While Afu-Ra preps his new album Body Of The Life Force Part 2, he throws out this three song free EP of tracks that won’t be included on the album. The new LP includes collabos with M.O.P., Sean Price, Sadat X, Vinnie Paz, Guilty Simpson, Nine, El Da Sensei, C-Rayz Walz, Hannibal Stax, and more. [cont.]

T-Pain also appears. Meanwhile, below Common speaks with DJ Drama about the upcoming “Sweet” remix w/ Kanye West, as well as future collaborations with Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. The Dreamer/The Believer due December 20th. Download  

Bootleg Kev joins Tyga up at Hoy 97.5, to discuss Busta Rhymes recent signing with the Young Money Cash Money Billionaires.

T.I. recently revealed to Billboard the title of his next LP will be Trouble Man. “I’m embracing it,” T.I. tells me of the persona that is the title of his eighth studio album, “Trouble Man”. “A lot of times I’m taking myself out of my element” Tip continued to say of “Trouble Man”. “This is [cont.]

Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead team up with MF Doom for this track from Lex Records’ Complex compilation. The track is available for purchase over at Lex’s website. Download  

From the album Village Idiom, up on Bandcamp now. Come Home feat. Apathy and Stephanie Virgen by SKWiRL1

The first single and video for LCP 3.5. Directed by Luke Sirimongkhon. LCP 3.5 will be a special edition album that will be dedicated to having emcees, poets, and singers express themselves over LIQUID CRYSTAL music. The album will be exclusively released on VINYL ONLY first.

A New Hope > The Phantom Menace. Download  

We guess Jeezy doesn’t know about the “Murdered-You-On-Your-Own-Shit” awards. From TM103, coming one day. Recognize that sample, Twista fans? Download

Lots of familiar faces came out for Heavy D’s funeral service at Grace Baptist Church on November 18, 2011 in Mount Vernon, New York. Among them were Jay-Z, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, John Legend, Queen Latifah, Russell Simmons, Flava Fla, Chris Rock, and others. President Obama sent a letter to Heavy’s family, stating “We [cont.]

From the album of the same name, hitting November 22nd. Directed by Davy Greenberg.

Directed by Todd Angkasuwan. From Statik Selektah’s Population Control on sale now.

Asher Roth answered some inquiring minds via Twitter this weekend about the rumors of him going to Def Jam with “Yessir”. He followed up with “Mixtape on Itunes 12/21; Pabst & Jazz album next year 1st quarter”.

Kid Cudi has announced via Twitter, that he and Dot Da Genius will revert back to the name “wizard”, now spelled “W Z R D”. News update! Me and @DotDaGenius are no longer called 2 Be Continuum. The world will call us W Z R D, which is short for WIZARD. The title of the [cont.]

Directed by Bill Paladino.

KarmaloopTV linked up with Kendrick Lamar at Sneaker Pimps NYC to talk his favorite sneakers, Run-DMC and what’s good with the TDE movement.

In part 2 of this web series, Action Bronson discusses his favorite cuisine, culinary skills, what’s playing in his kitchen, the rumor that he works at an Indian restaurant in Queens, the incident that got him fired from the Mets, and much more. Plus you don’t want to miss Action’s list of his “Top 5″ [cont.]

Another one from the November 21st release. Download  

Pioneering video show, Yo! MTV Raps, will return for one night only, December 4th at midnight on MTV, in the form of “Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts”. The 30 minute episode will be hosted by the classic crew of Ed Lover, Dr. Dre, and Fab 5 Freddy, while each Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, ?uestlove, Wiz [cont.]

A day after Ludacris dropped “Badda Boom”, which takes shots at him and Drake, Big Sean stops by KUBE 93 Seattle and talks to DJ Supasam and Eddie Francis about how he feels about it.