lived was one for you.” Drizzy continues to dip into dancehall and grime in his latest album, though he’s still moping and boasting with other rappers.

Return to late 1970s New York City for the continuation of Baz Luhrmann’s colorful and fantastic series about the evolution of the music scene from disco to hip-hop, and the impact it had on so many young lives. Drops 4/7/17 on Netflix.

(PG-13: Language) “Doctors of death, curing our patients of breath, we are the pain you can trust.” They’re a bit out of breath themselves, but Killer Mike and El-P still made NPR go RTJ! as they performed songs from their third album.

(PG-13: Language) “I got money, you got money too, so let’s go half on rent. When I buy you a new purse it’s cause you bought my kicks.” The charming Shelley Massenburg-Smith dropped by NPR Music to perform tracks from one of our favorite albums of 2016, Big Baby D.R.A.M.

(PG-13: Language) “That whole comparing and eating rappers, like, it’s starting to get weird. I don’t wanna say that no more.” The man who ruined Cool Ranch Doritos talks about Adult Swim cartoons, serving meals in jail, food references in songs and more.

(PG-13: Language) “I’m Draymond Green – anything I kick is nuts.” Natural born impressionist Jay Pharoah brought bars when he dropped by DJ Whoo Kid’s radio show. Comedy bars, that is. Watch him rap like Eminem, Jay-Z, The Weeknd and more.