Dino 5

Hall of fame hip-hop producer Prince Paul (DJ Stegosaurus) teams up Chali 2na (MC T-Rex), LadyBug Mecca of The Digable Planets (Tracy Triceratops),Wordsmith (Billy Brontosaurus), and Scratch (Teo Terodactyl) to for the child-hip hop group, Dino 5.

LOL, I thought this was pretty funny, I mean, if I had kids this is how I would start them out. Best believe my children will be little hip hop gremlins.

Dino 5 Official Website
Baby Loves Hip Hop

I'm So Fly (Ft. Akon, Fat Joe & Fabolous) - DJ Green Lantern

First released joint off of the GTA IV soundtrack.

I'm So Fly (Ft. Akon, Fat Joe & Fabolous) - DJ Green Lantern

Bonus:


A "Barack Anthem" off of GL's upcoming mixtape Yes We Can: The Mixtape hosted by Russell Simmons and Barack himself.

We Need Barack (Ft. Mavado & Barack Obama

New Skillz Track

New heat from Skillz. Produced by Kwame. You heard it HERE first.

Sick - Skillz

Soulja Boyz II Men

The guys at Its The Real do it again.

Birthday Girl

So no North American release of this song but the Rik Cordero Directed video featuring Sasha Grey is still a go. Check it out, you know we fucks with anything Roots or Cordero for that matter over on this side of things.

Video: Paris, Tokyo - Lupe Fiasco

Okay, I'm about to call it a day and look what I come across..



G'night hiphopgremlins.

Big Boi's Ballet Production

Big Boi and Janelle Monae perform at the Atlanta Ballet In Big Boi's ballet "Big". Whatever man, I would go see this if I had the chance, not only am I a big fan of Outkast and Big Boi, but I recently got into Janelle Monae's stuff, her EP was off the hook. The style is ridonkulous, hopefully she won't get slept on. Check out her EP right here on h²g.

Shout out to Eskay and Miss Info for this.

Rising Down (Album Version) - The Roots

I was down at The Roots' blog and I found this. It's a little different from the one that was leaked like a month back. I'm not sure which one I like better. Whatever, they're both dope.

Rising Down (Album Version) - The Roots

In other Roots news though, I recently read somewhere that The Legendary Roots Crew is gonna release.. wait for it.. 9 videos for their upcoming LP Rising Down. Word is that they arent even gonna appear in over half of them.

The Roots’ collaborations with Rik don’t stop there, and not by a long shot. Over the weekend they agreed to shoot videos for songs “Criminal,” “Rising Up,” “Rising Down,” “Singing Man,” “I Can’t Help It,” “Unwritten,” and “I Will Not Apologize.” According to this plan, that basically leaves “The Show” (featuring Common and Truck North) and “Lost Desire” (featuring Malik B. and Talib Kweli) that won’t have videos. The first video to be shot will be “Rising Up” on April 14th. The Roots will not appear in all (or even most) of the videos.

Also, the Birthday Girl video should be dropping soon it's going to feature adult film star (porn star) Sacha Grey, it was directed by Rik Cordero, he's been on top of his hip hop video producing game lately. For most of you this might be a little old but whatever.

A still from the video:


Check some more stills of birthday girl right here: 1|2|3|4|5

Nelson Mandela's Birthday and Em is invited?

The poster boy for Anti-Apartheid turns 90 on July 18. Nelson Mandela who spent 27 years imprisoned for resisting white minority rule before serving as South Africa's president from 94'-99' has organized in conjunction with his AIDS charity "46664" (His old prison number) a concert in London's Hyde Park. The Concert will be held on the 27th and will be hosted by the "Fresh Prince" and his Wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. Eminem had been asked and confirmed to preform as well as Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox and Razorlight. U2, The Spice Girls and Paul McCartney have also been asked to preform.
"This year's birthday celebrations aim to celebrate Mandela's ideas rather than just the man" said the chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Achmat Dangor.

This will probably be one of the biggest charity and music events of the year, but I really don't get why they would invite Em of all people? Not that I don't like the guy but I mean he's not exactly one the acts that come to mind when you say charity or AIDS. U2 obviously Stevie for sure but Em? Oh and not mention that Will Smith and Eminem exchanged words a couple years ago. It would be hilarious if Will took a shot at Em after he preformed... Personally I think this is just Em being your typical white guy after being called a racist, "I've have tons of black friends...SEE"

Trapped On The Island (Ft. Trife Da God) - AC

I fucs with AC after the Apple commercial song, haha dude is craazy. Haha according to Mr. Eskay at Nahright the video for this song should be dropping soon too so stay tuned for that.

Trapped On The Island (Ft. Trife Da God) - AC

Body Rock (Ft. Twista) - AZ

An unreleased joint off of AZ's newest LP Undeniable that features Twista. No idea why this didn't make the cut, it seems to fit with the rest of the vibe of the album. Oh well you got it here at h²g.

Body Rock (Ft. Twista) - AZ

Oscar - The Cool Kids

A Cool Kids joint off their upcoming mixtape, That’s Stupid!: The Mixtape as well as the upcoming Mick Boogie & DJ Benzi Re-Motivation mixtape

Oscar - The Cool Kids

The Bake Sale EP coming soon.

Joell Ortiz Live @ SOBs

ITZ MICKEY

Mickey out doin a photoshoot for SPIN Magazine - via GFCNY


Itz that time again
Automatic - Mickey Factz ft. Curtis Santiago

This week Mickey collaborates with Curtis Santiago of the Vancouver Indie Scene kids pretty dope check out the Myspace

Just some shit.

Here are a couple of tracks I got a hold of when I got home.



Don't Hate Me 'Cause I'm Beautiful - Keith Murray

Intellectual Violence drops April 22nd



Boss Freestyle - Wiz Khalifa


I fucs with Wiz and whenever someone mentions Keith Murray, all I can think of is The Most Beautifullest Thing In The World

Carter III Album Cover.

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Shout out to Eskay

Paris, Tokyo Video Screenshot

It's hard to tell from this one shot if its gonna be hot fire, but I have faith in Lupe.

Via Lu's Blog

Love In This Club (Remix)(Ft. T.I & Young Jeezy) - Usher

TIP kiillllls it.

Love In This Club (Remix)(Ft. T.I & Young Jeezy) - Usher

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Video: Diamond Girl - Ryan Leslie

First time I heard this song it had a recycled 'Ye verse on it from Dialated People's This Way. I fucs with this. R-LES!

Video: Pray For Me - Reks

Reks spits fire, I guess i've been sleeping on this dude cause its dope. Nice use of the Dead Presidents sample.

Reks' album Grey Hairs coming this summer.