Diplo and company appear as Major Lazer on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, backed by The Roots and members of Dirty Projects for a performance of “Get Free”. Free The Universe in stores this Tuesday.

Looks like Rick Ross’ corporate sponsors were none-too-happy with his controversial “rape lyrics”, as heard on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.”: “Put molly all in her champagne/she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that/she ain’t even know it.”. The shoe brand has buckled to demands of women’s organizations such as UltraViolet, who have blasted [cont.]

From All The Wrong Things 2.

N.O.R.E. and company produce an official sequel to “Banned From TV”, for his new LP, Student Of The Game.

Soul Temple Records announces that, in conjunction with www.recordstoreday.com, they will release an alternate version of the Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge album Twelve Reasons To Die, This version of the album, created by critically-acclaimed, detroit-based producer Apollo Brown, will be released as a limited edition cassette. These tapes will be given away, along with Issue One [cont.]

Here’s a track that didn’t make the final cut of I Am Not A Human Being 2. We would have taken this over “Hot Revolver” as a bonus track.

A few days prior to the release of Big Krit’s latest project “King Remembered In Time”, Krit held a Ustream chat to preview the project and answer questions from his fans. 3 Little Digs was on hand to capture the moment and give the perspective of what was actually happening in the room. Studio Life: [cont.]

Swizz Beatz to Hot 97 explains how he, Timbaland, Trey Songz, and Jay-Z came together to record “Open Letter”.

Paul Rosenberg releases this lost “Funky Cowboys” track from 1994 into the wild. R.I.P. Dilla, R.I.P. Proof.

This morning, Hot 97 revealed the line-up for Summer Jam XX’s Festival Village stage, which is the smaller stage for a lot of the underground acts. This is the infamous stage where Peter Rosenberg dissed “Starships” last year during Kendrick Lamar’s performance, resulting in Nicki Minaj’s boycott of the show. While we expect Kendrick to [cont.]

In part 2 of Kid Cudi’s sit down interview with the L.A. Leakers DJ sourMILK and Justin Credible, Cudi talks on why he was only featured on one record in Cruel Summer, and his reason for leaving G.O.O.D Music.

My Name Is My Name coming soon….

Two more freestyles from XXL’s Freshman 10 2013 issue, this time from Ab-Soul and Travi$ Scott.

Action Bronson spits over this 90′s-esque track from Statik Selektah, off Funk Master Flex’s upcoming mixtape, “Who You Mad At? Me or Yourself?” Check the massive tracklist for the set down below.

Produced by P On The Boards. Directed by Simon Davis.

From the new album, Loso’s Way 2, out June 18th, 2013.

From Miguel’s Kaleidoscope Dream, out now on RCA.

The official line-up for Jay-Z and Budweiser’s second annual Made In America festival, to take place in Philadelphia on August 31st-September 1, 2013. Tickets go on sale April 17th at www.madeinamericafestival.com 2 Chainz Kendrick Lamar Ab-Soul Jay Rock ScHoolBoy Q Wiz Khalifa A$AP Rocky Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Public Enemy Beyonce Solange Miguel Phoenix nine [cont.]

Directed & Edited by Varras Tower for Varras Tower Films 2013. From Oh No’s Disrupted Ad’s

Scram Jones compiles many of his collaborations with Raekwon, as well as some unreleased, never heard before tracks.