Previously: Kidz In The Hall, 88-Keys, Donnis & Izza Kizza - Crowd Control | Video: Donnis - XXL Freshmen 2010 Freestyle

The Roots made an appearance in Vancity, BC for the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics but NBC decided not to broadcast “Jimmy Fallon and his house band” on US airwaves. I don’t know if it even played here seeing as I managed to completely avoid watching so much as a second of the Olympics. Applaud me.

Behind the scenes footage of the performance available here. According to OKP, they took the opportunity to perform a new song, in that second clip, called “The Fire” that’s slated to appear on How I Got Over, but they won’t let you the video from outside of the U.S. The irony.

T.I.’s website put this artwork up earlier, expect the song on Monday, March 8th @ 5pm.

“Lets get the record straight, I’m Duck Down for life”

Is the first thing he said at his daughter’s baby shower before getting into Figure Four. After that, he spits a freestyle new verse, a capella.

Len Bias been woulda died ******g with Ruck’ work.

Previously: Sean Price - Figure Four (Video)

Ameer - NoseDive

Download: Ameer - NoseDive | Honorable Mentions XXL Freestyle

After the jump, watch Scheme’s “Same Rebel, New Cause,” DaVinci’s “What You Finna Do,” One-2’s “Intro” and Skooda Choose’s “Rap ****.”

Scheme - Same Rebel, New Cause

DaVinci - What You Finna Do

One-2 - Intro

Skooda Choose - Rap ****

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Here’s the first of three collector’s edition artwork variants by Alex Haldi (Art Direction & Graphic Design) and Chris Bachalo (Illustration.)

After the jump, single artwork for “Mef vs. Chef 2” that they also did.

Previously: Wu-Massacre (Tracklist x Production Credits)

Album in stores March 30th. Pre-order on Amazon.

The full project dropped yesterday, but in case you missed it:

The Warren G tour rolled into town with opening acts CurT@!n$, U-N-I and Kidz In The Hall, Naledge reached out to us about a Closed Session with CurT@!n$, and we immediately thought about pairing him with Hollywood Holt, U-N-I heard the Mano produced joint and wanted to jump on, and “So Cold” was born. Presented by Ruby Hornet Closed sessions Vol.1 out now… Produced By Million $ Mano…

CurT@!n$, Hollywood Holt & U-N-I - So Cold

Previously: Ruby Hornet, DJ RTC & SoundScape Studios Present Closed Sessions Vol. 1

Probably my favorite solo Rae joint off OB4CL2.

Previously: Raekwon - Surgical Gloves (Video)

In January of last year, GQ published a Q&A with Lil Wayne that was accompanied by two photos that were shot by celebrity photographer Terry Richardson. Yesterday, Terry let go of these two outtakes from the shoot on his blog.

via Hypebeast

Related: Catching Bodies, Lil Wayne’s History Of Female Conquests [Complex]

Off Snoop’s newest mixtape, We Da West, which you can grab after the jump. Hosted by DJ Whoo Kid, DJ Scream & DJ Skee.

Tracklist/mixtape download after the jump.

Download: Snoop Dogg x DJ Whoo Kid x DJ Scream x DJ Skee - We Da West (Mixtape) [via RadioPlanet.tv x 2DB]

Rapper J the S (formerly known as Jake the Snake) goes to meet wrestler Jake “The Snake” Roberts somewhere in Long Island. J the S’ mixtape Wish You Were Here drops on March 10th.

Artwork and track list after the jump.

Previously: J The S feat. Franco - Change

Art by Shake.

Don Cannon explains the story of how he found out he beat leaked, how he went about handling the situation, and how it ended up working out in the end. This isn’t always what happens when beats leak, but it’s always nice when it does play out like this.

Listen to the song in question here:

Ghostwridah - Red Bottoms

Props to Decatur Dan for getting to the bottom of this (DYSWIDT?)

The latest Road To Rikers/Weezy vlog has footage from earlier today of when he first learned of the fire that delayed his sentencing. He was en route to the courthouse.

Related: Lil Wayne Joins Young Jeezy, Drake & Nicki Minaj Onstage During Jay-Z’s NYC Show [MTV]

Earlier: Fire Delays Lil Waynes Sentencing`

Here we go with part 2 of CHANNEL ZERO with Blu, Exile and Fashawn. We watch the video for the song that inspired Bambaataas Planet Rock, talk about LL Cool Js influence on them, go back to the days of the L.A. Good Life Cafe and have a look at a classic German rap video.

Props to splash!-Mag.

Previously: Channel Zero with Blu, Exile & Fashawn: Part 1 (Video)

Jay says he made Exhibit A with Just Blaze in 20 minutes in Detroit for the Guitar Center compilation, even though most people know it from EA Sports’ Fight Night 4.

Props to the LA Leakers.

Previously: Jay Electronica On His Style vs. Juveniles (Video)

The first single and introduction from Little Brother’s last album Leftback and they touch on mad of **** on this one. Phonte finishes off the song by shouting out everyone who he feels is carrying the torch of what they started.

Little Brother - Curtain Call (prod. Khrysis) [CDQ] | Mediafire

Previously: Little Brother - LeftBack (Artwork + Track List)

Bun B spoke to 6Magazine while he was in Austin, TX over the weekend for the Nicekicks Store Opening Event.

Previously: Nice Kicks Store Opening Party (Video)

Some footage of 40 Water in the studio working on two albums: Revenue Retrievin’ and Day Shift & Night Shift - both dropping on March 30th.

Previously: The Time E-40 Almost Had Biggie Murked (Audio)

Here’s some footage from JoellOrtiz.com, that just launched today.

Previously: Joell Ortiz & Jim Jones - Nissan, Honda, Chevy | Joell Ortiz & DJ Premier Speak on Project Boy (Video)

UK artist Sway went over Pacewon’s “I Declare War” on his new mixtape The Delivery which is out now and includes features from Akon, Styles P, Mr Hudson, Kardinal Offishall and more. He also recently signed to Akon’s Konvict Music record label. The first time I heard of this guy was when he went over Ja Rule’s “New York” beat a few years ago. Shouts to Torae for sending this through.

Sway - I Declare War Freestyle | Mediafire

I’m still in my 20s but those I grew with are close to 50 like Whoo Kid

Bonus: Sway - The Delivery (Mixtape)

Previously: Lupe & Sway Talk About Islam (Video)