While everyone’s lips seems to be about Scott Mescudi, including a new collaboration t-shirt with A Bathing Ape, Kid Cudi sits down with the gang at StreetLevel in this video that discusses a wide range of topics over a 40 minute interview.

If you are a fan of Santigold, MIA or Rye Rye, Diplo and Switch’s newest collaboration will appeal to you. It’s the sound of a future-retro Jamaican party, one that you probably would’ve missed because it was in a pretty bad neighborhood… but if you’d braved it, the best one you’d seen in a long time.

Acknowledged as hip-hop’s most lyrical duo, Pusha T and Malice have been working on a new album for what seems like forever. Recently, these Virginia-born Neptune proteges bumped around by label politics, and while they still garnered critical praise, they seemed to lose steam over the past few years since their last full-length. Regardless, in one fell swoop recently with a teasing boast of a first single, “Kinda Like a Big Deal”

Nosaj Thing has quickly garnered attention from outlets as dispersed as the BBC, The Fader and Giant Robot magazine. Called an “essential purchase”, “startlingly good” and “the future of hip-hop and what producers will be biting in the next couple of years”, Drift, the electronic, beat-driven debut LP has already topped the Bleep and Boomkat…

Lil Wayne is a sports freak. Not only does the rap superstar have his own ESPN column, he had the cable sports network logo tattooed on his skin to commemorate it.

Although he’s been notoriously fickle over the course of this year’s NBA playoffs (he’s been seen on the sidelines rooting for the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets at different points)…

Skateboarders become rock stars the moment Tony Alva and the original Z-Boys first started terrorizing West L.A. with their pioneering take on riding concrete waves. It was only a matter of very little time before the worlds of skating and rock culture collided in the then-burgeoning world of music videos. Since those halcyon days of the late ‘70s, skating has become a regular staple of music video clips. Here’s a rundown of the best of the bunch…