White Mandingos are dropping a limited 7″ for RSD for album track “Mandingo Rally”; 3 minutes of Murs unloading grievances against current rap culture and the world at large over a raw, soulful Bad Brains sample (Darryl Jenifer is in Mandingos, appropriately).

Friday April 19th marks the three-year anniversary of the passing of Guru and this track, “G.U.R.U.” f/ Talib Kweli & DJ Premier is dedicated to his memory and a celebration of his life, legacy and all of the vast accomplishments and great music he and DJ Premier gave us. “G.U.R.U.” also serves as the lead-single [cont.]

West Coast femcee Medusa teams with MC Lyte for this new collaboration from the album Whrs The DJ Booth.

Produced by DJ Mustard.

The XXL Freshman links up with two of ATL’s favorites for this track from his upcoming project, Owl Pharoah (?).

A$AP crew joins in the fray of releasing records from the Flex tape. Who’s the mack?

Produced by Kirk Knight. Yet another one from Flex’s imminent Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself? mixtape.

Black Milk collaborates with illustrator Upendo “Pen” Taylor (Nike, Leroy Jenkins, Gatorade) for the music-meets-visual instrumental/art series Fuzz, Freqs & Colors (FFC). Synth or Soul is the first volume in the FFC series. The process for each volume starts with Black and Pen trading beats and sketches and refining their works along the way. Throughout [cont.]

Another one from Flex’s Who You Mad At, Me Or Yourself mixtape, again produced by Statik Selekt.

From the MMG affiliate’s The Birthday Tape, dropping soon.

Produced by Brisk Oner.

Prodigy (Mobb Deep) and Sean P live cypher from Boiler Room Rap Life NYC.

Pusha T lends a guest verse to this DMV native.

Pos writes: “I’ve always loved the ‘Intro’ on Disc Two of Wu-Tang Forever – this erie sample with no beat, that they only talked over,” De La Soul’s Posdnuos tells Rolling Stone. “I stumbled on the original sample while crate digging one day, took it straight to the lab and added drums. The feel is [cont.]

Illogic and Blockhead have come together to record the Capture The Sun LP for Man Bites Dog Records, and today, they serve up a stream of the full album, as well as the third episode in their “Journey To Capture The Sun” documentary series, directed by Blueprint.

While Major Lazer’s long-awaited Free The Universe hit stores today, Snoop Lion’s Major Lazer produced LP, Reincarnated, hits next week. Check out a stream of the whole thing below.

This will appear on Flex’s upcoming mixtape, Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself?, which hits tomorrow.

From T-Pain’s upcoming album, Stoicville: The Phoenix. Can you say “hit record”?

REKS continues to build anticipation for Revolution Cocktail with yet another leak from this long awaited release. Here, Mr. Say Goodnight gets a smooth vocal assist from newcomer EZDREAD on Caged Bird. The track is produced by Introspective Minds.

he wait will soon be over, as anticipation builds for the release of the long awaiting documentary film, DEMOS: An Independent Artist’s Guide To Success. Set for an online release of May 22nd, DEMOS will fuel independent artists with the knowlege needed to catipult their careers to the next level. Accompanying DEMOS (the film) will [cont.]