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9th & Co. have really been let­ting joints loose lately.

Kam Moye, for­merly Supastition, is proud to announce the release of his lat­est video, "Splitting Image". Produced by Symbolyc One, and shot and directed by Matt Koza, whose cred­its include Little Brother, RJD2, and Kam's own "Let's Be Honest," the video depicts a story about life's choices forc­ing growth and gain­ing knowl­edge. Apparent through­out the video, Kam's name change is more than just cos­metic - the "split­ting image" also refers to a dis­tinct change lyri­cally towards a wiser per­sona with a great deal of life expe­ri­ence and perspective.

The breathy and angelic vocal stylings of Neenah com­ple­ment the set­ting of the video and serve to bal­ance Kam's con­fi­dent and poised rhymes. Standing amidst a bar­ren back­drop, Kam deliv­ers a pow­er­ful mes­sage and chal­lenges lis­ten­ers to not only "grow older" but to also "grow" as indi­vid­u­als. Kam Moye explains, "I wanted it to doc­u­ment my real life story of becom­ing a father at 16 and show the pres­sure I was fac­ing at the time. I couldn't even take care of myself when I brought my daugh­ter into the world." He con­tin­ues, "It's a way of show­ing younger peo­ple that your life isn't over when you make a bad deci­sion but it means you've got to work twice as hard at your dreams. Hopefully some­one will feel inspired by it." By jux­ta­pos­ing Kam's ver­bals with visu­als of a teenager's unplanned cir­cum­stances, the video makes good on its promise of hope and resilience. Kam Moye raps, "It's hard to back­track, start a new begin­ning. / So start­ing today I'm vow­ing to make a new end­ing. / They say a new you is hard to rebuild / But keep­ing some per­sonal flaws are just part of the deal."

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I can't wait to buy what­ever she releases. In the mean­time, down­load this. Rapsody's dope.

About M1 Platoon: A love jones for hip-hop is all it took to bring these "new­types" together- Chopps, Vaughn Garcia, Scoopay, and Sean Diesel as M1 Platoon. Though they have been mak­ing their trade­mark as unortho­dox, way out the box rap­pers in Washington, D.C. all through­out high school, it wasn't until their move to pur­sue higher learn­ing in NC where things took a bet­ter turn with results. M1 moved down south to N.C. Central University where they met Grammy Award win­ning pro­ducer and for­mer NCCU Hip Hop Initiative instruc­tor, 9th Wonder. The pla­toon quickly took to "uncle 9th" as their men­tor, mas­ter­ing their craft in music pro­duc­tion (Vaughn Garcia) and crisp lyri­cism. During their time in NC, M1 released their debut mix­tape titled M1 Invasion, which was fol­lowed by two other releases from the We Not Them series, Part 1 & 2. M1 has also had the plea­sure of open­ing up and shar­ing the stage with: Little Brother, 9th Wonder, Murs, Evidence (Dilated Peoples), Sean Price (Heltah Skeltah) Jean Grae, Chaundon, Skyzoo, Torae, Jozeemo, Median, L.E.G.A.C.Y. and Kooley High. Currently, M1 is cur­rently wrap­ping up mate­r­ial for their two upcom­ing releases, Illest In America- which will con­sist all orig­i­nal con­tent, and Rippin' They Sh*t- which will con­sist of freestyles over indus­try beats.

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Download "I'm Grinnin" from The Hardy Boy Mystery Mixtape: Secret of The Green Magic.

Grammy Award win­ning pro­ducer, 9th Wonder, sat down in a recent stu­dio ses­sion to dis­cuss his reac­tion to hear­ing "Shining" for the first time, the over­all response to the hype around it's release, and future col­lab­o­ra­tions with Laws.

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J. Cole graced the stage dur­ing Jay-Z's BP# Tour in Greensboro, NC.