Where Salvation may have left listeners calling for a more complete project from Jon Connor, the release of next Monday’s Season 2 looks to capture the sound, story and image of the Flint, Michigan native from a 360° vantage point. Read the rest of this entry »

Freeway and Danny Brown take FADER along for quick, candid trips through their respective stomping grounds of Philly and Detroit and down memory lane for the latest in the mag’s “Uncapped” video series. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though we keep a keen eye out for everything Rapsody does, I can’t say I saw this coming. And even though the North Carolina wordsmith keeps one eye covered on that mystic, too-cool-for-school tip, she always has the other one locked in on the studio as you can see with the release of her new album, For Everything, which is only a few months removed from her last mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

Freddie Gibbs’ Cold Day In Hell will be the tape that has a snowball’s chance being remembered weeks and months from now. While others are dropping novelty tapes for the holiday, Freddie’s release seems meant to be played through winter and beyond. The tone is set by the distinguished art alone, which may be the illest seen this year. Beyond the cover, Cold Day… holds equally sick music and “consistency” best describes what Gibbs does best on this release. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a quick post just in case you couldn’t get past those horrendous tags on Freezer’s Intermission tape that dropped a few days ago. Adding the ultra-cool Mayer Hawthorne and casually swag Ralph Florian to he and Jake One’s interpolation of Rick James’ biggest hit, this version of the State Prop soldier’s “She Makes Me Feel Alright” carries a tad more depth Read the rest of this entry »

The sinister mind behind Broken Cool debuted his “Top 10 Hip-Hop Blogs” list yesterday, as a loose follow-up to Vibe’s “Top 50″ originally published in 2009. TSS ranked pretty high on the list but click here to check it for yourself and read the criteria and rankings. But don’t go off reading the list and thinking this blogging stuff is easy Read the rest of this entry »

For this particular timeout, Freeway is taking a Gatorade break but instead of sitting on the sidelines, he’s cutting a slew of new records for the sake of entertaining you and your iPod. Backed by Superstar Jay and DJ Love Dinero, The Intermission slaps together an all-star cast in Freddie Gibbs, Yo Gotti, Wale, Bink! and hometown homie Meek Mill for rawer-than-shrimp street talk. Read the rest of this entry »

Live from the 215, Freeway reassembles the State Prop team for the track “666,” produced by Jake One and taken from Free’s upcoming Intermission mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

The beards collide on this track that was recorded during the Lincoln Way Nights sessions but didn’t make the final cut, “Jungle.” Read the rest of this entry »

Gary, IN and Philadelphia, PA are cities that are both harshly affected by gun violence, drugs and poverty. These are not cities where you live. These are cities where you must survive. Freddie Gibbs welcomes Philly native Freeway to the Midwest as they share their own survival tactics in the visuals for the Beatnick & K-Salaam produced “Anything To Survive.” Read the rest of this entry »

Sure, Monumental was a bit underwhelming as a whole. But Steele and Tek definitely pulled things together for “Roses,” one of my favorite tracks off the album. Read the rest of this entry »

From the way MCs are attacking this “Otis” record, it seems to me that there is a subliminal message to all active Hip-Hop producers that you all are doing a disservice to the workers with bars. Everybody tip your hat to Kanye for making soulful tracks cool again. Any average Joe can pound a MPC with their opposable thumbs, but the sample game is what this here music was founded on. Read the rest of this entry »

All Philly everything here.

Young Chris makes sure not to dial any long distance calls by getting two of the city’s more known legal lyrical dope dealers on “Lay Low.” Here, Freeway and Meek Mill make their presence felt over this Cardiak-created backdrop go a long way in showing unity for The City of Brotherly Love. Read the rest of this entry »

Freeway and Jake One have chemistry. That was evident back in 2010, when they teamed up to put out The Stimulus Package. Freeway finally sounded hungry again as he raced over Jake One’s soulful slaps, and the duo came up with one of the better projects of the year. It earned four-cigs from TSS upon its release, topped our year end slept-on list and still gets burn around my way, which I suppose is the greatest testament of all in today’s age of disposable music. Read the rest of this entry »

And the award for 2011′s best mixtape art goes to…?

We still have a ways to go before the year comes to a conclusion but Chris Webby has fully taken advantage of the bootleg market’s modus operandi in terms of presentation. Don’t get too caught up in appearance, though. Connecticut’s got swag and C. Webby–along with DJ’s Ill Will and Rockstar–are mixing up the medicine in Webster’s Laboratory. Read the rest of this entry »