If you can’t wait til Monday, check out some uncolored stills from the video to whet your appetite. Honestly, these shots do the video no justice, but I wanted to give y’all a little preview of what to expect. Huge shouts to our director Donlee Brussel for all his hard work.

Huge shouts to Will and Greg for the hookup!!!!

More beautiful new music from Blu for this rainy morning. Dude is nuts.

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DJ Rhettmatic just dropped off this incredible new Dilla mix, and it’s owning my ears right now. More info from Rhett’s blog:

It’s a little bit early, but i’m pretty excited about this mix….

February is the month that everybody usually connects Valentine’s Day with.  But for me & for some other people, we consider February “Dilla Month”, because it is the month that our fallen brother and one of the greatest Hip Hop producers of all time, James D. Yancey aka J Dilla, was born & passed away on that same month (Feb. 7, 1974 – Feb. 10, 2006).

In honor & to celebrate the life & music of the honorable “Dill Withers”, i decided to put my bid in for a tribute mix.  I know there’s going to be alot of Dilla tribute mixes out there, but i thought it doesn’t hurt to add another one.  Plus the Funky President himself, J.Rocc, asked me to do some exclusive mixes for his blog (www.stoneyjackson.blogspot.com), so why not do a Dilla mix.  It is appropriate given the occasion.  Personally, i don’t think there’s no out there that can do a better J Dilla mix than my fellow Beat Junkie, J.Rocc…..the closest one next to him I would say is my brother from another mother, “Detroit’s Finest” own, Dj Houseshoes, but yeah, here’s my input.

Anyways, this is a mini mega mix of some of Dilla’s songs & production.  I originally did this as a 10 minute mix for the mixtape project that J.Rocc, Houseshoes, & myself did with Dave New York 2 years ago to help out Mrs. Maureen Yancey aka Ma Dukes, Dilla’s mother…..an incredible lady (if y’all know the name of the mix cd project, go head & get it……)  So I extended this mix from 10 minutes to 35 minutes.  It was pretty much impossible for me to get everything that Dilla did on this mix (he has such a big discography, it’s ridiculous), especially for the fact I wanted to finish this before his birthday in such a short period of time.  Of course, you’ll hear some of the classic songs that Dilla has produced in the mix, but you’ll also get to here some Dilla beats that you might have or have not heard before, and a live recording of Dilla performing “F*ck The Police” at one of his show in Europe (Paris, France to be exact) on his last tour ever (I was lucky & honored to be his tour dj for his last performances).

Like I said before, I don’t think anyone can do a J Dilla mix as great as J.Rocco’s, but here’s my mix for you to download…nothing really crazy.  Please feel free to share with your friends & post it up on your music blog.  I hope you enjoy the mix as much as I enjoyed making this.  Thanks for checkin this out.

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So my lil sis started a blog for her clothing line (yes…we are an entirely family of hustlers) and one of her first posts was about a dope clothing line from the bay called Exact Science. A couple of hours later, I found out via Twitter that my dude DJ Tommy Blak just put out a mixtape for Exact Science…and I’m on it twice. Ain’t that some weird shit? Check out the tracklist below and click the cover above to download. Lots of good music and homeys on this tape.

1. Faculty – Bounce
2. Convinced feat. Shawn Jackson, Tunji & El Prez – Mass Appeal 2009
3. Trek Life – Get High (prod by Oddisee)
4. Cy Young – Feel It (prod by Kev Brown)
5. Blame One – Disturbed (prod by Exile)
6. Blu – Change Ya World
7. Menez – Waiting
8. Al Be Back feat Curt@in$ – Oh My God
9. Self Scientific feat Krondon & Phil Da Agony – For They J’s
10. Mikkey Halsted – Karma (prod by No ID)
11. Freeway feat Hezekiah – As I Ever Been (prod by Oddisee)
12. Lupe Fiasco – Hustlers and Customers.
13. Wale feat Brother Ali – 2 Times
14. Yeski – Broken Fragments
15. Asher Roth – The Reading (prod by Nottz)
16. Redman feat Oh No – Lay You Out (prod by Oh No)
17. U-N-I – Cali Soul (prod by Dibia$e)
18. Dyme Def – Fresh In My Kicks
19. Ben Grymm & Shawn Jackson – Blood Sweat n Tears
20. Torae – Wun, Tu, Th3
21. Rapper Big Pooh – The Comeback (prod by Khrysis)
22. Inverse feat Deacon – So True (prod by Kno)
23. Joel Ortiz – Morning
24. SunN.Y – For The City
25. Jay-Z & Notorious B.I.G. – Brooklyn Go Hard (D-Tale Blend)
26. Tommy Blak – I Stay Dipped