In what appears to be LA, a flash mob strikes a hipster hot spot to show the skinny jean kids how to rock parachute pants via a suprise rendition of “Can’t Touch This.” It would be far more epic if I didn’t think it was balatant promo for his new A&E; [...]

Okay, so 2009 wasn’t the best season for the Warriors, but our boys gave us a few enduring gems anyway. Check out this highlight mix accompanied by the Hoodstarz song “Laughing” (produced by David Banner).Here’s to next year! And despite my endorsement [...]

Apparently there is life after The Team for the diminutive Mayne Mannish. He is admittedly the weakest of the alliteration happy crew (Clyde Carson, Kaz Kyzah, Mayne Mannish), but this joint is kinda fresh. If you don’t know that a “Flight to Boston” [...]

Check out the new single from EPA’s Milla. I hadn’t heard of this cat until DNastee put me up on game, but this joint isn’t bad. Slap it along with that new Los Rakas we posted and see what you think.http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=7527243-348DL: [...]

http://www.hulu.com/embed/9tR0LWNmrnprf6t2qXsYyA/1460This entire episode is hilarious, but for the sake of 38th Notes’ focus I have embedded only the segments featuring Oakland OGs Tom Hanks and Green Day. Hanks has relocated to LA like most movie stars, [...]

I recently posted an exclusive track from Oakland playground legend and future Hall-of-Famer Jason Kidd, but I was holding out on you!On a 1994 rap compilation album entitled B-Ball’s Hidden Secrets that featured the music of NBA players, Oakland had [...]

This is the Hip-Hop Chess Federation’s video remix of DLabrie’s “Life Strategies,” produced by Mo Bless from France. [...]

I spent a few years down in LA and have to say that the boy Nipsey Hu$$le is the future of LA and Cali. He is resurrecting the West Coast’s gangsta rap sound but without swimming in nostalgia and khaki suit clichés like The Game. His last mixtape Bullets [...]