Cornbread – Pass It (Video)

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California-based emcee Cornbread presents the music video for his single “Pass It”, produced by West Coast beatsmith Kan Kick. “Pass It” will appear on Ready To Live, Cornbread’s forthcoming album featuring Big Shug , Tristate, West Coast Kam, Roc C, and G&D as well as production from Oh No, DJ Romes, Georgia Ann Muldrow, Elevated Soul, & Noah Ayala. A Mississippi native, Cornbread moved to California where he founded the KaliWild crew alongside Oh No, J-Duce and Sean Biggs, forming a pillar of the Oxnard underground movement that spawned Madlib, the Lootpack, Dudley Perkins, Kan Kick, and Aloe Blacc, who appears alongside Cornbread and Maya Jupiter on the 2010 single “Relaxin” (watch the music video). The “Pass It” video was shot by Dirty Diggs, the producer behind many collaborations with Planet Asia, who makes a cameo in the video. Cornbread calls the clip “the joint you pass around the world! It will get your spirits high. I did this song in the spirit of good old hip hop story telling.”

Apollo Brown & Skyzoo – On The Stretch & Bob Show (Video)

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Apollo Brown & Skyzoo just returned from South Africa & Mozambique as part of “The Easy Truth” Tour. They decided to enlist some of Brooklyn’s finest (kids) to play the parts of Apollo, Skyzoo, Stretch, Bobbito, and recreate the classic 90s radio show “The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show.” The result is a low-key vhs style video session of WKCR’s most classic program. 89.9

David Banner -The God Box (Album Stream)

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[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/323810902″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] David Banner is back with his latest project “The God Box” featuring an all-star cast, including Cee-Lo, Raheem DeVaughn, Big K.R.I.T, Black Thought, Trinidad James, WatchtheDuck & Big Rube and while Dave handles the production on half of the album himself, he also enlists production from DJ Khalil, DJ Swiff, Chris “THX” Goodman and more.

David Banner – Magnolia ft Cee-Lo & Raheem DeVaughn (Audio)

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[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/322801411″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] David Banner releases “Magnolia,” which takes on a different connotation from the official nickname for the state of Mississippi; Magnolia State (named as such due to the plentiful abundance throughout the state of both the flower and tree).   “The song represents the relationship of trees in Mississippi and Africans throughout history” Banner stated to Hotnewhiphop.  “The taller the tree, the broader the story, the shorter the tree, the more personal the perspective is.  My verse is about the relationship of the magnolia tree and African’s during slavery.”
 
“Then she started to tell me how she was used in the lynching of blacks/branch cracked/broke her arm just so his neck wouldn’t snap/and if I would not have rapped/I’d probably meet the same damn fate/from the same damn rope/I’m about the same damn weight.”
 
The God Box features an all-star cast, including Cee-Lo, Raheem DeVaughn, Big K.R.I.T, Black Thought, Trinidad James, WatchtheDuck & Big Rube and while Dave handles the production on half of the album himself, he also enlists production from DJ Khalil, DJ Swiff, Chris “THX” Goodman and more.