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.]

2 Chainz will deliver his new EP, Free Base, on May 5th. Here’s your first look.

The first artist under J. Cole’s Dreamville imprint delivers a free EP, before his Interscope debut, hitting April 29th.

August Alsina’s Testimony is in stores now.

Mack Wilds’ “Burn” redux gets a remix video, featuting Mobb Deep, French Montana, and Bussa Buss. As heard on the deluxe version of The Infamous Mobb Deep LP.

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.

Stealth Bomb Records own Merkules teams with Apathy and Celph Titled of the Demigodz for the lead single off of Vanderslice’s “Everything’s Awesome” project. “The Bottom Line” stars the Vancouver emcee, who is as handsome as he is talented, with the backdrop provided by Vanderslice and his partner Green Steez.

As part of the official “25 Bucks” single from Danny Brown’s Old LP, we get two new remixes of “Dip”, by Preditah and Noah D, respectively.

Straight from The Bronx comes the trio, The Legion (Chucky Smash, Molecules and Cee-Low). As signees to Black Sheep’s One Love imprint, they debuted in 1993 with the brilliant underground classic, “Jingle Jangle” – an ill piano sample driven track with a highly quotable finishing verse from Dres of Black Sheep. The trio are back [cont.]

Brooklyn rhymer One Dae speaks on non believers and is here to prove that there is no excuse for not getting down. While the potent, grimy bars from Dae enter your ears as the hard hitting Marco Polo beat accompanies his message, the surreal video from director Steven Tapia is a true spectacle. Vibrant and [cont.]

New music from Game, available on iTunes today.

DJ Premier’s “Bars in the Booth” is for SERIOUS SPITTERS ONLY! Session 1 featuring Papoose verified as much! For the uninitiated, “Bars in the Booth” is a new series Preemo has started which revolves around titan emcees of all genres coming thru and being put to the test over a DJ Premier track! Simply, “Bars [cont.]

The post modern poet and newest member of Mello Music Group, Open Mike Eagle, is announcing his debut record with the label. The new project, Dark Comedy, goes beyond sarcasm for those who might miss it otherwise. The album takes the stage on June 10th, but until then, we proudly present the Dark Comedy Morning [cont.]

Legendary NYC crew, D.I.T.C. will release The Remix Project on May 7th as a free album download via D.I.T.C.’s soon to be launched website courtesy of D.I.T.C. Entertainment and Slice of Spice. The website will be a hub for D.I.T.C. members which will feature exclusive merch bundles for “The Remix Project” while Slice of Spice [cont.]

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.]

Another piece of the Animal Ambition puzzle, hitting this June.