Malice explains the meaning behind the title Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind and Naked and why he decided to write it.

Huntsville, Alabama’s Jackie Chain linked with Freddie Gibbs for a joint off his upcoming mixtape with Fool’s Gold Records’ Nick Catchdubs.

Directed by Sucre and Thirstin. From Big Vic Lo’s Natural Born Skiller LP. Nice use of a GZA vocal sample.

Undun‘s show-stealer releases this freestyle over Gotye’s “Game Of Thrones”. Just a year after my car accident I’ve put out more music than I have in my whole career. I will continue to release plenty more in the up-coming year including the next installments of ‘The Greatest Rapper Never’ trilogy ‘Transformation’ and ‘The Realization.’

BBC’s Sound of 2012 runner up Frank Ocean talks to the BBC about his inspiration, playing live, Odd Future, videos for “Swim Good” and “Novacane” with director Nabil Elderkin, and his hopes for the year ahead.

The P speaks on what separates Mobb Deep from other crews, ending their deal with G-Unit, the new EP, Rock The Bells, and more.

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player TMZ has obtained footage of a crazy Long Beach fan attempting to choke DMX during a performance. Security rushed him before DMX could ask “where my dogs at?”.

In part 1 of this interview with Nick Huff Barili, XV explains why Andre 3000 of Outkast is his favorite rapper and then spits lines from favorite verse from Return of the G. XV also weighs in on the classic debate that most Outkast fans have over which album they think is Outkast’s best work: [cont.]

Reks takes on Tyga’s “Reks City”.

Rick Ross – “Rich Forever” (Mixtape)

This one comes from Rick’s Rich Forever mixtape, which hit today.

Schoolboy Q’s Habits & Contradictions drops January 14th. He speaks about the project in this video public service announcement.

Apollo Brown announced that he has completed his full length collaborative album with legendary New York emcee OC (Word…Life, Jewelz). The album, titled Trophies, will be out March 27th on Mello Music Group. Apollo Brown has been locked away the last 6 months working on an amazing emcee/producer collaboration with the legendary OC. After trips [cont.]

Fatal Lucciauno is excited to announce the release of his new album, Respect. A follow-up to his 2007 project, The Only Forgotten Son, Respect will be released on February 21st via Sportn’ Life Records. Born in Chicago and raised in Seattle’s Central District (a rough neighborhood nicknamed the Crime District), Fatal Lucciauno brings the perspective [cont.]

From Com’s superb The Dreamer/The Believer, available now.

First single from Copywrite’s God Save The King, due February 28th. Tracklist right thurr: 1.) “Post-Apocalyptic Request Box” (produced by Jason Rose) 2.) “Love” f/ Tage Future of MHz (produced by Bronze Nazareth) 3.) “Swaggot Killaz” f/ Jakki Da Motamouth 4.) “Mouth of MHz” (produced by !llmind) 5.) “Sorrow” f/ Illogic & Don Jaga (produced [cont.]

From Pusha Ton’s Fear Of God 2, available now from Decon.

New video from Onyx/100MAD front man Sticky Fingaz. In this video Sticky takes aim at the current state of hip hop, record label executives and played out trends. Stay tuned for new albums from Sticky Fingaz & Onyx.

Bring It from Decon on Vimeo. This for everyone that wants to see moves. Vodka & Ayahuasca due January 17th.