Greg Selkoe (Founder of Karmaloop.com) interviews Steve Aoki and Kendrick Lamar about their time on the Verge Campus Tour. They talks about potential future collaborations, Kendrick’s collab with The Lonely Island and more.

Tree gets together with Danny Brown for the third single off Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out. Produced by Tree. Get the album May 15th, 2013 via Creative Control/Closed Sessions.

From the forthcoming collaborative album, Celestial, by UK’s SAS and BSBD. Valley Of Kings w/ SAS featuring Cam'ron & P.A.P.I. (NORE) by Blue Sky Black Death

In this episode of “ILL TIME” we caught up with hardcore emcee and low-key R&B fanatic R.A. The Rugged Man to learn more about his compilation album “R.A. the Rugged Man’s R&B Hits.”

Produced by J Kut & Niyo.

Part two of Combat Jack’s interview with Killer Mike and El-P, in anticipation of their upcoming free Fool’s Gold project, Run The Jewels.

In this episode, Kid Capri talks about funk and soul roots, his love of James Brown and Michael Jackson, and shows us the first record he bought in 6th grade — when he was known as Poochie. Crate Diggers profiles people with extraordinary vinyl record collections, with owners displaying and telling the stories behind their [cont.]

Kid Ink recruits two of Compton’s hottest young gunners on this remix of ‘Bad Ass’, as debuted by the L.A. Leakers.

Yesterday, out of nowhere, Treach took to Twitter to blast former Naughty By Nature partner, Vin Rock, typing “Vinnie from NAUGHTY BY NATURE is Officially FIRED!! Anything he does besides shows til Sept is Frugazy!! Fuck him & the Ground he Walks!!”. Vin Rock responded with a Tweet of his own, stating “I’m waking to [cont.]

Asap shares some groupie stories on The Angie Martinez Show.

Jeremih grabs Sean and Paul Wall for his latest single.

Funk Flex debuts this Mobb Deep remix of Havoc’s “Life We Chose”, from his new LP, 13. Nice to see dudes working together again.

T.I. and company plant their flag with the release of the Get Dough Or Die mixtape, featuring new music from Tip, B.O.B., Trae The Truth, Iggy Azalea, Chip, Travi$ Scott, and more. They must really like AZ’s first album. Download Mixtape

Common jumps on top of Chris Brown’s “Fine China” for an unofficial remix, put together by 9th Wonder and DJ Dummy.

From Excuse My French hitting later this month.

Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover), an American rapper, producer, writer, comedian & actor, goes shopping at Amoeba Music in Hollywood.

From the album “Year of the Underdogz”.

Gunplay talks about his new album “Living Legend” and how he came up with the name. Gunplay talks dropping an album is not important to him because he is comfortable touring and making money. He says his new single will take him to “the white tax bracket.” He talks about his biggest dislikes and likes [cont.]

Game delivers this cut from his upcoming mixtape Operation Kill Everything.

Gang Starr Foundation member and rhymesayer Hannibal Stax along with Brooklyn’s leading boom-bap purveyor Marco Polo have teamed up for a collaborative project entitled Seize The Day (the duo’s mixtape/precursor, The Honorable, was released in December of 2012) which is now available via Soulspazm Records. Originally discovered by DJ Premier, Stax has been a staple [cont.]