As Substantial’s Mello Music Group debut Home Is Where The Art Is nears release, the DMV MC can’t contain his excitement. In anticipation of the release, Substantial joins indie powerhouse Homeboy Sandman and up-and-coming DMV wordsmith Javier Starks for the high-energy track “ReLOADED”. The track doesn’t appear on Substantial’s own album but is instead a [cont.]

Late last month, Dark Time Sunshine released their sophomore album, ANX. Since then, as Dark Time Sunshine continue their three month, 42-city tour alongside Aesop Rock, acclaim continues to roll in for the album, both from fans, which have viewed DTS’ recent video for “Never Cry Wolf” nearly 30,000 times in the past two weeks, [cont.]

Underground rap legend R.A. The Rugged Man is currently wrapping up work on his highly anticpated new album Legends Never Die. During a recent studio session, R.A. and Danish singer Amalie Bruun took a break from recording to preview some exclusive new music from the album. R.A. also gets Amalie to sing her part from [cont.]

On 9-11-2012, Apathy will be releasing two projects; one of them is a double-disc opus of collaborations, freestyles and unreleased material entitled Fire Walk With Me. The other release, The Alien Tongue, is a collection of his unreleased early 90′s demo recordings, predating his debut appearances on Jedi Mind Tricks’ Psycho-Social LP. Both releases can [cont.]

Craig G’s album cover to Ramblings Of An Angry Old Man wins. Due October 30th.

This comes from Ras Kass forthcoming “P.U.M.A.” EP, which will also feature Planet Asia, Chace Infinite, Yukmouth, Alchemist, Doc Hollywood, Illinformed, and Klasic.

From Dwele’s Greater Than One LP, hitting August 28th.

Here’s something off that Welcome To: Our House LP, featuring Eminem. In stores August 28th.

In this interview with Montreality, B.o.B. speaks on…. – The type of student he was at school – Jobs he’s had as a teenager growing up – What he spent his 1st big paycheck on – The key to success – What he would call his book, if he were to write one – What [cont.]

Dezert Eez (consisting of members O’Nill, 5-Star & Nivek) took shape at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI) and all three members have known each other for close to a decade now. The name Dezert Eez (Desert Eagle) is symbolic of a weapon created in Israel and then later brought to the states to be manufactured; [cont.]

Mercury Retrograde, the new full-length album by Beatrock Music’s own 6Fingers and his longtime collaborator Topkat, is now available! With noteworthy features by artists such as Del the Funky Homosapien, Bambu, Exile, Johaz, Rocky Rivera, Moe Green, Hopie, Do D.A.T. and more, this album promises to entertain. Preview and purchase the album on Bandcamp.

With only a week left before the release of the collabortive album Respect Game Or Expect Flames, Casual and J Rawls are giving fans one more taste before the main course. The title track features Casual trading lines with Hieroglyphics cohort Del The Funky Homosapien over thumping J Rawls production. Respect Game Or Expect Flames [cont.]

New music from 1/2 of Siah and Yeshua Da PoED, from the upcoming LP, I’ll Take Those Odds.

This comes from Doo Wop’s upcoming mixtape with The Source, Underground: Bridging The Gap, which will feature new music from Redman, Nature, Keith Murray, The Artifacts, Lords of the Underground, The Alkaholiks, Sticky Fingaz, and more.

THURZ collaborates with BJ the Chicago Kid and producer THX to create “Another Number” off the 517 W Queen Tape.

Produced by Lee Bannon. From the upcoming Movies On Demand 4 project.

From Everyone Ain’t Loyal, coming soon.

The A-side of the next installment in Mello Music Group’s 7” Series comes from Diamond District/1978er producer/emcee yU. The gruff DMV MC is known for philosophical street rap but “Dreams” takes a different route – the result a hauntingly beautiful track likely to end up on repeat. Enlisting Danedra Rowell on vocals, yU eschews the [cont.]