The latest video from Kublakai off last summer’s The Basics 2. Kub is soon to be on tour with One Be Lo. Go here to find your town.
Category: Video
VIDEO & DOWNLOAD: “Green Butter” (feat. Rogue Venom) & “Magic Milk” – dr.Oop
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206UP.COM missed the 4/20 party yesterday (probably because your dude don’t smoke — ah well). Thanks to MC dr.Oop though for linking me to his hot boxed clip for “Green Butter” (featuring Rogue Venom), released a couple years back on The Grateful Dread LP.
The MC also just made public the follow-up track, “Magic Milk,” which keeps it on the rap-as-recipe tip. Listen closely for how to make magic happen in your kitchen. Both (ahem) joints were produced by the esteemed EarDr.Umz.
VIDEO: “Nu Tang” – Nu Era (feat. Kung Foo Grip) (dir. by Detooz Films)
Nu Era is a local rap conglomerate composed of three MCs from various groups including Dyno Jamz, Hush’d Puppies and 5 and Brown. Go here to learn more.
Detooz Films blesses the crew with a hyped and raw video for their track “Nu Tang” (featuring 425 cul de sac spitters, Kung Foo Grip). Lyrical miracles abound. Get Nu Era’s debut album, Sink or Swim, below. I like this shit right here.
VIDEOS: “Bad Boy” – Big Bang & “Alone” – Sistar
“Bad Boy” – Big Bang
“Alone” – Sistar
Fuck it, it’s Friday and I’ll do what I want. Especially with three happy hour brews in me and my friend Allen (of SSG Music and DJ/co-host of the burgeoning JK Pop dance party night in the SEA — coming soon to a preferred venue near you) hipping me to music heretofore, how you say? “Foreign” to me.
I like these videos because they remind me of the 90s (awesome) and because they remind me of myself (every time I look in the mirror). Asian Americans have a tendency to forget that just because we live in a country that prefers us to stay grinding behind computer screens and grand pianos, doesn’t mean we can’t be sexy, outlandish, and, best of all, BAD. The sound of these two K-pop crews might be the sound of aped American culture, but it’s also the sound of our efficient and well-engineered vehicle veering far out of its designated lane.
Standardize test THIS, ma’fuckas.
VIDEO: “QueenS” – THEESatisfaction (dir. by dream hampton)
Having the inimitable dream hampton direct your very first music video is, you know, a pretty cool thing. THEESatisfaction received just that treatment for their “QueenS” from the excellent awE naturalE.
VIDEO: “Phone Home” – CopperWire
The first video from CopperWire’s Earthbound (which dropped yesterday). I just wrote a little bit about this crew, go here to read it.
VIDEO: “Victory Lap” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Career retrospective-type videos come a lot faster in the internet age, don’t they? Not even two LPs deep yet and Mack and RL got one. Would seem a little dubious if shit weren’t so dope…
(Get the 2012 XXL Freshman Mixtape, here.)
VIDEO: “The Taste of Heaven” – PROPS (dir. by Paul Maupoux)
Check out the latest video from area MC PROPS, “The Taste of Heaven.” The most creative, visually stunning music video from any SEA-based artist not named Shabazz Palaces. Give this a look, it’s worth the time, folks.
From the upcoming High As The Stars: The Planet of MARz mixtape, hosted by Vitamin D, coming early summer.
VIDEO: “Honor Roll” – Dave B. (prod. by Kuddie Fresh; dir. by Avi Loud)
Kuddie Fresh-blessed beat for Dave B’s latest, “Honor Roll.”
VIDEO: “For Colored Boys Who Consider Suicide” – Khingz
Khingz has a demon over his shoulder. Will it get the better of him? From his excellent Wandering Worx debut, Liberation of the Monster.
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