A$AP crew joins in the fray of releasing records from the Flex tape. Who’s the mack?

Produced by Kirk Knight. Yet another one from Flex’s imminent Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself? mixtape.

Black Milk collaborates with illustrator Upendo “Pen” Taylor (Nike, Leroy Jenkins, Gatorade) for the music-meets-visual instrumental/art series Fuzz, Freqs & Colors (FFC). Synth or Soul is the first volume in the FFC series. The process for each volume starts with Black and Pen trading beats and sketches and refining their works along the way. Throughout [cont.]

Another one from Flex’s Who You Mad At, Me Or Yourself mixtape, again produced by Statik Selekt.

From the MMG affiliate’s The Birthday Tape, dropping soon.

KRS-One Freestyles on the Dr. Greenthumb Show. What’s that dude in the yellow doing, tho?

From former No Limit soldier Fiend’s Little Ghetto Boy mixtape, available now. This is dope.

Yasiin Bey (the artist formerly known as Mos Def) surprises the crowd in at La Bataclan, Paris by bringing out Mr. West to join in the performance.

Produced by Brisk Oner.

Fif sits down with the iconic Larry King for an interview.

The Kid Daytona hit the midwest for some shows – Chicago, bloomington, and Ohio. While on the tour in December, he met DJ/Producer and tastemaker – Dj Ozone, and the two discussed working on some music. Daytona has always had deep roots and love in the Chicago area, and has always felt a bond with [cont.]

During the #AdmissionOfGuilt promo run Tor stops by Toca Tuesdays & delivers some “Bars of obliteration”.

Prodigy (Mobb Deep) and Sean P live cypher from Boiler Room Rap Life NYC.

In this episode, Dilated Peoples and World Famous Beat Junkies member DJ Babu talks about his love of country western music and hitting up flea markets in Brazil with Cut Chemist and J. Rocc. Crate Diggers profiles people with extraordinary vinyl record collections, with owners displaying and telling the stories behind their collections.

Pusha T lends a guest verse to this DMV native.

On the day of his album release, Student Of The Game, N.O.R.E. sits in with The Breakfast Club.

Pos writes: “I’ve always loved the ‘Intro’ on Disc Two of Wu-Tang Forever – this erie sample with no beat, that they only talked over,” De La Soul’s Posdnuos tells Rolling Stone. “I stumbled on the original sample while crate digging one day, took it straight to the lab and added drums. The feel is [cont.]

Dilla covers Gary Newman’s “Cars” for this track from the new 12″. From RappCats: “Anthem” and “Trucks” were two of the songs J Dilla recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 as he put the finishing touches on what was supposed to be an album featuring his raps over production by the likes of Madlib, [cont.]

Illogic and Blockhead have come together to record the Capture The Sun LP for Man Bites Dog Records, and today, they serve up a stream of the full album, as well as the third episode in their “Journey To Capture The Sun” documentary series, directed by Blueprint.

While Major Lazer’s long-awaited Free The Universe hit stores today, Snoop Lion’s Major Lazer produced LP, Reincarnated, hits next week. Check out a stream of the whole thing below.