The ever talented Jean Grae stopped by Comedy Central’s Why? with Hannibal Buress to give a hypnotizing performance of “Before The Summer Broke”. Clad in black, classic door-knocker earrings, a black stripe painted across her eyes and accompanied by in-house DJ, Flying Lotus, Niddi O, and Terrance Martin on the keys, watch as Jean proceeds to drop intricate lyricism and smooth vocals that will put the whole “is hip-hop dead?” question to rest.

Also, be sure to pick up a copy of Jean’s latest project, iSweaterGawd if you’re feeling the vibe.

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If you happened to catch the latest debate on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, you were in for an interesting panel discussion. This particular episode was about black fatherhood. As a guest on the panel, Common and other guests openly spoke about their relationships with their fathers, statistics and other topics including women and the Superbowl. During the shows“Keep It 100”segment, Wilmore asked, “If given the chance to play in the SuperBowl or watch your child being born, which would you choose?” (which is the situation Seahawks’ cornerback, Richard Sherman, almost found himself in.) Common gave the audience a laugh after playing his answer off rather smooth by asking whether it was his first child.

The Nightly Show is Comedy Central‘s newest segment that is a spin-off of The Daily Show and takes the place of The Colbert Report. It airs Monday through Thursday 11:3-/10:30 central. Catch up with past episodes here and make sure to tweet your #KeepIt100 questions to @larrywilmore on Twitter.

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Last night, the “leader of West Coast rap” made an appearance on the final episode of The Colbert Report—Kendrick Lamar was the last musical guest to ever appear on the show. For the occasion, Lamar decided to premiere some new music, a track called “Untitled”.

In the wake of “i”, which received mixed reviews from fans (some love his fun, lighthearted style and others seek his harder-hitting street rapping), “Untitled” shows a different side of Lamar’s new style while also a return to some more familiar lyricism. The track is boisterous. At the build of each verse, Lamar descends into an insanity-inducing cacophony, which crescendos at the hook before returning again to cooler, slower rhymes.

The whole picture of the project is slowly coming together. Do you like what you hear so far? Watch the performance below and let us know:

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