BET: Eminem, Black Thought, & Mos Def 2009 Cypher

The highlight of the 2009 BET Awards, at least for me, was without a doubt the 3 minute cypher featuring Black Thought, Mos Def, and Eminem. With DJ Premier on the wheels of steel these three emcees take turns dropping the best freestyle verses I've heard since the Slaughterhouse Greenlantern OnDaSpot cypher.

Basement Jaxx: My Turn

The crazy cool video for the My Turn by Basement Jaxx. I really like this video, it has some very sublime effects in it. The song is ok too I guess.

TeeFury

I just recently stumbled upon this site and thought it was really cool. It's called TeeFury and what they do is make cool t-shirts, nothing special right? what sets this site away from other "clever" tee sites is that every t-shirt they make is only available for 24 hours exactly and then it's gone forever ehich I think is a cool way to do bussiness. Anyway, check them out and see what you think.

Click here to see the site

Sjors Vervoort: Cardboard Monsters

Cardboard Monsters is an animation done on streets in public using cardboard. It's hard to describe so just watch the video.

Rakim: Walk These Streets feat. Maino

New dopeness from the God Rakim himself. No word on if this will be on the new album yet.

Click here to download/listen to Walk These Streets feat. Maino

East Eric's Newest Invention

East Eric has invented this discreet little device that allows you to print pictures wherever you walk. The self-inking shoes will cover almost any surface. For a full photo journal of construction of the shoes and a video of them in action click on the link below.

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Slaughterhouse: The One

This isn't that new (came out this summer) but a lot of people still haven't heard of Slaughterhouse despite their star power. Slaughterhouse consists of Royce Da 5'9", Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, and Joe Budden. Now I'm usually a big advocate of illegal downloads, but this group is dope and they deserve to be famous so cop the album. Also if this is the first you've heard of Crooked I you should go download one of his mixtapes this minute.

Volkswagon: Urban Piano

Saw this over on Wooster Collective, it's a cool little project put together by VW where they turned a staircase in a Stockholm train station into a working piano.

Asbestos: Lost Posters

This is so lame. I've been doing this around the DMV for like a year only I use paper and aerosol glue instead of stickers. Some of the stickers he put up are literally identical to the ones I put up too. It's cool though it gave me an idea for a new poster, "LOST: Creativity"

Lupe Fiasco: Fire

Lupe drops another gem for the masses. The song, Fire, samples Jimi Hendrix's '69 classic of the same name. I'm really digging the uptempo and Lupe's lyrics are insanely good as usual. There's a rumor going around that this song was a response to the total snub Lu got from MTV's Hottest MC's list but that doesn't make much sense to me. I'm hoping this is off his new album.

Click here to download Fire by Lupe Fiasco

Building Projections

This is a video of some stunningly beautiful projections done on public buildings, cars, and other objects (pretty much anything that isn't a projection screen)

Bliss FM: Gotta Spend

Here's a new song from the very dope DMV based group Bliss FM. ATOM gives us a banging beat as usual and John's rhymes are on point, I'd expect nothing less from these cats. You can hear and download the song after the jump.

Click here to download/listen to Gotta Spend

The Roots: How I Got Over

This is the official video for The Roots new song How I Got Over to be featured on their upcoming eighth studio album of the same name. The legendary Hip Hop band from Illadelph's live instrumentation and Black Thought's lyrics are as sharp as ever. This is very comforting as I was worried that Jimmy Fallon's mediocrity would rub off on them during their time as his house band.