Aye Sincere channels his inner trench
coat-wearing (John Cusack) holding his boom box over his
head serenading his would-be lover, Marie, in the form of Alectra Griffis a la “Say Anything”. The music video is a visual effects laden presentation that is complimented by the funk-pop sounds produced by Nabeyin.
My guy Nemy was just in the Inland Empire rocking at the 3rd annual The Happiness of Pursuit Festival. We got a chance to interview him and see him rock live. When I tell you this song is for the people, believe me! This is one of those career-defining anthems and the stage performance is crazy. The video for it boasts cameos from Ric Scales and a bunch of other San Diego hip-hop legends. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Epyk Saga dropped this dope music video over the weekend. Elephant Skin looks like that time your homie was like "try this acid" and you were like "naw I don't think I wanna try acid" and then he secretly drugged you and convinced you to go hiking. It's kind of like that. The battle rap veteran drops a lyrical treat filmed and edited by JnB Visuals and produced by Jake Finesse. Listen to Epyk's albumHERE. Check out his social media links below.
King Dice drops the long-awaited visuals for Oroku Saki from his project Shalu Avenue. Produced himself, Oroku Saki is shot and edited by Konami Homi & directed by Konami Homi and M16.Let us know what you think of it in the comments below.
Another boom-bap classic from East of the River. I love that this video makes Mad Macks' college graduation ceremony look cool. The video is still dripping with irony and working class skepticism of the system, evident in Macks' irreverence while so many students around him are somber but at the end of the day, the video conveys an image of family and loved ones are happy around our protagonist. Muds' eye conveys both the momentousness and everydayness of the situation with Macks gamely playing a Fresh Prince-like vessel for the audience to experience the narrative through. More Mad Macks here
SONG: THE JUICE BY CAM GNARLY AND BRIAN/FOLK VIDEO: NEW CULTURE MEDIA GROUP & CYBERTHUG
Cam Gnarly’s modern polished posi-bangers never disappoint.
Gnarly reminds me of OutKast- each time a new song of his starts, you’re sad
the last one ended and then the cycle repeats. This song is no different and
Cam’s hip embrace of campy on-the-nose video imagery is a stoner’s delight.
SONG: INTERTWINE BY
ARALESS & OK
VIDEO: ARALESS AND
MELANIE WINSLOW
Seattle based hip-hop artist Araless finally dropped the
video for his chill summer love song, “Intertwine”. Set in San Diego, the piece
finds his co-director and he clearly enjoying themselves and each other. Don’t
miss the EP’s worth of remixes that came out with this single and since. More Araless here
BEATMAKER YOHALMO VIDEO: MIGHTY MUDS ONE
Nice clips of up and coming beatmaker Yohalmo, video by the John Romita Jr. of west coast hip-hop videos himself....
DOCUMENTARY WEB-SERIES: EAST OF THE RIVER - ROAD TO PAID DUES VIDEOGRAPHER: MIGHTY MUDS ONE
Yeah that's two monthly video round-ups in a row in which Muds One has multiple entries in the round-up. What can I say? Dude puts out a lot of completed polished content. This chronicle of the East of the River crew’s journey to
their Paid Dues appearance on 09/16/2017 is released in weekly webisodes and is
funny as hell. Looking forward to watching it all as one movie soon!
Tristan "Tanjint Wiggy" Acker is a staff writer for JooseBoxx, youth hip-hop writing instructor with CHORDS Enrichment Youth program (chordseyp.org) and member of the Inland Empire nerdcore hip-hop group the West Coast Avengers. Catch more of their work at westcoastavengers.com, follow Tristan on Twitter @Tanjint or e-mail him at tristanacker@gmail.com
Royal Gambling Club recording artist King Dice premieres the first music video from his sophomore album Shalu Avenue entitled Heavy Crown. Produced by King Dice, Heavy Crown is shot, directed, and edited by Hugo Arellano for Arellano Films Productions. Listen to the whole album for free at:
Cam Gnarly offers up a trippy new visual from his 2016; The Posi Prevails EP :::
The west-coast inspired jam produced by Cas1 takes us on a rides with Cam in the "Back seat of the Uber" as he lyrically describes how he went from finessing the app for free rides to having his "paypal boomin" & having a personal Uber driver on call. Directed by NCMG (New Culture Media Group) & Edited by Konami Homi
Atlas of the hip-hop group Avant-Garde has given us "Follow Me". It's the first video off Atlas' recently released EP "Equilibrium". Filmed, directed, and edited by Konami Homi featuring production by Curtiss King. If you want more of this you can find it at www.avantgardehiphop.com.
Inland Empire independent artist Kwency Jones GO (half of the duo "Twin Towers") releases brand new visuals for his newest single "K.I.N.G. (Back Up)". Enjoy!!!
I recently caught a performance by singer-songwriter Farah at a local open mic and was impressed. Check out her most recent video and tell us what you think about her in the comments!
Rialto artist Ominous drops his Cool Cass directed music video for his new single "No Black Lives" featuring vocals by Yung Miss and production by Oh Gosh Leotus!
Moreno Valley rapper Sho Boat dropped off his new joint "Special" recently and we gotta say we are feeling the cinematic aspect of this one. Sho Boat has been rapping and doing his thing in the I.E. for years. He hooked up with Muzik Maniacs Ent. about a year ago and thankfully they dropped off his latest video with us over here at JooseBoxx.com.
Moreno Valley artist Tru Carr drops the video for his single "Early in the morning", with help from Zeeko, TjWavy & Young Smash. Check out the video after the break!
IE group Grandma's Porch release a visual for their song "P.S WRITE ME BACK". This video will guarantee to make you grin and reminisce at least once! Check it out after the break!
Hypnotic has been rapping and writing lyrics for a while, but he's brand new to the scene and to being serious about it. This is his very first music video called Proud People. His sound is uniquely retro and he seems like the rare breed of spitter that likes to rap about all types of things, including real life important shit, not just cars and bitches. The Menifee emcee offers us this track as a message to Donald Trump in response to his rant about Mexicans. Check it out after the break...
