Stalley takes a stroll through New Orleans with its native sons Jay Electronica and Curren$y. Directed by BMike (2-Cent TV), “Babblin’” is soothing, yet touching, in the way that it finds beauty within the post-Katrina destruction. This J Rawls produced jazzy gem is like a time warp to The Roots “Do You Want More” era [cont.]

New Creative Control produced clip from Curren$y. Pilot Talk, in stores now.

Weed and hip hop have a relationship that goes way, way back. As a a result, this reviewer remembers one person assuming I must be smoking back in high school because “you listen to rap, don’t you?” Few current rappers get as much mileage out of the pleasures of lighting one up as Curren$y. The [cont.]

Best album commercial ever? Jay-Z’s Blueprint III ad kinda takes the cake in that category, but this might be a close second.

Dame Dash’s DD172 / Blu Roc Records imprint was on display last month in Brooklyn, showing off the talents of Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., Trademark, Smoke DZA, Rugz D. Bewler, Tabi Bonney, Nesby Phips, and Stalley, all over live music from Ski Beatz and The Sensei’s. This all Greek to you? Then this is the starting [cont.]

This is gorgeous – listen how they let that shit ride from the 2:30 minute onward. Not from Pilot Talk. Shout to Nah Right on the discovery. LISTEN: Curren$y + Fiend – “Flying Iron” (MP3) Curren$y + Fiend – “Flying Iron” (MP3)

Here we go with the official art work fro Curren$y upcoming album Pilot Talk. No release date as of yet.

Curren$y @ The Famous Factory from Thank God I'm Famous on Vimeo. Rich Hil @ The Famous Factory from Thank God I'm Famous on Vimeo. Sean Price @ The Famous Factory from Thank God I'm Famous on Vimeo. Vado @ The Famous Factory from Thank God I'm Famous on Vimeo. Lots of things went down [cont.]

A Def Jam press release this morning revealed some interesting details on Curren$y’s long awaited Pilot Talk debut. The release states that the album is “set for release in June” and will be “produced (entirely?) by Ski Beatz”. We dig a little deeper inside Universal’s retail database to find an official street date – the [cont.]

Here is the official video from Curren$y for his first single “King Kong.” This is the lead single to his upcoming album Pilot Talk which drops June 15th.

Dame spoke with MTV on the reinvention of Roc-A-Fella Records under the eye of Dame Dash. “If Jay wanna come through and do something, he can come holla at me,” Dash told MTV. “I ain’t got no beefs with Jay. Just off the strength that it’s Roc-A-Fella, I could never tell Jay he can’t be [cont.]

Dame figures that with Jay off doing his own thing with Roc Nation, he should take the reigns over from Roc-A-Fella, perhaps as a home for Curren$y’s Pilot Talk. Wishful thinking? He says “it’s natural and it’s working out”….

XXL Freshman Sophomore turned in his latest video. King Kong ain’t got shit on him.

XXL Freshmen 10 emcee and 24 Hr. Karate School producer team for this blazed out, mellow head nodder. Curren$y – “Role Model” (MP3)

Wiz and Curren$y talk about how they met and a common love for the green. Check out the video above.

And one more from Ski Beatz hotly anticipated 24 Hour Karate School, which drops March 30th and will be available for download here at HipHopSite. Oh, and that Ski Beatz exclusive we were talking about here a few weeks back? We’ll show it off one week from tomorrow. The first hint was that it’s not [cont.]

With such an abundant amount of video surfacing from this week’s festival, we’ve decided to take some of the performances highlights and roll them all up into one post. Check back here regularly for updates over the next week. Pharoah Monch @ SXSW Duck Down Showcase from AB on Vimeo. Black Milk w/ AB & [cont.]