Steve Ortiz comes through with footage from last night’s Hip-Hop Legends show in NYC. Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth on stage (not) drinking Cisco.

Pete Rock and CL Smooth travel from NYC to Oakland to speak on Prop 23, which deals with clean energy as part of the Clean Energy Tour in California. Brought to you by Take Back the Mic Bay Area and Rebel TV 333. Meanwhile, did anyone record the Pete Rock and CL Smooth show at [cont.]

First taste from Smif-N-Wessun’s Pete Rock produced LP, hopefully due out this year. LISTEN: Smif-N-Wessun – “Prevail” (feat. Raekwon; prod. Pete Rock)

Let’s all thank J. Period, John Legend and The Roots for bringing Pete Rock and CL Smooth together for their first track in 6 years. PR & CL straighten it out for this first burst from J.Period’s “Wake Up! Radio” mixtape. LISTEN: John Legend & The Roots – “Our Generation (J. Period Remix)” (feat. Pete [cont.]

Video footage of Rah Digga performing in Croatia and talking about working with DJ Premier and Pete Rock.

Hot off the heels of their Japan performance together, not only will DJ Premier and Pete Rock be releasing a 2CD/DVD set of the event (which is up for pre-order now at Juno.Co.Uk – check your region codes), but they are also “making an album together”, according to the above Tweet by Pete Rock from [cont.]

Kurupt tries on a new style for size, with the fourth single & video from “StreetLights”. Produced by the True Master Pete Rock & directed by Fredo Tovar & Scott Fleishman. Hard dogg, raw dogg, hog with the gold paw.

Blasphemy or high art? C.L. has teamed with Mr. Chop – best known for his work with Now Again Records and DOOM’s Born Like This – to remake the song in two different versions. Chop is a long time follower of Pete Rock, who released an album last year called For Pete’s Sake, which found [cont.]

Do you listen to Poetical Prophets, Brick City Kids, Original Flavor, Ricky D, Kid Wizard Rakim, Simply II Positive, or Darkman X? You probably do, but just don’t know it yet. A blog called Onetwann digs into the archives and unearths a treasure trove of lost pre-major label demos from the likes of Jay-Z, Slick [cont.]

Preem and Pete Rock prepare for their face off in Tokyo – soundcheck and interview footage above.

Here is a video for a unreleased Red Cafe track that K1X got a hold of, contacted Cafe and Shakedown and put this video together. Below is a little more about how the video came to be: The idea for a visual love letter to NY basketball was born when Red Cafe’s unreleased track “Heart [cont.]

Roy Ayers, Pete Rock, Stefan Harris, and the Robert Glasper Experiment discussing the roots of urban music.

Yeah, the above math problem checks out, as each Pete Rock, RJD2, and Maseo of De La Soul will collaborate on indie rock outfit Yo La Tengo’s Here to Fall Remixes, which drops on June 8th on Matador Records. The trio will remix the track “Popular Songs”. We hear Pete’s rhyming on this one – [cont.]

How badly do you want this? To celebrate the Manhattan Records’ DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock show happening in Japan on May 2nd, the famed outlet is selling these now on their website. Get your Yen right.

The Soul Brother #1 took the stage with Peter Rosenberg on Noisemakers earlier tonight, and spoke about working with Kanye West in Hawaii on his new album Good Ass Job.

Official video for the LOTUG emcee’s Pete Rock produced solo track, that debuted here a few weeks back. Taken from the album American Du, slated for May 4th.

Manhattan Records presents DJ Premier VS Pete Rock -A Legendary DJ Battle trailer from getfunky on Vimeo. DJ Premier and Pete Rock will take to the stage in Tokyo, Japan on May 2nd, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Manhattan Records.

Taken from Sadat’s forthcoming “Wild Cowboys 2″ dropping March 23rd on Fat Beats Records.

You may remember DoItAll from classic 90′s crew, Lords Of The Underground. Well, he’s not a funky child any longer…. (*cricket chirp*). Matter fact, dude has been keep busy, living up to his name, taking on roles in Hollywood on shows like 30 Rock (NBC), Law & Order (NBC), Soprano’s (HBO), OZ (HBO). He still [cont.]

Here’s an exclusive first look at the album cover for Roc Marciano’s forthcoming Marcberg LP dropping April 20th on U.N. Music / Fat Beats Records. As you may know, Roc is a member of the U.N. gang, who did some work with Pete Rock a few years back during the Petestrumentals era….