Music: Chance the Rapper & Donnie Trumpet "SURF"

Another "surprise"  album release for the year 2015 already regarded as a great album with a great amount of features which not too many albums/projects can do.

Music: Green Street Featuring Cavalier "The Calm"

1 full year removed from releasing their album The Will To Win. The Green Street click releases a celebratory track of their continued humbleness featuring Cavalier.

Trailer: Black Mass

Black Mass is the drugs, death and betrayal book of the same name by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill about the head of the Irish Mob Whitey Bulger. Whitey Bulger is played by Johnny Depp, below you can see the trailer in which he has gone through a major transformation. Johnny Depp is nearly unrecognizable in the Scott Cooper directed film, in the trailer below you can see the heaviness of the crime story as Johnny Depp picks at the patience of the host of a dinner party with some very scathing and terrifying words. Under the trailer are some pictures of Depp in make up for the film.

Music: Glasses Malone feat. Kendrick Lamar "Thuggin'"

Cali connects from Watts to Compton Glasses Malone calls on his Westside partner Kendrick Lamar to assist him with the "For the Love of Money" Sample produced by Sega with an intro from a Tupac interview.

Music: Slim Thug "Tha Boss"

Slim Thug dropped a soulful and mellow joint with excerpts of Dame Dash's interview with the Breakfast Club back from March.

Video: Killer Mike "Ric Flair"

It may be 4 years later but its just in time, just in time for Mike Bigga's birthday and the smoker's holiday.

Just Because I wanted to: Shawn Chrystopher "One of My Homies"

This one of my personal favorites off of Shawn's Lovestory album. Its simple but not to specific as to the person's or people's personality. All you know is what his friends have done.
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Music: Green Street "Sober Thoughts"

The Boston Trio is back at it again this time rhyming over a J Dilla beat with his signature low key jazzy sound. The Trio is working on their follow up to the 2014 The Will To Win. The wait begins now!

Trailer: Sinister 2

Mr. Boogie is back maybe not in the complete flesh but it feels like it to another young family. Terrorizing another family Mr. Boogie is preying on the younger members of the family once again. From the trailer above this movie seems more set on embodying the physical form of Mr Boogie with more clear shots of him in multiple forms, which is what most viewers of the first movie wanted to see and now we might just get enough to want more from a third movie.

Music video: Lupe Fiasco - Adoration of the Magi

To continue on his ways of visual storytelling Lupe welcomes us to Cheetahs Gentleman club sit beside whomever you choose to a nun, a gangster, a cop or even a construction worker. Everyone is there to admire the female anatomy.

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Music Video: Lupe Fiasco - Madonna

Lupe drops the video for the second story driven single Madonna from his fifth studio album Tetsuo & Youth. The song details the hardship of two mothers and their child's vastly different lives. The video/short movie shows the struggle of a teenager trying to keep a roof over his and his mothers head while she feeds her addiction.

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My Reflection of Pharrell's In My Mind

In 2006 Pharrell released a great album amongst other great albums by other great artist like Jay-Z, Ghostface, The Clipse, Nas, Game, Lupe Fiasco, The Roots, Busta, T.I., Ludacris (whose album Pharrell was on “Release Therapy” and it also took the Best Rap Album in the 2007 Grammys) etc. That year even saw an epic release from Kevin Federline. Okay maybe K-Fed (Britney Spear and Shar Jackson’s baby’s daddy) also known as the white rapper no one really remembers didn’t released anything nearly worth paying with fire. Even among those titles, Pharrell’s album "In My Mind" stood tall with stand out singles, the Gwen Stefani featured "Can I Have It Like That," and just as well as the Michael Jackson vocally mirroring single “Number One” with a very boastful and complimenting Kanye verse. The videos as well were celebrated not for its release but for its appearance, the cinematic pyros in the street behind Skateboard P, the very clean-cut combo of Pharrell and Kanye on balconies with bright hues animated in behind them. Don’t forget the other two standalone singles “That Girl” featuring Snoop Dogg with Charlie Wilson singing along with them and his bright feel good solo single “Angel.”

The features on the album are a story in itself all of whom he has worked with recently around that time, such as Gwen Stefani where she and him got together for her first solo single “Hollaback Girl” for her album “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” As well as Lauren London who was in his video for “That Girl.” Or some who worked together on numerous hit records together (i.e. Jay-Z they’re connected through “I Just Wanna Love U” among others hits, Pusha T who was signed to Pharrell and Chad Hugo’s Star Trak label as a member of The Clipse). This was the same year Pharrell as half of the Neptunes had executive produced two albums for their Star Trak Entertainment label, Slim Thug’s “Already Platinum” and The Clipse’s long delayed “Hell Hath No Fury.” Pharrell stayed busy leading up to the release of “In My Mind” with the prequel mixtape leading up to the actual album which is what most artist do now more common then ever. The mixtape was titled after the album “In My Mind: The Prequel” it was apart of the Gangsta Grillz series hosted by DJ Drama. It featured T.I., Young Dro, Ab Liva, Twista and Star Trak’s artists Clipse and Fam-Lay. Listening to all of the work Pharrell had done around the time of the album it could’ve been a completely different monster had he spent just 3-6 more months minimum working on “In My Mind.”

It’s exciting to think that Pharrell intertwined who he was, who he was around and who he was becoming into that album. He rapped with the confidence of someone who had lived all of those life experiences, most of which could be believable if he had not let it be known that it was just a story quickly thereafter. Listen to his crack rap storytelling through the first verse of “Show You How to Hustle,” he even paints the vision of the drug dealer’s dream in the chorus, “so we can sip wine and eat a bundle of truffles,” if that’s not the good life that Reakwon and Jay-Z were rapping about before they became veterans in the rap game I don’t know what is. In My Mind was soaked with the bravado of a sex symbol which Skateboard P had became leading up to the album, being seen crooning in between verses rappers like Nelly and spitting a few hard bars beside The Clipse would only help his look as a sex symbol. Take it from Ma$e you can be a sex symbol who sings for the ladies and the goons too.

Believe it or not Jay-Z and Kanye aren’t the only ones that tackled the sub-genre of Luxury Rap. Before The Thrones, Swizz Beatz gave us One Man Band Man in 2007, Pharrell’s In My Mind was the precursor to those in the last decade possibly the first. Pharrell was not only rapping about the dream life of any living man from the wine sipping to lounging in the company of models and celebrities. Throughout How Does It Feel and Raspy Shit Pharrell’s bragging about living a life like B.I.G. was going for in “Juicy,” but on the same hand Pharrell was encouraging you to meet him at your place of success in “You Can Do It Too.” The difference of B.I.G. and Pharrell’s raps is the fact that we know Pharrell’s means can reach the extent that he’s rapping. That’s the difference between what was all a dream to B.I.G. and the Luxury raps of Pharrell.

As braggadocio as most of In My Mind is, whether he’s talking about himself, his women or what’s in his reach, Pharrell showcases his rap prowess and how easy it is to rap from the most cliché perspectives while speaking on those who sell the dream they don’t live.

Below are a few recent songs that’ll show Skateboard P hasn't a step,

Here's a list of a few more you can find around the web:
CRS “Don’t Stop”

A$AP Rocky “Pretty Flaco Remix”

Rick Ross “MMG The World Is Ours”

Mike Posner “IDGAF”