Raekwon joins Kardi for new cut called “Pretty Paper”. Island Boy Cartel is the clique.

Coachella won’t be the only time that Big Boi and Andre 3000 will perform together this year, as the duo plans a 40-date international tour in celebration of their 20th anniversary together. The official press release reads as follows: Ingenious and iconic recording artists and performers, Antwan “Big Boi” Patton and André “3000″ Benjamin today [cont.]

Check out the first visual off Syler’s new album, One Minute To Midnight, featuring an incredible verse from Brooklyn’s own Skyzoo, the lovely Lydia Caesar, and board work courtesy of J.Glaze. One Minute To Midnight is now available everywhere music is sold/downloaded.

Childish Gambino premieres a new short film project, as an extension of his critically acclaimed Because The Internet project.

Pusha T made a stop into DC on Saturday, January 11th for a packed out show at EchoStage. DJ Heat caught up with him before he took the stage. Pusha dished on the rumors of a Clipse reunion album, being back in the studio with The Neptunes, the DC area music scene, and much more.

Here’s a leftover from Percy Miller’s The Gift recording sessions.

Troy Ave shares YG’s instrumental for “My N***a” with Chinx Drugz.

In a recent interview with The Village Voice, 16-year old New York state emcee spoke about his upcoming MF Doom collaborative project, which he reveals is called NehruvianDOOM on LEX Records. Okay, what can you tell me about that? Well it’s titled NehruvianDOOM. It’s DOOM producing the beats and I’m rapping over them, though he’s [cont.]

DJ Noodles teams up with Jody Highroller for this, uh, riff on Trinidad James’ “All Gold Everything”.

This is the final installment of Illogc and Blockhead’s Capture the Sun series. The project is available now at www.illogic.bandcamp.com in digital or physical copies, including bonus tracks on the CD release.

First offering from Souls of Mischief / Hieroglyphics’ A-Plus’ upcoming Molly’s Dirty Water LP, due January 14th on Hieroglyphics Imperium.

Cee-Lo Green recently revealed to Rolling Stone that he looks forward to “an onslaught of music this year”. He is currently trimming down his next solo LP, Girl Power, from “40 or 5 songs to about 13″, and also hopes to see a Gnarls Barkley LP by the end of the year, and possibly another [cont.]

Arsenio continues to salute the 90′s with a performance from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on his new show.

New material from 2 Chainz’s protege Cap 1′s Caviar Dreams mixtape, hitting January 14th. They really went in with the effects/drops.

Young Buck continues his return onslaught of new music with this remix of Meek Mill’s “I B On Dat”.

Pap spits one for DJ Wil on this “Hope” freestyle.

Ace Hood makes his return to the game with a pair of new tracks, “FYFR (Fuck Your Favorite Rapper)”, and a freestyle over DMX’s “Stop Being Greedy”, alongside Vado.

Legendary hip-hop innovator and Grammy award winner Q-Tip is teaming up with current Wolf Of Wall Street co-stars, multi-Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominee Jonah Hill, through DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way, to develop and create a new scripted TV series that is loosely based on Q-Tip¹s experience during the Native Tongue era. Hill is [cont.]

Trae Tha Truth teams with the Bay Area’s DJ Fresh for this new Tonight Show EP project, hitting January 21st. Check the full tracklist below. 1. The Tonight Show with Trae Tha Truth! 2. Pain (feat. Philthy Rich, J. Stalin) 3. Go Away (feat. Mitchy Slick) 4. Wit It (feat. Problem, Freddie Gibbs) 5. Like [cont.]

T-Pain makes his triumphant return with this new posse cut alongside Waka Flocka, Rich Homie Quan, and Young Cash.