If TC was writing this, we already know what the first sentence would be. Yo Gotti is preparing yet another release before the now mythical Live From The Kitchen is placed on the dinner table. Currently untitled, the first glimpse is the Gucci Mane and Juelz Santana featured “Colors.” Read the rest of this entry »

You jump anytime an opportunity arises to post a picture of the late, great NBA’er and social activist Manute Bol. That’s just the unwritten rules to the game. The Black Opera releases the next look into The EnterMission with a track named in honor after the seven footer. Read the rest of this entry »

Last year, Ka ripped the only guest appearance on Roc Marciano’s Marcberg. But afterwards, to my dismay, he seemed to slip through some crack in our rap world. The rest of last year, and most of this one, went by with no word from the Brownsville spitter. But under the radar, he continued to walk his path, dreaming up some fresh heat for the masses. Read the rest of this entry »

A few weeks back we told you about SESSIONS LA, a Hip-Hop education program in L.A. that lost its funding and is pursuing donations so the program can continue serving Los Angeles youth for the foreseeable future. The community has stepped up and Sessions LA has received over 2/3rd of their goal with a little less than two weeks left in the campaign. Read the rest of this entry »

Phonte’s not the only former Little Brother member going stag on an album this year. With the release of Dirty Pretty Things, the levelheaded Rapper Big Pooh also makes his solo status known. In dropping this 18-track behemoth, Pooh crafts an expansive LP with mixed results. Read the rest of this entry »

Sure, it’s a man’s world but it wouldn’t be a damn thing without a woman’s touch. With more and more female rappers trying their manicured hands at juggling an occupation in the mic booth, North Carolina’s Rapsody puts the contents of her name first and details about her measurements dead last, proving she can conceive witty one-liners and linear subject matter just like everybody else. Backed by 9th Wonder and his production cohorts The Soul Council, the ambitious emcee’s For Everything looks to make believers out of the entire Hip-Hop community. Read the rest of this entry »

Is this the way R. Les rocks these days? I’ve admittedly only heard a sparse amount of the man’s music, but the tracks that have grabbed my attention portrayed the Washington D.C. artist as an extremely talented producer and singer. But, an all-out rapper? Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t let the postcards fool you. St. Petersburg, Florida may seem like a smiley, happy place, given that the the weather is sunny and nice. But there are dark clouds hovering over the city Read the rest of this entry »

The only reason I even gave Nephew a chance initially is due to his affiliation with Cinematic Music Group, given their reputation for putting out really filthy material. They did not disappoint with the Jacksonsville street dude with a deadpan delivery and rhymes chock-full of similes, street slang and assorted gutter talk Read the rest of this entry »

End of the month so you know what it is. Crew Love, snitches! As we get ready to flip the calendar, we mark another month in the books by pointing out a few tracks that provided fuel for the working fire. In fact, the November Crew Love will be the last of 2011 (the year flew by, huh?) Read the rest of this entry »

Making a song is so much easier when you relate to the subject matter and can dive all in. That said, when Pill, Killa and the always-baritone I-20 were asked to contribute to TrakkSounds’ “King Hustler,” well…the answer was obvious. Read the rest of this entry »

Nitty Scott, MC probably has triple the amount of YouTube clips that she does MP3′s so when she drops it like it’s hot, we have to take advantage. The Doobies x Popsicle Sticks EP is a short and ice cream sweet hodgepodge of bootlegs and b-sides to keep her name buzzing going into the next year. Read the rest of this entry »

It was a star-studded event in Los Angeles’s premiere venue, The Music Box, where the sold-out crowd gathered to watch their beloved hometown hero, Kendrick Lamar. Big names like A$AP Rocky, Krondon, and Busta Rhymes were in the house as either entourage or performers and even the mythical Dr. Dre had a section of the balcony for himself to enjoy the festivities without being hounded by the peons. Featured on the bill, Left-Coast duo TiRon & Ayomari caught everyone by surprise as they preached about relationships and love’s many complexities, Read the rest of this entry »

The Coke King, French Montana, would like to thank all of you who thinks his flow sucks, isn’t talented enough to be signed and ruins hooks on big name songs for fueling the fire he needs to succeeds. Read the rest of this entry »

If you couldn’t control yourself last night and the side effects are still lingering, you may want to hold off on watching Schoolboy Q’s kaleidoscopic video for his anthem of inebriation, “To THa Beat (F’d Up).” Directed by Jerome D. and featuring half of your favorite rappers, the visual finds the Top Dawg Ent. crew letting loose in what appears to be a Hollywood Hills highrise, and does an excellent job of giving life to the spacey feeling the Setbacks single omitted initially. Read the rest of this entry »