Gucci and Future pair up to release Freebricks, hosted by DJ Scream. Read the rest of this entry »

You ever listen to a song so real that at the end all that really needs to be said is “sh*t”? Or one which seems so personal that the only way it was created in the first place was by the artist actually living what he/she was singing/rapping about? Yeah, well, Uncle Sam’s “I Don’t Ever Want To See You Again” is one of those songs. Read the rest of this entry »

Diggy and his team of ghostwriters already “borrowed” plenty of elements to create “Copy, Paste,” so why not plagiarize the video concept on top of that? The debut visual from the test tube rapper features his entire steez being manufactured in a lab, à la 50 Cent from the “In Da Club” video right before he breaks off into a face palm-inducing Usher dance segment. No idea’s original but creativity hasn’t totally perished from the planet. Read the rest of this entry »

Sell a few ringtones, then buy a G5 jet? According to TMZ, young rapper Soulja Boy allegedly bought himself a $55 million G5 jet as a 21st birthday present. Read the rest of this entry »

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“15th And The 1st” is about as ignorant as it gets…yet I love it. Why you ask? Read the rest of this entry »

Consequence throws a few more lightweight jabs at Kanye and his former label on “Everybody Told Me 2.” Still not enough heat to impress or smoke Kanye out of his hole and I’m beginning to wonder who the “Everybody” is in the song’s title. Read the rest of this entry »

Not that it was hard to accomplish, but Gucci Mane’s latest mixtape Writings On The Wall 2 was light years superior to his last duo of label funded flat tires. So now comes the promotion (or over-saturation) wheel, which is something Radric appears to excel in. Read the rest of this entry »

Neon Indian lit up the summer of 2009 on the back of Atari glitches and woozy electro effects that comprised his debut, Psychic Chasms. Not letting his presence be a one-time summer rendezvous, the man otherwise known as Alan Palomo is prepping the release of his sophomore effort, Era Extraña, with the fuzzed-out lead single, “Fallout.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s always great to see an independent project grow some legs, and when Kendrick Lamar is the author of said project, the Kool-Aid tastes even sweeter. We already made you aware that he was shooting a video for the restless death march of “Rigamortis,” but he killed two birds while in New York City with King Va$htie, who directed the slow-burner “A.D.H.D.” Read the rest of this entry »

If you thought the music to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s forthcoming Watch The Throne album was too rich for your blood, the independent retailers of the land feel the same way about the duo’s means to move the product all the same. Set for a release date of Aug. 8, the high-end rappers struck a deal with Best Buy and iTunes–two of the, if not the biggest names in music distribution today–for the exclusive rights to their move their record before everyone else. Read the rest of this entry »

When you make a bomb ass dinner and don’t finish it all, you don’t throw it away; you have leftovers. And after all those ingredients and seasoning soak in the food overnight, there is a more desirable meal awaiting you the next time your stomach starts growling. Consider Rockie Fresh’s The Otherside Redux his premier audio cuisine revamped, Read the rest of this entry »

Rock ‘N Rollin’, rollin’ rock, now matter the sentiment, Travis Barker is Hip-Hop. On paper, the match-up of Busta Rhymes, Twista and Yelawolf sounds like match made in rapid rap heaven, and with Lil Jon acting as the ringleader, they definitely don’t disappoint. Kudos to the extras in the clip because there’s no possible way any sits still while this is being blasted in your ear. Read the rest of this entry »

When you have youth and talent in your favor, it’s not difficult to make a coveted skill look effortless. P. Blizackk, from the capital of Ohio, is a fresh-faced, show-stealing, lyrical hotshot whose carefully plotting his takeover in the game and he’s out to make hits that satisfy both shades of the demographic pie chart. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the description, The Crates is set to feature “original rhymes over original samples” and not beats. Willie’s bypassing the middleman and attacking some choice musical selections all on their lonesome. Read the rest of this entry »

Before Mateen Cleaves and Michael Moore had Flint, MI receiving national attention, there was MC Breed, bursting on the scene with an instant classic that put perps, posers and p*ssies in their place the moment the beat dropped. “Ain’t No Future In Yo Frontin’” was so distinctively West Coast, Breed rarely got associated with hailing from Detroit’s lil cuz. But he was a Flintstone and so is Jon Connor and he’s doing in part in making sure his hometown is properly repped. Read the rest of this entry »