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What’s your favourite hip hop video clip?
Nov 20th
Earlier this week the Crumpet crew got together compiling a list of our favourite hip-hop video clips. We had so much going through our collective minds we thought it a good idea to share with the rest of the cool kids out there. What’s your favourite hip-hop video clip? [post clips to comments]
A few of our all time favourites:
N.A.S.A,Tom Waits + Kool Keith – Spacious Thoughts
Pharcyde – Drop
Jake One – Home
mashup!
Nov 5th
Check this. famed for their uniquely lo priced simply styled clothes, japanese label UNIQLO have launched a website with graphics that react to your mp3 loaded file.
Well what has that got to do with anything? Nothing! Other than the fact that its a cool concept and that we loaded in the remix of Mayer Hawthorne’s Maybe So Maybe No tune. check it out we think its cool and so will you!
Ladies
Oct 29th
We just received our promo package from our friends over at MOOVMNT blog. Cheers boys. One of the CD’s in that promo package is Lee Fields & The Expressions – My World. 100% good old fashioned soul. With this warmer weather coming in it brings about thoughts of ladies in summer and we think Lee Fields best describes it in his tune. Check it on the tube you!
frequency
May 30th
Freaky freaky freaky frequency. Sydney hip hop artist Scott Burns makin sure we’re on that and yes indeed we are like gravy on fried chicken. This clip catches our attention as our good friend Alice Fenton [on the red phone] is also in the clip. Check the rhyme.
And check Scott’s online channels via scottburnsday1.com
mos definitely fresh!
May 10th
We’re coming at’cha with a sneak peak of the title track from Mos def’s new album titled “casa bey” due to drop in June 2009. A-grade guest list from the likes of Slick Rick, Talib Kweli, Madlib and J Dilla among others. mos definitely fresh!
To a rappers delight
Mar 17th
This is Dave. The rapping. Flight attendant.
Like nursery school rhymer its infotainment.
Isn’t it enjoyable to travel this way.
Fly South West Airlines cos Rap’s here to stay.
A Suite For Ma Dukes
Feb 25th
Conducted by Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño – A Suite For Ma Dukes A Tribute To J Dilla was a special event in Los Angeles commemorating the life and work of James Dewitt Yancey with the help of a 40 piece orchestra. The 4 tracks on Suite for Ma Dukes cover Dilla’s productions from “Antiquity” and “Nag Champa”, A Tribe Called Quest’s “Find a Way” and Slum Village’s “Fall in Love”. The EP available on preorder now via Stonesthrow Records
Lebron 6 – Nike After 6
Dec 6th
Lebron James does a wicked fro schmoozin with Pussycat Doll’s Nicole Scherzinger for a promo vid on the Lebron 6. A performance basketball shoe fit for dunking from the freethrow line IN THE GAME! and sexy enough for Ms Scherzinger’s pretty feet. Some funny writing done for Lebron – “..got me changing my expression I don’t express…but I express my feelin’s for you girl”. If you’re a true Crumpet head you know you wanna see what happens waaay past 6
heads up producers – remix the roots
Oct 24th
Competition:
Want a chance to showcase your skills and rock with The Legendary Roots crew? Well here is your chance, thanks to Indaba’s The Roots “Criminal Remix” contest. You have until November 12th to submit your round one remix to The Roots‘ “Criminal” off of their latest album Rising Down. Provided are separate tracks from the song including bass, drums, keys, guitar, and vocal, so you can really get busy (no pun intended). The Top 25 finalists from round 1 will receive autographed copies of Rising Down and move on to Round 2 where they will have another week to remix a second track by The Roots. The winner of round 2 (as selected by Black Thought, ?uestlove and Indaba resident Mantis Evar) will have an opportunity to record an original song with members of The Roots. Hit up Indaba for further details and to get the stems and go to work. In the mean time check this new joint from Von Pea, Donwill, Spec Boogie, and Che Grand (aka The Lessondary) to see how to at least rip new vocals over a track by The Roots
crème of da crop – syndrome studios
Oct 17th
Let me paint the picture: rapper pulls up to a flashy nightclub in his flashy new Bentley. He’s escorted to the “V.I.P” room where a platter of half-naked females fight for air time in front of the camera, while his entourage hang back throwing gangsta hand signs in the air…
Ring any bells?
Yep, we’ve all seen our fair share of stock-standard, lame-ass, bling-bang hip hop videos. The industry has been pumping out these cringe-worthy clips for years, even from guys like Dre, Biggie, Pac, and my personal favourites – De la. But every now and then, when the stars align, a good hip hop clip can make us go ooh ooh ooh… like these ones made by LA-based Syndrome Studios:
With a mad mix of lush design, special effects, awesome cinematography, beat-timed editing and sick motion graphics, Syndrome creates music videos that are dope as.
Check’em – www.syndromestudio.com
xXx
Oct 13th
With Diesel’s Dirty Thirty party now over, we Crumpeters gotta say throwing a big three-oh party for the rest of the world is a mad major marketing ploy to get masses back on the Diesel bandwagon which, in our circles at least, had been dying in the a-hole.
We’re taking a look at the mashups that happened as part of Diesel’s artist lineup.
London’s lineup included Soul Jazz Soundsystem, Mark Ronson, and DNB heavies DJ Fresh & MC Dynamite.
Stockholm sported Swedish hip hop superstar Lazee, while in Zurich the Cuban Brothers smashed it up.
Tokyo got a sweet deal with Soulwax and the venerably talented A-Trak
and of the more current commercially viable known artists Chaka Khan vs Hot Chip performing at the New York event also a pregnant M.I.A (coming out of retirement) vs N.E.R.D live mashup. Insane!! Check the clips here
Common, Pharrell, Hype – Universal Mind Control
Oct 8th
Ingredients
1 kilo of Common Sense
Table spoon of Skateboard P
Pinch of black and white
1 Rosie – the robot maid from the Jetsons
Mixed together with a Hype Williams egg beater from the future, bake on 200 for an hour and what comes out of the oven? Common’s UNIVERSAL MIND CONTROL music video. The lead single to his upcoming album of the same name (originally titled “Invincible Summer”). Keep your taste buds buzzin for the toasty fresh album to drop around Nov/Dec this year.`
Be like ‘Ye
Jul 25th
For the men of Crumpet we’ve often thought about rockin up to a spot and rollin in like a super duper star, choose any girl in the joint and partyin like we just don’t care, but like all tales fairy Absolut shows us in this modern day Cinderella tale that these days we don’t wanna be like Mike we all wanna be like ‘Ye. Even dudes with mullets or elvis look-a-likes.
Peep the vid: http://bestadsontv.com/ad_details.php?id=15234
The Pharcyde. The Drop.
Jun 24th
Classic hip hop from the 90s: the Pharcyde’s “The Drop”, directed by Spike Jonze.
