Unofficial remix but Busta felt he just had to tag  his own verse on the track and he does go H.A.M! Props.

Download: Kanye West, Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes – ‘H.A.M (Remix)’

After talking about the importance of a live show and reaching the people via his music last week, it comes to no surprise why Talib Kweli’s latest video from the forthcoming album, is focused around pleasing the fans. The performance footage shows Talib is still that guy. Peep the video up top.

Gutter Rainbow out this Monday 25th January

Lupe Fiasco’s long awaited album finally has a face. And it’s peng*. Love what they’ve gone for, everything about it. The font, the minimalism, even the parental advisory sticky looks dope. Ha. This has got me excited. March 8th, soon cometh.

* to all our continental friends, ‘peng’ means – sexy as f*ck. Lol.

I never bore of Oddisee’s production, his blend of Hip Hop and Soul always works for me. This track, featuring Toine from DTMD (if you don’t know, get to know) is the final single to come off Mello Music Group’s label compilation Helpless Dreamer. It’s available for free download, something I’d recommend you take advantage of…

I am a massive fan of the ‘INFLUENCERS’ documentary which we posted up last November and so I’m really happy to see that they’re continuing the series by doing these shorter episodes branded ‘INFLUENCERS In-depth”.

This episode features Steve Stoute, Founder and CEO of Translation, a brand management firm that “arranges strategic parternships with Pop Culture icons (Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani, Lebron James, Justin Timberlake etc) and Fortune 500 companies”.

Here Stoute, named one of the Fortune’s 40 under 40, discusses the “concept of cool, how new cultural codes are redefining traditional corporation communication. He also talks about creating successful collaborations between Artists and Brands”.

I love this, I love what it’s about and I love how it has been put together. Looking forward to more of the same.

If you haven’t already, make sure you watch the full ‘INFLUENCERS’ documentary – you won’t regret it.

Adele will be breaking down her new album 21 track by track via her website over  the coming days/weeks. Peep the first ‘episode’ where she discusses ‘Rolling in the Deep’, the albums first song and it’s first single. The song, which I fu*king adore looks set to take the number 1 spot this week – a great look.

21 is released on 24th January – pre-order it here.

Shouts to Andrew

Motive asked me to check this video he did with our friends over at SB.TV & Trapstar – it features 4 emcee’s showcasing what they got in a cypher. Have see what each bring and then go to SB.TV and vote for your favourite dude…

P.s Beyond strange that one of these dudes is my neighbour.