Videos

Earlier this week we put you onto Domo Genesis’s bombed out album Rolling Papers, which, I have to say, I still haven’t stopped playing. Domo runs with Odd Future Wolf Gang (no Twilight!), a crew of restless teens from Los Angeles obsessed with druggy beats, agile rhymes, and illicit sex scenarios that usually involve Miley Cyrus. Where Domo’s the crew’s resident pothead, Earl Sweatshirt is its serial killer. In the vid for “Earl”, the gang drinks a concoction made of malt liquor, pills, weed, powder, and two different flavors of cough syrup, and things start getting weird. Don’t let the disturbing visuals distract you, though. Earl is a beast. I don’t know which is crazier: the concept for this video, Earl’s murderous subject matter, Tyler, the Creator’s corroded synth track, or the fact that this freaking 16-year-old kid would eat most of today’s millionaire MCs alive in a battle. It’s gonna be an odd future indeed.

Hit the skip for the insane visuals for “Earl”.

Chances are, if you’re a hip-hop head at least, you know this man’s name because of his link to Little Brother and the Foreign Exchange. His soulful crooning has graced more records than I can count with those two groups, particularly the latter as his vocals are a crucial element to the sounds of Connected and Leave It All Behind. But Darien Brockington isn’t just a guest singer. Dude’s been steadily building a nice solo career. And most recently, he dropped The Cold Case Files, an album that features the track featured here, “Rain”. We unfortunately don’t have the track available for streaming but what we do have the ridiculously sexy video. If you watch these visuals and hear the song and don’t feel some kind of way afterward, then you must either be celibate or inhuman. Or maybe you’re attracted to horses or some shit.

Hit the skip to check the visuals for “Rain”.

By now you’re surely familiar with the young, up-and-coming emcee/producer duo that is Black EL and Durkin. The two have put together quite the album in this summer’s Color Commentary. One of the leaked singles, “100 Miles”, now has an accompanying video, which was debuted at the Annie Mulz Concrete Jungle in Boston last week (yes – we’re a bit late on the post). Regardless, the fine lyrical performance from EL, slick production from Durkin, and highly appealing visuals courtesy of Beyond Measure productions make for a great final product.

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