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A slew of new hip-hop video clips have hit the net today, so to make it easy for you, we’ve gathered together the best for your viewing pleasure below. Enjoy!

YG & Lil Nipsey Hussle, FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)

YG and Nipsey Hussle let their thoughts known about Presidential hopeful Donald Trump with the video for FDT (Fuck Donald Trump). The filming of the protest video was shut down by police a few weeks back, but that hasn’t stopped the two from releasing what footage they could gather. The black and white clip – with flashes of patriotic red and blue – opens with a short message reminding people of the advances made by President Obama and how if the wrong candidate is elected in the current race to the Whitehouse, all Obama’s good work could be reversed.

This isn’t actually a bad track. While the refrain, “Fuck Donald Trump,” isn’t the most positive of slogans, I applaud YG and Nipsey Hussle for using their position to advocate their political beliefs

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkZ5e94QnWk]

Trouble, Ready (Remix Ft. Big Bank Black, Young Thug & Young Dolph)

Released last month, Atlanta rapper Trouble delivers the film clip for the remix of hit cut Ready. Joined by Southern alumni Big Blank Black, Young Thug and Young Dolph, the four MC’s kick it in the street with their posses as 90s visual effects flash on screen.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX34S53M4a0]

Bankroll Mafia, Out My Face

The latest in a long of hip-hop super groups, Bankroll Mafia is lead by the team of T.I. and Young Thug with able support from Shad Da God and Peewee Roscoe. While Roscoe is currently facing prison time following the shooting of Lil Wayne’s tour bus last year, the group look set to continue as a trio, as evident by new single Out My Face. Fellow Hustle Gang label mate London Jae joins the three on this trap banger, with the video showing the quartet hanging out in a warehouse with their crew while footage of money burning is intercut throughout.

Bankroll Mafia’s debut album is set to drop this Friday April 22.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLQtqMQYO1w]

Curren$y, Grand Theft Auto

Ahead of the release of Curren$y’s 4/20 celebrating project, Bourbon Street Secrets, the New Orleans rapper has dropped the visuals for new tune Grand Theft Auto. Produced by frequent collaborator, Purps of 808 Mafia, Curren$y’s smooth rhymes float over the bouncy production as he stands around some fancy cars smoking spliffs. What a life.

Bourbon Street Secrets is released this Friday April 22.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq8eidzw-ks]

Homeboy Sandman, Talking (Bleep)

Stones Throw Records’ Homeboy Sandman is less than three weeks away from dropping his new album Kindness For Weakness (May 6), and today sees the video release for recent single Talking (Bleep). It feels like a kind of parody take on the typical hip-hop gangster video, with boxing and martial arts, street shootings, running from men in black suits and so on.

Homeboy’s crystal clear storytelling lyrics slow down the video’s dramatic pace just enough to allow you to take in each scene. Remarkably surreal, mostly due to the small embellishments, like how some characters’ mouths are stretched wide, are creepy and eerie to say the least. The pace and lyrics work in an interesting way with the video, with the clear storyline essentially making the entire visual experience even more hyperreal and off-kilter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsossmuDXA&feature=youtu.be

Remi, For Good (ft. Sampa The Great)

Undoubtedly the best Australian hip-hop track of the year so far, Remi‘s For Good, featuring Sampa The Great, now has its own visual accompaniment. This is the first single from Remi’s forthcoming album with Sensible J titled Divas and Demons, and if it’s anything to go by, we’re in for something truly special.

The video splices scenes of Sampa and Remi dancing and performing with theatrical scenes of a lone girl sitting at a restaurant table, having been stood up on a date – by the guy we soon see riding in a car with two girls and a bottle of wine. He’s having a great time, she’s feeling incredibly low. After a minute he eventually shows up, so late that he sees another guy chatting to her. Fed up when he begins to argue with the other guy, she leaves, obviously distraught.

It’s not exactly a feel good clip. Here’s Remi explaining the song’s straightforward inspiration: I was a scandalous prick, and I wanted to outline how it went down and how it effected everyone involved. The best way to do this was to have both the male and female perspective.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrW7GNFwPsM

Written by Tobias Handke & Lauren Ziegler

Image: Billboard

It is just weeks away until Remi and Silent J hit the road again for a full national tour. Having also been announced on the Splendour In The Grass, the duo will also be embarking on a jaunt around the country to get ready for it next month in support of Remi’s latest single, For Good.

For Good is a stellar tune, and sees Remi team up with Sampa The Great to deliver an outstanding verse. Continuing to build on the momentum of his hugely critically acclaimed debut album, Raw X Infinity, Remi gives us the impression he’s really only just getting started. We haven’t seen anything yet!

To get to know the guys a little better before they tour the country again, we asked them which three albums had the biggest change on their lives. You can check out their answers below, as well as their tour dates- and take it from us, you don’t want to miss these guys!

https://soundcloud.com/remzilla/for-good-featuring-sampa-the-great

D’Angelo, Voodoo

Remi: This Record for us is the definition of a timeless album. Every player on this record is a God in their own right, Roy Hargrove, Quest Love, Pino, Charlie Hunter (8 String Guitar), DJ Premier, Meth, Red, Q-Tip (Cheeky beat box) and of course, the man, D’Angelo. Not only was it ground breaking when released, with no RnB sounding even close to it, but it still sits in an untouchable category, to me personally. It also captures so many different vibes, from soul, to afro-beat, to funk and everything in between. True piece of art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT75hdcOOkU

Radiohead, In Rainbows

Remi: Like Voodoo, There’s not a single song I skip on this record. When I first heard this record, I was truly blown away. To be honest I didn’t really understand what was going on, I’d grown up listening to hip-hop and soul music, so this electronic/rock/hip-hop drums/fusion/intergalactic shit was so foreign too me. All I knew is that I loved it. Probably listen to it once a week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJD6wXLraEA&nohtml5=False

Common, Electric Circus

Sensible J: Another record I didn’t understand when I first heard it, it was hip-hop, but not at all. It had rhymes, fire ones at that, but the music wasn’t your typical boombap, it was Dilla and the Soul Aquarians on some future, future shit. It was never embraced by the heads, and was pretty much totally rejected at the time. However I believe this will go down as a classic in Common’s catalogue. It’s sonically the kind vibe we try to sit in with our stuff. Music that grows on you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1QYNj0i7wQ&nohtml5=False

Main Image: Mass Appeal

Two of my favourite Australian hip-hop artists, Remi and Sampa the Great, have joined forces for a cruisey, guitar-laden new track, For Good.

The laid back production sets a chilled tone, perfect for the balmy early Fall weather that much of Australia is currently enjoying.

I really love the breezy instrumental, said to be inspired by the great J Dilla. The two artists inject their unique inflections atop the choppy guitars; a playful duet, both featuring vocal harmonies and echoed lyrics throughout the verses. Remi’s deep voice has a richness that I’ve always loved, and Sampa’s fine tone is the perfect complement, particularly during her understated guest verse.

Having supported some of the biggest names in the game including Danny Brown, Vic Mensa, Joey Bada$$ and De La Soul, it really is exciting to see hip-hop of this quality coming from a country who has long been ridiculed for its rap output. Rappers like Remi and Sampa are truly heralding in a new generation of impeccably produced, unique, complex hip-hop that could easily rival that coming from the US. And I’m pretty damn proud of that.

https://soundcloud.com/remzilla/for-good-featuring-sampa-the-great

Remi has also announced a national headline tour to celebrate the release! Full details below: