New Videos and Music: Big Boi, T.I. and Rick Ross

Big Boi Featuring Yelawolf: "You Ain't No DJ" Video
Atlanta's finest hooks up with Alabama's up-and-coming as Big Boi and Yelawolf present their new video for "You Ain't No DJ," the latest clip from Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Watch it above before George Lucas has it removed from the web for infringing on the light saber trademark.

T.I. and Rick Ross: "Pledge Allegiance to the Swag"
Just hours before T.I. was arrested in Los Angeles on drug charges, the rapper's mammoth eight-minute collaboration with Rick Ross, dubbed "Pledge Allegiance to the Swag," leaked. The track, produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, will reportedly appear on T.I.'s King Uncaged. [Nah Right]

The Morning Benders: "All Day Day Light" Video
The Morning Benders stopped by the Rolling Stone studios earlier this summer to perform an intimate version of their Big Echo song "All Day Day Light," and now the Berkeley, California indie-rockers have unveiled their new season-spanning music video for the single. [Vimeo]

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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