Watch Common's first video for "Universal Mind Control" featuring Pharrell

admin posted Wed, 2009-09-30 13:42

Above is the first video that Common & Pharrell did for "Universal Mind Control", which has just now surfaced (shouts 2 UHTN). The Lil' X directed flick captures the powerful uptempo song just as the official Hype Williams version, and I enjoyed this one more because of the added break dancing and choreography that was included. I believe Common even gets in on the act a shade past the 3:30 mark, haha! Oh, what I would give to know how to dance like that! The dark setting and bright lights give the song a different feel than the reds and greys from Hype's version - I dig both.

Down below, a trio of tracks can be had leading off with Chicago's (OK, Gary, Indiana's... same thing) Freddie Gibbs goin' in with a solid freestyle that is the latest edition to Z's series. Rich Boy and T-Pain round it out as the latter goes in over "Successful" clearing up his side of the Jay-Z incident (shouts 2 TS) that I excerpted below. Finally, The Roots come through with the video for their 1st single "How I Got Over" off the upcoming album of the same name and you can catch some more Jeremih footage as well. Enjoy!

Freddie Gibbs "Thug Psalms"

FULL, CDQ, Track off DJBooth.net Freestyle Series

Rich Boy "Celebrity"

FULL, CDQ

T-Pain "More Careful"

Producer: Noah "40" Shebib - FULL, CDQ, Track over Drake & Trey Songz' "Successful"

Aite, so let's talk about this Jay shit
Somedays I wish that I ain't never say shit
And Diddy said, ain't no excuse for what I did
But I felt like he was knocking the same shit that feeds my kids
I do music cause I need it to make my world spin
So when you down it, it's like you dissin' my girlfriend
And Jay one of the only niggas I hear bringin' it
So I didn't think that he would even entertain the shit
Cause entertainment is see through
But if you really feel like I'm dead, then nigga me too
I ain't tryna write you're rhymes
But you coulda skipped one DJ and all you had to say was 'T-Pain, we cool'
But by all means don't take this as a diss or hatin'
I just wanna explain my side of the situation
So if you knew just how much respect that I had
You'd know that I'm a real nigga when I say, my bad.
- T-Pain