Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion from Onyx Cinema, Inc. on Vimeo.

The Kids break it down with KL bout their album delay, industry kcufery and why iPhone 4 will get niggas caught.

Martha is the best!

Mike couldn’t help himself. I don’t blame him.

The men of N.E.R.D. stopped through Shade 45 to tell Whoo Kid all about the “psychedelic” sound of their album, what they are looking for in new music, how good the college scene has been to them and more!

What happened to the Ice Cream Skate Team? How does Pharrell feel about Terry Kennedy’s success? Which girls get the most N.E.R.D. tattoos? How was their experience working with Nelly Furtado? Does Chad want to kick Whoo Kid’s ass? And does Shay EVER talk??

Chad does seem as if he wants to lay one in Whoo Kid’s face. Pretty hilarious.

Pete Rock vs DJ Premier album?!?!?

Interview Magazine recently caught up with KAWS and conducted an interview via ex-Spiderman.  How odd. Spidey manages to cover KAWS’ background origins, his interest in toys, influences and much more. A must read for all KAWS fans. Great job Spider!

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Steve and Tina talks about the movie and play the questions game. Steve briefly talks about Anchorman 2 and Fey will be host SNL this Saturday. Entertaining interview. Date Movie opens this Friday. PS – Meridith is so awkward #juststop PSS – LMFAO @ Matt’s comments about NBC.

“F*ckin’ A, mate!” Hitting across the States April 16th. Click here for exact theaters and showtimes.

Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first film by renowned graffiti artist Banksy, became the hottest ticket at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it made its world debut. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post—hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the worlds most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, Its basically the story of how one man set out to film the un—filmable. And failed

This video is straight beautiful. 2-cent really captured the essence of the Orleans environment along with Jay’s character.

Boundless Radio Presents: Large Professor from Kellen Dengler on Vimeo.

The legend sits down with Boundless Radio and chops it up bout the past and present. Download a 30 minute set by Large right here. If you don’t know, please educate yourself.

Liz Lemonnnnnnnnnnnnn covers this months issue of Esquire mag. The interview is hella hilarious.  Go out and buy a couple copies. Check out more pix and a piece of the interview after the jump.

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Jay Electronica swept onto the hip hop scene in a wave of enigma late last decade. The effect of his quirky, emotional sound was compounded by the erratic methods of their release, drifting out unannounced via the internet – the Myspace leak of Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), a fifteen minute opus laced with movie samples and beatless film soundtracks, represented the beginning of an astounding surge of interest in both the man and his music, back in 2007. Since then, the New Orleans-born MC and producer has garnered heavy support from everybody from Nas to Gilles Peterson, and has worked heavily with soulslinger Just Blaze, dropping two instant neo-backpack classics, Exhibit A and Exhibit C. Only recently he partnered with New York-based “idea studio” Decon, working on his debut album as well as a video project with label founder Jason Goldwatch. With more anticipation around his Act II track than the rest of hip hop’s class of ’10 combined, and another project with fellow supa emcees Mos Def and Curren$y in the making, the future couldn’t look brighter for Jay. To paraphrase his recent collaboration with Talib Kweli und Hi-Tek: he’s only just begun.

Grab ya popcorn and enjoy the footage!

Rime Interview x MTV Urban Germany from I Love Graffiti on Vimeo.

SHOWBIZ PLAYING BEATZ! W/ DJ PREMIER from A/V PRENEURS on Vimeo.

D.I.T.C.’s Showbiz previews some beats from an upcoming project with DJ Premier and talk production at HeadQcourterz Studio.

Common shares his memories of James Dewitt Yancey aka J Dilla aka Jay Dee. Common tells Nick Huff of Hard Knock TV that J Dilla is his, Pharrells, Kanyes and Questloves favorite producer. Common also talks about how Dilla and himself worked on Like Water For Chocolate almost 10 years ago and how he thinks Music would be different if Jay Dee was still alive.

“I never seen a producer sit there and have so much revere for music and so much respect for it. I’ve seen everybody from Pharrell to Kanye, to Questlove … and I’m like, ‘Man, that’s my favorite producer.’ I think music would be in a different place if he was here. He provided so much inspiration.”

“He made sounds that would be anything from the rawest of hip-hop to something like sounds flowing against Radiohead, and he would play some of the instruments.”

Yessir!