In celebration of the band’s 50th anniversary, OBEY founder Shepard Fairey was tapped to re-imagine the group’s iconic logo. He spoke about it with Rolling Stone magazine: I’ve been a big fan of the Rolling Stones since my dad introduced me to “Satisfaction.” Tattoo You is one of the earliest albums I bought with my [cont.]

Kendrick Lamar speaks with Tim Westwood about his upcoming Aftermath debut, working with Dr. Dre, 2Pac, being born & raised in Compton, emergency plane landing, Tim punching the dj & more.

Directed by Pete Lee, produced by Lizzie Rose. From the forthcoming album, Skelethon.

Looks like Wu-Block is coming closer to officially dropping. Here’s the first single, up at Itunes now.

This comes from Drama’s upcoming Quality Street Music LP, due Sept. 18th.

Check out the video for Stalley’s “Hell’s Angels,” a track off his recent mixtape “Savage Journey to the American Dream.” Buy Self Made 2 on iTunes now! Directed by Dre Films.

Game’s classic Just Blazer from The Documentary gets revisited for the Sleeping Dogs soundtrack.

Latest single from the Aug. 28th release, O.N.I.F.C., produced by Drumma Boy, with a new verse from 2 Chainz.

Directed by RZA, co-written by Eli Roth, presented by Quentin…

Nearly 20 years after his classic debut album Fear Itself, Hieroglyphics emcee Casual is a certified Bay Area hip-hop legend. Now, he’s joining forces with veteran beatsmith J Rawls (producer for Black Star, J-Live, Stalley, Count Bass D, John Robinson, and more) for a brand new album, Respect Game Or Expect Flames. The project will [cont.]

Showbiz & AG continue their onslaught of new music for their fans worldwide. Recently the duo released their free album “Preloaded” which is a pre-cursor to their upcoming retail album “Mug Shot Music.” On July 17th, DITC Records will be releasing the “Preloaded Remixes” album which features 7 brand new tracks and remixes from the [cont.]

Directed by Joseph Gherardi.

Audio’s a little rough, but Rakim interviews are few and far in between. The Elite Money Empire (@EMETakeover) Presents to you: Rakim’s (@EricBandRakim) Reebok (@Reebok) Classics (@ReebokClassics) Interview in NYC hosted by Complex Magazine (@ComplexMag). We sat down with the great and asked him “Who he is a fan of and who he’d like to [cont.]

Class is now in session with Film School With R.A. The Rugged Man, a must-see new web series from MTV’s Film.com hosted by rapper/film historian R.A. The Rugged Man. “I’ve wrote and produced full length features, was a film columnist for Mass Appeal Magazine for 5 years, and wrote movie articles for Vibe, The Source, [cont.]

It’s been only a few short months since billy woods released his dense, mission-statement of an album, History Will Absolve Me, and already the Washington, DC-born, NYC-based lyricist is back in the studio working on new music. This time around, however, he’s working with long-time Aesop Rock-producer Blockhead, and the two are currently deep into [cont.]

For those of you who’ve been out of the loop, Tonedeff has announced several new projects, including an all-sung album under the name Peter Anthony Red. With that, he brings you the release of The Projectionist – a sweeping conceptual FREE DOWNLOADABLE EP which follows a short, yet powerful narrative of a forgotten man working [cont.]

Nuff said.

Directed by Dre Films from The Self Made Vol 2 album. In the second clip, Rick Ross speaks to L.A. Leakers about the possibility of signing Nipsey Hussle and Dom Kennedy.

Produced by Beat Billionaire, originally from his It’s My Time mixtape, but without Wale’s verse.