DJ Shadow ft. Run The Jewels - Nobody Speak

"Theory" in being a Hip Hop DJ by Grandmaster Flash

The Game - Sauce

“I’m calling out every rap nigga, every hip hop website or magazine… every media publication, urban radio station,” The Game said. “People out here starving, dying everyday & we got the platforms to have an immediate impact that can increase change at a faster rate than the people who stood up in our past. No more just posting a hashtag or a photo of injustice saying we gotta change… From today on out, I’m holding everybody with my platform & above or under accountable for actions that need to be taken by all of us to better this world.”

Read More: The Game Is as Brazen as Ever on 'Sauce' With DJ Khaled - XXL | http://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/new-music/2016/08/the-game-the-sauce-dj-khaled/?trackback=tsmclip

"Across the Border"

New Biggie on Daddy-O album

Korean Buddhist Monks Rap and Beatbox

"Tag Clouds"

“Tag Clouds principle is to replace the all-over of graffiti calligraphy by readable translations like the clouds of keywords which can be found on the Internet,” Tremblin describes his project. “It shows the analogy between a physical tag and virtual tag, both in the form (tagged walls compositions look the same as tag clouds), and in substance (like keywords which are markers of net surfing, graffiti are markers of urban drifting)."

http://www.demilked.com/painting-over-graffiti-removing-tags-street-art-mathieu-tremblin/

Brazilian Hip Hop; "Turn Down for What"

"In Brazil noise has also gained local nuances around struggle. For those interested in the legacy of anti-government protest, both from the left and right, in the Southern Cone, there has been a resurgence of the panelaço (the piercing, incessant battering of the frying pan) in the last two years in urban Brazil with particular vigor over the past weeks. This noise marks a specific articulation; it is superficial to the long history and deep stigma that barulho (noise) carries in Brazil. In a recent post, São Paulo sarau (open microphone events) organizations issued a manifesto called #PeriferiasContraOGolpe, loosely translated as “The Periphery against the Coup,” in which they use noise as an existential position of interlocution rather than a simple sign of opposition.

We the residents of the periphery, who never slept as the so-called giant slept, are here to send a noisy, resonant salve to the fascists: we are against the coup d’état currently in motion, one that would affect us directly!

...

Sérgio Vaz, a leading sarau organizer, writes in his poem “A Mutt of Literature”:

You say you don’t understand     

This noise that comes from streets
Don’t understand this voice
That walks with rock in hand
In search of justice, if not revenge…

We are the ones who scream,
Those without education, hospitals, w/o security
We are the orphans of the fatherland
The bastard children of the nation…

 
http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2016/08/03/turn-down-for-what/

Hip Hop and James Baldwin

"The critical response to this project came with nothing but praise and many classified it as a proto-Hip Hop album due to the way Baldwin’s verses rode the beat. Although the validity of that statement is up for debate, the evidence is there and influence on Hip Hop can be felt. Artists like Nas, Most Def and Talib Kweli have by name stated Baldwin’s influence on their writing and career. Today, as Hip Hop expands, more artists are leaning towards jazz and funk inspired instrumentation. Most recently, Kendrick Lamar has pushed the envelope for poetic jazz rap with his To Pimp a Butterfly and untitled.unmastered albums, once again bringing the connection between jazz, poetry and Hip Hop to the forefront of pop culture."

http://thesource.com/2016/08/02/celebrating-the-life-of-james-baldwin-hip-hops-unsung-innovator/

T.I. - We Will Not

Atmosphere ft. I.B.E. - Pure Evil

Nas & Erykah Badu - This Bitter Land

bringing Mexican and US rappers together

Independent MC Fat Tony is hoping culture is more powerful then the borders that separate them. Using his influence, Tony is bringing American rappers to Mexico City, Mexico every month with his “Function” series.

This week will be the second installment of the series in Mexico’s capital at the club Das Racist. Mexico’s Yoga Fire and California vocalist Cult Days will support the headlining artist Kool A.D.

Tony told Remezcla, a Latin news site: “Both cultures influence each other. It’s only right that these artists have a space to meet and share ideas instead of admiring each other from afar.” Tony used his opportunity to work a country that closely borders his hometown of Houston as a way to build a cultural bridge between the two countries.

He discovered Mexico City’s enthusiasm for Hip Hop in 2015 at Festival NRMAL, when he was booked to perform. He was later invited back a second time for the Hip Hop League DF after-party for Material Art Fair.

“Function is all about bridging the gap between two neighboring countries who should mingle more often,” says Tony. “Especially in each other’s cultural inventions and appreciations.
http://thesource.com/2016/07/29/houstons-fat-tony-brings-mexican-and-american-rappers-together/

Runners - Reko GBR & the Nice Guys

http://ilovegraffiti.de/blog/2016/07/25/video-runners-03%E2%80%B3-reko-gbr/

Lushsux covers Bikini Clinton in Burqa

Melbourne graffiti artist sprays burqa over provocative Hillary Clinton muralhttps://t.co/p1uH0cBNTc pic.twitter.com/tXSddz8nld

— CNN Wire (@CNNWire) August 2, 2016

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/02/asia/australia-clinton-mural-artist-burqa/index.html