Today, Adult Swim announces the lineup for the 2014 installment of their acclaimed Singles Program. Returning for the 5th year, the Singles Program is Adult Swim’s series in which they offer a brand new song from a variety of artists across the musical spectrum for free download each Monday throughout the summer. This year’s program [cont.]

Common recently wrote a piece on his recently passed friend and mentor, Dr. Maya Angelou, for the Daily Beast. Check it out below. Since I was 5 years old I have loved reading good writing. I would read anything that my mother or the teachers I loved gave me. In the 2nd grade I came [cont.]

Ab-Soul surprises us with a solid release date of June 24th for his long awaited new LP, These Days…, and delivers the video for Stigmata, directed by Dave Free and APLUS FILMZ.

Slaine has revealed the artwork and track listing for his upcoming studio album “The King Of Everything Else”, which is scheduled for an August 19th release date through Suburban Noize. The album is set to feature collaborations with heavyweights Tech N9ne, Madchild, Bishop Lamont, Vinnie Paz, Reks and Termanology, and La Coka Nostra brethren ILL [cont.]

As we reported a few weeks ago, Apple has released a statement confirming the purchase Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine’s Beats Electronics – makers of the popular Beats By Dre line of headphones and speakers – for $3 billion dollars, marking the largest acquisition in the company’s history. The merger is expected to be completed [cont.]

Update: And the cut is released for preview. Toronto jazz-hip-hop-pop-rock fusion act, BADBADNOTGOOD, whose music you might know from The Man With The Iron Fist soundtrack, have announced a new 10″ vinyl release, which will feature Ghostface Killah and Danny Brown. To be released via Lex Records on June 24th, the tracks are “Six Degrees”, [cont.]

French Montana posted the image to his Instagram account over the weekend, but then suddenly deleted it. In any case, we expect to hear the song’s release this week.

Here’s a look at the tracklist for the upcoming project from J. Rawls, The Legacy, coming soon. 1. Alpha feat. Barb Fant 2. My People (Prod. By Rashad) 3. Bills feat. Masta Ace (Prod. By Bombeardo) 4. The Legacy feat. John Robinson, Ceezar & Lea Anderson (Prod. By Lakim) 5. Pure Love feat. Keisha Soleil [cont.]

In pretty amazing, yet not surprising reveal, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Sgt. Chris Carroll, the officer on the scene at the time of his death, said that 2Pac’s last words – to him at least – were “Fuck You”, Vegas Seven magazine reported today. Giving an in-depth account of the scene of the shooting [cont.]

Riff Raff revealed the tracklist to his long overdue debut LP, Neon Icon, via Instagram today. The album is due June 24th on Diplo’s Mad Decent Recordings. Peep the tracklist below. He also debuted his “How To Be The Man” video, which you can see below. 1. Introducing The Icon 2. Kokayne 3. Wetter Than [cont.]

… Mr. Wonderful. Action took to Twitter to announce the title of his album, stating: “MY ALBUM BEEN NAMED. THE ONLY THING TO DESCRIBE ME.. MR. WONDERFUL. THATS BEEN ME SINCE I STEPPED IN THIS BULLSHIT.” He spoke to NME about the album and had this to say. “”The album is sounding incredible. The whole [cont.]

Nas has teamed with original Decon co-founder, Peter Bittenbender, to form Mass Appeal Records, an offshoot of the popular Mass Appeal magazine – and one of the first projects on the label will be his long-awaited The Lost Tapes 2 album. “I’m excited to be a part of creating and supporting future careers and legacy [cont.]

Buckshot has teamed up with the platinum-selling producer, P-Money, from Auckland, NZ, for a new album, entitled BackPack Travels. The 10-song project is entirely produced by P-Money, and will be released on June 24th on Dirty Records / Dawn Raid Records / Duck Down Music. BackPack Travelsfeatures Joey Bada$$, CJ Fly of Pro Era, Steele [cont.]

In a recent interview with Life & Times, DJ Premier revealed that he has completed a 9 track, full-length album, based around the samples of one artist, but he cannot reveal who. “I’m doing a project that I can’t mention yet. It’s a full album. I just completed it with an artist and we’re gonna [cont.]

Tribeca Film announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to One9’s Time Is Illmatic, which had its world premiere as the opening night of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary is directed by multimedia artist, One9, written by Erik Parker and produced by One9, Parker, and Anthony Saleh. It follows the [cont.]

Soda giant, Dr. Pepper, has opened up a recording studio in Hollywood, a space that will be used to record a series of EP releases from various artists, as a part of their One Of A Kind series. Among the producers tapped to record for the series are each RZA, Dave Sitek, and The Hood [cont.]

Roots drummer / frontman Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson will executive produce a new television series for VH1 & Palladia called “Soundclash”. Hosted by Diplo, the show will feature performances from three musical acts on one stage, ranging from established A-listers to rising up and comers. The first episode, airing July 23rd, will feature a jam session [cont.]

Apple is in talks to buy Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics, manufactures of the popular Beats By Dre headphones and devices, according to Financial Times. At a price of $3.2 billion (with a “B”), the deal is expected to be announced next week, however sources say that there are still a few details to iron out, [cont.]

A study that has been making the rounds on the internet over the last week or so shows that Aesop Rock has the largest vocabulary in hip-hop, at least when paired up against 84 other of the most well known artists in hip-hop history. Coder Matt Daniels created an algorithm to survey the first 35,000 [cont.]

TDE label boss Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith took to Twitter to let fans know that things are all good between Ab-Soul and the TDE camp, after Ab vented out some internal label politics last week. After the dust settled, Ab went to Twitter to let fans know that the album will be called These Days… [cont.]