[Music Video] THEESatisfaction – Queens (directed by dream hampton)

Giving me Pariah vibes. Beautifully shot though…

Related:

dream hampton talks about directing THEESatisfaction’s “Queens”

[via Life+Times]

[Video] Faster Than Lightning feat. Usain Bolt (DJ Steve Porter Remix)

Congrats also to Steve on winning the People’s Voice Award in the Video Remixes/Mashup category for his Tim Tebow “All I Do is Win” clip at the 16th Annual Webby Awards.

[MP3] Keys N Krates x UGK feat. T.I. – Front Back in the Rain

[MP3] Mixes from DJ Red Alert’s Final Show on 98.7 KISS FM

In case you ain’t hear, New York urban radio station, KISS-FM is merging with cross-town rival, WBLS. This is truly mind-blowing news and the end of an era as the long-running rivalry between the two stations finally comes to an end. What a fitting way to memorialize this news than by posting the final mixes by the legendary Kool DJ Red Alert who has been on the station mixing since 1983. Ego Trip has the science:

After dropping a mix of hip-hop classics and original school breaks, an emotional Red thanked everyone at the station with whom he worked over the years, and bid his listeners a tearful farewell. Ironically enough, the last song of his last mix for the station was Jimmy Castor Bunch’s “It’s Just Begun.”

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[Ego Trip via the homie, Bryan]

[Film Screening] April 27 in Toronto: The CANADIAN PREMIERE of Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer

Directed by Charlie Ahearn (Wild Style). This might be a must-attend like so many of the previous screenings by the Undercurrents crew:

From the same team that brought you such great film screenings as The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry, The Last Poets: Made In Amerikkka and Brooklyn Boheme, Undercurrents Productions is back with another event that’s sure to excite virtually anyone who grew up in the 80’s (especially New York) and photo enthusiasts alike. Presenting the Canadian premiere of Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer, a film about the iconic man behind the lens, and a generation that inspired so many.

During the infancy of hip‐hop, Brooklyn‐born photographer Jamel Shabazz set out on a
twenty‐five year mission to create a portrait of the hip‐hop generation. By 2001, he
became a worldwide phenomenon with the release of his book “Back In The Days”
(powerHouse Books). Director of the seminal film “Wild Style”(1982), Charlie Ahearn,
instantly recognized the power of Shabazz’s photography when he first picked up the
book in 2002. Since then, Ahearn has followed Shabazz in documenting his life and
journey from where he started out as a youth growing up in Brooklyn, to his army service
and work as a corrections officer, to his decisive photographic interactions on the streets
and subways of New York City.

“Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer” is filled with vintage shots of kids rocking Puma
Suedes, Kangols, and pin‐striped Jordaches in Times Square and Fort Greene Park.
Ahearn gives voice to these resonating images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz
himself, graffiti pioneer and hip‐hop historian Fab 5 Freddy, Filmmaker and co‐founder of
Bounce Magazine Bobbito Garcia, legendary rapper KRS‐One, and more.

CLICK HERE to learn more and to RSVP.