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VIDEO | Ali Vegas - "Many Mics/Look In The Mirror"

Yes, once again, it's Rik Cordero...

KRS-One & Kid Capri Discuss New Hip-Hop Channel on Fox News

Whether this premium channel is viable or not is debatable. I still respect the approach of imposing balance in hip-hop programming. Providing T-Pain, Lil Wayne, or Flo-Rida coverage is fine just as long as Dead Prez, Little Brother, and Tanya Morgan get the same face time. By the way, I love KRS-One's comment that Imus shouldn't be forced to resign if BET is still allowed to be on the air. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Viacom.

VIDEO | Lazy Town - "Cooking by the Book" feat. Lil Jon

Royce + Guilty Simpson + Elzhi = "Verbal Intercourse (Detroit Remix)"

Amidst the auto industry meltdown, a resurgence of Iverson's "practice...we talkin' bout practice", a crooked mayor, and the winless Lions, the sun has always shined on Detroit's hip-hop scene...

DOWNLOAD: Royce, Guilty Simpson, Elzhi | Verbal Intercourse (Detroit Remix)

Ali Vegas - "Wise Young Man"

Short, but good. And just to clear the air, Lamar Odom and Ali Vegas aren't really cousins — just childhood friends. So keep that in mind next time you're on Jeopardy requesting "Queens Rapper Trivia for $500, Alex".

Ali is signed to Odom's Rich Soil label and should be dropping an album shorty, though we've been hearing that tune for a good 10 years.

DOWNLOAD: Ali Vegas | Wise Young Man

Genitalia-Inspired Drawings

This perv is pretty damn talented.

She is All Kinds of Crazy

VIDEO | Idle Warship - "Black Snake Moan"

Talib Kweli + Res = Idle Warship.

Rik Cordero Addresses Filmmaker Criticisms

Rik Cordero is a filmmaker and community-validated music video director that's the creative genius behind Three/21 Media — a fresh, innovative production company that's churned out low cost, rugged, grimey, but overwhelmingly appealing music videos for artists like Jay-Z, Q-Tip, Consequence, Nas, The Roots and others. In fact, many of the videos published on EatAddict are from his portfolio. While he's been collecting buzz for over a year now, there's also been backlash from filmmakers that argue that he's beating down budgets and cannibalizing their craft. Rik speaks on it...

I wholly agree. Music video budgets declined a long time ago. You can easily correlate it to the depletion of record sales due to piracy. My brother was in the industry for 10 years working with the same artists Cordero has on his resume. He spotted the downshift years ago and side-stepped out the game. Amidst a dying record industry, he/she who makes diamonds from doo-doo will eat well; don't hate Cordero for getting a jumpstart on everyone else.

It's Still Cold in the D

Internet sensation TBaby live in-studio performing her god-awful "It's So Cold in the D". Though her performance sounds like an orchestra of wailing banshees and squealing pigs, admittedly, she is showing some improvement.