J. Cole chats with Vibe on the Red Carpet.

From The Great Debater, available now. Directed by Kenneth Price, produced by Illmind, for IWWMG/Jamla.

New video from NORE backed by a sinister Alchemist beat.

This summer brings us warm weather, BBQ’s, pool parties, bikinis and New York City- based FLüD’s 2011 summer collection. New to the FLüD family of watches is the BPM, a drum-machine inspired digital watch that also serves as a calculator. For it’s release, the watch group has teamed with some of Hip Hop’s most acclaimed [cont.]

Ski Beatz is a producer and DJ who contributed tracks to Mos Def, Lil Kim, Fat Joe, and Jay-Z’s debut album. LRG’s Chuck Barrett caught up with Ski for a True Heads interview and took a tour of the DD172 Gallery, A.K.A, The 24 Hour Karate School Dojo. Ski speaks about his previous work and [cont.]

Murs next project is called Love & Rockets Vol. 1: The Transformation, and will be produced entirely by Ski Beats. This, is good news.

Game speaks with Jenny Boom Boom about his new LP, his thoughts on Watch The Throne, Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Kanye, and more.

Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolBoy Q, and Absoul talk to us about upcoming projects, how their music relates to their following, and Absoul pays a little hommage to Jay-Z himself by reciting a few of his bars.

Blu’s Jesus is on Itunes now, and his NoYork! LP is on the way. This comes from the latter. Produced by Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra), directed by AaronIsNotCool.

Directed by Fabrizo Conte, produced by Ceasar and PStarr.

This cut is 100% California – a stroll down the boardwalk with two of the Golden State’s finest rapping over a sunny soul joint by Babu. “Same Folks” is only available on the 5th Element pre-order of Evidence’s Cats & Dogs, dropping September 27th on Rhymesayers. Directed by Punit Dhesi.

Mos talks about getting the call to join the show.

New video off of Oddisee’s Odd Seasons instrumental project. “Belgium’s ZBS Studio reached out to Mello Muisc Group about permission to do a video for Oddisee’s “The Blooming”. MMG of course was honored to have them interpret the song and apply their vision to the track. The resulting marriage of visual storytelling & instrumental perfection [cont.]

New video off of the duo’s solid Trials of the Blackhearted (FreEP), which features Game, Talib Kweli, Freddie Gibbs and Big K.R.I.T. “In Ancient Kemet they believed the heart was the organ that controlled thought, logic and knowledge. The weighing of the heart, against a feather, was used to determine if people were righteous or [cont.]

BlowHipHop.TV tells us: While the TDE camp was in NYC to celebrate the release of Jay Rock’s new album we chopped it up with Black Hippy member Ab-Soul to get the latest on his new project Long Term Mentality and how he felt the BH Top Dawg crew was progressing.

In the first installment of our sit down with one of the hottest rising actors in Hollywood and a member of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People In The Word” list, Idris Elba talks about making it onto the intro for Jay-Z’s “American Gangster” album. Although Idris was already featured in the movie he wasn’t sure [cont.]

Statik speaks with Ski Beatz up at Shade45. 24 Hr. Karate School Pt 2 is in stores tomorrow.

Freeway spitting on Uncle Murda “Warning” beat on This Is 50 Radio.

Here is what your resident HHS founder does at night. Filmed at Spark 101 in Taipei and Filter Members Club in Singapore. I played some hip-hop too, heh.