Phonte Shows Off His Crib in New Video

Phonte takes us on a tour of his enormous home in the video for his song, "So Help Me God". The one-take, "MTV Cribs" style visual captures Phonte walking around his home in a bathrobe.

The Marco Polo produced track hits hard with bars such as, "That will shit to happen like he Tio Salamanca. Bogart ya whole shit like we in Casablanca." Phonte name drops on the Mexican drug kingpin from the show Breaking Bad.

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by Collin Covert

Tanya Morgan: "She's Gone" (featuring Phonte)/Mega Mix

Tanya Morgan

Tanya Morgan's Brooklynati is in stores today (buy it here), and we got a double-dose of TM stuff this morning.  First, Aeon hit us up with his production credit, "She's Gone AKA Without You" featuring Phonte and Brisco.  If that wasn't enough reason to check out the rest of the album, we also have the BKnati megamix sampler.  Get both below.  In other Brooklynati town hall news, ?uestlove has been elected The Mayor, and has issued the following statement...

 
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by RH Staff

RH Inspired: Phonte of The Foreign Exchange

“I see n***as slammin’ her and takin’ her to the sewer/But I’ma take her back hoping that this s**t stops/cause who I’m talkin’ bout y’all is Hip-Hop,” are the words Common rails off on his classic underlying love message track “I Used to Love H.E.R.” This cut, like many others is a keen example that the subject of love is the most essential and classic subject spoken on in the culture.

For this week's column, and in light of it being Valentine's day this past weekend we decided to highlight The Foreign Exchange and their LP, Leave it All Behind, which is engaged to this simple yet complicated topic of love. So, who better to explain the complication than their vocalist, Phonte, whom we sat down with to give us the inspiration behind the track “All or Nothing/Coming Home To You.”

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by Alexander Fruchter