Who would have thought that Kanye West would be able to recover so well in 2010; if his unusually substandard album 808s & Heartbreak wasn’t a deep enough hole to come up from, his public relations nightmare involving Taylor Swift at last year’s Video Music Awards left him around the fourth circle of hell.  After [...]

From their very emergence, The Roots have been a standout group; aside from being a fundamentally live-instrument collective, they have been able to attract both hip hop aficionados as well as the cliche fan who “doesn’t listen to rap” but likes Game Theory.  Their latest album, How I Got Over, is another achievement from a [...]

Field Studies is a new ongoing documentary series that focuses on upcoming and in-progress projects by established artists. The focus of these videos is to provide insight into the concepts and processes of a wide range of work over different mediums.

We’ve been waiting quite a long time for Ski Beatz to drop 24 Hour Karate School; maybe not on the same level of anticipation as Detox (which is a completely different realm in regard to ludicrous delays), but we were becoming skeptical of ever seeing a proper release date for this all-star project.  Fear no [...]

Last year’s release of Radio by Exile was one of our favorite records of 2009.  Ever since the drop of modern classic Below The Heavens with Blu in 2007, we know that this producer is just simply capable of creating some of the most unique beats in hip hop today.  In anticipation of his upcoming [...]

Rick Ross can’t seem to live a low profile life these days (as if he would even want to in the first place). Our favorite former correctional officer turned rapper has outdone all the outlandish stunts that his contemporaries such as P. Diddy has ever pulled in recent years. What did he do this time? [...]

The day has finally come, and no, I don’t mean that we finally found that box of money that we have woefully prayed for all our lives. A.D.I.D.A.S., the long awaited project that our beloved collaborators and drinking buddies Ras Kass and DJ Rhettmatic have been working on is finally out TODAY! We are so [...]

As most of your probably know by now, DJ Kutmah has been released from the detention center in which he was held and deported to Manchester, UK. While Angelinos in the scene have and will continue to truly miss his presence, we at Clement & Co. are glad that dude is grabbing some fresh air [...]

Since we felt the need to write about how Amanda Bynes went apeshit after her break up with Kid Cudi, we just thought it would only be right to post the Sweet Summer Cudder’s recent collabo with Best Coast, Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and the deep pockets of Converse/Nike. As some of you know, [...]

Nicki Minaj is for real. If her showing up on a track is reason enough for us to sit through two minutes of Trey Songz, then she’s is for real for real. Guest verses like this actually make us think that Nicki is the rightful heir to the Weezy’s throne, what with her random-access, schizophrenic [...]