This is what I would call a mindf***: Riff Raff appeared on One Life to Live as club promoter Jamie Franko, who engaged in shady dealings while accompanied by two chicks. The entire thing is not only a nod to James Franco’s short role on General Hospital (where he played serial killer/artist “Franco”), but also a humorous irony given that Franco pretty much played as Riff Raff in Spring Breakers. Check it out above and try to make sense of it for yourself.
Songs lyrics can be hypnotic, poetic, seductive or inscrutable, and we’ve all had moments where we wonder about the meaning of a specific line or a stanza. For our “Dramatic Interpretations” series, Google Play presents some of today’s top artists with a classic song verse, and asks them to give a reading of it as well as present their own interpretation. The results are funny, and offer insight into both the artist and the song. Here Talib Kweli reads a verse from Jay-Z’s “Moment of Clarity”.
George the Poet joins Trevor for the first ever spoken word Live Lounge.
BONUS: George The Poet covers/refixes Maverick Sabre’s ‘I Need’.
J. Cole launches his “BornSinner.com” vlog series with a webisode where his mother Kay Cole speaks on the day her son helped her retire from her job at the United States Postal Service.
Che Merk premiered his video featuring Da Big Fella on WSSH earlier, taken from His upcoming Wild Life EP which is set to drop in the summer. Look out for his new project under his new movement Spill Gang.
UPDATE: Additional performances of ‘Like That’ and ‘Demonstrate’ for Rap-Up Sessions.
Above, JoJo performs ‘Andre’. Below, she performs an inexplicable Drake mash-up.
K. Michelle takes up on a day in the life of sorts in her new web series.
Kevin McCall chronicles his trip where he got his ass kicked.
In light of his recent travels to Australia to promote his new mixtape Definition, Kevin McCall put together a new vlog series that gives us footage of the events that took place. In part one of the Australian Tour vlog Kevin heads to Sydney where we he hits up the Sony Music Studio to work on some tunes with Australian hip-hop dance and pop music group, Justice Crew and flicks some photos with some of his female fans. Stay tuned for next episode where we might get to see K-Mac hit the stage and perform.
GLC & Get GWop drops off another visual for a record with J-Lie & Meechie Hall from their mixtape The Pulpit which is available now. Church.
Courtesy of Cam Be:
A taste of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at the Shrine in Chicago as they jam out a number of their classics.
New Slum Village video for their single. “Forever” was produced by Young RJ and taken off of Evolution, coming June 25th.
This weekend, Fabolous took a break from his “Life Is So Exciting” Tour with Pusha T to head out to Vegas for the Mayweather vs Guerrero Fight at MGM Grand. While there he caught up with a few fellow celebs, partied with Chris Brown at his birthday party and took over Diddy’s Fight Night After party at the Palms.
The coaches deliver a powerful one-two punch with their take on Stevie Wonder’s classic “Superstition.”
Clipstar and JL present Rambo’s first video “Too Trill”. Rambo and Jabb are up next to take over this VA shit.
Performing ‘Retrograde’, from Overgrown (out now).
Directed by Charlie Locke, this visual precedes Midé’s forthcoming EP of the same name, of which you can preorder here.
The latest visual taken from Confz’ Conscience EP. Produced by FGM.
Pound Sterling’s latest — the title track from his latest project — is courtesy of Spiff TV.
You know what really grinds my gears? We’re sitting here geeking over a Fat Trel project with no sign of a concrete release date and these niggas here are putting out videos of birthday cakes.
Produced by Katapullt and courtesy of Marvell’s Monday Xtra series. FM5 is coming soon.
Manga drops some bars for Mixtape Madness in lieu of his recent released project ThreeHundred&Sixty.
The latest single from Haze is available on iTunes. Above: the visual, courtesy of Elmino Da Great.
GRM Daily is back with there Daily Duppy freestyle series, and the frst one up for the new season is East London’s Morrisson.
