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JAKE ONE – RHYTHM ROULETTE [VIDEO]

For this episode of Rhythm Roulette, Mass Appeal linked up with Jake One.

Very few artists can traverse the constantly shifting borders between the underground and the mainstream like Jake One. The Seattle producer is respected, and rightfully so, in both worlds for his work with 50 Cent and G-Unit, De La Soul, E-40, DOOM, and more. He’s also worked on complete projects with Freeway and Brother Ali. Then with Mayer Hawthorne, he put out a feel good album under the Tuxedo moniker. Basically, his production credits weigh a ton.

From Spin Cycle to his studio in Washington, Jake lucks out with The Best of Herbie Hancock, The Manhattans’ Forever By Your Side, and a Reverend E. Stanley Branch record. Jake One’s sampling methods kick in immediately as he skips around the records, finding a “Yeah!” from Rev. Branch and some drums from The Manhattans. He hears something worth taking from the choir on Rev. Branch’s record then drums from Herbie. The Manhattans also helped provide a snare. As the beat comes together all on his keyboard, he goes back to the choir to find some shouting to fill out the beat. Jake tinkers around with a bass line and before you know it, he’s sequenced a beat fit for the church and the club.

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TORAE FEAT. 3D NA’TEE – CROWN [VIDEO]

‘Crown’ the 4th music video release from Torae’s sophomore album Entitled deals with a situation we know all too well. Set in New York City & featuring 3D Na’tee this PixelMotiv clip shows what it’s like just trying to live day to day as a person of color in America.

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JAY Z & THE NEW YORK TIMES: “THE WAR ON DRUGS IS AN EPIC FAIL” [VIDEO]

Jay Z narrates this video featuring Molly Crabapple’s drawings and produced by Dream Hampton that explains the epic failure of the war on drugs for the New York Times.

The film “…takes us from the Nixon administration and the Rockefeller drug laws — the draconian 1973 statutes enacted in New York that exploded the state’s prison population and ushered in a period of similar sentencing schemes for other states — through the extraordinary growth in our nation’s prison population to the emerging above ground marijuana market of today. We learn how African-Americans can make up around 13 percent of the United States population — yet 31 percent of those arrested for drug law violations, even though they use and sell drugs at the same rate as whites.”

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JOE BUDDEN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM WHILE SKYDIVING [VIDEO]

Joe Budden decides that the best way to announce his 6th studio album titled Rage & The Machine is by skydiving with Complex. That’s new.

Here’s the tracklist:

Three
Uncle Joe
Serious f. Joell Ortiz
By Law f. Jazzy
Flex f. Tory Lanez & Fabolous
Forget
I Gotta Ask
Time For Work f. Emanny
Wrong One
I Wanna Know f. Stacy Barthe
Idols

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WATCH THE 2ND TRAILER FOR TUPAC’S ALL EYEZ ON ME BIOPIC [VIDEO]

With September 13th serving as the 20th anniversary since the death of Tupac Shakur, a new trailer for his upcoming biopic “All Eyez On Me” has been released. Showing a little bit more of the film’s scope that covers Tupac’s life, we get to see some early glimpses of young Tupac and a shot where he’s conversing with Notorious B.I.G. No release date has been set for the film as of yet.