Awesome Hip Hop

WORST! Your crew will start dancing and rapping as soon as you show up rocking Drake’s catchphrase. Get the complementary sweats for your buddies, or they’ll say “You nevah luhd us!” Photos by Adria Vaidila for Rima Vaidila.

(NSFW: Language) “All started on park benches with Dante, predicting the future, so observant I’m clairvoyant, the frame can’t contain it, I’m painting a rare portrait.” Talib Kweli looks back on his journey so far in his usual ill flow.

(NSFW: Language) Sisyphus is the electronic hip-hop side project of Sufjan Stevens, Ryan Lott aka Son Lux and David Cohn aka Serengeti. Rhythm of Devotion and Calm it Down are from their upcoming self-titled album.

(NSFW: Language) An icy smooth jazz hip hop track. Up and coming rapper Duckwrth paints the sights and sounds of Los Angeles’ Crenshaw Boulevard in …Travel, the debut single from his free album Taxfree V.1, out now.

(NSFW: Language) After paying homage to New York’s hip hop scene, artist Jay Shells gives a massive shout out to West Coast rap. Animal NY once again followed Jay around as he posted rap lyrics in the areas they referenced.

(NSFW: Language) A comic book about the origins of hip hop by Ed Piskor. Hip Hop Family Tree is presented like the Marvel comics from the 70s for that extra OG flavor. It’s a shame it doesn’t come with a soundtrack. More here.

(NSFW: Language) Pusha T and Kendrick Lamar spit beastly but opposing verses in Nosetalgia. While Push once again runs us thorugh the routines of a dealer, K. Dot pushes back with a tale of a kid who had junkies as parents.

(NSFW) Director Emile Sornin knows that kids today have the attention span of infants, so he used looping segments ready to be turned into animated gifs or viral Vine clips for the music video of Dizzee Rascal’s catchy UK single.

While the time away or gamble with the high rollers of hip hop. Each card has hand drawn art by Japanese artist Sayori Wada, featuring legendary artists or groups of rap and hip hop.

Legendary hip hop artist MF Doom guest stars in the mind-blowing 3 Dollars, the lead single from Oh No’s album Ohnomite, which samples heavily from the blaxploitation flick Dolemite.

Lupe Fiasco has always been more than just swag and making heads bop, and his new single Around My Way [Freedom Ain’t Free] is no different. The song will be in his upcoming album Food & Liquor 2.

Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap is a documentary about hip hop directed by Ice-T. The Grandfather of Gangsta Rap talks with the legends of the game to muse on the revolutionary folk art.

Fun factory Slacktory gives the supercut treatment to one of the staples of a rapper’s arsenal: spelling their name out. We are T-H-E-A, W-E-S, O-to the M-E, R at the end okay that’s way too long.

A icy smooth track from promising MC/battle rapper Dirtbag Dan and Anya, whose voice is as hypnotic and seductive as her beauty. The song is from Dirtbag Dan’s Selfhelp Tapes Vol. 4.

(NSFW: Language) From the World Domination 2 rap battle event hosted by King of the Dot comes this insane undercard featuring Canadian MC Diaz against Filipino MC Protege. The war starts at 2:50.

Because it’s fun: Scott Bradlee collaborated with his friends to pay a whimsical tribute to Warren G and Nate Dogg with a live, acoustic remix of their hiphop classic Regulate – with toy instruments.

This clever one-take video from hip hop artist Legrand and students at Temple University Tokyo features Windows XP, OS X Snow Leopard, Ableton Live, Twitter, Second-Life, Skype and more.

In this revealing documentary, MTV followed Canadian rapper Drake in the months leading to the release of his debut album, Thank Me Later. Check out the link for the rest of the feature.