Not much really happens here, but its been a while since we’ve seen Jay Elec on video. Shout out to the Mass Appeal and Decon crews.

The single is available now on iTunes.

From Kevin’s By Any Means, available March 18th.

From Nitty Scott, MC’s forthcoming LP, The Art of Chill. Yuri Beats on the track.

From Onyx’s #WakeDaFucUp album, entirely produced by Snowgoons, which is in stores today. Directed by Big Shot Music.

From the Murs316 Records LP, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, coming sometime in 2014.

New DJ Mustard produced music from Tyga’s The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty, coming sometime in 2014.

Connor gives us the first new freestyle since his Aftermath signing, over Rick Ross and Jay-Z’s “The Devil Is A Lie”.

Upon watching Avicii’s performance at Ultra 2013, the young EDM audience did not know what to make of it, as he fused organic instrumentation and live vocalists into his set. While many were scratching their heads at the spectacle, the words that came out of this critic’s mouth were, “Holy shit, that’s Aloe Blacc!”. (And [cont.]

Jay Elec makes his triumphant return with this new track that samples bits of “The Wizard Of Oz”. Also included is the Cookin Soul remix, which followed shortly after. “That name on that birth certificate, that ain’t the real me….”

Kid Cudi appears on Arsenio to talk about his surprise new LP, Satellite Flight, and touch upon the current state of hip-hop culture. He also performs “Internal Bleeding”.

Lil Wayne sits in with Jimmy Kimmel during the taping of his show at SXSW. Here, he tells the tale of accidentally shooting himself while trying to look hard in the mirror at age 14, pre-selfie era. Young Money’s Rise Of An Empire in stores now.

While at SXSW, Steve Stout is joined by Nas and Ben Horowitz to speak on the concept of The Tanning Of America, which was recently captured in the VH1 series of the same name.

DOOM releases this new self-produced remix of the JJ Doom cut originally produced by Jneiro Jarel, in celebration of the release of his new shoe from Clarks Originals. In addition, the beat is made up from noises recorded from the Somerset, UK Clarks factory.

Planet Asia spits a verse on the classic Jay-Z beat produced by DJ Premier for DJ J-Ronin’s Freestyle Files vol.2, available now.

New material from 50 Cent’s Animal Ambition LP, coming June 3rd. Dope cut.

From Future’s Honest, coming April 22nd. Watch out for our *honest* album review around the same damn time.

Mr. Donald Glover writes: “i saw that someone is selling this on iTunes. i gave this away for free since it’s incomplete and a rough. thought it was wack someone did that without my permission. so i put it up here.”

Next week marks the release of Castle’s “Return of the Gasface (The Has-Lo Passages)” via Mello Music Group. “Return of the Gasface (The Has-Lo Passages)” is a remix album of Castle’s previously released “Gasface” album, entirely remixed by Has-Lo. The upcoming album is not a traditional remix album as Castle re-spit all of the songs [cont.]

On the 3rd sneak peek into Strange Journey Volume Three, Deacon The Villain trades verses with J-Live while Kno handles the beat and hook to reveal the concept for the project — space explorers sent on a strange journey to Earth from a distant galaxy to find intelligent & empathetic life. Do they succeed? Find [cont.]