Murs is bringing the fun back to hip-hop with his zany video for "What up Tho," which is from his final collaborative album with 9th Wonder called Final Adventure.
In the clip, Murs plays the worst high school cafeteria server on the planet. Not only does he leave pubic hairs in the potato salad, he busts people in the face with whipped-cream pies. Oh, and he also starts food fights, as well.
Directed by Hobostewd, the video has an ending that will probably raise eyebrows -- it has something to do with snorting pork grinds. The clip is all kinds of food porn.
Check out Murs at the Paid Duest Festival this spring and summer.
It's always great to hear Public Enemy frontman Chuck D's baritone voice command people to "Get up" and "Stand up" and fight against social injustice.
"I ain't on nobody's Power List / I ball my fist with my audience / I raise my fist with my audience like this," spits Chuck D.
The new P.E. visual for "Get Up, Stand Up," directed by David C. Snyder, features footage of Chuck D. and his hype man Flavor Flav rocking the crowd on their U.S. tour. Brother Ali joins the duo to light a spark in our brains with his fiery rhymes.
The funky Gary G-Wiz-produced anthem "Get Up, Stand Up" is from Public Enemy's new album Get Evil vs Heroes, which is available here.
Check out this great video from Ty, a veteran rapper from the U.K. hip-hop scene who has been making inspiring, thought-provoking hip-hop for over a decade. If you're not familiar check out his stellar albums like his 2001 debut LP Awkward and my personal favorite Upwards.
In the "Like You Never" clip, directed by Adam Rogers and co-drirected by Bunny Bread, Ty raps about the uncreative direction of today's rap music. "And now the new school is no school / Because everybody and their mama knows pro tools / Writing raps and recording bad vocals / Being a star is more than being anti-social / I'm more than boastful," he spits.
The London-based rapper is seen walking through a blight environment of abandon buildings and a graffiti-covered playground as to represent the emptiness of the music. At the end of the video, Ty is walking in paradise -- the island Aruba, to be exact -- as he takes a dip in the ocean to purify himself of bad rap music.
The video might be overly symbolic with its message about the problems with today's rap music, but Ty makes some great points in his lyrics. In one line, he raps, "I grew up in a brown-black facade / So I'm not trying to act like I'm that large / But I'm trying to rap like I'm that guard / When it comes to culture, I pulling rap's card like a placard."
The real standout here is the song's productions -- a fantastic pounding beat, turntable scratching and a wonderfully-placed soul sample makes this an instant head-nodding track.
The song will appear on Ty's upcoming EP A Kick Snare & An Idea, which is due out digitally in April on Tru Thoughts.
While Azealia Banks and Angel Haze are beefing with each other on Twitter, Rapsody drops a cool visual for her latest single 'Non Fiction.' The song is from the North Calackie emcee's slept-on album, The Idea of Beautiful. Directed by Kenneth Price, the black-and-white video intercuts between Rapsody reciting her witty bars and concert footage of her and 9th Wonder moving the crowd. "Used to ride to N.O.R.E. / Now the people inquiry / About the 5’3” emcee with ovaries / Got a bite on the mic like the likes of ol’ Lauryn," spits Rapsody.
From Compton to Paris, rapper Kendrick Lamar has come a long ways. In his black-and-white video for "Backseat Freestyle," K-Dot gives viewers a tourist's view of his old neighborhood and the city of love.
Elsewhere in the clip, we meet Lamar's weed-smoking dad (who still wants his damn dominoes) and Sherane, the neighborhood chick from his good kid, m.A.A.D city album. In the end, we get to see Lamar perform the Hit-Boy-produced banger in front of the Eiffel Tower in lights.
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