Famed hip-hop director Hype Williams has made a career out of his flashy approach to music videos.  His two most recent clips, Kanye West’s “All Of The Lights” and Lil’ Wayne’s “6’7” draw heavily from movies you may have seen. “6’7” was obviously inspired by Christopher Nolan’s Inception, and “All Of The Lights” borrows from […]

In the 1980s, musicians only scratched the surface of what could be done with the music video. Michael Jackson set the standard and in the…

After 20 years of friendship, DJ Premier and Busta Rhymes have finally hit the studio together to work on a track for Busta’s upcoming album.  RapRadar caught the two in studio together on video.

Lil’ Wayne, Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes posed for a picture on the set of “Look At Me Now.” By the look of the photos, “Look At Me Now” has a “Back To The Future” theme. The stylish car in the video even has the same license plate “OUTATIME” as the original movie. Check out […]

In honor of what would have been producer/MC J Dilla’s 37th birthday, Gifted Team Films, Okay Player, and Brian “B. Kyle” Atkins have released the documentary Still Shining which tells the story of his life through interviews with his family, friends, and artists he worked with.  Dilla died on February 10th, 2006, just days after […]

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Talib Kweli recently dropped his album, Gutter Rainbows. The video for its first single, “Cold Rain,” is inspired by Denzel Washington’s Book Of Eli and had us reminiscing over some videos based on movies. Take a look at our list for the top ten music videos inspired by films. 10. Joe Budden – Pump It […]

In the 1980s, musicians only scratched the surface of what could be done with the music video. Michael Jackson set the standard and in the 1990s, everyone raced to match or surpass him.

“How you gonna take my hot line and make it a hot song like I ain’t posed to come and step on that sh*t like King Kong” spits a fierce Busta Rhymes on the remix of “Roman’s Revenge.” For all the young people out there, the “line” Bussa Buss is referring to is the “rah rah, […]

I think ball players need to stay off of  the mic but Carmelo Anthony’s new Become Legendary mixtape has this unreleased track from Nas, “Foul Breeze.”  The track uses the same  “Faded Lady” sample by S.S.O. Orchestra that Diamond D’s flipped for “Went For Mine” and DJ Scratch for Busta Rhymes’ “New York Shit.”

Swizz Beatz links up with Busta Rhymes again for this week’s installment of Swizz’s Monster Monday free track giveaway.  Basically this is the more subdued, after party version  of “Stop The Party.” T’aint bad though.

Ghostface Killah’s ninth proper album, Apollo Kids, hits stores on December 14th and is certain to be another solid entry into the Wu-Tang Clan member’s discography.

Kanye West inspired all of his producer buddies to try their own version of G.O.O.D Fridays. Last week Swizz released “King Tut” featuring Rakim for his “Monster Mondays” series  and this week  features Dark Man X and Busta Rhymes on “Ya’ll Don’t Really Know.”