Check out this clip from Scratch featuring Jazzy Jay, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, amongst others, going through their crate digging exploits.
Flying Lotus drops his dope Adventure Time track on Soundcloud. Whenever Soundcloud crashes (and let’s face it, this is a fairly regular thing), I can’t help but wonder if Flying Lotus has something to do with it. After all, any time he drops a track on there, shit takes off like a fighter jet. This …
Sampleface’s Big Groove mixes up Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up with Hi-Five’s I Like The Way into a 80s R&B jam. We all remember those damn Rickrolls from the 00s and since then, Rick Astley has become a internet cult icon. But just when you thought there was no more moisture in the …
Imagine a database of every word from every recorded rap song. Ever. Well, it is now a reality thanks to Hip-Hop Word Count. “Who’s the best MC of all time?” Probably the most controversial question in hip hop (depending on who you ask). People can lose friends over questions like that. While there’ll probably never …
Witness Sherman Hemsley performing on Soul Train back in 1992 for this week’s Throwback Thursday.
Egon continues his Funk Archeology series at RBMA, with a look at modal jazz this month. Over at RBMA, they’ve been running a series called Funk Archaeology where former Stones Throw label manager Egon has been digging through the expansive world of music, from Russian funk to obscure vinyl in New York. This time around, …
We told you about the possibility of Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Herbie Hancock working on music together. Now there’s another video of them listening to Dilla. Now, I know what you might be thinking – “I listen to Dilla everyday, that’s not news.” Well, that’s true and I do it too BUT when the track …
Crillmatic drops the third instalment of his NSFW: Set The Mood mixes.
UK’s Eric Lau drops the first single off his second album, featuring Rahel. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better track than this all week. Eric Lau has been all over the place these past few months, from Hong Kong to Hamburg, but amongst all the travelling, he’s found time to release the first …
DJ Finesse presents a mixtape of Biggie acapellas over Premo beats. The age old question “would Biggie have been as popular were he alive today” will continue to rage on until we’re all worm food but one thing’s for sure, he sounds incredibly dope over DJ Premier beats. DJ Finesse put the whole collection together …