Who is Mr. Hudson? He’s the British vocalist that suggested we “dah-nce in style” for a while on Jay-Z’s “Young Forever”, propelling the song to be another hit single from his Blueprint 3 opus. But he’s more than just a guy who can cover Alphaville for a hook – in fact, he’s partly responsible for some of the songwriting, vocals, and production on Kanye’s 808 & Heartbreaks LP, and is the secret weapon of Mr. West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint. [cont.]

Weed and hip hop have a relationship that goes way, way back. As a a result, this reviewer remembers one person assuming I must be smoking back in high school because “you listen to rap, don’t you?”

Few current rappers get as much mileage out of the pleasures of lighting one up as Curren$y. The New Orleans native makes clever allusions to it, talks about it outright, and even when he spins tales about the opposite sex, they inevitably want to hang with him so they can smoke with him. [cont.]

Here goes a tagless version of the title track from Yo Gotti’s recent Gangsta Grillz mix. All white everything.

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Yo Gotti – “Cocaine Muzik” (feat. Clipse, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy) (No Tags)” (MP3)

Now that The War Report 2 is on shelves, N.O.R.E. announces his next solo joint, The Superthug Album, which “The Nutcracker” is taken from. The block is hot.

Damn, ‘Fest got ABC booking? Props. El Che in stores now.

Green Street is a hip-hop/jazz group originally from Boston and now residing in Brooklyn, NY. Consisting of emcees A-live and Soupa, and producer Renaissance, Green Street looks to bring back the sound from the Native Tongues era, while keeping it fresh and relevant for today’s audience. “Crossroads” is a unique, personal project which fuses experiences from the lives of three twenty-somethings with progressive hip-hop beats. Features include Oddisee, The Black Sunn, 810, Nieve and more. Taken from the full-length, Crossroads, available now via Bandcamp.

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Green Streets – “All I See” (ft. Oddisee) (MP3)

Apathy producer Chum The Skrilla Gorilla writes:

Now that “Stoopid Animals” is floating around out there for everyone, I can announce that I’m working on a companion mixtape for it called “Wigger Dance Party”. It will feature remixed version of every song from “Stoopid Animals” along with remixes I produced for other artists and songs that inspired me to create such a project. Also, it’s an actual mixtape, as in it’s mixed, much like the mixes I’ve posted on my podcasts.

I decided I might as well “leak” one of the remixes I did for “Wigger Dance Party” now just for the hell of it. So here’s the dubstep remix I did of Get Busy Committee’s “Uzi Does It”. Play it, download it, love it.

Uzi Does It (Chummer Fucker Upper Mix) by chumzilla

A double dose of B.o.B. action today, first with the new video for “Generation Lost”, then his Adidas payday. And here we thought he was going to produce a couple of Heinekens.

Skyzoo & !LLMIND present their video for “Frisbees.” Music off the album ‘Live From The Tape Deck,’ in stores October 5th on Duck Down Music. Video directed by Derek Pike.

New music from Roc Nation’s J. Cole surfaces, addressing the issues of racial profiling and police brutality.

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Obviously Nicki’s just goofing in the above clip, unlike Madonna, who suddently became British after collaborating with Austin Powers. Post video, Minaj suggested to MTV her November 23rd album title. “Maybe we should call it … The Album,” she ruminated. “Nicki Minaj: The Album,” she continued before dismissing the idea. “I don’t know, it’ll come.” Were Classic and Album of The Year already taken, Nicki?

Get ready for Gibbs Str8 Killa EP, dropping next week on Decon with this new mixtape release from Statik Selektah, DJ Burn One, and Josh The Goon.

Freddie Gibbs + Statik Selektah – “Str8 Killa, No Filla” (Mixtape)

Rick Ross joins Diddy and Dirty Money for this interview / performance of “Hello Good Morning”.

Digga previews the artwork and tracklist for her ambitiously titled Classic, due September 21. That’s a week after ambitiously titled Black Milk’s Album Of The Year, by the way. Can Slim Thug Already Platinum 2 be far behind?

Tracklist:
1. The Book Of Rashia
2. Who Gonna Check Me Boo
3. This Aint No Lil Kid Rap
4. Straight Spittin IV
5. Classic
6. Solidified
7. Feel Good
8. Viral
9. Back It Up
10. You Got It

The official video for the lead single from E Reece’s upcoming album on Elevated Mental/HiPNOTT Records, Concrete Steppin. Available via all online retailers July 27th. DIR: E Reece & JP Ritter.

