In the second episode of Complex TV’s Combat Jack Show, Jack calls Black Thought a “rap super hero.” Thought recalls the posse cuts he used to make by impersonating 20 different rappers—Biz Markie, Kool G. Rap, Big Daddy Kane, and more—while Questlove changed the beats up for each one.

Complex produced this mini-documentary on the first hip-hop album I ever owned, Special Ed’s Youngest In Charge.

Danny Brown writes: “when i was in H-Town on the “Worst of Both Worlds” … The big homey OG Ron C came thru and hit me wit my own personal copy of “Blunt After Blunt” Chopped Not Slopped .. and i just had to share it with u guys”.

Episode two of XXL’s Freshmen Cypher series.

GRACE coming soon.

“Black Girl Toof” is the manifestation of love and confusion. It is soul and rap and soul clap and booty clap. The White Mandingos are forever. Open your mouth and your heart. “The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me” in stores June 11th on Fat Beats Records.

Bronx duo Camp Lo decodes the classic “Coolie High” from their debut album Uptown Saturday Night.

From Homeboy Sandman’s Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent. Directed by Chris Antonelli.

Directed by Gunplay and Justin Petrone.

Directed by Max Hliva. Float in stores now.

From A$AP Mob’s Lords Never Worry. Look for Trap Lord mixtape coming soon, as well as the “Work” remix, which will feature French Montana, Trinidad Jame$, and Schoolboy Q.

Directed by Be EL Be. This is the unofficial version. Stay tuned for the official one coming soon…

Produced by NameBrand.

Stream Apollo Brown’s remix album of Ghostface Killah’s 12 Reasons To Die, which is now being offered in CD and digital formats, courtesy of Soul Temple Music’s Bandcamp. Twelve Reasons To Die: The Brown Tape by Ghostface Killah

DJ EFN releases visuals for his track ‘Corleone’ featuring West Coast lyrical legend Ras Kass off his mixtape ‘Diggin’ in the Tapes’. Video produced by Crazy Hood Film Academy / directed by Garcia for CHFA.

Peter Rosenberg handles his interview with Pharrell by himself, as they wax poetically for over 40 minutes.

Watch Talib Kweli’s trip through South Africa on his self-directed music video “High Life,” off Prisoner of Conscious out May 7th.

From Los’ Becoming King project, hitting April 25th.

Big K.R.I.T.’s “Rich Dad Poor Dad” (off his Live From the Underground album) is a deeply personal record. In the song, K.R.I.T. shares some of the many jewels his father dropped on him as a kid and how that shaped him as a man. For the video to the song, K.R.I.T. went even deeper. He [cont.]

Legendary lyricist R.A. The Rugged Man links up with Tech N9ne and Krizz Kaliko of Strange Music for a historic collaboration off R.A.’s new album Legends Never Die. Track produced by C-Lance.