Redman has some words with the man upstairs. Watch out for Muddy Waters 2 and The Preload EP, coming soon.

Houston’s Grand Hu$tle representative, Trae Tha Truth, preps for NBA All-Star Weekend, happening this weekend in New Orleans, with his new All-Star 2014: Flight School mixtape. Trae Tha Truth – “All-Star 2014: Flight School” (Mixtape)

De La Soul’s classic catalog is one of the last remaining omissions from the digital retail sites like iTunes and Amazon, due to legal nonsense and sample clearance issues. However, today the group has made the catalog available for free download, which includes 3 Feet High & Rising, De La Soul Is Dead, Buhloone Mindstate, [cont.]

During his Penn State performance last night, Kanye launched into an anti-radio interview, anti-paparazzi rant, calling out Sway and Charlemagne in the process. #ShutTheFuckUpRant In the second clip, check out a newly unearthed freestyle from Ye, recorded 12 years ago, brought to you by Complex.

Watch as rap comedy duo ItsTheReal joins forces with the trillest O.G. in hip hop – Bun B – to bring you this sexy and outrageous celebration of women who keeps it au naturale.

From 2013′s Born Sinner.

From LRG: For LRG’s second installment of our Spring 14 lookbook, we teamed up with New York-based photographer Brook Bobbins and some of the freshest talent in the rap game. Waving the banner of underground inventive, Pro Era (CJ Fly, Statik Selektah, RokaMouth, Dirty Sanchez, Powers Pleasant), Dyme-a-Duzin, Boogz Boogetz, and Black Cobain. Longtime LRG [cont.]

Common debuted his new single “Made In Black America” earlier this week. Here’s the whole show, which finds him freestyling and speaking on his upcoming album, Nobody Smiling. Watch this man freestyle, then hang up your mic for good….

Drake took to his http://octobersveryown.blogspot.com/ to respond to the day’s events, and his comments to Rolling Stone. Read on: Tough Day At The Office With today being the 5th anniversary of So Far Gone I figured it’s fitting to return to it’s place of its origin in order to clear the air about an extremely [cont.]

And we quote: Out Da Box Radio is extremely happy to bring you our first episode of the year, featuring the talented and accomplished Brooklyn Lyricist better known as “Talib Kweli”. It has been a long time coming in trying to connect with the brother, so it was indeed a pleasure to finally achieve the [cont.]

Today, Oddisee drops a video from his “The Beauty in All” album for the song “Caprice Down.” The video was directed by Jeremy Ian Thomas and features a skate crew called “Hammer City” who live in Long Beach, California. The crew’s founder was a skater named Michael Green A.K.A. Blacc. Mike was gunned down in [cont.]

Sir Danny Brown will tour in support of his 2013 Fool’s Gold LP, OLD, on a 28 date run that begins in Europe and ends in the U.S. Check out dates and the official tour trailer below.

Newly discovered footage of Kanye and Pharrell in the studio, during the original College Dropout recording sessions. Ye singing off key in the beginning. Pharrell approves….

Kid Ink’s rip of house classic “Show Me Love” gets its star-studded remix.

Hey, finally we move past “O.G. Bobby Johnson” and “Danny Glover” freestyles. Ferg hops atop Schoolboy Q’s “Man Of The Year”.

G.O.O.D. Music’s silent assassin, CyHi The Prynce, is back to deliver Coretta [Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr] an ode to traditional love during black history month. The smooth track produced by TEC BEATZ comes from his upcoming mixtape, Black Hystori Project, scheduled to release February 24th. The executive producer of the project is non [cont.]

Cudder is wasting no time following up the release of last year’s Indicud, as his next album, Satellite Flight, is finished and ready to go. Release date to be announced, check it out below. 1. Destination: Mother Moon 2. Going to the Ceremony 3. Satellite Fight 4. Copernicus Landing 5. Balmain Jeans ft. Raphael Saadiq [cont.]

From the album Blood on the Canvas. Produced by Christian Rich. Directed by Zack Warren of Wingtip Media.

“Words is a re-introduction, and aural celebration of hip-hop’s most influential MC. Inspired by the vinyls that birthed the art form, the film is a portrait of two sides of an artist (A & B) and the streets and city he inspired. Two of his verses have been remixed … the words will never change.” [cont.]

New sounds (self-produced, and why not?) leaking on the road to GrandeMarshall’s third project My Brother’s Keeper. Be on the lookout for more leaks, and the eventual release of MBK in the Spring of 2014.