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Here's a new video from rising star Charles Hamilton called "November 10th". Watch up on this. It's a track from a mixtape he did with DJ Skee called "Crash Landed".

I was gonna post this on the main site, but I figured i'd dropped this exclusive and I do mean exclusive joint by Young Buck called "Babylon" with Sizzla. It's produced by K-Salaam & Beatnick and is one of the many good cuts that will be on the latest project "Whose World Is This". Peep.

"Babylon" (click to listen)

Good morning to everybody out there, here's a new interview that was shot on 7/23 on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. It's a cool little feature that includes Nas. I'd like you to watch this when get a minute!

Yep, I just couldn't walk away from HipHopRuckus you know. This is the backbone, in a way, of the new HipHopRuckus.Com site. From now on, I'm gonna post like random tidbits on this blog that I don't wanna post on the other site. Check it, here's a new interview with DJ Envy and Prodigy of Mobb Deep as he speaks directly from Rikers Island. On the real, Prodigy is still doing his thizzle, even behind bars. Wow, kid has more visibility now than before he went in. Wow.

Q-Tip is interviewed in the August issue of Spin magazine, and he has a lot to say on Obama, technology destroying creativity and even Leonardo DiCaprio. Below are a few quotes from the interview.

Excerpts from Q-TIP interview in August Spin Magazine

On Barack Obama
"I feel that there are a lot of things in society that speak to a renaissance or change, and I feel like he embodies that. I feel like, where I'm at, I'm into my music so much more, and I'm thinking about the relationship with the fans and being as creative as possible. And I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open."

On The Pressures of Creating Successful Follow-ups
"Yeah, there was some pressures, more so during Beats, Rhymes and Life. I felt it all changing -- rap, the group. It was more commerce. Puff was getting his thing off. Dre and 'Pac and Death Row was jumping, so it was a different thing."

On Technology Destroying Music
"I think it's a shame, because everyone becomes a critic. You see something at the bottom of everything that says, "What's your comment?" And everyone has to offer their opinion and comment... To me, that drains the art. All of a sudden, the imagination just passes. Whereas predating the internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload."

On Leonardo DiCaprio
"Oh, hell no. He's a fucking idiot. He's a big hip-hop head. He's actually funny. I tell him all the time that he needs to do a comedy."

I thought I'd take this time to post some absolutely random shit and give you the freedom to watch this new video by DR.Dre's daughter Manaj. It's wild yo.

Yo, I just couldn't leave everyone hangin' on the blogspot without some dope ish to fill the time. Here's the latest episode of Custom Made's Internet Video Series.

Have you been paying attention to The Game lately? What's up with all the suicidal poses? The brother has a Jones with death.

First the dude marks himself for death symbolically by pointing with his fingers to his temple on XXL's June issue. Then in July ,Game upped the ante and placed a .38 to his chin on the cover of The Source. Now the Compton rapper has two Glocks aimed at his dome in August's issue of YRB.

Which of the three pictures do you think is the best? And should Game use the chrome-plated .38 or the two hot Glocks? That's how I got the weed spot, shot dred in the head, took the bread and lambspread... oh my bad, I got carried away.

Are you begging for freedom? Or are you fighting for it? Chances are, you actually think you're free so you're not doing anything at all but reading this blog and hoping Jay Z signs you to a million dollar deal...

Watch this and change your perspective. Or don't because you probably won't anyway...