New music from the upcoming A$AP Mob album, L.O.R.D.

From the forthcoming album, ¡MURSDAY! available 6.10.2014.

As far as unlikely collaborations go, Freeway’s team up with DJ Girl Talk is as surprising as they come. It began some months ago when an iPhone quality video surfaced of a the duo performing a bouncy new track called “Tolerated”, with a lively crew of on-stage hipsters bouncing in tow. Both artists’ reputations precede [cont.]

Ebro and Peter Rosenberg interview RZA on the Hot Morning Show. Looks like they are getting somewhere, at least with RZA….

Following up his highly acclaimed, marijuana-inspired Legrowlize It! instrumental album released in 2011, A-Plus (Hieroglyphics / Souls of Mischief / C7) is back with Legrowlize It! Vol. II, premiered by URB Magazine. With more audio Kush for your mind, body and soul presented by Arnette Eyewear, the album is another set of never before heard [cont.]

DJ Nu-Mark, Cut Chemist, Ben Blackwell, Z-Trip, Egon, Pete Rock, Just Blaze, Da Beatminerz, and more talk about some of their best finds for a special Record Store Day edition of Crate Diggers.

The Yancey Boys’ album Sunset Blvd is in stores now via Delicious Vinyl. The album, entirely produced by the late J. Dilla, also featured close collaborators Common, De La Soul’s Posdnuos, T3 of Slum Village, Guilty Simpson, Talib Kweli, J. Rocc and others. “Sunset Blvd” was built around previously unheard tracks from J. Dilla and [cont.]

Another one from Jon Connor’s Best In The World: Kanye mixtape.

From Coalmine Records upcoming Unearthed compilation, hitting May 13th.

On the 15th anniversary of MF Doom’s seminal debut album, Operation Doomsday, we present our original review of the album, published on HipHopSite on April 20th, 1999. Our original rating was 4 out of 5, but today we recognize this as a 5 @ classic that it is. MF Doom – Operation: Doomsday – @@@@@ [cont.]

Freddie Gibbs will follow-up his Pinata LP with Madlib with The Tonight Show EP, produced by The World’s Freshest, on May 13th. Guests include G-Wiz, Problem, E-40, Cousin Fik, Sir Michael Rocks, Trae Tha Truth, and Yukmouth. 1. The Tonite Show With Freddie Gibbs 2. Keep It Gangsta 3. G Like Dat 4. B*tches, Dope, [cont.]

Pretty Flaco helps out Lykke Li on the official remix of “No Rest For The Wicked”.

This track comes from Atmosphere’s Record Store Day release, the The Lake Nokmonis EP. No word if this is connected to Atmosphere’s mythical Alchemist produced album, Lake Minnetonka.

From Blueprint’s new album, Respect The Architect, due tomorrow via Weightless.Net.

From Sage Francis’ new album, Copper Gone, hitting June 3rd. This live version was recorded during SXSW 2014 at Daytrotter’s studio: “We knew what Sage Francis was going to do to us when he came by the studio in Austin a month ago. We knew he was going to destroy us. We just didn’t know [cont.]

Odd Future’s Domo Genesis releases two new tracks in celebration of 4/20. “SS4″ is produced by Erick ARC Elliott. “Arrival” is produced by Left Brain.

Killer Mike and El-P gave fans the first snippet from their upcoming Run The Jewels 2 last night. Although its only seven seconds, it shows that the record is coming along. We expect to see release before the end of the year… "nothing's even steven till these heathens learn to feel the blues, it would [cont.]

Pharoahe stops by Juan Epstein to talk about his whole career including great Organized stories, Rawkus era stories, working on The Lifer’s Group project, making no money off of “Simon Says”, and where he ranks among the top MCs of all time.

Nathaniel on some TJ Swan shit tho.

50 Cent previews another track from his upcoming Animal Ambition LP, hitting this June.