Via TOFLO! Melanie Fiona blesses Italian singer Giuliano Palma on “Nuvole Rosa”. Great international look for Miss Fiona who is steadily taking over the world.

The Archivist chops it up with 9th Wonder in Vancouver. We’ve seen it on Twitter and he’s praised Toronto on video before but here’s a more detailed explanation of why 9th calls Toronto the “hip-hop capital of the world”.

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Ruff Ryders representative Drew James releases the video for “Return Of The Ryder”. The trailer came out over a year ago but here’s the finished full-length video.

Toronto spawned Drake, Kardinal Offishall NOW RUFF RYDERS have picked up Drew James aka HWY 400! The 25 year old wordsmith was added to the RUFF RYDER flagship by RR Co-Founder Waah Dean himself!

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Unkle Morey drops a brand new video for “Lookin’ Like A Crook” featuring JB. Check Mayhem live this Sunday night at the Stylus Nominee Party at The MOD Club! Don’t have the MP3 yet but when we do, so will you.

Newly signed to DTP/Def Jam, Toronto-based group Untitled release their highly anticipated mixtape, The Return of R&B (hosted by Don Cannon). There’s also a new video for the single off the tape, “The Champ” which you can link to below.

UPDATE: Full mixtape artwork/tracklist under the hood!

WATCH: Untitled – The Champ (Music Video)

DOWNLOAD: Untitled – The Return of R&B (Hosted by Don Cannon)

Previous: NEW MUSIC: Untitled – The Champ (Prod. by T-Minus)

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HERE IT IS…The BRAND NEW video for THEO3‘s hit single HOW I FLOW part 2 alongside talented Emcee TONA and incredible songstress ANDREENA MILL. The song is produced by Star Toronto Beatsmith BOI-1DA (Forever, Best I Ever Had) and has acheived rotation at both FLOW 93.5fm in Toronto and on MUCH VIBE and RAP CITY Nationwide! To show your support click the link http://www.Theology3.com and REQUEST HOW I FLOW part 2! you can also BUY THE TRACK for only $1!

HOW I FLOW part 2
Director: THEO3
Producer/Editor: RINKU DASGUPTA
DP/EDITOR: JAMES HELLYER
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T. Ana Cole’s new “Day In The Life” webisodes take us on her journey to record “Back Around” (due out in June). In this episode she hooks up with veteran producer Norm Sabourin. Huge shouts to Mr. Sabourin who was not only my piano teacher a long time ago (in a bizarro galaxy far away) but was also nice enough to give me my first (and only) studio internship (aaah, the good ole naive days, lol).

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Previously: VIDEO: T.Ana Cole – Wait And See (Commercial 2)

Nas & Damian Marley chop it up with HardKnockTV about how K’naan influenced the making of their album Distant Relatives and more. Under the hood, the duo talks with Angie Martinez about Drizzy’s “Find Your Love” video. Via 2DBz!

HardKnockTV caught up with Nas and Damian Marley to talk about how K’naan influenced the making of Distant Relatives, why they picked Nneka as the opening act of the tour and about Nas jumping on the remix to Heartbeat. The interview concludes with Nick Huff Barili asking Nas about his lyric on Ludacris’ I Do it for Hip Hop “(They say I’m so low key, I’m socially awkward”). After the credits Nick asks Nas about the possibility of him doing a hip hop/jazz album with his father.

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At Last drops June 15th!!!

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Previous: VIDEO: Eternia & MoSS – It’s Funny (rmx) feat. Ras Kass (Behind The Scenes)

Previous: NEW MUSIC: Eternia & MoSS – It’s Funny (rmx) feat. Rass Kass

BigMouthsOnline gets a sneak peek behind the scenes of the video for JD Era‘s Stylus nominated single, “You Know This” from his Th1rt3en mixtape which is available now! Look for the video soon and catch Era live on OTA Live next Tuesday night as well as performing at the Stylus Nominee Party May 30th at MOD Club!

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