Murs

Murs is taking the full on anime approach for his new album, Yumiko: Curse of the Merch Girl. Here the Cali MC releases the animated Aaron M. Miner directed video for "Falling In Flames." Yumiko dropped today, and can be purchased along with an accompanying 70-page digital comic book on iTunes...

Hip-hop has its share of self-made success stories. Sometimes, the indie hustle is much more respected than securing a big major label deal. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are the latest triumph, but there have been other artists in hip-hop that have stuck to this model for years. In...

Paul Iannacchino knows rap. The self-proclaimed writer/director/creative guy used to be a producer signed to EL-P’s Def Jux label (as one-third of Hangar 18) but left the world of indie hip-hop behind when he realized that it wasn’t for him. Still, his...

Paul Iannacchino knows rap. The self-proclaimed writer/director/creative guy used to be a rapper/producer signed to EL-P's Def Jux label (as one-third of Hangar 18), but left the world of indie hip-hop behind when he realized that it wasn't for him...

This week find Murs, Sacha Jenkins and Darryl Jenifer tackling issues of race in the White Mandingo's latest video, while Wyclef Jean wrestles with his own public images in the first video off his April Showers mixtape. Additionally, Quelle Chris and Prince SAMO bring the weird this week with some colorful but definitely bizarre videos. ...

Last week, some of the XXL staff checked out the new film 42, a sort-of biopic about Jackie Robinson, the famed African-American baseball star. We reached out to great rapper and friend of XXL, Murs – whose Whitemandingos album comes out June 11th; you can hear a leak from it here – to review the movie for us. Here's what he ...

This week's videos find A$AP Rocky and Trinidad Jame$ taking their talents overseas for big budget feature videos, while Tyler, The Creator gets weird in a nightmarish Odd Future dollhouse world. Other notable visuals from the week include Chase N Cashe's "iRevolution" and Durag Dynasty's "360 Waves...

Earlier this week, XXL got an exclusive look at the comic book that accompany Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge's upcoming album 12 Reasons To Die. While the folks at Black Mask Studios look like they've perfect captured the spirit of Ghost and Younge's giallo horror-meets-crime narrative, the Wu-Tang emcee isn't the first to get the comic book treatment...

With SXSW taking over the the vast share of media exposure in hip-hop, this week proved be relatively quiet on the music video front. However, that hasn't kept some artists from releasing unique visuals. From Vado's hyper-kinetic vision of Harlem, to Euro League's found footage ode to family, to even Earl Sweatshirt's bizarro-world trailer park, here are some of the best music videos from this pa

Following the release of The Final Adventure, Murs just dropped a new video for “Whatuptho.” The Hobostewd-directed visual finds Murs working in a cafeteria and getting thrown food at him. He is currently on the road promoting his upcoming Paid Dues 2013 festival taking place on March 30 in San Bernardino, California. Previo...

brightcove.createExperiences(); Murs and Fashawn offer their latest visuals off This Generation. In “64 Impala,” we get a proper glimpse of how life is like on the West Coast. It features plenty of tricked out 64s, with the pair looking to have a lot of fun riding in them. Watch the ...