Four years after their first interview J Cole and Nick Huff Barili link up for their fourth in-depth interview. In part 3 J Cole explains the inspiration to his track “Rich N****z” from his album Born Sinner. Cole breaks down lyrics and tells stories to give deeper insight to the song.

Surrender Las Vegas resident, DJ Mighty Mi, and program director, Shecky Green, team for “The Golden Era Mix” for Shade 45 on Thanksgiving, with an all encompassing mix of hip-hop classics. The second half of the mix is made up of custom Mighty Mi mash-ups of rap classics, as well as the audio of Shec’s [cont.]

Snoopzilla teams with Stones Throw producer Dâm-Funk for the 7 Days Of Funk project, due December 10th. Check out a full stream of the project courtesy of NPR.

Well, that was fast. RZA writes: “This song, entitled “Destiny Bends” was written last night after hearing the tragic news of the loss of a good man named Paul Walker. I met Paul on the set of the film Brick Mansion, where we talked, laughed, and exchanged ideas of life and fatherhood. I only knew [cont.]

The Owl Pharoahe delivers an eight-minute magnum opus for “Uptown”, from his latest project, alongside A$AP Ferg.

As French preps his Coke Boys 4 mixtape, he reveals the cover artwork for the project. What’s with the baby powder?

SpliffTV directs this ad for Fancy.Com, a same day delivery service start-up, featuring Cam’Ron and Dame Dash in the spot. Which do you prefer to deliver your package, sexy models or Amazon’s new drone-army?

Produced by Young Chop. For the video, Freddie Gibbs “samples” Tyson’s fight with Evander Holyfield, which found Iron Mike biting his ear.

Dorrough Music and Wiz Khalifa re-imagine ATC’s “All Around The World”, as heard below.

Classic Drug References Vol. 1 is a Box Set containing 3 x 7″ records featuring CDR extended family Danny Brown, Ras G, Quelle Chris, Blu, Knxwledge and more. In addition to the 7″ vinyl, the box set contains a zine featuring interviews with A$AP YAMS and Mr. Porter conducted by Sweeney Kovar, writing from Dart [cont.]

West Coast rapper Schoolboy Q opens up on why Diddy is his idol, and shares a story about going to the music mogul’s house. He explains how his nickname “Puffy” came about, why Diddy thought he was dissing him, and what their conversation was like during their meeting.

Royce Da 5’9 spoke with VladTV about the effect of Kendrick Lamar’s “King of New York” verse and artists responding to him for his bold lyrical claims. He began by addressing Big Sean not rewriting his verse after hearing Kendricks’s, in which Kendrick threw shots at him on his own song. Royce felt that Sean [cont.]

Many people might not have German/Afghan producer Farhot on their radar yet but he’s far from being a rookie. With 5 platinum records on his wall and album productions for Nneka, Selah Sue and Talib Kweli under his belt chances are high that you have heard his music before not knowing it was his production [cont.]

On December 4, 2013, Skyzoo will partner with producer Antman Wonder to release his final offering for the year: a concept album titled An Ode To Reasonable Doubt (AOTRD), presented by Sky’s imprint First Generation Rich, Inc. and Loyalty Digital Corp. As the title suggests, the independent project – featuring nine new Skyzoo x Antman [cont.]

DJ Toshi enlists members of Royal Fam, Killarmy, and Stronghold for the first video from his upcoming compilation record, dropping next year. Directed by BlueCollar Television. Meanwhile, the first single, “Authentic”, featuring Keith Murray, BurntMD, Timbo King, and Phil Da Agony will hit iTunes on December 2nd.

Clarks Originals has teamed up with the Metal Faced villain DOOM, for a custom pair of Wallabees, designed by the famed emcee. To be released as part of their SS14 collection, the shoe is made from premium brown leather and sports reflective seams, and features both the DOOM logo and an image of his mask. [cont.]

From Kimmy’s upcoming Hardcore 2K13 mixtape release.

The (former?) G-Unit general will follow-up last year’s The Cold Corner 2, with a new volume of the series. Here is your first look at the cover art.

From YG Hootie’s upcoming project Destroy & Rebuild dropping February 2, 2014.

JT grabs pretty much everyone Kendrick Lamar mentioned on “Control” for the “TKO” remix. J. Cole finally weighs in…