LISTEN: B.G. - Ya Heard Me ft. Trey Songz, Lil' Wayne & Juvenile

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Produced by Cool & Dre and an official Hot Boys reunion. Juvenile's charisma still runs circles about any of these other cats. I am amusing myself by imagining the hook as "you hurt me", instead of "ya heard me", and the video as a bunch of whiny rappers with frowns and tears (like Lil' Wayne tattoo).

VIDEO: Donny Goines BARS Ep. 9 ft Skyzoo

LISTEN: Tokyo Police Club - The Baskervilles (Amplive RMX) ft. Aesop Rock, Yak Ballz

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Previously: SDSU interviews Aesop Rock. [read here]

LISTEN: Young Jeezy - Put On (Remix) ft. Jay-Z

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Jay's verse could've been better, but it's good to hear him out again. (I probably expect too much from the man.)

LISTEN: Muja Messiah - Give It Up ft. Black Thought

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Off of Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy out July 29th.

VIDEO: Big Pooh - With You (Prod. by 9th Wonder)

LISTEN: GZA - Alphabets

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GZA drops the first single off of Pro-Tools (Aug 19th/Babygrand) and it's dope 'Amplified Sample' style. Remember where you heard this.

LISTEN: DMX - Soldier

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DMX addresses his recent arrests over Beanie Sigel/JustBlaze's 'Still Got Love For You' beat that also includes a Jay-Z vocal sample from 'What More Can I Say'.

LISTEN: The Game - My Life ft. Lil' Wayne

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Name dropping John Lennon, The Notorious B.I.G., Kurt Cobain, Eminem, Proof and many more. Dope song. Weezy just does his autotune thing on the hook so no worries about crappy nonsensical verses.

Mp3 via Eskay

VIDEO: Donny Goines BARS Ep. 8 ft Homeboy Sandman & WhyG

VIDEO: Rick Ross - This Is The Life ft Trey Songz

I hear the next Rick Ross video is set in a Police Academy IV spoof setting.

NEWS: Dr. Dre's Detox Out By End Of Year?

"I'm just now — over the last couple of months — starting to feel that it's going to be right and it's something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it," says Dr. Dre (aka Andre Young). "In a perfect world, I'm shooting for a November or December release." (USA Today)

In other dream news that won't ever happen, Nas just said the following: “I want to do an all-Dr. Dre album,” he told MTV News recently. “A whole thing with Dre and a whole thing with Premier, and drop ‘em on the same day. That’s the real thing. All right, I said it. That’s what I really wanna do.” (DX)

Then mirror that with a quote from the Dre article above: But he says he isn't interested in producing albums for established artists. Dre, who previously helped launch Eminem and 50 Cent, says his goal is to find who's next. "All I want to do is sit in the studio with that person for a year and try to create another masterpiece."

VIDEO: Donny Goines Speaks On Rick Ross Situation

Donny Goines speaks on the whole Rick Ross fiasco. He also shows us his sheet of 22 arrests. He's moved on from that now though and as you've been able to see all over the blogosphere is doing good now and grinds his way to the top of the pile. Donny is becoming the Julia Allison of rap as he shares it all. (Check cover of Wired Mag on the stands now.) He makes a few great points.

LISTEN: Muja Messiah - At All Cost

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Off of Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy and noticably produced by an Aftermath guy, Che Vicious. (Black Corners).

"Don't front . Don't wait for the critics to jump on this dude before you start giving it up to dude. Muja is the shit. I'd put him right there with Saigon and Tech in terms of talent on that intelligent hood dude shit. I'd ask him to come on tour with us but I'm scared of his crew. The man is right with his. He's dope live too." - Brother Ali

VIDEO: Young Jeezy - Put On ft. Kanye West

This is my jam, still. Even tho Sickamore thinks the video is wack, I have to give props even just for the opening sequence camera work.

LISTEN: Joell Ortiz - Memories

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Hot new Joell Ortiz off of Free Agent.

Via OnSmash

VIDEO: Tha Liks - Only When I'm Drunk (live)

Performing their classic.

NEWS: The Neptunes Beat Drop

MetalLungies asked myself and a few other bloggers to contribute to their Neptunes beat drop. Go check it out here and download a bunch of their best beats.

VIDEO: Dreddy Kruger Speaks On New GZA Album

VIDEO: Dumbing of Age

The Real is back. Queens may get the money, but princesses get their way.

VIDEO: Talib Kweli Gives Back

VIDEO: KRS One & Hakim On Tony Touch

Via Eskay.

VIDEO: Steel Pulse Speaks To SDSU About Voting

Reggae legends Steel Pulse performed at the River To River Festival in NYC last night and since we're feeling political we got them in front of the SDSU camera for an opinion on voting and the American image abroad. Props to Jetty Productions for shooting this.

