[Music Video] Wiz Khalifa feat. Too $hort – On My Level

MP3 Download: Wiz Khalifa – On My Level Ft. Too Short by zwow

Hit the jump for the ‘Imported’ remix (really a mash-up with The Clipse’s “Grindin'”) and a “Chopped N Screwed” remix.

[via TOFlo.com]

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[Music Video] Nas and Damian Marley – Patience

MP3 Download: Nas Damian Marley – Patience by datdoodmatt

Another great-looking video. Hit the jump for a few (mostly dubstep) remixes also.

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[Video] Cee-Lo – Bodies

MP3 Download: Cee-Lo Green – Bodies (Produced By Salaam Remi) by EVO85

This video directed by Mikael Colombu is pretty amazing. BTW: you see that Above the Law Time Will Reveal album in the screenshot for this video? That’s another project I worked on. Cee-Lo knows good music! Shout to the homie Hutch.

[MP3 + Video] Star Slinger – Mornin’

The post-Dilla movement begins? Instrumental hip-hop music from Manchester, England. Video directed by Alan Jensen aka Ghostclatter! Track from the album, Star Slinger Vol. 1. Check it out in full below:

Dig what you’re hearing? Hit the jump for more.

[h/t: Pitchfork via James]

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[MP3] HipHopisRead.com pres. J. Dilla/Jay Dee – Donuts: The Samples

Since I just got back from the Dilla Suite For Ma Dukes screening, it seemed apropos to post this from the homie, Ivan at HipHopisRead.com:



“Just over five years ago, James Dewitt Yancey, a.k.a. Jay Dee, a.k.a. J Dilla, celebrated his 32nd birthday by releasing his magnum opus, Donuts. Sadly, his life was cut short just three days later due to complications from TTP and Lupus. There’s no telling how the hip hop landscape would be different if Dilla were still around. What we’re left with instead is a Tupac-like surplus of stashed away, sometimes incomplete works – many of which Dilla labored over in his last months of life.

Much like the various records that Dilla picked up with his heat-seeking fingertips, the music on Donuts is so wide-ranging, so diverse, I can’t help but call the album his magnum opus. Donuts is an incredible record, filled with beautiful soundscapes (“Time: The Donut of the Heart”; “Stop”; “One Eleven”; “Gobstopper”; “Dilla Says Go”; “Bye”), neck-snapping grooves (“The New”; “Two Can Win”; “Walkinonit”), innovative, electro madness (“Lightworks”; “Da Factory”), hardcore soul (“Mash”; “Geek Down”; “Last Donut of the Night”) and everything in between – lest I list off the entire tracklisting! It was a pleasure to compile Dilla’s eclectic sample sources, and though I say this every time I release a sample set, this time I really mean it: TURN IT UP!!”



I ain’t gonna lie, I was late to the Dilla party and that’s speaking as someone who actually worked on some of his earliest production projects! That being said, I couldn’t agree with Ivan more. Watching the film and seeing how touched people in the audience were by it, Dilla, his music, his creative & artistic legacy and even by having his mother Mrs. Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey in the room also to reflect on life in Detroit as a singer herself and telling stores about raising Dilla and his single-minded (almost obsessive) focus on music from the age of about two on makes you realize how powerful a force music really can be.

Download HipHopisRead.com pres. J. Dilla/Jay Dee – Donuts: The Samples



Previously on The Kitchen:

– The Story Behind the Artwork for Dilla’s Classic Donuts Album

– DJ Houseshoes Presents J Dilla: The King James Version [Mixtape]