December is a month full of inspiration to #RaiseYourWeapons. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested and on December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment was ratified. Yesterday we saw a Civil Rights Icon, Nelson Mandela, pass. In his honor, we release the music video today for Stalley’s “Raise Your Weapons” off the Honest Cowboy mixtape. The music video is directed by Abraham Vilchez-Moran & Jai Jamison. The song is produced by the Block Beattaz.
Once again, 50 Cent collaborates with a member from TDE’s camp — this time being newcomer SZA for her single ‘Teen Spirit’. Check out the video above.
Once again, Marsha Ambrosius decided to present a visual that focuses on a serious matter (in this case, child sexual abuse) for her latest, the Ne-Yo-assisted ‘Without You’. Hopefully, we’ll be receiving Friends & Lovers next year.
Not complaining at all, but for whatever reason, Talib has decided to drop off another visual from Prisoner Of Conscious (even with Gravitas making landfall December 15th). Directed by Jean Grae in Brazil.
Produced by DJ Tight Mike and taken from the upcoming Back To The Basics EP which drops next week.
Taken from Troy’s New York City: The Album, out now.
2 Chainz recently appeared on the ESPN talk show to speak on rappers getting shoe deals, Kobe Bryant, music and more. Additional clips below.
The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards premieres live January 26th and 8PM EST on CBS.
Chicago’s rising MC Vic Mensa came through the Shade 45 studio to kick it with Statik Selektah. While there, Vic got on the mic and rhymed.
The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas joins Daft Punk for the visual to their latest single ‘Instant Crush’, taken from their latest album Random Access Memories.
The official visual is coming soon than you think, but check out some behind the scene’s footage for Binessman E’s mega-remix to ‘Sheets & Blend’.
Miss Lauryn’s recent single (that dropped during her incarceration) gets the lyric video treatment. Directed by Lauryn Hill & Jon Casey.
The MMG emcee is the next up for 106 & Park‘s freestyle series.
Sheek informed the sold out crowd at the UCB Theatre in Lower East Side that a beat boxing Missy Elliott put together “All About The Benjamins” and thought the verse Styles P had ready for the song was “whack”. Sheek also revealed that due to his “trapping”, he was not able to appear on more iconic songs such as “All About The Benjamins”. — Keith Nelson via AllHipHop.com
Check out some in the studio footage of 1200 Money performing his latest leak, ‘Outta Kontrol’. Shot and edited by Remy Cloutier.
Kelz arrived to Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show to promote his new album Black Panties (interview below)…..above, he performs a small medley (in only a way that he can, I suppose), including a live rendition of ‘My Story’ with feature 2 Chainz.
Directed by Anthony Mandler and taken (presumably) from her recently-announced upcoming album Ultraviolence.
The three-part story begins in the Garden of Eden and travels through time to modern-day Los Angeles. Del Rey’s visual sensibility is rich and fantastical, and the movie’s running themes stay true to the concepts of Born to Die and Born To Die – The Paradise Edition: the loss of innocence, good vs. evil, and trading beauty for money. The film puts closure on the two recordings, and features three songs from The Paradise Edition: “Body Electric,” “Gods and Monsters,” and “Bel Air.”
We get up close and personal with Chicago native ‘Chance The Rapper’ during his first London show. The rapper who has taken the game by storm this year discussed a range of topics with us as we sat down for an exclusive interview. We talk touring with Eminem, resisting a big record deal, fame and more. We also captured footage of Chance signing a fans magazine and presenting it to him plus performance footage from his first London show including a surprise appearance from GOOD Musics Mr Hudson. – R&R
The late of the two Grims? Check out the latest Hype Session to get you hype for the 5th installment of the Lord Of The Mics series, which goes down 16th December.
The next up for the Lord Of The Mics Hype Sessions are Proton and Realz. The actual clash goes down 16th December in the legendary Basement.
Eyez and D2 are the next up for Lord Of The Mics’ Hype Sessions. It all goes down on the 16th of December.
The latest visual from Lorde’s Pure Heroine project. This gyal is killin’ it.
3-6 is on a roll, today. Not only do we get to hear a Project Pat classic brought to life on film, we also get to see a video for an all around Mafia favorite, ‘Where’s Da Bud?’
Hypnotize Minds, ho!
I don’t know why, but Project Pat (with an experience from Young Buck) drops a new video for a song that was on his album Mista Don’t Play (which is more than 10 years old). Memories.
