by Phoenix Vazquez

Straight out of Brooklyn comes a brand new artist emerging from the underground, hoping to claim his spot as one of the most focused Hip Hop artists out of New York. HOA Bossman has been receiving a lot of love for his recently released project “L.I.F.E” including a huge cosign from the GS9 leader Bobby Shmurda promoting his links. Now Bossman has geared up the latest visuals from the project with Gritty.

The visual consists of everything that the song title eludes, director Tarela Kelvin Ebiotu doing his best to catch New York’s gritty essence as effortlessly as possible. The song itself has real somber attitude to it, Bossman make numerous threats in a chilling tone in project hallways, abandoned alleyways and local bodegas.

Be sure to stay tuned for any further work HOA Bossman may be dropping soon. If you’re interested in knowing more about the upcoming artist, check out a small documentary he did with Vice a while back here.

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I think all of the hip-hop blogosphere has checked the woman who tattooed Drake on her forehead. Vice Magazine got a hold of tattoo artist Kevin Campbell of the L.A. shop Will Rise to hear his side of the story. Yesterday, Mandy Fresko got a hold of Drizzy for his reaction of the photo. Let’s just say he had some choice words about Campbell. On the other hand, Drake showed his admiration for his new #1 fan.

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Since no one can quite pin down A$AP’s style or influences, he’ll just pretend to be everyone else. The A$AP Mob stars in this fantastic new editorial for Vice where they reenact iconic album covers. The crew, styled by Annette Lamothe-Ramos and photographed by Ben Ritter, transform into hip-hop greats like N.W.A and Wu-Tang and rock legends KISS. A good concept goes a long way.

Follow the jump for more pictures.

To see the full collection click HERE

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If you’re like us—or simply have warm blood in your veins—you’ve seen Terry Richardson‘s work and have been impressed, aroused and fantasized about being wondered what it’s like to be at one of his shoots. Thanks to this video of him shooting Michael K. Williams (who will forever be remembered as Omar from The Wire, if New York subway riders have any say in the matter) for Vice magazine that he posted on his online diary, we’ve come one step closer to having our dreams fulfilled. And it’s everything we hoped it would be. At least in the SFW versions of those dreams.

(via @Terry_World)

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