Williams composed the mixed-genre orchestral work—which features soft and ethereal atmospheres contrasted with fortissimo brass themes and driving rhythms—to explore a different side of his musical creativity, and to encourage his hip-hop fan base to expand their musical horizons. Shelly Berg orchestrated and conducted the work, and Director of Recording Services Paul Griffith (B.M. ’83) [cont.]

Germany’s SplashMag catches this interview with Rhymesayers labelmates Evidence and Slug of Atmosphere.

Common celebrates the release of The Dreamer/The Believer with The Roots, live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

Rae borrows Wale’s instrumental for this Unexpected Victory outtake.

Producer 40 breaks down each song from Drake’s “Take Care” LP in 9 parts.

Newly discovered vaulted track from the Bobby Digital recording sessions.

From Warning Shots 3: One Foot In The Grave, hitting soon.

Wake your punk ass up! Obie and Game cover CMW’s long lost classic…..Life ain’t nothing but WOMEN and money (clean version). Obie’s Bottoms Up hits February 28th, but neither will be included on the LP.

Remix to the title track of B.o.B.’s next LP, which is due March 13th.

Every artist has some kind of stigma or preconceived notion about themselves that they forever try to live down. For Asher Roth, it was the inevitable Eminem comparisons, which he addressed head-on on his debut LP, Asleep In The Bread Isle on a track called “As I Em”. He’s done enough at this point to [cont.]

Directed by: Shane Sakanoi (TQoL). Co-Director & Director of Photography: Eric Coleman (Mochilla). From Classic, available now.

In part 2 of this interview with Nick Huff Barili, XV talks about collaborating with Kendrick Lamar not only on Textbook Stuff but also on tracks to be release in the future. XV agrees with Nick that J Cole’s productions skills are slept on and states that he has 4 tracks produced by J Cole, [cont.]

Directed by Gabriel Hart.

The Funk League’s album “Funky As Usual” drops Jan 24th via Favorite Recordings!! The Paris production duo drops another free download for the album track “Through Good & Bad” featuring the one and only Large Professor.

New material from the G.O.O.D. Music soul man.

DJ Premier sits down with the homie Bootleg Kev to discuss a multitude of topics, including porn, not working w/ Kanye West yet, being a living legend, in depth talk about Guru, The Moment of Truth album, and more. Interestingly, Preem touches upon wanting to (yet not wanting to) get the rights to the 7*Grand [cont.]

Vodka & Ayahuasca Will Blow Your Mind from Decon on Vimeo. A series of psychedelic experimental shorts by Jason Goldwatch utilizing found footage, deeply layered audio beds and Gangrene Original Music to create new works of art out of discarded content.

Mr. Connor reminds us that his new mixtape, Season 2, is available now.

From Eternal Sunshine of the Pimpin’ Mind. Produced by Keezo Kane. Directed, Shot, & Edited by Teddy Waffles. Creative Producer Corey Nunn.

While ¡MAYDAY!’s in the studio putting the finishing touches on their Spring 2012 debut album, Take Me To Your Leader, the Miami-based hip-hop group enlist the help of M1 of Dead Prez & Reks to bring you “Internal Wars”.