My favorite track on the new Erykah Badu album New Amerykah is the Madlib production “Healer”:

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A Heatwave mash-up of General Levy and Lily Allen titled “Mad LDN”:

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Here is the brand new video from Estelle for “American Boy” featuring Kanye West. The song is from Estelle’s upcoming album Shine which drops May 6th on John Legend’s label Homeschool Records.

Of course, we’ve been bumpin the bassline remix by TS7 for weeks now. You can listen to it in the music player on the left…
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2 videos from Skepta off his debut album Greatest Hits: “In A Corner” features Trigga, Spyda and Roll Deep’s Flowdan. “Sweet Mother” was a hit last Spring (especially around Mother’s Day) but it’s worthy of a rewind here:

Skepta - “In A Corner” With Trigga, Spyda and Roll Deep’s Flowdan

Skepta - “Sweet Mother”

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Fresh tunes in the music player this week: Wiley and Flowdan spit fire over a Bless Beats production in “Spirit In The Beat” from Eskiboy’s upcoming Umbrella Vol. 1. Rakim returns with “Hip Hop” from his upcoming album Seventh Seal, Uncle Murda brings his “Bad Ass Bitch” and Flo Rida gets “American Gangsta” with Lil Wayne. There’s also new tracks from Utah Saints, TS7 & Estelle, Jean Grae & 9th Wonder, Erykah Badu and more.

Enjoy!

The Count & Sinden have a new video for “Beeper” featuring Kid Sister, Flosstradamus and Nick Catchdubs:

Kid Sister is pure Niceness in the dance!!
“Beeper” is from Count & Sinden’s upcoming debut album on Domino Records. The single drops March 24th.
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Hip hop’s new kid on the block is Soulja Boy’s homie V.I.C. The dynamite duo just upped their new video for “Get Silly” which you can watch right here:

No false expectations here, this is definitely silly. Just wait and see how many peeps be doing this dance at the clubs this weekend…

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A new song called “Serious” features the combined powers of Sean Paul, Busy Signal and Busta Rhymes (audio only):

Energizer Medley featuring Bounty Killer, Mavado, Aidonia, and G Mafia:

I am not a big Usher fan, but the first single off his new album “Dat Girl Right There” has me very intrigued. First of all, it features Ludacris who I AM a fan of and the music is downright different for a hiphop/RnB tune. It’s funky electronica, with thick bass, but minimal beats. Luda even raps over a section with no beats at all… Check out the audio from this youTube thang:

Usher - “Dat Girl Right There” (audio only)

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Pacific Northwest hip hop duo, Blue Scholars, have 2 videos out from their 2007 release Bayani. Here are the videos for “Joe Metro” and “Back Home” by Blue Scholars:

With all the technical difficulties lately, I’ve fallen far behind with a lot of things I wanted to post here. So, I’m going to do my best to catch up, which will involve posting a lot of videos that came out in the last month or so. This is one of them: the video from B-more legend DJ Blaqstarr for “Shake It To The Ground/Crazy Leg Edit” featuring Rye Rye.

DJ Blaqstarr & Rye Rye- “Shake It To The Ground”:

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You’ve probably heard T2 and Addictive’s sugary sweet tune “Gonna Be Mine” plenty by now, but have you seen the new video? T2 also has a new song out called “Butterflies”.

T2 feat Addictive “Gonna Be Mine” Official Video:

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DJ Don Letts compiled a wicked collection of tunes for Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown from his vast collection of reggae and dub 7-inches. The album is a veritable soundtrack to London’s legendary Roxy Club circa December ‘76 - April ‘77, where the Pistols, Clash and Banshees were known to kick it while Letts spun irie tunes. Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown features 16 tracks by King Tubby, Culture, Jah Stitch, Horace Andy, Lee “Scratch” Perry, U-Roy, Junior Murvin and many more.

The album even includes the apocalyptic Culture song “Two Sevens Clash”:

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I now have more remixes for Benga & Coki’s “Night” than any other tune in the past year. M.I.A.’s tune “Paper Planes” was the most remixed tune on HearingTest for a while there, but now “Night” remixes have far outnumbered “Paper Planes” remixes. This latest one isn’t clearly credited, but the gory hyperbass lettering reeks of L-Vis 1990 and the user who uploaded it has almost the same name: sivl09.

Benga & Coki - ‘Night’ - SQUID ANIMATION Remix from L-Vis 1990

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Benga & Coki’s original squid animation for “Night” debuted last week and I still get warm and fuzzy inside watching it. If you get tired of listening to “Night” try watching it with other spaced out electronica too. I recommend anything by Scuba or Nommo Ogo…

Benga & Coki - ‘Night’ - DUB SQUID ANIMATION