Freddie Gibbs drops a verse, and Jes Hudak flips the hook on “Tell Me Something”. Released on Gotham Green & Quickie Mart’s “Haze Diaries Vol. 3″. Available on iTunes and other fine retailers. Created by VEMO. Directed by Nicholas Vedros. Shot by Michael Stine. Produced by Jay Tauzin.

The Roots affiliate and H20Proof emcee join ¡MAYDAY! on an exclusive remix of “Make a Livin”.

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In a recent interview with XXL, Elzhi broke his silence on the recent Slum Village shake up.

Let’s cut right to the chase; are you in Slum Village now or not?

Elzhi: Am I in Slum Village or am I not? As far as what’s going on… As far as, like, me not having any say so to any treatments to videos being shot, or me not going to do the interviews to promote this new Slum Village album, or [Barack Records and T3] not contacting me or my management, and… as you can see in the “Reunion 2” video, I would say I wasn’t in the group. And at the same time, them taking me off records, so now I’m on a minimal amount a records for the [Villa Manifesto] album, I would say I wasn’t in the group.

So you recorded way more material than what the final track listing wound up being? How did things fall apart?

Basically, I got new management and what happened was it was a shock to the label, even Slum’s manager [Tim Maynor]. They just couldn’t take the fact that I had new management, and just from that as far as I could tell, they overreacted and it got to the point where we was all on a conference call and my new management asked to see the paper work and the contract from E1 and RJ Rice ain’t wanna show it. I’m thinkin’ like, “Why you ain’t wanna show it; that’s how we do business.” But we asked to see that paperwork; he didn’t show us, then he threatened to take me off the whole album at one point when I recorded 13 cuts for the album. So it went from them threatening to take me off the whole album to them keeping me on five-seven records and something musta got lost in translation with the label… It was just funny to know that they took me off the record [we did with Phonte of Little Brother], but they didn’t give me the say so on what records I wanted to be on. So they just did everything theyself.

For the full interview, check out XXL.Com.

Drake and producer 40 speak to Nardwuar about Little Brother, Big L, the bra stand, and much more.

Does the above look like something you want? Common is teaming with Traffic Entertainment Group, Sony Music, and GetOnDown for this ultimate, deluxe 2CD reissue of his second, and arguably best LP, Resurrection, on August 31st. The new set includes a remastered edition of the classic album, a 24 page booklet with new liner notes written by Brian Coleman, Common, and No I.D., a second bonus disc including all of the album’s 12″ remixes, and a full size 24 x 24 poster. Traffic, we need a vinyl version, stat.

Disc Two Tracklist:

1. Resurrection (Large Professor Remix)
2. Resurrection (Extra P Remix)
3. Resurrection ‘95
4. Resurrection (Large Professor Remix Inst.)
5. Resurrection (Extra P Remix Inst.)
6. Communism (A Capella)
7. Communism (Inst.)
8. I Used To Love H.E.R. (A Capella)
9. I Used To Love H.E.R. (Inst.)

Nore revisits Public Enemy’s “Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya Man”. Recognize young bloggers.

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N.O.R.E. – “Nutcracker” (prod. Scoop DeVille) (MP3)

Wayne helped out his breakthrough smash “Down”, now Nicki appears on “2012 (It Ain’t The End)” to help remind us that the Mayan’s are wrong. Jay’s taking a cue from Prince here. Shout out to LateNightRecordPool on this one.

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Another one from Wale’s More About Nothing mixtape, which you’ll be able to download here next week for free.

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Wale – “Ambitious Girl” (MP3)

DJ Muggs and Ill Bill’s Kill Devil Hills in stores August 24th.

While we all thought in theory that September 14th as G.O.O.D. Music Day would be a great idea, with both Kanye and Kid Cudi releasing their albums, the truth of the matter is, Cudi would get obliterated. Sure, they may be able to do some piggyback promotion, but let’s face it, the Kid deserves his own street date, and actually, his own month. Say hello to October 26th, new street date for Man On The Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager.

And here we thought this was going to be a cover of Dennis Ferrer’s “Hey Hey”…. Instead, J.D. takes a cue from Usher’s “O.M.G.”, interpolating Zombie Nation’s “Kernkraft 400″ which is jacked from The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army”. Confused?

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