Action Bronson Eats & Drinks France’s Best Food & Wine [Video]

In the second installment of From Paris with Love, Action Bronson and Clovis are back sampling more of what Paris has to offer. The duo start their visit at Les Arlots – where Thomas Brachet’s cooking sets the tone for the perfect day. Afterwards, chef Betrand Grebaut invites Bronson to cook up a huge turbot topped with lardo and a fresh pea caviar beur blanc. The day rounds out with oysters, some charcuterie, and a next level dinner at Septime.

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Its Overture Presents Nasty Nas & The Extra P (The Lost Album) [Mixtape]

The inspiration for this project might have been best summed up by Nas himself: “Large Professor was the one that really started working with me first…so we were on to a lot of crazy ideas…he really could have done the entire [Illmatic] record and in the beginning, I wanted him to. Once I was working with him, why would you need to go anywhere else? You got HIM…so my thought was that one day it would happen and he would do the whole thing” – Nas Since that day has yet to come, we put together our own version of this elusive “lost album”. Drawing from the wealth of post-Illmatic Large Pro instrumentals and Nas acapellas, we carefully paired some of the best examples of two artists at the top of their game, highlighting some underrated works while reimagining hooks and adlibs to help fuel the illusion of an authentic collaboration. Press play below and check out the tracklisting after the jump.

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ItsTheReal Interviews DJ Semtex [Video]

On this LIVE episode of A Waste of Time with ItsTheReal, Eric and Jeff join the legendary DJ Semtex in London, England in front of a sold-out crowd at the Hoxton Sq. Bar & Kitchen. For the first time, Semtex – world-renowned DJ, radio personality, and author – speaks in depth on his self-made journey from working-class Manchester to mastering his craft in London and traveling the globe. Semtex discusses how he got into hip-hop, how he became the most in-demand DJ in London, and the doors that his obsession with vinyl records opened up around the world. We talked about how he went from running street teams for Sony Music to establishing Def Jam UK to championing artists like Kanye, Lauryn Hill, DJ Khaled and Dizzee Rascal early, and what that meant to both his career and theirs. All that, plus meeting Jay-Z and Dame Dash at Roc-A-Fella’s first office, the backstory to his huge Drake interviews, working with Destiny’s Child, attending and videotaping a tiny Kanye after-party/cipher, becoming a trusted interviewer, his thoughts on radio, DJs, and downloading sites, the super-real reason he got rid of his entire vinyl collection, and much, much, much more!

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R-Mean – Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing To F*ck Wit [Audio x Download]

This week the Wu-Tang Clan announced that the release of their new album “Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues” will feature an appearance by R-Mean on a song called “G’d Up” with Method Man. So it’s only right R-Mean jumps on some classic Wu-Tang instrumentals for this week’s #MeanMondays. Over GZA’s “4th Chamber”, Method Man’s “Bring The Pain”, and Wu-Tang Forever’s “Heaterz”, R-Mean unleashes a barrage of bars. The new Wu album drops 10/13.

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