Video for the Ugly Duckling song “Elevation”. Animated by Justin Ridge and directed by Stoney Sharp, this is the first video from the group’s 2011 album “Moving At Breakneck Speed”. The video features comedians T.J. Miller and Zack Pearlman as well as Nathan Barnatt and several other members of the UD family. The goal of [cont.]

Mac Miller – “Macadelic” (Mixtape)

Fast rap at it’s finest.

Straight from South by South Jets, Curren$y sits down with Hard Knock Tv’s Mark Jenkins and April Bombai for an interview. Spitta talks about about the evolution of his SXSW experience from three years ago to now, performing at the SmokeOut festival, Hanging with Wiz Khalifa and Cypress Hill, his favorite verse, and his numerous [cont.]

J. Cole writes “this is the original freestyle. How it was supposed to be heard before niggas violated and chopped my shit.” Tell it like it is, Cole.

Nas sat down with MTV and spilled details about his next LP, Life Is Good. “It’s been a long time, it’s been years since I released a solo studio album, so this record is everything,” he says. “This is everything that I’ve got to say–I guess you’ve got to live a little and you put [cont.]

“I’m Only A Drop” is the first single from the upcoming collaboration between Illogic and Aaron Evans: Unbeaten Paths “The Dove Ink Sessions . All the song’s on the project where recorded from 2002 to 2007 during the era in which Illogic and Aaron Evans (Then known as Eyamme) where running Dove Ink Records together. [cont.]

From the Subject Matter EP, out now on Stones Throw.

Odd Future writes: At A Photoshoot, We Said Our Verses Into A Camera While This Song Was Playing In The Background. Why Not Release it. OFTAPE Vol 2 Out Now!!!

BoB AKA Bobby Ray sat down with Nick Huff Barili at SXSW for an exclusive Hard Knock TV interview. BoB calls his new album Strange Clouds a more mature album and says he has produced a lot of it along with Jim Jonsin and Dr Luke. TI not only lent his support to the project [cont.]

As the day gets closer to the release of Take Me To Your Leader on March 26th, ¡MAYDAY! and Tech N9ne team up once again and leak another video off ¡MAYDAY!’s Strange Music debut for their song “Badlands.”

The first single from the upcoming Alias & Fakts One album Second Chances. Directed by Al K Allan.

Fresh off appearances at SXSW with label mates Apollo Brown & Oddisee, Gensu Dean has unleashed his first video to support his debut album “Lo-Fi Fingahz”. To bring this one to life, Dean brought in director Calvan Fowler of DayDream FilmWorks whom you may recognize from his work with Pete Rock/Smif n Wessun on Roses [cont.]

Statik Selektah produced cut from Obie’s Bottom’s Up LP, dropping soon.

From The Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil 1, 2 & 3, dropping March 26th.

From Swizzy’s forthcoming Limitless mixtape.

Common drops a few bars @ Haze in Las Vegas over the “Otis” instrumental.