Sha Stimuli’s Rent Tape Series has reached it’s finale. To celebrate a year of dope music released every month he teamed with production team The Dynamite Bruhz and DJ Presyce to bring his fans The Present. In the projects first release “Rapping Paper,” Skyzoo and Torae linked up with Sha Stimuli. This banger is a [cont.]

The charismatic rapper, T.I., sits in with The Breakfast Club, speaking on his new album, Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head, his problems with the law, jail time, and much more.

From Wale’s Folarin mixtape, which drops Christmas eve.

MC Eiht will release his Keep It Hood EP on Jan. 31st of next year, with it’s first single produced by Brenk Sinatra, with cuts by DJ Premier.

From Mandatory Brunch Meetings, available now.

In this hour long clip, Murs reveals the line-up for the 2013 Paid Dues Line Up and also answers questions from the fans. Scheduled to perform at the March 30th event are The Black Hippy crew, (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock), plus De La Soul, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech [cont.]

From the album, Live From The Underground. A flip book through Big K.R.I.T.’s memories. Directed by KRSP.

Rae previews another track from the Lost Jewelry EP, hitting next month. Sample as used by DJ Shadow for “In/Flux”.

After pulling DJ Shadow off the decks for being “too future” last weekend, Mansion Miami has issued a formal apology to the legendary producer. The statement reads as follows: Mansion on DJ Shadow: The Official Statement We offer our most sincere apologies to DJ Shadow and his fans for his set being cut short at [cont.]

HELLAFINE FRIDAYS is a bi-weekly podcast series mixed by DJ PIZZO of fabulous Las Vegas. This series selects the best, breaking new tracks across all generes, as well as selections from Pizzo’s label, HELLAFINE RECORDS. And best of all, it doesn’t suck. We wish we could say that about everything. 1. Shout (Intro) – Stefano [cont.]

Motor City brothers Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson have wasted no time pounding the pavement for Dice Game. In the past few weeks Apollo has toured Australia and New Zealand while Guilty did a lean and mean west coast run that spanned Los Angeles to Seattle before hitting the NBC/Universal lot to be on Carson [cont.]

Bilal preps for his new album, A Love Surreal, out February 2013, with this retrospective mixtape, curated by the legendary Vikter Duplaix.

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Check out the entire Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head LP below via the YouTube playlist, then peep the iTunes bonus track, “Check This Dig That”.

Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew freestyle surrounded by Christmas gifts for the folks at Buzz Feed.

Top Dawg Entertainment’s Ab-Soul breaks down the lyrics to “ILLuminate,” a track featured on his second album Control System, for S. Carter’s Life & Times.

Cons is the latest to take on Trindad James hit single. Movies On Demand 4 coming soon. Woo!

2 Chainz performs on Kimmel.

Busta Rhymes and The Conglomerate will release their new mixtape, Catastrophic, on December 21st. Here is the new video for J-Doe and Busta’s “Elevator Music”, as well as a freestyle over Dom Kennedy’s infectious “My Type Of Party”.

From the Freedom Of Speech mixtape.