Last year, Ninjasonik gave dudes who wear tight pants a certified anthem and they’ve been running with the whole “we dress weird but we’ll eff you up” aesthetic ever since. Many would reluctantly call them a rap group, but this “Hold The Line” video proves that they really are, even if their approach is a little different. The clip was clearly shot in NYC over the summer, but it’s just now gaining significant exposure due to recent blog posts from tastemakers like Kanye West. We admittedly didn’t catch the vid when it first hit the net, but we’re happy to do our part and spread the word now that it’s relevant again. Check it out above.
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Yeah, we’re over Auto-Tune and we definitely think hip-hop needs to be about more than vapid party songs, but if we wind up hitting the town this weekend, the last thing we want to hear is something reminiscent of the backpack rap stored away in the depths of our iPods. See, when bottles are getting popped and girls are getting wild, songs like this banger from DJ Webstar and Jim Jones need to be somewhere on the playlist. So turn up the bass and turn down your lyrical expectations (although Capo kind of ripped his verse!) and you won’t be disappointed.
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Who said MTV doesn’t care about music anymore? Sure, they replaced most of their music programming for reality shows like Run’s House and The Hills, and then axed TRL, but they’re trying. They launched a new video show FN-MTV with Pete Wentz and yesterday, they announced their newest website, MTV Music. It’s taken them a hell of a long time, but the original home of the music video has finally realized that people no longer watch them on TV.
A flashed-based video site in the same vein as YouTube and Hulu, MTV Music will open up the MTV vaults and allow users to play all their favorite music videos, as well as their favorite MTV moments like Unplugged performances. While we’re happy MTV has shown some serious interest in music videos again, we feel like they’re kinda late to the party. For our music video needs, we just hit up YouTube'why should we stop? To answer that question, we analyzed both sites to see which one should be getting our clicks…
