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You already know 24KMilkCrate is going to down for any damn song called “Black & Yellow” add the fact that it’s Wiz Khalifa’s first Rostrum/Atlantic pushed single and you’ve got a recipe for MAGIC! GET UP ON IT!

Here’s a collection of shots from The Jealous Guys’ video “First Sight” off of their next project “The Love Mixtape” which is Coming Soon…Very Soon. Directed by yours truly.
Check out their blog here: The Jealous Guys
Photos Pulled By: Emmanuel Blackwell

24KMilkCrate: Big Sean

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Shots: Emmanuel Blackwell

Big Sean, It’s your first time performing at Rock The Bells, at the same venue with a lot of old hip-hop legends and a lot of bright young stars as well. Tell us something about that. How do you like the Bay Area and the scene out here?

-Yeah, it’s my first time performing here. Can you hear me on it? Man, first time performing at rock the bells. That shit was live! Man, it’s an honor to be in the same breath as Lauryn Hill, 9^th Wonder, motherfucking Snoop Dogg, Slick Rick, just everybody, you know what I’m saying? It’s just an honor man. It’s a great show, great atmosphere, nothing but weed, girls, and beer and shit like that. Grey Goose on deck, it’s just all love man, it’s a good vibe, great energy. That’s what I’m all about.

Good shit. So what’re your plans after today?

-Oh we got more shows next week. Me and Wiz got shows, we got our own shows going on next Thursday and Friday. And then Rock the Bells that weekend. Between that, I’m working on this G.O.O.D Music album with Kanye and the others, doing a collaboration album. I’m working on that. I’m also working on my album, dropping this mixtape next week.

What’s the mixtape called?

-It’s called B.I.G Finally Famous Volume 3. It’s hosted by Don Canon and the Billionaire Boys Club. It’s going to be good.

So are you performing on Kanye’s G.O.O.D album?

Can’t say, man, sorry.

Ah, alright, I thought I could get you on that. So it’s been two years now?

-Oh yeah man, I’ve definitely built up a buzz and a name for myself. The music is definitely something I’m embracing. I’ve grown as an artist myself. I feel like now is the right time to put out an album because I’ve really come into my own as an artist. Now is the perfect time man, and I’m just excited.

Looks like Drake bit a lot off your rhyme scheme.

-He said that flow that everybody thought that he originated, he admitted that like nah, I got that from Big Sean on a hip-hop website. So Drake wins the real nigga award for that. Me and Drake got music together. You hear that song on my new mixtape.

Are you catching onto the house music trip? Hella artists are doing that right now.

-Nah, my shit is straight rap. It’s still popular music, it’s just not house. I do house music with my homie Mike Posner though. Me and him grew up together so we do a lotta music together.

No way, you guys came up in the same neighborhood?

-Yeah, we grew up in the same neighborhood before I was signed and before he was signed. I was in the hood, in the ghetto on the west side and he was in the suburbs in a Jewish community. It’s a weird relationship and how we both got signed. That’s my homie, I just talked to him yesterday. He’s going to be on my album too.

Oh very nice. When’s your mixtape drop?

-Wednesday.

Venerated hip hop show Distortion 2 Static is asking ya’ll to get down with the Virgos and celebrate their upcoming 9th anniversary this FRIDAY! Check out the details below.

Read the rest of the insightful interview with Takashi Murakami HERE.

Hollywood Holt is an entertainer and emcee through and through. If hip hop is pre-school then crowds are his play dough and other emcees are the hypothetical glue that he eats. Before even throwing this mixtape up here I had to make sure that this shit was really as hot as his bold ass title suggested and flat out if you dig rah-rah style hip hop then this is THE SHIT. Joined by his cuzzo Dj $ Mano on the beats and Dj Benzi hosting on the turn tables Hollywood Holt is someone you must not ignore. GET UP ON MAGIC!!

Fashawn has a done it again. The Golden State’s Golden Child has one of the longest and biggest foreseeable careers in hip hop being that the dude is barely 21. This is a must have for your IPad,Pod,CD changer. GET UP ON MAGIC!

Danny Trejo aka Machete lowriding with Mister Cartoon from SA Studios Global on Vimeo.

20 Century Fox requested that Soul Assassin’s Studio produce a couple of video’s revolving around Danny Trejo and his up coming film Machete. What ended up being produced feels like a regular Sunday out Lowriding with the homies in sunny L.A.

Prefix & Potholes clicked up to deliver you a 24 track sampler in 2 discs in the tradition of burning CD’s to jam to in the heat of summer time. Whether sipping lemonade and puffing the insides out of Zig Zag’s on your stoop, porch or backyard this should be a nice addendum to your ambient sound track. Riddled with exclusives from the brightest emcees across the country you got to  GET UP ON MAGIC!