On this episode of Rhythm Roulette we have the legendary Ski Beatz. From legendary tracks like Jay-Z’s “Dead President” to modern day classics like Curren$y’s Pilot Talk, Ski has been laying legendary production down for more than 20 plus years. Watch as he creates a beat from three randomly selected pieces of vinyl.

On April 19, 1994, Columbia Records released the debut album of a 20-year-old from Queensbridge Houses in New York City. It was deft, wise, deadly serious and matched the babyface with unparalleled promise to beats made by the era’s preeminent producers. Two decades after Illmatic, Nas sat down with Microphone Check for a conversation that [cont.]

Wiz sits in with Ms. Chelsea to promote his Under The Influence Of Music tour. Blacc Hollywood coming soon.

RZA sits in with The Breakfast Club to speak on both Once Upon A Time In Shaolin and A Better Tomorrow, and further elaborates on Raekwon’s recent comments.

In this second part of Adventure Time in South Africa we see Bronson critique some of Cape Town’s finest greenery, go quad biking with the Alchemist, scull beers with fans while wearing a Spingboks rugby jersey and perform to a 50,000 person crowd in Johannesburg.

Words from Reggie O$$É: “Pharoahe Monch has been a favorite MC of mine for a long time so it only makes sense that we deliver his best interview in existence. In support of his brilliant album ‘P.T.S.D.’ we had an in studio listening session as Monch gave us his most personal interview to date. Who [cont.]

Ebro and Peter Rosenberg interview RZA on the Hot Morning Show. Looks like they are getting somewhere, at least with RZA….

DJ Nu-Mark, Cut Chemist, Ben Blackwell, Z-Trip, Egon, Pete Rock, Just Blaze, Da Beatminerz, and more talk about some of their best finds for a special Record Store Day edition of Crate Diggers.

Pharoahe stops by Juan Epstein to talk about his whole career including great Organized stories, Rawkus era stories, working on The Lifer’s Group project, making no money off of “Simon Says”, and where he ranks among the top MCs of all time.

Developed and directed by Jason Goldwatch, Mass Appeal’s Time Alone is a new innovative series where celebrities interview themselves. In this episode, rapper Evidence asks himself some in-depth questions.

Pusha T caught up with Complex to speak about his next album, King Push, and the recent studio sessions he shared with Chad and Pharrell of The Neptunes for the project, as well as Kanye’s input on the project.

Ras Kassiano sits with RedEyesAlwaysTV about his personal top 5 MC’s in the game, his upcoming project, and the “smokiest” cat he knows.

After taking VIBE back into the apartment where Nas grew up, the Queenbridge rapper’s young brother, Jungle, brought us to a few of the most important places mentioned on Ilmatic. When Nas was just a teenager, one of his family’s closest friends was brutally murdered in the same neighborhood that they grew up in. Known [cont.]

Legendary rapper Kool Keith speaks about the current state of rap and certain people thinking that 808s only belong to a certain region, but he says it’s universal to hip hop. Adding to the conversation, Keith says that New York messed up and ran away from their own sound, and believes that New York rappers [cont.]

The L.A. Leakers had a chance to get in the studio with DJ Premier to work on a new audio-biography, Leaks That Collected Dust. It will be available for download on 05/12/14. With the 20 year anniversary of Nas’ Illmatic being this week, we felt it was only right to release this video first, DJ [cont.]

Fif spends an hour with Peter Rosenberg, Cipha Sounds, and Ebro at the Hot 97 morning show. They discuss his new album, Animal Ambition, his various beefs, post-G-Unit america, and more.

Noisey: “We loved Danny Brown when he was wild, but we love him even more now that he’s growing up. Danny Brown played Rough Trade East in London back in February, so we caught up with him to chat about coming off lean and why Miley Cyrus should be a Disney slut in private.”

You know you’ve made when you cry in your network television interview. So happy.

While on the set of his new film, Brick Mansions, RZA spoke with Vlad TV about both of his upcoming Wu-Tang albums, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the million dollar LP, and A Better Tomorrow, for mass consumption. He explains that he hasn’t really talked to Raekwon about participation on A Better Tomorrow, but [cont.]

Comba Jack: “Scarface lost 100 pounds. And we’re all over the place in this interview. He plays guitar, he talks drugs and depression and Pink Floyd, he talks about his time in prison, why his son went missing earlier this year, why Rick Ross is underrated and more. He does his best to avoid making [cont.]