Pusha T lends a guest verse to this DMV native.

On the day of his album release, Student Of The Game, N.O.R.E. sits in with The Breakfast Club.

Pos writes: “I’ve always loved the ‘Intro’ on Disc Two of Wu-Tang Forever – this erie sample with no beat, that they only talked over,” De La Soul’s Posdnuos tells Rolling Stone. “I stumbled on the original sample while crate digging one day, took it straight to the lab and added drums. The feel is [cont.]

Dilla covers Gary Newman’s “Cars” for this track from the new 12″. From RappCats: “Anthem” and “Trucks” were two of the songs J Dilla recorded in late 2001 and early 2002 as he put the finishing touches on what was supposed to be an album featuring his raps over production by the likes of Madlib, [cont.]

Illogic and Blockhead have come together to record the Capture The Sun LP for Man Bites Dog Records, and today, they serve up a stream of the full album, as well as the third episode in their “Journey To Capture The Sun” documentary series, directed by Blueprint.

While Major Lazer’s long-awaited Free The Universe hit stores today, Snoop Lion’s Major Lazer produced LP, Reincarnated, hits next week. Check out a stream of the whole thing below.

This will appear on Flex’s upcoming mixtape, Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself?, which hits tomorrow.

From the album Twelve Reasons To Die by Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge. In Stores Now. Directed by Adrian Younge

From T-Pain’s upcoming album, Stoicville: The Phoenix. Can you say “hit record”?

REKS continues to build anticipation for Revolution Cocktail with yet another leak from this long awaited release. Here, Mr. Say Goodnight gets a smooth vocal assist from newcomer EZDREAD on Caged Bird. The track is produced by Introspective Minds.

Mr. All Gold Everything spits a freestyle for XXL’s Freshmen issue.

he wait will soon be over, as anticipation builds for the release of the long awaiting documentary film, DEMOS: An Independent Artist’s Guide To Success. Set for an online release of May 22nd, DEMOS will fuel independent artists with the knowlege needed to catipult their careers to the next level. Accompanying DEMOS (the film) will [cont.]

With appearances by Motor City vets (Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Miz Korona) and youngsters (Mahd, Jahshua Smith) alike, ‘For Namesake’ continues to cement Nametag & Nameless as one of Detroit’s fastest rising talents.

“Panera Bread”? Rappers are running out of metaphors. From #TheBirthdayTape hitting next week.

Havoc of Mobb Deep debuts the latest single off his new album “13″, in stores May 7th. “Life We Chose” features Lloyd Banks and production by Havoc.

Sean and Smith give ‘em Hell on this new Brooklyn baked single.

From Ms. Banks upcoming album, Broke With Expensive Taste.

From the upcoming LP, The Dark Horse, coinciding with Adidas’ Heat Of The Bull ad campagne.

Kendrick Lamar’s very first mixtape is back for the first time, thanks to the power of the innanet. This dropped in 2003 when Prince Kendrick was only sixteen years old, and features guest shots from Joe Budden and Freeway. Plug two: If you are you looking for a more recent Kendrick mix, there’s always The [cont.]

Danny Brown gets animated for “Street Lights”. Animated by Plastic Horse.