VIDEO: Donny Goines BARS Ep. 7 ft. Harlem Cash

VIDEO: Clipse - Fast Life

I love me some Clipse, I'd even say they're among my top favorites of current MCs, but they need to stay away from brokety broke sub par producer Scott Storch. Get back to making those timeless classic fellas.

VIDEO: Making Of Kardinal Offishall's 'Set It Off' ft Clipse

Skee TV presents Behind the Scenes with Kardinal Offishall and Clipse at the 'Set It Off' video shoot.

VIDEO: Farnsworth Bentley - Don’t Stop ft. Kanye West, Andre 3000 & Sa-Ra

Look who Diddy's former butler Farnsworth Bentley got on this track and even got in the video dancing all smooth and shit. Kanye West looks all motivated to make an impression and Andre 3000 is his smooth self. Bentley's rhyme and voice is pretty bad, but it's a fun watch nonetheless.

Via FSD.

VIDEO: The Roots & Diplo Keys To The City

Imeem takes on Philadelphia in their Keys to the City feature. It includes interviews with The Roots, Diplo including a Diplo premiere (see below) and others, video premieres of Okay Player¹s Roots Picnic Webisodes, Mad Decent's Block Party footage and dj mix, ?uestlove's quintessential playlist of songs recorded by Philadelphia natives and much more. Check it out here and below.

The Roots - Keys to the City


Diplo

VIDEO: M.anifest - Babylon Breakdown

VIDEO: Nas - Sly Fox

This song is still essentially good lyrics over a crappy beat, but I'm starting to like it better with the visual to distract me.

VIDEO: Donny Goines BARS Ep. 6 ft NY Oil

VIDEO: The iNternets Celebrities Are The Future…

Bet you didn't know I was a movie producer, eh? Check out Rafi & Dallas's latest. Then check and freeze frame the 4th page of producers. Right there. Boom.

VIDEO: Donny Goines - Play Out In The Rain + Director's Commentary

Donny Goines - Play Out In The Rain [Video]

Play Out In The Rain w/ Director Commentary

LISTEN: Praverb - Hip Hop Legacy

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On some pinky & the brain shit.... Produced by Smokewell.

VIDEO: GTA - The Way ft Jada Pearl

VIDEO: Pete Rock Co-Signs M-Phazes

VIDEO: Donny Goines Bars Special Editon ft. Sha Stimuli, Torae & APinks

VIDEO: Reks - Say Goodnight

Anything produced by DJ Premier will be posted on SDSU.

VIDEO: Lil' Wayne - A Millie

They spent about a nillie on this.

VIDEO: Trae - I’m Fresh

What's up with the bikes? Also I vote for no more electric guitar riffs in Hip Hop.

VIDEO: Asher Roth - Roth Boys

At first I wanted to hate on this, but I appreciate the effort that clearly went into this.

VIDEO: Craig G & Will Pack Freestyle

@ DJ Premier's Live From The Headquarterz on Sirius Radio's Hip Hop Nation. Filmed by Kris of Kinetik Cinematix on June 28th 2008.

NEWS: Young Jeezy 'Not Feeling McCain'

In a shock confession Young Jeezy speaks on the conversation he had with John McCain and why it motivated him to endorse Barack Obama instead.

He thinks McCain is the wrong person to be the country's cleanup man, especially since he had a chance to talk to the senator after a taping of "Saturday Night Live," during which Jeezy performed with Usher. "I told him the 'hood was f---ed up, and he was like, 'How you doing?' " Mr. 17.5 recalled. "Real talk."

They know entertainers, so they shake your hand [and say], 'I'm your friend.' But my mama is about to have surgery that I gotta pay for out of my pocket because she can't get insurance. I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression. I really feel that, all bullsh-- aside. He's gotta come in and keep it right.

About Obama:
" 'I know it's a problem, but how can we work it out?' " Young said of what he perceives Obama's philosophy to be. "Barack, he has a lot of things going for him. He's ahead of his time. Given the right chance, he'll make some type of change. We'll feel it. I really feel that. John McCain is cool, but he looks like a fraud to me."

Via MTV

VIDEO: Ne-Yo - A Millie (Official

It's always so strange to see people brag about having a lot of money is a very obviously low budget video.

LISTEN: Kaz Money - Scratching The Surface ft Scratch

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Kaz Money is the first ever MC from the United Arab Emirates featured on SDSU, and he sound like he's straight out of Philly, with a little dash of a Eminem/Big Pun homage in there. The Roots crew's Scratch is a featured guest on this track. Download his full album for free.

LISTEN: Cool Kids - That's Stupid (The Mixtape):

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VIDEO: 88 Keys - That Rap Freestyle

Producer 88 keys shares with us his two raps.

VIDEO: Snoop Dogg - Snooperman