This That & TH3RDZ is scheduled to drop June 18 on Camobear records. The best thing about this Oldominion supergroup is how they combine slap-heavy party joints with smart humor and some of the deftest lyricism you’ll find anywhere on the Western seaboard. We talk a lot about chemistry when it comes to the best team-ups in rap, and TH3RDZ is a perfectly balanced formula.
Category: Video
VIDEO: “Whiskey Mask” – Ka.lil (dir. by Eric Miller)
Khingz is now known as Ka.lil (his real name, sic), so take note. Take note also of the date June 4 when his Between Saturday Night And Sunday Morning is set to drop. The longtime Seattle rap cooperator gets Wild in his new video for “Whiskey Mask”.
VIDEO: “A Limit” – JusMoni & WD4D (dir. by Harry Clean of Detooz Films)
JusMoni stepped her creative game up by partnering with DJ/producer WD4D for last year’s expansive Queen Feel. The EP’s lead-off track “A Limit” now gets the video treatment by Harry Clean of Detooz Films.
VIDEO: “The City” – Mack E
“I’m a hippie that just happens to have a whole heart,” raps Mack E in “The City”. Indeed. The underground L.A.C.O.S.A. collective grows hip-hop like organic root vegetables. Go here to learn more about ’em.
VIDEO: “High Expectations” – Jarv Dee
Jackin’ Jarv Dee is preparing to release his next album, Moor Bible: The Book of Jarv “sometime this Fall” as the press gods have decreed. “High Expectations” is the lead single.
VIDEO: “Illectric” – Dave B (dir. by Ralph Madison)
“Illectric” is the third video from Dave B’s exceptional The Coffee EP.
VIDEO: “Thx Gvrdxxn” – Key Nyata
I use the cut ‘n paste shortcuts on Key Nyata’s posts more than any other Town artist. “Thx Gvrdxxn” by RVIDXR KLVN member Nyata. Naked women and V’s residing where A’s should live; these young cats make it disorienting for an old head like me. Watch for Key’s Shadowed Diamond.
VIDEO: “On Deck” – Produktive (feat. Mack E & Diggles)
L.A.C.O.S.A. collective does rappity-rap. From Produktive’s upcoming White Noise due this summer.
VIDEO: “Can’t Hold Us” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Ray Dalton)
So this just dropped. Pretty epic from the minds of Ryan Lewis, Jason Koenig and Jon Augustavo (credited as co-directors, though Ryan cites the importance of other parties’ influence in the video write-up). Also Macklemore wrote some raps for it. I hear these guys are pretty popular these days.
[Update: 4.17.13, 2pm PST]
A few more stream of conscious thoughts I had while watching this video:
- “Magical brown people” all over the place. John Coffey, Bagger Vance, et al.
- Macklemore stunting wildly on a “pirate ship” / “Can’t Hold Us”‘s re-appropriation of soul music. Hmm… (Editor’s note: This thought credited to my friend; name withheld.)
- The Space Needle as Mack’s metaphorical penis.
- This some bullshit, fam.
And…
- I know hella white dudes who “planted their flag” on the tops of really tall shit — whether that means proposing to their girlfriends, or just summit-ing a damn mountain because it’s really big. (And yeah, this is a masculine thing not unique to the color of one’s skin, but still…)
- I don’t think there was menace behind any of the stuff in this video, but that doesn’t change the fact that this kind of imagery is pervasive. (And often damaging.)
- Yeah, I’m grinding axes. Deal with it.
VIDEO: “RAH (Ratchet As Hell)” – Avatar Darko (feat. Nacho Picasso; dir. by White Buffalo)
In which Av and Nacho get attacked by the smoke monster. From Av’s Soviet Goonion 2.
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