Hello, dear friends! We skipped a couple weeks but we’re back with the mini-review round-up and this one is a little heftier than normal. We are playing catch-up after all! But we’re bringing you nearly a dozen new music videos along with some brief commentary which you’re more than welcome to agree or disagree with […]
Read More The Mid-Week Music Video Mini-Reviews Youtube Round-Up – 4/9/14Here’s a collection of interviews of some of our favorite artists from the past couple months. This is in no way a comprehensive list but it covers a wide variety of styles of both music and medium. We don’t feature interviews as often here, but this certainly ain’t a bad way to spend your Thursday […]
Read More Get To Know These 5 Asian-American Artists BetterFor today’s Remix round-up, we stuck to the genre of Hip-Hop. There are some well known, current songs on here, along with a couple older and lesser known beats. A quite a few of these are pretty enjoyable and a decent flip when compared to the original. Check em out and see if there’s anything […]
Read More The Hip-Hop Remixes Youtube Round-Up – 10/7/13What? Our headline is a lofty claim, but believe us, it’s not unsubstantiated. Chops has spent the past couple years working with a whole slew of artists that we cover – making this essentially a collection of the best of the best of folks that have graced the pages of this blog. Just take one […]
Read More Chops’ ‘Strength in Numbers’ Is our Most Anticipated Project of the YearAnother week, another crop of MVs. Most of the following are fairly decent watches and even better listens. I don’t think you’ll find too much to be disappointed with in this batch. This collection is a little heavy on the rap side of things, but even that is fairly varied in it’s execution. Enjoy! Jin […]
Read More The Mid-Week Music Video Mini-Reviews Youtube Round-Up – 8/14/13We’ve got a new spoken word piece from Ruby Ibarra. She takes her lyrical stylings and channels them acapella in a piece called “Hate”. She paints some broad strokes on the subject, so there isn’t a whole lot here that we haven’t heard before, but her flip at the end was a welcome switch up. […]
Read More Ruby Ibarra Recites a Spoken Word Piece – “Hate”Last week, Ruby Ibarra uploaded a live performance video of her song “Guess Who”. This weekend, the rapper released the official music video to the powerful Hip-Hop narrative of a song. Ruby uses three verses to offer some social commentary on some of the struggles that many women face. The track is from her recently […]
Read More Ruby Ibarra Presents the MV for “Guess Who”If you’ve been following us closely, you hopefully caught the release of Ruby Ibarra‘s mixtape, Lost in Translation, from December. If not, this unplugged acoustic performance can serve as an introduction. Ruby enlists the vocal help of Donna Belle for this stripped rendition of “Guess Who” and though it loses the dope soul sample from the […]
Read More Watch This Acoustic Remix of “Guess Who” by Ruby Ibarra x Donna BelleThe impressive Ruby Ibarra has broken the silence since the release of her Lost in Translation mixtape last month with a new music video to promote. The 6 Fingers produced track “Nonconceptual” has been given the official visual treatment, and besides some lighting issues, it’s a good fit. I always have a soft spot for when […]
Read More Ruby Ibarra Presents the “Nonconceptual” MVLooking for some new Hip-Hop? Ruby Ibarra aims to step up to the plate and satiate that hunger with her latest offering, the Lost in Translation mixtape. The 13 track release is hosted by DJ Kay Slay and contains some supporting features from the likes of Geo and Bambu, not to mention a slew of producer including […]
Read More Ruby Ibarra Drops the ‘Lost in Translation’ Mixtape
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