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Feb 9, 2012 •
One video is a trippy, kaleidoscopic ride featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West in concert. The other clip stars hoodied vandals truly going guerrillas...tagging up Paris. Which one do you like better?
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Feb 9, 2012 •
In the video for "Still Standing," the Pharoahe Monch looks inward at his struggles with a potentially life-threatening condition—asthma. Jill Scott co-stars. Terence Nance directs.
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Feb 7, 2012 •
Artist David Palmer has created a unique way of honoring famous folks killed by fatal bullets. In this series, he painstakingly uses a hand torch to fuse together casings to create portraits of some of America's most iconic faces.
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Feb 7, 2012 •
James "J Dilla" Yancey would have been 38 today. Just over six months after his death due to complications related to his lupus condition, I wrote a story in 2006 for the Associated Press about Dilla's posthumously released CD "The Shining."
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Jan 24, 2012 •
Eve Arnold shot some amazing images of Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X. She died this month at 99; her "In America" series remains among her most moving batch of images.
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Jan 22, 2012 •
In a homage to Natural Born Killers, Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians of The Internet have released a new video for "Fastlane"—a startingly violent prequel to their previous video of ruthless lesbian love, "Cocaine."
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Jan 20, 2012 •
Lianne La Havas's "Forget," the title track from her latest EP, gets a video treatment and it's clear that the Brit soul singer has an incredibly bright future.
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Jan 17, 2012 •
Flatbush Zombies mine the weed smokin', fright night, grimy hip-hop thing on "Thug Waffle." But the Brooklyn duo don't do typical badman NY rap. Instead, they freak a style that sounds entirely more current and increasingly "regionless."