What could be better than the grit of gangster rap mixed with the sweet bubblegum pop of the doo-wop generation? This is the soundtrack for you and your sweetheart to take a cruise down Lovers Lane with, hold hands on the beach, or buy a milkshake at the soda shop. Young lovers of today can enjoy a modern twist on some sweet 50s doo-wop thanks to Wally Clark. It’s just really cute rap music.

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Follow these fresh street signs to brush up on your rap history! Thanks to Jay Shell, you can find famous rap quotes on any corner. This street art sign series were born when he decided to go around posting his favorit rap lyrics as official looking street signs on the street corners they actually reference. Well done my friend. You’ve researched your lyircs accurately.

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Survival Tactics is the first Australian Hip Hop feature film. It’s directed by multi-talented Hip Hop artist Morganics and will be dropping soon. The freshest Bboys, Bgirls, free runners, DJs, MCs, spoken word, graffiti and street artists explode on screen. I helped out on set as production assistant and I was also an extra in one of the scenes. It was an exciting project to be a part of. The plot is simple: released early from jail, Aboriginal street musician, Jet (Wire MC), attempts to reunite with his girlfriend, emerging young Hip Hop dancer, Rosa (Demi Sorono). While he was in lockup, Jet’s best mate Fury (Morganics) has spiralled into homelessness and drug addiction, scoring from Jet’s rival, DJ Rich (Bboy Jay). Now their rivalry comes to a head when he discovers that Rosa has been rehearsing with DJ Rich to host his upcoming all star Hip Hop jam.

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‘We believe this story is too important to go untold!’ Rubble Kings is a feature length documentary by Shan Nicholson about the New York city street gangs of the late ‘60s & ‘70s and their influence on hip-hop. From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights movement lay an unfocused rage. Neither law enforcement nor social agency could end the escalating bloodshed.

Peace came only through the most unlikely events that would change the world for generations to come by giving birth to hip-hop. Rubble Kings is a film about courage, hope and survival against all odds, even in the harshest of circumstances. The message is especially relevant today, a time when gang related deaths are at an all time high among inner city youths. The film’s most important goal is to touch and inspire today’s at-risk youth. Independent and self-funded, Rubble Kings needs your help so if you find that you would love to see this film completed, you can back it here

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There’s been some great hip hop coming out of the US recently (Lushlife, Danny Brown, Black Milk, Action Bronsen, ASAP Rocky, Mr. Muthafkn esq). I’m a big fan of the black hippy collective (Schoolboy Q, Kendrick Lammar, Jay Rock, Ab Soul). Ab Soul has a pretty unique concious angle and this is a stand out track for me.

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My obsession with hip hop generally starts with the lyrics, but the beats always have to grab me, too. SKYWLKR’s work with Danny Brown brought me to him, but I listen to his Strawberry Cough mixtape as much or even more. I love how dirty the drums are and how roughly he cuts the samples.

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Te wonderful history of indie Hip Hop label Stones Throw Record is being brought to life in a deserving documentary entitled Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton. Since 1996, Stone Throw has released critically acclaimed albums and now the label has launched a Kickstarter pledge to help fund the incomplete film. The pledge ends November 29.

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I really like this video and song by J Cole and feel like it’s worth checking out. The beat is so nice I could listen on loop for hours. Yes, I am addicted to hip hop.

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Mike Corbett, aka Maccy, is a proper hip-hop don whom I had the pleasure of living with many years back in a (chaotic) share-house in Australia. Whilst his epic t-shirt, tape and toy collections are gold dust in themselves, it’s all about the collectable skateboard decks this time around. Maccy D’s even commissioned one himself from artist Mark Drew, a collection of his favourite album cassettes stacked on top of each other. This collection was recently updated with the Beastie Boys signed one ’5 Boroughs’ deck, done before MCA’s passing.

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Stranger Day’s hip-hop is fun, original, and party-worthy. Stranger Day is the moniker of Shane Coble, a North Carolina native who has a knack for clever and catchy rhymes. Coble stays true to his underground hip-hop roots, and he and his crew Permanent Vacation play parties and gigs at clubs across the state. Stranger Day is Southern-fried hip-hop music at its best.

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Sid Pattni hails from one of the most isolated cities in the world: Perth, Australia. It is in this cultural vacum that he has managed to create a sound that is as much soul as it is a personal diary account. His music is rooted in traditional soul music, adding elements of Jazz, South Indian music and Electronic Soul.

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Polo Club is my band. We’re from Melbourne. We were originally a two piece, but we have expanded to a four piece over the past 18 months.

Cam and myself started writing songs together in 2009. We released an album that same year entitled The 13. It was a Hip Hop record, but spread across many genres, such as dance and electro. We set out to make club bangers that would thump on the dance-floor. With the addition of Adam and Aidan, the creative direction and sound has changed quite a bit. Adam’s vocals have an erry indie edge and Aidan’s live drums rock the shit out of the show. I love it. We have an EP set for release in August.

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As Jay-Z says in his book, Decoded: ‘Hip hop is the only art that I know that’s built on direct confrontation’. Based on that premise, rappers wrote some of the best lines of hip hop just saying ‘how dope they are’. These lines inspired Brazilian illustrator Raoni Marqs to create portraits of some of the most famous, legendary, and controversial figures rap has ever seen.

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AJG is an independent rap artist from Rialto, California, who has been rapping for almost seven years. He directs all his music videos and has recently put out a music video entitled Latokyo, which showcases an independent clothing line of the same name. He has worked with Ace Hood and has opened up for KRS-One. He currently has 2 mixtapes out: Do This and Free Mason, both of which can be downloaded for free.

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As a fan of Hip Hop who grew up in the 80s, it’s sometimes difficult to reconcile with what the genre has recently become. Few and far between are the artists who continually attempt to push the art form toward its next iteration. But they do still exist. Most recently, I’ve become enamored with the Seattle duo known as Shabazz Palaces. I think their label, Sub Pop, says it best when they say: ‘If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their music’.

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Mitchmatic’s Why Don’t You Know? is syrupy sweet Canadian Hip Hop with a beat straight out of a 1940′s education video. Oh, and it sounds like he might be a stalker.

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Mike Jaggerr. Hip Hop extraordinaire. The name is insanely similar to rock and roll legend, Mick Jagger, which leads to a bit of confusion with new fans. But, just like Mick, once you listen to a sample of Mike Jaggerr’s music, you’ll become an instant fan. His melodies are unique, his voice is alluring, and his rhymes are captivating. His new album, the Eleventh Hour, is brutally honest, romantic, and most of all, innovative.

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Godly MC, a young emcee hailing from the Washington D.C. area, is a witty lyricist, rhyming over well mixed beats. In a world where rap has become so commercialized and shallow, this guy gets back to the roots of true Hip Hop. He gives us his story, his dreams, and even his shortcomings, using clever word play, bringing us back to a time where Hip Hop wasn’t about just girls, cars, and money.

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Astronautalis blends hip hop, talking blues and occasional indie rock synths in his music, which is coupled with lyrics that almost seem poetic. The single, Contrails, is a collaboration with Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara.

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Twitter can be an interesting place. I first heard of Stevie Crooks sometime near the end of 2010 when a couple of dudes I knew were super hyped about this guy from LA rocking out with a ski-mask on his face.

I was like, ‘what?’. Turns out that he’s my type of MC. At the end of 2011, he dropped a music video for a song called GemStar off of his recently released VLNS NVR DIE album. Very ’90s inspired Hip-Hop; reminds me of Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang if they were merged into like one person or something. Needless to say that he’s dope.

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