So, Ras Kass is currently working on a new “untitled” project that will have “18 or 20″ tracks, and will also feature “guest appearances” and “top notch features and production”. The project will be limited edition, with 1000 CD’s pressed, and 500 pieces of vinyl and will ship “late Spring”. The cost? $3800. Well, not [cont.]

Well, you can take this for what it’s worth, but MF Doom will be “performing live” at the following dates – and by “performing live”, we mean… well, we don’t really know what that means these days. But hey…. ZURICH – March 7th – TICKETS LONDON – March 5th – SOLD OUT Sonar Showcase including [cont.]

“I ain’t got no lyrics, I’m straight blunt… I don’t have time for lyrics,” said Waka Flocka Flame in an interview on Shade 45 last week. “The nigga that everybody say lyrical, he ain’t got no show…. I be on the radio and niggas be like ‘nigga let’s freestyle right now’ and I be like [cont.]

Concertgoers at last night’s MF Doom / Mos Def show at the Congress Theatre in Chicago were let down when the apparent MF Doom impersonator allegedly struck again. While only those who were backstage really knew who was behind the mask for sure, as you can see from the above video, the crowd decided for [cont.]

Atlanta based rapper Donnis, whom you may know from his Diary of an ATL Brave mixtape, revealed in a XXL interview that he recently signed with Atlantic Records, after a heated bidding war with Def Jam, Asylum, Jive, and Downtown Records. Donnis scored an underground hit single with last year with “Gone” via A-Trak’s Fool’s [cont.]

A Carter IV leak perhaps? Actually, a leftover from Tha Carter III, pairing up monster emcees Lil Wayne and Ludacris, which ended up being deleted off the final tracklist. Perhaps it was the fact that they got two of the nicest emcees in the south together and stuck them with a murky, sleepy beat. Or [cont.]

Not quite sure what the deal is with this one – it’s essentially a cover of a remix that jacks a classic – you can figure out the math from there. Snoop pretty much word-for-word regurgitates Cube’s original verses, while The Hustle Boyz take a break from hustling to do their best Das Efx impression, [cont.]

New official mixtape heat from LUDA. Ludacris – “Conjure: A Hustler’s Spirit” Mixtape

I guess the Warriorz-era M.O.P. ruined it for me. This is some nice, rugged and raw Domingo shit, but I want that “Ante Up” energy. Actually tho, judging from the cover this seems to be GP100 single featuring M.O.P. M.O.P. & GP 100 – “Welcome To The House Of Wolves” (Mp3)

There was a short period in the mid-1990′s, when heads were so fed up with direction that major labels were taking with hip-hop music, that many artists just decided to put their stuff out independently. The indie hip-hop movement kicked into full swing, as artists on both coasts (and even in between), began releasing their [cont.]

“Okay, now put your hand on your head, and make a face like you know you did something really bad….Excellent, I think that’s a wrap!” Black Sheep once did a song called “Flavor Of The Month”. It was about the rise and fall of a one-hit wonder type of rapper that lived out his fifteen [cont.]

Snoop Dogg has always been one to adapt to changing styles and sounds, despite the fact that he was once an innovator of an entire sub-genre of hip-hop music. Still holding the entire West Coast on his back, Snoop has transcended the tag of “rapper”, earning the status of “icon”, as even your parents recognize [cont.]

The legendary D.I.T.C. crew has had it’s ups and downs over the years, delivering numerous classic albums and singles, but also plenty of missteps. For every Runaway Slave there’s The Dirty Version, for every Word…Life there’s Smoke & Mirrors. Usually the problems with D.I.T.C.’s later releases came from them trying to adapt to the commercial [cont.]

M.O.P. often refers to themselves as a part of “the last generation”, as at one point, they represented one of the last hard-rock New York City hip-hop acts still holding a major label recording contract. We’ve all watched legends in the game get dissed by the major label system, as if they never helped shape [cont.]

If you’ve stepped into the club anytime over the last year, surely you’ve heard the sounds of LMFAO, you may just not realize it yet. They’ve turned songs like Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown”, Fergie’s “Clumsy”, and Katy Perry’s “Hot & Cold” into certified club-bangers with their unique fusion of electro house beats and blissfully ignorant [cont.]

For those that don’t know, Malik Yusef is a spoken word artist from the streets of Chicago, who grew up in the same circles as Common and other Chi-Town artists, many of which who have stepped in to help him out with his expansive double LP (each sold separately). You can’t help but notice the [cont.]

Listening to Cage’s lyrics, many times he presents himself as someone most people wouldn’t like as a person. His first few albums presented him as a drug-addicted, ex-Bellevue patient obsessed with horror movies and misogyny. That all changed with the release of Hell’s Winter, the album where Cage “got better,” so-to-speak. Still an incredibly dark [cont.]

The artist who on his third album, asked to be Accepted Eclectic, really meant it, as he has constantly rewritten the script for what is to be expected with each release. His classic debut, All Balls Don’t Bounce, was a slept on magnum opus, followed by the ethereal concept album Book Of Human Language with [cont.]

Since Public Enemy’s presence these days is a bit scarce, Mr. Lif is probably the most politically charged emcee currently releasing albums. While others have tried to fill the shoes of Chuck and Flav, Lif actually knows what he is talking about. Forget wild conspiracy theories about the Illuminati or who really is responsible for [cont.]

With industry-wide record sales in the toilet, Del moved away from his Hieroglyphics imprint last year, and teamed up with one of the hottest underground labels in the biz, Definitive Jux, for the release of The Eleventh Hour. This seemed like a backpacker’s wet dream on paper – just imagine – the beats of El-P, [cont.]