“… Experience a slice of Los Angeles hip-hop history on DJ Dusk’s Root Down Soundclash. Three classic old school hand-held battles from some of Los Angeles’ and the World’s greatest beatmakers.. ”
Madlib vs Cut Chemist
Will.i.am vs Thes One
Oh No vs Exile
It’s been about a year since we first saw this trailer from DJ Dusk’s Soundclash, but we never got our hands on the full DVD. The DVD is now available @ Stonesthrow. Thanks to Behind The Beats.
Peep this quick Nike I Am 90 Sound Series clip (via Heavy). The series focuses on European musicians who share the Nike Air Max 90 attitude.
Kissey Asplund illustrates the lifestyle of a singer in Stockholm. Nice marriage of style, imagery and music. The song is called “Silverlake” and it’s produced by Dorian Concept.
If you can find her album Plethora, pick it up without hesitation. She also has an older EP called Fuss N Fight as well as a slew of random songs floating around. Drops Oct 22nd as a limited 12? vinyl, and digitally November 3rd. Trees For Breakfast.
Kissey Asplund - Silverlake Prod. Dorian Concept
Here is the first single off Black Milk’s upcoming release, Tronic. Watch this Video of Black recording Give The Drummer Sum.
Here’s the video of Q-Tip’s first single “Gettin Up” from is upcoming solo album The Renaissance dropping November 4th.
Q-Tip - Gettin’ Up
Bilal Salaam’s second solo album “Langue De Rasoir (Razor Tongue)” will be released on ITunes in the next 5 weeks. Download the first single and title track of this album.
Bilal Salaam is also a part of the Honest Music Movement that consist of Eric Roberson, Wes Felton, Little Brother, Muhsinah, Raheem Devaugh, Slimkat 78, Sy Smith, and more….Watch this video.
Bilal Salaam - Langue De Rasoir (Razor Tongue)
via WUZZ
September 13th Now On will release their highly anticipated sophomore full-length tentatively titled “Tomorrow Already”. With the Lab Technicians production team at the helm, Now On has pulled themselves up by their lyrical moon-bootstraps to pump out the innovative, post-futuristic soul that has entertainment industry skeptics throwing their hands in the air, screaming “Live for the Now, On to the Future! Check out the first of four music videos.
Kidkanevil’s new single Black Bug/When I Dig Feat Kissey & Blu will be released on september 15th.
Kidkanevil - When I Dig Feat. Kissey Asplund & Blu
Fried Cotton is a new collaborative project consisting of Blu,Aimé Cain ,J83 and F-roots. Since J’83 and Aimé Cain work closely with Blu affiliate Co$$ aka Cashiusking under the name Spaceshipstatus a collabo with Blu was meant to happen.
While Blu was in europe during his last tour Aimé reached out to Blu and statemagazine to film a documentary of blu’s stay in the netherlands. That quickly turned in to a documentary of blu and spaceshipstatus making a track together in a studio allong with F-Roots.
The group is currently finishing up their debut E.P. and is planning a tour for the fall season of the year. You will hear that first on MoovmntDotCom. picture by carista naömiHomegrown Video + Trailer
Omer from Universoul just told us that KT won the beat battle in DETROIT!! Y’all understand the weight of winning a beat battle in Detroit, right?? Detroit got some of the hardest most progressive neck-breaking beat makers in the world. Check out Omer’s blog to get more info about 14KT. Or start diggin in the moovmnt posts.
Fonzworth Bentley, Kanye West, Sa-Ra & Andre 3000 AKA The Cool Outrageous Lovers of Uniquely Raw Styles just released the new videoclip ”Everybody”.
Shawn Jackson’s latest project, “First of All…” is a highly anticipated album that aims to satisfy true fans that feel a void within quality hip hop music. The album is a wonderful balance of sounds which features artists such as Guilty Simpson (Stones Throw Records), Ty of Ty & Kory, Double K (People Under the Stairs), Ta’Raach (C.R.A.C.), Beloved, and Comel of the group Time Machine. It’s balance and well rounded features give listeners something that is often missing from hip hop, and further proves that Shawn Jackson is one of the strongest MCs in the game to date. His swagger, rhyme play, and well thought out content sets a high standard for those that choose to follow. released on Tres Records. Buy This..