RefinedHype is jumping aboard Web’s Open Bar Season freestyle series and joining KevinNottingham.com as an official sponsor of the man’s often diabolical, sometimes introspective, always dope rhyme skills. This week Web’s slapping us upside the dome with “Hustle or Starve”, a track that find him reuniting with his longtime partner in rhyme e.d.g.e. to expound on their previous professions; moving weight. As Web says, ” Nothing really else to say about it. Drugs are bad.” Indeed. Listen and download…
If you’re like RefinedHype you talk about yourself in the third person, and spend all day scouring the interwebs for the latest and illest hip-hop. That’s why now, because we love you so much, and want to get you hooked on our product, we’ll be delivering the RefinedHype Daily Re-Up, a collection of the top ten tracks of the day, some which were featured on the site along with some extras, conveniently wrapped in one dope, raw and uncut package. Download now…
It’s that time of year again, the time to show your mom just how much you love her with a bouquet from 1-800-Flowers and a Cheddar Bay biscuit filled dinner for two at Red Lobster. But if you happen to have a little talent musically then you can bypass all the flowers and shrimp for a simple tribute song. Check out RefinedHype.com’s list of the best musical tributes to mom. See more…
Oftentimes, the truest strokes of brilliance are the subtlest, and thus the easiest to pass over without noticing. Well, OK – I have no idea how accurate that statement is. I just sorta felt like beginning with a sweeping generalization. At second glance, though, I just might have been onto something, at least when it comes to sampled hip-hop production. Flipping an instantly-recognizable riff is one thing, but actually working diverse musical elements into a coherent whole is another – and when the results come together too well, few people notice just how impressive a feat you accomplished. Read More/Watch Video…
Freddie Gibbs, whose single “The Ghetto” secured a nearly constant spot in my headphones when it dropped a few weeks ago, and whose beat sparked some controversy, is continuing to build some sizable hype around the release of his “Str8 Killa No Filla” mixtape with some visual accompaniment to the dope sound of “The Ghetto”, a flick that very appropriately takes us on a tour of Gibb’s Gary, Indiana hometown. See more…
Schadenfreude is a psychological terms used to describe someone who takes pleasure in the failure of others (aka haters), and while I certainly didn’t derive any enjoyment from some of the epic f**k ups below, they were too egregious not to be called out. In the latest of an ongoing series that will include the best…or worst…fails of the week from the world of hip-hop, sports, pop culture and beyond, I examine skateboard P’s failed attempt to get a handful of Oprah, Snoop’s horrendous “California Girls” track and much more…
Originally dropping a couple weeks ago but more tagged up than an NY subway, we finally have a clean version of Drake’s latest “Thank Me Later” leak, tentatively titled “All Night Long (Miss Me)”, and I’m not going to lie to you, it knocks like the D.E.A. on a drug bust (meaning hard). Listen and download…
Breaking news: Fugees alum and acclaimed solo artist Lauryn Hill has emerged from semi-seclusion to make one of her rare guest contributions to a pre-album mixtape track from ATL rapper Stat Quo, of having-his-LP-epically-delayed fame. Another piece of breaking news: I just told a complete lie - but it would be exciting if it were true, right? Though “The Hustle,” the latest leak off “2010,” is actually based around “World Is a Hustle,” an unreleased Hill cut from ‘08, the “collab” gels surprisingly well. Listen/Download…
Not everyone (ok, almost no one) wants to read a movie review that contains 500 words on the ball screens set for Common, but a guy, and an avid NBA fan I couldn’t help but watch “Just Wright” while considering where the movie falls on the Sports Believability Scale, which ranges on one end of the spectrum from the completely and totally unbelievable reverse dunk a 5-foot-8 Ed Norton throws down in “American History X” to the impressive realism of “Friday Night Lights”. See more…
For most critics the term “date movie” is a four-letter word, a pejorative term used to denote movies whose drive for widespread appeal squeezes any ounce of actual life out of the flick. Which leads be to believe those critics actually date. For those of us who actually enjoy (or are ordered) to take our significant others to the movies there’s a world of difference between a good date movie and a bad date movie. “Just Wright” is a good date movie. See more…
Public Enemy said it best: don’t believe the hype. Urban music and culture has found a home online, but with the explosion of new content appearing online everyday, it’s become difficult to separate what’s real with what’s just hype.
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