Our good homie Waajeed recently relaunched his Bling47.com site & it’s better, faster, stronger, fresher! We encourage all of you to add it to your bookmarks or homepage it if you havn’t already!

Bling47 Breaks takes you on a journey into samples used by J Dilla.  This original series is directed, filmed and edited by Waajeed himself. The 3^rd episode features him speaking about samples used in, “Featuring Phat Kat” from the BBE release, “Welcome To Detroit”. “This time marks an important phase in the relationship of our crew.  When the opportunity for a solo project came from Peter of BBE – it was another crack in the widening gap between Dilla and Slum Village.  J took the leap and made one of his most comprehensive projects to date.  “Featuring Phat Kat” is just one of the many hidden jewels on the album that would become, “Welcome 2 Detroit.”

D’Angelo’s first performance in a decade. With 11 dates for D’s Voodoo International tour and a new album slated to drop this year, you can start getting excited now. Pow! Shouts to FADER for the assist.

Producer Brandon All Day remixes Rhymesayer-spitkicker (and former Nacrobat…*tear*…) Psalm One‘s single Better Than My Last, which was released as a part of her #WomanAtWork series. To go along with the single a video was made from footage of Psalm One’s European tour. Yes, that IS the video for it above. And yes, that IS the download link for the track below. And for the record I still bump All Ways.

PSALM ONE – BETTER THAN MY LAST (BRANDON ALL DAY REMIX) [DOWNLOAD]

The homie Trackademicks gives us the back story behind the stellar “More Than Two Ways”, off his “State Of The Arts” album. This is the digital version of having a jacket in your hands reading the liner notes seeing who did what & who thanked who & so on… y’all remember those daze? More than two ways. da da tsssh… anyways… Shout out to our brotha Teeko… that lil impromptu set in your crib y’all were doing was fresher than fresh!! Lemme get a dubb! hahaha

The legendary Erykah Badu, aka Lo Down Loretta Brown, tears down a DJ set at Bardots Miami. She was joined onstage by Dead Prez and Supa Nova Slom.

Mighty Mos Def!

The homies over @ CLOUT just posted the entire footage (over 2 hours long) from Japans legendary battle between two of the most prolific producers/DJ’s in the hip hop history, the king of the boom bap; Premo & the chocolate boy wonder; Pete Rock. It’s on some more party rockin’ back n forth type schitt & not on some ‘nigga u aint shiiiiiet’… all love… all respecognition… all dope! Shout out to Aloha Served Daily.

I absolutely LOVE seeing other people’s creative spaces. The good people at VTech get a chance to venture into Jurassic 5 DJ/Producer DJ Nu Mark’s studio to discuss his sick toy collection and how he incorporates them into his music….craaazzzyyy. Nu Mark’s newest release Take Me With You is available now. For all you lucky Los Angelinos there’s info on a listening party going down your way up under the jump.

A few of San Jo’s finest collab’ed last night to bring us this! No edits. No cam tricks. 1 take.  A prelude to “Bobby Fischer” (stay tuned for more info)

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