Aziz Ansari has recently become one of my favorite comics. His character, Tom Haverford, on Parks & Recreation steals every scene that he’s featured in and Ansari’s recent stand-up special Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening, is required viewing for anyone that visits my place. The icing on the cake is that he’s a hip-hop aficionado, who constantly works rap references into his routine.

As you’ll see in the video below, Aziz also dabbles in turntablism and knows his stuff based on a recent interview he did with TurntableLab.

Like most hip-hop projects, his upcoming mixtape has encountered a delayed release date, but I’m betting the final product is going to be well worth the wait.

Here’s an update on the Raaaaaaaandy mixtape I’m working on with Dave Sitek. We’ve been working hard on it and I’m very excited. We may not meet the originally announced February 2010 release date, but has any great rap album come out when it was originally supposed to?

If you weren’t aware of this project at all, more info is here: http://bit.ly/7lerqT

I just found out there was a video for this track. Every line on this track is a hip-hop quotable. One of my favorite cuts EVER!

Big L Rest In Peace

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I saw both of these guys perform last week at a packed venue in Chapel Hill. I got tipped about the show by my homie Corey from Beats & Bombs, who also tipped me off about this new Big Sean video and I decided to explore what the hype was about.

Both of these artists are names that I have seen growing in popularity over the past few months on the blog circuit, but I was certainly shocked by the crowd they pulled. Rather than a bunch of dudes in neon-colored Supras and skinny jeans, as I was expecting due to the blog hype, the venue was split about 80/20 female (beautiful females I might add) and the entire place had more energy than about 90% of the shows I attended during my time in New York.

The sound of these artists, combined with opening act 2am Club, who sounded like a pop-friendlier version of Gym Class Heroes, seems to signal another growing genre of hip-hop music that is blurring the lines between college rock and rap. It’s about as far away from your Rick Ross’s and Young Jeezy’s of the game as you can get, but I think there’s room at the table for everybody.

Big Sean “Rollin’/ Say You Will” (Official Video)

Click below for Mike Posner’s “Drug Dealer Girl” video

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