After too long of a tease, we finally get our first full listen to a track from Diplo’s upcoming EP “Express Yourself.” The title track is just close enough to his work with Major Lazer to sound familiar to fans who entered his discography that way (myself included), but clearly has the sonic stamp of [...]

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I saw the above photo when Diplo tweeted it, but I’d forgotten all about the Diplo/Usher collaboration until just this moment. The result is just a bit less than I’d hoped it would be, but it’s enough to get me interested in Usher at least temporarily.

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Major Lazer’s video for their new track “Original Don” has crossed Napoleon Dynamite with a late night infomercial for ninja weapons. Great Diplo cameo squeezed in the middle of this, too.

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Yesterday Wale let slip this Diplo-produced track from his new album. Wale, Big Sean and Diplo all brought something special to the table. At first I thought Diplo, was recycling his “Percolator” remix for the backing track, but it’s a cop’s siren tweaked in much the same way. And as much as I love Wale, [...]

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To call this a video is being a bit generous; it’s really more of a way to stream Diplo’s new song from the Mad Decent vol 1 compilation. Stream the whole thing at Mad Decent’s site

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Blaqstarr just posted Blaqstarr the Mixtape over at his site. It’s got guest appearances by Mos Def, Diplo and more — but perhaps none more attention-grabbing than the fact that M.I.A’s on it. Not surprising, but always good to hear her progression. Snag the MP3 and listen to it while you go grab the full [...]

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We’ve been hearing rumors for a while now that the Diplo/Switch collaboration Major Lazer would eventually have a show on Adult Swim. Turns out the rumors were truer than true, as we now have character designs for the principle characters of the show. Not surprisingly they’ve included Skerrit Boy. Didn’t really expect to see Lee [...]

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I get a lot of mileage out of what is a relatively boring photo. I passed on the Travis Barker album even though it features contributions from pretty much every rapper from the past 10 years. Thank goodness Diplo was there to scoop this track out of my mental “ignore” pile, spruce it up and [...]

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