[music video] De La Soul’s Plug 1 & Plug 2 present First Serve – Must B The Music

First video from a new concept project by my dudes, Pos Plug 1 and the original David Banner, Plug 2 of De La Soul. First Serve album out April 2.

Bonus:

Listen to another track, “Pushin’ Aside, Pushin’ Along” from the First Serve album:

Hit the jump for the Goon Time First Serve mixtape.

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R.I.P. Whitney Elizabeth Houston: 1963 – 2012

What can you say in response to this tragic news today? She’s an icon and a legend. Let us celebrate her legacy and artistic greatness rather than dwell in sadness and focus on this immense loss. Between not being able to find an official video version of her signature song “I Will Always Love You” and it being Saturday we’re gonna take it to the dancefloor to do so instead though. Enjoy….

Download Whitney Houston Megamix 2009 (Radio)

Download Whitney Houston Million Dollar Bill (Frankie Knuckles Radio Mix)

[Music Video] M.I.A. – Bad Girls

Following the ‘controversy’ with former hipster ‘It girl’ and ‘activist’ MC, M.I.A. occasional guest blogger here at The Kitchen, Brendan Philip weighs in on her new video that dropped just days before The Big Game….

Overall I love this song, the fusion of what sounds like traditional Indian music with hip-hop/dancehall percussion is just genius. But for me this is the combination of the song AND the video that really sells it for me! I was pleased with her first collaboration with director, Romain Gavras (“Born Free”) and although this new one doesn’t follow a storyline of that magnitude, it still has strong imagery. The most important part of the imagery is the depiction of women driving cars (on two wheels no less) throughout the clip as a middle finger to the Saudi Arabian law that prohibits women from driving by themselves or driving in cars without men. ENJOY….

— Bren Dan

Related:

albawaba: Bad Girls or Bad Arab Stereotypes?: MIA’s New Gulf-Cool Rap Video Offends.

USA Today: M.I.A. latest: Her video’s hot, her love life’s not.

[Music Video] Pharoahe Monch feat. Jill Scott – Still Standing

Music video for absolutely one of my favorite hip hop songs of the past couple years. Can I also just say I love Jill Scott‘s hair short like that?

[Red Bull via Duck Down]

[Event] TONIGHT in Toronto: Honey Jam: Then & Now

How do I keeping hearing about these things after the fact??! Yesterday I missed a salon discussion with the goddess, Ms. Pam Grier. Total #FAIL!

For those of you already downtown who can hightail it over to Harbourfront right quick, CLICK HERE for details.