“People that hate on Drake aren’t listening to the music,” said Talib Kweli, to me, in an off camera conversation a month ago or so back, in Las Vegas. And it’s true. Let’s face it, the majority of commercial hip-hop sucks – and the state of commercial R&B music is even worse. It’s easy to [cont.]

Admittedly, this track was better once Warren G got a hold of it, but this Prince Paul version shows us what might have been.

DJ Premier speaks candidly about what his favorite album that he produced was, and about his rocky relationship with Guru.

Be sure to pick up Well Done on Itunes on Tuesday. Rated @@@@1/2 by HHS. In Part 1 of this web series, hilarity ensues when Action Bronson and Statik Selektah hit the town for an upscale Italian dinner. Somewhere in between smoking a Trippy Stick in the restaurant and debating whether drinking 40 oz’s through [cont.]

This track is the theme song to a new reality/docu-series on Discovery about Oaktown medicinal marijuana dispensaries. Read on: Weed Wars follows Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, the nation’s largest medicinal cannabis dispensary serving over 94,000 patients. The series introduces the Harborside staff as well as the growers and “patient farmers” whose job it is to [cont.]

We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of this song. No matter, still one of the best tracks of 2010, as featured on DJ Pizzo’s Bloggin’ Outta Control mixtape (plug one, plug too). Christos Karabelas in the director’s seat.

From Slim’s recent War Music mixtape release. Look out for the Crooks and Castles “50 Caliber USB”, on sale now at Karmaloop. Directed by Eif Rivera.

Official Music Video for “Compared To You” off Termanology & Ea$y Money are S.T.R.E.E.T., produced entirely by Lee Bannon. Directed by Felipe Jorge.

First offering from Ace Hood’s The Statement 2 mixtape, produced by The Renegades. Download

Directed by David F. Mewa, as RZA pays tribute to ODB.

Last night, Common held a private listening session SoSoDef Studio to let people hear The Dreamer The Believer which drops Dec 20 and is produced by No ID.

Has anyone seen Mike Jones? Quite an audacious sample there, Mr. Thug. Download  

Another one from the Mobb’s Black Cocaine EP, which hits Tuesday. Download

Mac Miller speaks with Sway on MTV’s RapFix about having the first indie record to hit #1 on Billboard in sixteen years, the last being Dogg Pound’s Dogg Food in 1995. 144,000+ copies were sold of Blue Slide Park in it’s first week. Congrats, Mac.

Interview yours truly just did with Stereogrid, about HipHopSite.Com. For this week’s Blogger Q+A we talk to DJ Pizzo of HipHopSite.  We discuss the history of HipHopSite, what catches his ear as a blogger/DJ & the advantages of being a genre specific blog. Stereogrid: Where, How & Why did you start HipHopSite? DJ Pizzo: I [cont.]

BUSTA RHYMES SIGNS TO CAH MONEY RECORDS from DERICK G on Vimeo. Birdman announces Busta Rhymes is the new member of the Young Money Cash Money Billionaires family. Now pick your jaw up off the floor.

House Shoes on the track. Quelle Chris’s album Shotgun & Sleek Rifle is in stores now. Download

From The Cure 2, coming soon. ALC on the track.