You Snorin On Us

Well if Detroit ain't pleasantly in the bldg. Full Clip's pick of the year, Invincible, drops yet another monster track featuring a little help from her (and our) friends, Finale and Black Milk. If there was a handbook on making raw hip-hop, this might be in the Table of Contents.

You can't stop the prophet.

INVINCIBLE - DONT SLEEP (PROD BLACK MILK)

Goings On About Town

Things we like around the internuts this week:

• The Marty McFly Hyperdunk. Grab your hoverboard.
• Phonte of Little Brother drops an 80s tribute album.
• Failed hedge fund agent fakes suicide & midnight runs.
• Cost of the war in Iraq in real time.
• Construction paper sculptures should be in MoMa.
• Every Invincible collabo ever, free.
• J Dilla internet leaks cause his inheritance to suffer.
• PA keeps it ghetto French with wine vending machines.

Shapeshifting

Finally got the new Invincible in my paws. Everything else is going back burner, and Shapeshifters is getting fired up all weekend. Sledgehammer is still one of my favorite tracks of the year, but this album is one big fat banger. I love when a real album like this comes out and makes all these leak-happy mediocre MCs look like the posturers they are.

I suggest you fork out the loot for it over at Emergence. I don't care how much gas is right now.

INVINCIBLE - ROPES

INVINCIBLE - PEOPLE NOT PLACES

Invincible on Gentrification

It's been 8 long years of this administration, and if one thing is clear, it is the amazing success they have had in their quest to drastically increase the separation between rich and poor. It can be seen clearly in rising prices, and even more clearly in our neighborhoods, which have quickly become shadows of what they once were in the face of development. It ain't a picnic, that's for sure.

Leave it to Full Clip favorite new artist Invincible to address the complex and ever important issue of gentrification, this time in her hometown of Detroit. Peep the whole video, especially for the last two minutes which includes interviews with local residents and politicians.

I will be dropping some new tracks from that album immediately when it hits on Friday.

Previously:
∆ Invincible - Shapeshifters
∆ Invincible - Sledgehammer