If you’re a rapper from the Town this is about the only way to get a Macklemore feature these days.
Lakehouse Entertainment’s BenadriLL enlists the help (sort of) of Ben Haggerty and the Goonies — a dream team if there ever was one, amirite? — to realize a brighter future.
Turnt up suburban angst leads to doing weird shit, like pre-heating your hammer in the microwave. So do Kung Foo Grip in their new hyped video for “M.I.A.,” directed by Adam McArthur.
A lyrical onslaught from the 96 collective and an assortment of their gifted friends, opening for Fashawn at the Crocodile this past March. Enjoy.
Mike Larry Draw is an underground rapper from the Bronx and Araless is an underground rapper from Seattle — so you’d think they would get along swimmingly in Mike’s new video for “Similar Contrast.” If only Ara hadn’t taken that last hit of acid…
(Also co-starring a grip of other local underground hip-hop faves.)
Donte Peace (only partially his real name) with a new video. “Black Northface” is from the rapper’s Locals Only EP which arrived last summer.
D Valley arrived today with a new video, “Live From the Hood, Vol. 3 (Intro),” from the album of the same name. Is this as real as it gets?
The first of four videos from the classically-minded trio The Loop. “The Classic” was directed by Notework, a track pulled from the crew’s excellent Dead End Streets.
Kublakai collaborated with longtime friend Mark Mathias Sayre for the visual explosion that is the video for “The Only Dance There Is,” from Kub’s 2014 compilation album Kubi Zoo. Rachel Gavaletz contributes guest vocals.
Jarv Dee, under the threat of surveillance by the police state, turns himself into “Water.” Become the cup; move like fluid through the streets. From Jarv’s recent Satellites, Swishers and Spaceships.
Rapper Campana and vocalist Nia Ilyssa teamed up with director Chris Volckmann for “The Current,” an elegantly staged, narrative-driven visual allegory that traverses the linear path of aging, and the unbounded sense of loss and love which knows no such strictures.
This clip reminded me of “Never Catch Me,” the song and video by Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. Both videos capture the beauty that ultimately arises in the dispassionate wake of the Black American experience. We’re lucky to have these artists around who illuminate it in such affecting detail.
“The Current” is from Campana and Nia’s recent EP, Spoke Fiction.
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