Crooked I spits a few for the L.A. Leakers.

ThisIs50.com and Court Dunn present the next installment of the ThisIsHipHop video series featuring Common. Theme music produced by Reality. Special thanks to Mr. Mike Florio, Ayal Kleinman and Jonathan Master. “The Dreamer, The Believer” available now.

Billboard spoke with Ludacris about his new 2012 LP, Ludaversal, set for release in May. The first single is expected to hit in March. “Usher is one person that I’ve already worked with and in terms of other artists, you can say that there’s going to be a lot of surprises on here,” he told [cont.]

MTV suitable version of Tyga’s massive hit, “Rack City”, bitch.

Saigon serves up the first single from his forthcoming Warning Shots 3: One Foot In The Grave, hosted by Just Blaze.

Produced by Mark Ronson, “A La Modeliste” is the Jazz track for RE:GENERATION featuring Erykah Badu, Trombone Shorty, Mos Def, Zigaboo Modeliste, and Members of The Dap Kings. Presented by Hyundai Veloster, RE:GENERATION is a documentary film that follows DJ Premier, Pretty Lights, The Crystal Method, Mark Ronson, and Skrillex as they remix, recreate and [cont.]

Mac Miller releases this new cut tonight, not off his Blue Slide Park LP.

Agallah’s gone super-nova, taking his EP release and turning into a 30-track deluxe version. 1.Winners Circle Intro (produced by jesse james ) 2.Living In My Past 1.0 (produced by Agallah) 3.New York ryder music part 2 (produced by Agallah) 4.GOTTA GET IT (produced by Agallah) 5.Rhyme a Few Bars (produced by Agallah) 6.on my mind [cont.]

In this episode of Tony Williams’ #Road2KoTF, he recounts his time in the studio during Kanye West’s Graduation LP. In the clip, he shows never-seen-before footage of Kanye playing the track “Big Brother” for Jay-Z, which makes him a bit “emotional”. Surely one of the dopest cuts in Kanye’s catalog.

Keith Murray speaks with Young Jack Thriller about his next mixtape and album release, as well as fighting 2Pac. Hilarious interview.

Birdman weighs in on YMCMB’s stance on the Common/Drake beef. He don’t want it…..

While Big K.R.I.T. will be releasing his Def Jam debut, Live From The Underground, in 2012, he will first release the next mixtape in his “4Eva” series with 4EvaNaDay. He announced today via Facebook that the tape will hit on February 20th, with the first single, “I Got This”, due February 1st.

Donnis kicks off the new year with a new “Snack Pack”, featuring new tracks “Gimmie” and “Wanna Be Bad”. The “Hoes” video is coming soon, check the preview below. Donnis “Snack Pack Vol. One”

Pusha borrows fellow G.O.O.D. Music emcee Common’s “Sweet” instrumental and shoots a video for it. What’s the meaning of him taking of his Clipse chains at the end of the video and putting them on the kid? Directed by Samuel Rogers.

Above, Kris gives an in-depth interview with The Archivest. Meanwhile, KRS has reunited with Kenny Parker for The BDP Album, which on sale now on Itunes.

Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Prodigy for an exclusive interview. In part 1, he talks about his biggest misconception and the origin of the Tupac beef. Stay tuned next week for part 2 of our interview with Prodigy.

Jay-Z and Beyonce celebrate of their daughter with the release of this new track. Hello Hello Baby Blue. We are happy to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, born on Saturday, January 7, 2012. Her birth was emotional and extremely peaceful, we are in heaven. She was delivered naturally at a [cont.]

Uh-Oh. Common let’s Rick Ross and Drake’s original ride, then goes on the attack in the third verse.

UK’s own Paul White presents “The Doldrums” music video from last year’s album “Rapping With Paul White.” “The Doldrums” is the second official music video from the album, which features Danny Brown, Guilty Simpson, and others. “The Doldrums” video is an animated mind trip courtesy of Plastic Horse.

So, last year we picked 25 of our favorite mixtapes, but this year we narrowed it down to a concise 10 selections. Why? Well, how many times can you hear freestyles over the same “hot” instrumentals? So, this year, we trimmed the fat, instead choosing the cream-of-the-crop. As far as the 2011 mixtape game is [cont.]