Check out this impromptu dressing room rehearsal with Mos and his horn section. Mos is one of my favorite working hip hop artists, and this is a really great sounding bunch of horn players. I like this kind of stuff caught on video, it’s cool to see behind the scenes sometimes. I guess that is one positive thing about DVDs, when they don’t get bogged down with too many stupid useless features.

Do you like sexy ladies…big watches, and wiping? Here is a video that probably contains most of what is entirely wrong with hiphop music. I believe in the “chorus” Mr. Boosie is repeating that he is “pro wipe”. I could be wrong…My question would be who is “anti wipe”? No one wants a dirty pooper right? Oh wait! Maybe he is referring to the Asians and their use of them wacky toilets that wash you out with a water jet! OK mark me down as “pro wipe” as well, I just don’t think we need to sing about it. Don’t get me wrong it is probably pretty cool to be a tough guy gangster with loads of cash, bodacious jiggle mamas, and clean underpants… Wipe on Lil Boosie, wipe on, I know you’re possibly thinking I missed the real point of the song. I didn’t…really.

Does anyone have the pulse of the REAL underground like M.I.A.? Her last album “Arular” along with the wild mixtape “Piracy Funds Terrorism Vol 1″ were a complete annihilation and resurrection of everything pop should be, a perfect blend of hiphop, electronica and dare i say good old punk rock attitude. She combines this music with her stunning beauty, and a high voltage live performance into what is simply an unstoppable typhoon of underground pop music perfection. It seems from this video release of a new song, “Bird Flu” (which we assume is from a forthcoming album) she has settled into her groove pretty well and is continuing to bring the sound from the people to the people.

Bird Flu:

Buky Done Gun (From Arular)

M.I.A.: Myspace
M.I.A.: Official Website

I confess I don’t really know much about this Mocky guy he’s from Germany, and has done a bunch of collaborations with some high rollers like Peaches, Feist, and others. He scored a small hit with 2001’s Sweet Music, which is a fairly simple pop/rap song. His newer videos look like some kind of modern interpretation of Morris Day and the Time. This video for I Mickey Mouse Motherfuckers however, which was a collaboration with ad hoc, is pretty damn funny and has of course landed Mocky in some legal trouble with the mighty powers of Walt Disney who have fired off a lawsuit against him. The video is a really great example of how you can create an engaging piece of work clearly targeted at a web savvy audience without a huge record company style budget. Best of luck on that lawsuit Mr. Mocky.

Mocky: I Mickey Mouse Motherfuckers

Mocky: Official homepage

It was you nigga…tell the truth. This tune is from 2004 (and still sadly relevant) by Immortal Technique and Dj Green Lantern, also featuring Mos Def who is perhaps everything that is right about hip hop. Lending big name support is Eminem who himself released a pretty scathing attack on BushCo before the election. Your president is responsible for 911, he is responsible because they supported and BUILT the infrastructure for terror, that is the message, dig?

Link to MP3 download: Bush knocked down the towers