The Blended Babies are a producer duo made up by Rich Gains and JP Keller. The two met in Chicago in which they honed their craft before moving out to Los Angeles in 2012. The two are known for blending soulful bass and keyboard harmonies; creating songs instead of repetitive loops that often crowd the [cont.]

Because hey, why not? Part One: Getting One I put some money aside some months ago to purchase a Sony Playstation 4. Didn’t have the extra funds on hand to catch the initial wave of pre-orders, so I knew I had to break down and do the nerdiest thing possible: wait in line on launch [cont.]

New music from 1/3 of Sa-Ra Creative Partners, available now on iTunes.

From Majors’ Turkey Bag Boy LP, available today on iTunes.

Young Dro taps Tity Boy for the remix to his new DJ Mustard produced follow-up to “F.D.B.”.

Produced by Khari “Ferrari” Mateen. “The meaning behind the song is that I love shopping so much it’s like a disease (oniomania) that I ended up shopping when I didn’t need to. And to top it off, we ass black folks still gotta deal with racism as if we can’t afford stuff at Barney’s. It [cont.]

From the album, The Night’s Gambit. Video directed and edited by Ka.

From the Long.Live.A$AP album. Starring Michael K. Williams and Joan Smalls.

Irish emcee, Sirplus, is prepping his debut LP, Rhythmic Irish Poetry, which will be released on 11-26-2013 courtesy of RBC Records. Sirplus garnered a great deal of press for his 2012 single release, “Thousand Volts Zappin,” and his debut features an impeccable lineup of guest artists and features including Kurupt, J. French, Warren G, and [cont.]

Produced by Tha Audio Unit. Directed by RoseGlen Ent.

Latest vid from Pusha’s My Name Is My Name, available now.

Man Bites Dog Records is proud to present Esoteric & Stu Bangas new video “Ease Up” from their upcoming album “Machete Mode’ due out on M.B.D.R. on 11/26/2013. The video was shot by J. Rose, directed and edited by R.M.L. Song is produced by Stu Bangas. Rap Battle host is Celph Titled. Video was filmed [cont.]

Illadelph’s Lil Dicky returns with a freestyle over Drake’s “Pound Cake” instrumental.

Earlier this year we discovered SZA’s second, self-released EP, ‘S’: eight tracks of awesome, which we listened to straight through, and then we went straight back to the beginning to press play again. A pitch-perfect blend of glowering, boomy beats, fluttering synths, and SZA’s luxuriant tones, the St. Louis-born singer messes with R&B and serves [cont.]

New single off of Shyst Red’s forthcoming mixtape Black Migo Shyst.

Our December cover star shows off his flow for the camera on the set of his 2013 GQ Men of the Year photo shoot.

Directed by Mally X, from the album Evolution, available now.

One more from Fool’s Gold’s Run The Jewels project.

Donald Glover hops on the remix of Kenna’s “Relations”, via Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak Records. “RELATIONS” Kenna Featuring Childish Gambino from KENNA on Myspace.

Crooked reps for his Shady/Slaughterhouse family on a new freestyle over Jay-Z’s “Dynasty Intro”.