If you’re worried about seizures or suffer from Diplophobia (look it up) I suggest you go on to the next post.

This has to go down as one of the best performance videos ever created, Jigga & Yeezy performing “N*ggas In Paris” off of their smash Watch The Throne

Frank Ocean’s bit of subversive disillusionment with the industry, though can be said about all artists when the line between content, commerce, and passion collide. A definite pop track with some slamming keys, which seems to emphasize every moment when Frank bites back at the industry.

Frank Ocean – Best Seller by mutintamutuma

Now known as The Throne, Jay Z & Kanye West have announced the tour dates for their joint tour on the back of their upcoming Watch The Throne joint album. Hitting the road 2 weeks after the album drops (Aug. 8th), The Throne seems to want to get an early start on the back of their album. Album avail for preorder here – tix avail for preorder on July 28th.

Dates after the jump.

Get your palm fronds ready as the kings approach the throne. Kanye & Jay released “Otis” onto the world yesterday afternoon via radio & Jay’s Life and Times. Featuring a perfectly placed sample of Otis Redding’s “Try A Little Tenderness” the two go in on some old school hip hop shit; trading verses, playing off each other’s words, just hip hop in a pure form, and they’re stunting all the way through. swag.

Jay-Z & Kanye West – Otis feat. Otis Redding
@bjones21 & @social8gency

Pusha dropped his Fear of God mixtape last month and its another in the line of top notch material from their camp, now we have visuals to the lead track “My God”.

The video is fittingly similar to “The Funeral” from the duo’s shelved debut album Exclusive Audio Footage

2010 was solid across the board in what it offered hip hop fans. There was the emergence of future stars and pure talents in J. Cole, Wiz Khalifa, and Curren$y amongst others; as well as the old heads claiming true to their spot and releasing top quality work. I was enthralled by what came through this year.

This post was gonna start as a retrospective but fuck that everyone is doing that, I could talk at length about GOOD Fridays and how its made an indelible mark on hip hop merging old and new traditions, My Dark Twisted Fantasy, 50 Cent’s menacing of Twitter and the internet at large, Cudi loosing his shit again on stage (but still releasing an outstanding album), Eminem’s phoenix like return, or 9th Wonder’s chokehold on underground hip hop, but instead, here are videos to a few of my favorite songs by a small piece of the young hip hop artists that are breaking on the scene.

Curren$y

Stalley

Wiz

B.O.B

Donnis

Skyzoo

J Cole

Yelawolf & CyHi Da Prynce

Theophilus London

Tiron

SKATEBOARDERS FIRE SOUTH AMERICA.

I’m still figuring out how I feel about Mr. Hudson.  At one point he has the talent and of course the backing *ahem* Kanye.  At another point even with Kanye West’s backing, he seems to fall into a sort of pop lounge singer, which can either crush his growth or provide him with a solid niche as a jumping off point into his future.

Jay-Z not on The Blueprint 3