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Thirstin Howl & Young Hump drop “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street” (VIDEO)

Published

1 year ago

March 18, 2025

An official video was released this morning for “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street.” The recently released single features Lo Life General Thirstin Howl the 3rd and Digital Underground’s Young Hump as they pay homage to two Hip Hop legends: Ultramagnetic MC’s and Kool G Rap. Directed by Thirstin Howl The 3^rd for Skillusions Films andDirected by Stephen Box Lo Gonzalez for Gold Box Film Studios with first assistant director Dana Dane of “Nightmares” fame. The video includes visual references to Ultramagnetic’s “Poppa Large” video and Kool G Rap & DJ Polo’s “Ill Street Blues.” Video shot on location in California at NBA hall of famer Kevin Garnett’s Content Cartel Studios.

Watch official video for “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street”: https://youtu.be/tkCLQrWwtoo?si=8WwCJDFfVD0ojKff

The track is also available as a free download via Thirstin Howl’s website (in explicit and clean versions) as well as on Spotify (links below).

Stream “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street”on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4RmzAHTWf75dbC0tRqJayu?si=f5209e4391a14158

Download explicit/clean mp3 version here: https://thirstinhowlthe3rd.com/album/ultra-ill-magnetic-street-th3-mix-2/?ts_post_id=231524&ts_track_num=2

“Ultra Ill Magnetic Street” is taken from the forthcoming Thirstin Howl The 3rd LP entitled The Last Shall be Thirst to drop this June via Skillionaire Global Enterprises.

For over four decades Thirstin Howl has been a true cornerstone of Hip Hop culture contributing to it’s every element. Including creating some of Hip Hop’s most iconic music, producing films, music videos, and shows. He was recently inducted into Miami’s Museum of Graffiti as the beginning of the timeline that introduced the art form to the Wynwood area in the early 1980’s.

Currently featured and acknowledged in countless documentaries based around fashion and Hip Hop history. From “Vouge magazine’s” episodes on 1990’s fashion, Ralph Lauren’s “Very Ralph” bio pic, Ol Dirty Bastard’s “A Tale of Two Dirtys”. Even the animated series of “Everybody Still Hates Chris” by Chris Rock includes Thirstin as a character of himself with voice overs.

Lets not forget the Thirstin Howl action figure collaboration with https://wynwoodsocialclub.com/

and trading card by https://rapper-cards.com/thirstin-howl-the-3rd-autographed-rapper-card/

Multimedia enterprising and iconic figure all whilst continuing to be a pioneering leader of the seminal global Lo Life organization.

In addition to “Ultra Ill Magnetic Street” song Young Hump appears on 3 tracks on the LP “The Last Shall be Thirst” and continues to tour along side the legendary group Digital Underground co-signedby the late great Shock G.

Stay tuned! Thirstin will be dropping his long awaited short film Don Chicharron this December. Don Chicharron was written and directed by Thirstin Howl and directed by Stephen Box Lo Gonzalez. It is a Skillusions Films and Gold Box Film Studios Presentation. Thus far, the film has been privately screened in theaters located in Miami and New York.

More info: https://thirstinhowlthe3rd.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thirstinhowlthe3rd

https://www.instagram.com/younghumpdu

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Col Darcy Unveils New Single ‘Pay Up’

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12 hours ago

August 4, 2026

Philomena Marie

Col Darcy’s ‘Pay Up’ arrives with the calm authority of an artist who has already learned that longevity is its own form of victory. The second single from ‘Redemption’, his forthcoming album, is a composed piece of independent hip-hop that places persistence, ambition and personal conviction at its centre. Rather than presenting success as spectacle, Darcy approaches it as something accumulated slowly, through experience, discipline and faith in one’s own direction.

That sense of earned perspective has been central to Darcy’s work from the beginning. As Caper, he drew national attention with ‘How Would You Like To Be Me?’, a politically charged anti-racism song whose influence eventually extended into cinema. Alongside ‘Opportunity’, the track appeared in Netflix’s A Second Chance: Rivals!, bringing Darcy’s writing to an audience well beyond the usual confines of Australian hip-hop. Yet his subsequent career has remained grounded in independence, with the acclaimed ‘Beautiful Hopeless’ further establishing his commitment to thoughtful writing and considered craft.

‘Pay Up’ continues that trajectory while revealing an artist interested in the emotional economics of perseverance. Darcy writes from the perspective of someone who has experienced the slow rewards of staying the course. The lyrics use sharp wordplay and layered metaphor to turn a familiar idea into something more personal. His delivery is particularly effective for its restraint. There is no need to overstate the message when the voice behind it sounds as though it has lived through the argument already.

The song also reflects the wider concerns of ‘Redemption’, a record shaped by travel, fatherhood, gratitude and renewed self-awareness. Much of the album was recorded in Bali, and the island’s atmosphere reportedly helped cultivate its more contemplative dimensions. That background lends ‘Pay Up’ an intriguing duality. It is a song about ambition, but not restless ambition. Its confidence feels less like hunger for external validation and more like an acceptance that the journey itself has meaning.

What emerges is a track that understands hip-hop as both music and testimony. Darcy’s influences, from Tupac Shakur and Eminem to Kendrick Lamar, belong to a lineage in which personal narrative can become social observation and self-examination can become communal language. ‘Pay Up’ honours that tradition while remaining contemporary in its presentation. As a statement of intent for ‘Redemption’, it suggests an artist who has found greater clarity without sacrificing his edge, and who understands that the most durable kind of success is the kind you build yourself.