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That’s the face of the one and only Stringer Bell from the seminal TV series The Wire. If you haven’t seen the Wire yet, stop what you’re doing and rent it, buy it, borrow it from a friend or do whatever is necessary to see it. Hell, it’s only $130.99 on Amazon right now for the complete series. Anyways, the Idris Elba played character was a key figure in the first few seasons of the series. He played the streetwise as well as business savvy administrator of the Barksdale organization. He was a bad ass mother, with hints of old school gangster in him.

Idris has a secondary career in hip hop that until now nobody seemed to have known about. He’s not been so underground though. In 2007 he co-produced and performed on the intro to Jay-Z’s 2007 album American Gangster. He DJ’d the NBA all star party in Vegas and the BET series, Rising Icons. At the end of last year he released and EP called King of Kings. Below is the video for the song Hold On from that album. (continue reading…)

This is the first song from Asher Roth’s new mix-tape, Seared Foie Gras With Quince & Cranberry. For those of you that don’t know, Asher broke out last year largely based on the hit I Love College. He was both hated and loved for various reasons. People who hated him tended to be critics and think he was kind of phony and his rapping frat boy like. He was generally liked by others. Olivia Munn, for one, often expressed that song was her favorite of last year for example. (continue reading…)

Well this video has been out for like a week now. In Internet time, that means I’m old and lame. You’ve all already seen this video and heard the song. Anyhoo, if you pre-order the song off of iTunes, you’ll get this song instantly and the rest of the album when it drops on Tuesday March 9th.

Enjoy