Reps Up’s Gillatein drops “Red Sky” as he prepares for the releease of his “Stay Solid Pt.2” project.

Also included is another new joint called “I Love” (Shouts to Jay Dev!)

Gillatein – I Love (Radio Edit)

Gillatein – I Love (Dirty)

Gillatein – I Love (Instrumental)

Gillatein – I Love (Acapella)

http://www.repsuprecords.com/

Directed by Majik Films.

It’s a Far East connect as Ajax’ P Dollaz and Hardbody link for “I’m Playin’ D”.

Produced by Jazzfeezy.

P Dollaz feat. Hardbody – I’m Playin’ D (Dirty)

P Dollaz feat. Hardbody – I’m Playin’ D (Clean)

Ty and I will be hosting. See you there! TheManifesto.ca for all the weekend’s events!

Via AOE!

A look behind the scenes with the always animated Blake Carrington in the studio with Ric Notes working on his upcoming “Dare 2 Dream” project.

Nice. And I’m definitely interested to see whether they can pull off jacking the “Rent” theme song.

Meantime check his latest “Love Is A Risk” mixtape.  

Previously: VIDEO: Blake Carrington (Manifesto To BK)

Directed by The HA & Wolf J.

Wolf J finally drops the visuals for “RE’ Grizz” – his musical collabo with Japanese producer Cubesato (Satoshi Yoshitake).

The original song – “Grizzly Bears Panda” – is off the UpsideDownDay TapeMix.

Previously: NEW MUSIC: Wolf J “Grizzly Bears Panda” (Le Petit Prince Dub) (DJ Pack) (Prod. Cubesato)

The NE give us a look behind the scenes of JDiggz’ upcoming visuals for “This Time” with Neverending White Lights off his “The X-Periment” mixtape.

Looks like another dope one from RT!

Vote for “Are We Runnin” on The MCC!

www.jdiggzmusic.com

Previously: NEW VIDEO: jDiggz – Get Money (Dir. by Chris Strikes)

If Drake gave The Mega it’s latest moment to be top of mind in any discussion revolving around contemporary hip-hop, Pound, as a hip-hop magazine, gave us that distinction waaay back in ’99.

To this day it was the only mag I read that I had to actually set aside time for because reading it was akin to reading a highly enlightening academic paper.

Pound’s range of international, national, local, grassroots and socio-economically-related b-boy content made it hands down the best representation of how a hip-hop magazine, striving for excellence and target audience empowerment, should ALWAYS be.

There’s been alot of talk about whether the brand would resurface in the digital age; and I’m not exactly sure who’s involved or what else is in store; but the bottomline is their stellar track record makes www.poundmag.com an automatic bookmark add.

(…) thank you man.

SFA was on location at the opening event for this year’s Manifesto festival! Congrats once again to the whole Manifesto family for putting together Canada’s biggest hip-hop festival. Video features Manifesto founder Che Kothari, Governer General Michaelle Jean and the Godfather, Maestro Fresh-Wes. Via HHC!

If you haven’t caught any of the events thus far…don’t fret. Lots going on this weekend including T.O. Meet N.Y. (that Ty and I are hosting) tonight at The Great Hall. Peep the Manifesto website for all the details about this weekend’s activities!

Thanks to Harvey Stripes for giving me a reason to post a pic of Rosa Acosta! Taaaalk to ‘eeeeeem!!!

Check out all the pics from the video shoot on Harvey’s FB page.

In what’s basically a bunch of MTV interviews spliced together, Drizzy talks about his latest tour (Light, Dreams & Nightmares); the influences that inspired the stage set; his current residential status; the status of the “Fancy” video and more.

SIDEBAR:

Got nothing but love for Sway but asking Drizzy about ‘Pac’s passing (his feelings on it at the time and where he was when it happened) is like asking me where I was when Marvin Gaye died.

C’mon dude, in ’96 the kid was like 9 (smh). I think journalists need to wake up to the reality that hip-hop is over 30 years old now; so the idea that there’s universality in what every hip-hop fan can intimately relate to with respect to the highs and lows of the genre’s history just isn’t true anymore (as illustrated on “Fear”).

Previously: NEW VIDEO: Drake feat. Jay-Z “Light Up” (Unofficial Video) (Directed by Derick G.)