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Locksmith’s “The Love” featuring Jarell Perry gets an official video directed by Douglass Quill and it’s a dramatic story that ends with Locksmith dying in the gas chamber.

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Oddisee freestyles over smooth jazz guitar, light snares, a cool xylophone and a chopped up sample of Debarge’s “I Like It” for Tim Westwood’s Crib Sessions.

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Amerigo Gazaway’s latest pairing is a blues and hip-hop meeting between B.B.King and UGK and he calls it B.B. & The Underground Kingz: The Trill Is Gone. Gazaway makes the connection between the blues and hip-hop and he blends King’s road stories with UGK’s storytelling to show the philosophic continuum between the two. The Trill Is Gone comes out October 5th but you download the first single, “The Trill Is Gone Featuring Mr. 3-2 And Ronnie Spencer” here.

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Tony Momrelle and Chantae Cann take on the Roberta Flack Donny Hathaway “Back Together Again” duet and give it their own 2015 effort. Momrelle has spent the past few years building his reputation with Incognito and “Back Together Again” is coming after his 2013 Fly EP. The London singer is getting ready for the release of his third solo album, Keep Pushing and there is a feature from Talib Kweli.