If you want to play a fun game, wait until your roommate is sleeping tonight, then walk into wherever they’re snoozing and boom out Miss Minaj’s new track, “Roman In Moscow.” Louder than two pounds stuffed into a Swisher, this Roman Reloaded teaser from the YMCMB queen sounds like a full-on laser battle between GI Joe and Cobra Read the rest of this entry »

Disappointed in Bad Meets Evil’s latest endeavor? Well, Royce fans, you’re in luck. Nickel Nine is going for five–as in his fifth album, 5 Cigs and 5x platinum–with Success Is Certain. While Bruno Mars is a no-show this go around, there’s still a couple of Wu-heads, a mad drummer and the melanin-challenged rhyme maniacs of Shady Records to fill the slots. Read the rest of this entry »

Trae Tha Truth is without a doubt one of the most underrated, overlooked, deserving talents of this game. He’s well aware of it so no need to go because it hasn’t steered him away from the quest to get his forthcoming album, Street King on shelves this summer (6.28.11, mark the date!). To celebrate his retail victory, the Houston Astro called up Don Cannon and explicitly instructed he needed some street heat to let the fans know what’s around the corner. Read the rest of this entry »

Dead presidents talk from Alley & Young. Rapping with wads of cash so big their pockets look like they got the mumps. Read the rest of this entry »

Royce has hit a wall no 5-Hour Energy can save him from. Thing is, who needs pens when you flow like your tongue is a semi-automatic and the curse words are hollow-point bullets? Death was already guaranteed and since he has to be on this earth for a little while longer, why not cash in on those talents? With Interscope behind him and some guy named Eminem in his corner, Read the rest of this entry »

The scientific study of the netherworld between heaven and hell is a glorified one, but street scholars know from experience that the ghetto constitutes as such a place where good and evil co-habitat as one. Your friendly neighborhood Alley Boy knows the ropes and he spits the hostile gospel all the while by outlining the snitches with Purgatory: The Story Of Judas. Read the rest of this entry »

Did you forget about Category F5? The impact was fairly strong but its shelf life passed through like a tropical storm. No matter, Twista is here to jog your memory with the umpteenth video for his natural disaster.

Need some new iPod fodder? Monsters Ink hopes to tattoo their sound into your brain with their Ink Made Me A Monster Mixtape which is hosted and mixed by the TPPS’s Mick Boogie & Terry Urban. Featuring collabos with Little Brother, U-N-I, Freeway and production from 9th Wonder, Illmind and Streetrunner, the credentials alone make this one worth checking out. Read the rest of this entry »