Bambu’s long-awaited video for his new single “Crooks & Rooks” is out!!!  Check it out at his OkayPlayer feature and show some love!

New goodness from our LA brotha Bambu!  Grabbing footage from his nationwide travels, check out the new video for “Like Us,” produced by  Xylophone Films.

If you haven’t copped Bambu’s ..exact change.. yet, you are trrrrrrrrippin!  Here’s the teaser for his new video, “Crooks & Rooks,” set to drop later this month.  And in case you have no idea who or what we’re talking about, check out his feature on HipHopOfficial:

As we find ourselves exactly a month away from Election Day, there are a lot of decisions that we must surely face about the future.  And when we say future, we mean THE FUTURE, with cyborgs and humans who spit quick like robots (because, um, you know how quickly robots…spit…).  So get your clicking fingers ready, and help our friends make it to the top!

 
A) JANELLE MONAE ON 106 & PARK

All last week we were at the edge of our seats when Janelle Monae’s “Many Moons” video leaked onto the internets but got cut off during the most climactic moment. Alas, the full official vid is above, and we need you to help our cyber-colleague get to #1 on 106 & Park!

VOTE FOR JANE HERE.

B) BAMBU ON OKAYPLAYER

Our homie Bambu is featured on Okayplayer’s Trip to the Underground 2! Listen to his new track “Iron Bam” off his latest LP …exact change…, and show the man some love!

VOTE FOR BAM HERE.

Shadidai. See you at the show tonight!

There’s such a sense of freedom when skateboarding while wearing a fresh crispy pair of Dickies.  Can’t really describe it–probably because I’ve never done it.  BUT Bambu has!  And you know what else he’s done??  Dropped a dope as 3rd LP, that’s what.  And you can cop it right now, at this very second, at beatrock.com and fine record stores throughout the Bay.  So kick, push, and get your ass out there and get yours!

Looks like Kanye isn’t the only guy dropping an album just a little over a year after the last one! Yes, it wasn’t too long ago that our iLL-homie Bambu dropped his acclaimed album i scream bars for the children (as modeled by the lovely Maya), and now Bam returns to the Bay on Tuesday for his pre-album tour, Exact Change which also happens to be the name of his new LP that drops soon (smart marketing, ayyyyy?)!

This is bound to be a hot show, packed to the brim with our Bay comrades including Ise Lyfe, Do D.A.T., Power Struggle, Eyeasage, Emassin, and hosted by Baba Zumbi of Zion I!

That’s two mentions of Zion I in one day. Whaddayaknow.

Ooooh baby we’re just one month away from the iLL-Literacy Fall Voyage (and just a few days from announcing the tour dates!) and on Saturday you can catch Ruby and Adriel hosting two of the hottest Cali events of the weekend.

Ruby flies out to SoCal early tomorrow morning to host the annual Filipino arts festival, FPAC (not to be mistaken for Nico’s stomach a.k.a. 6PAC).  Among the fresh ass lineup are our iLL-homies Bambu and DJ Rhettmatic!

Adriel stays in the Bay and will get at you live via KPFA to host the annual Power to the Peaceful festival, which boasts Ziggy Marley and Michael Franti as this year’s headliners

*holds back immature giggles that Franti’s website is spearheadvibrations.com*

More info about:

FPAC

Power to the Peaceful

It looks like y’all are gonna have to multitask with the events this week! With the MADE and Zaki Ibrahim events that cats will be juggling tonight, we’re just hoping that you also have energy left to hop between the Raphael Saadiq/Janelle Monáe show and Pac Div’s San Francisco headline debut tomorrow! This one features our homies Bambu and Hopie Spitshard, with Charlie Darker on the 1’s and 2’s!

Pac Div
@ Fat City
314 11th St (btw Folsom and Harrison
San Francisco

Doors @ 9pm. $15 all night

Previously: Bambu - Exact Change (Snippet)

Hot off the heels of last year’s I Scream Bars for the Children, our LA cousin Bambu sprinkles us with a sneak peek at Exact Change, the title track off his upcoming LP that borrows a sample from the late great Isaac Hayes. Bump it in your Lac.

[Download @ djphatrick.com]

Winter time was just too cold to eat ice cream.

Oooooooh we’re so proud of our home skillets Blue Scholars! Lots of big teengs happening with them, including the new “Loyalty” video above to lead them in to their new EP that drops this month, BUTTER$.

Throwback vid: Adriel & Dahlak kick back with the Scholars and Bambu at LA’s Roxy Theatre