TMZ reports that after celebrating his birthday at LIV Miami, Rick Ross crashed a Rolls-Royce into a Ft. Lauderdale building this morning, after fleeing an assassination attempt by a gunman that fired “dozens” of shots at the vehicle. While none of the shots hit Ross, or his female passenger, surrounding buildings in the area were [cont.]

Another one from SV’s Dirty Slums 2, this one featuring Baatin.

Action Bronson takes time out from his tour to chat with us, this is a mere snippet of the full interview which will be featuring in the next issue of Wordplay magazine.

Pusha T’s long-awaited Wrath Of Caine, hits tomorrow, January 28th.

The title track from Meek Mill’s MMG debut gets a video, directed by Alex Nazari.

Kendrick Lamar appears on SNL and performs “Swimming Pools” and “Poetic Justice”.

Kendrick Lamar appears on SNL, teaming with Adam Levine and The Lonely Island on the track “Y.O.L.O.”

Ms. Keys covers “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless)”: “I’ve been so overwhelmed by all of your birthday love that I HAD to do something extra special for you! Love to you!!! Big shout to Crystal Waters for your inspiration!… New Music!! B.N.M Part 2!!!!” – Alicia

Ross teases his next LP, Mastermind, with this first single. Produced by D. Rich. Pussy, pussy, pussy.

Call the dogs off, it came from a jeweler.

Tip speaks on collaborating with Timbaland and Timberlake on Justin’s upcoming The 20/20 Experience LP.

Off the upcoming K.R.I.T. mixtape.

While this is not a complete list of the albums that will drop in 2013, this does cover a lot of what has been announced thus far. This is in no particular order, it’s just a stream-of-consciousness list that we came up with of stuff slated for this year. Feel free to add in stuff [cont.]

Looking for something a little different? Here were our 5 favorite not-quite-hip-hop releases of 2012. 5. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes – Until the Quiet Comes turned out to be Lotus’ most atmospheric LP to date; something he must have intended, with closing songs like “Dream to Me” and “Phantasm”, the latter featuring [cont.]

With hundreds of mixtapes released in 2012, we picked our favorites, many which show that your street releases don’t have to be made up of freestyles over the hottest beats. 10. Childish Gambino – Royalty – Royalty represents actor Donald Glover’s self-made transformation into a respected hip hop artist. So whether you’re a hardcore hip [cont.]

We pick hip-hop’s best viral videos of 2012. 10. Alchemist & Action Bronson Interview Each Other. – Al and Action’s sense of humor couldn’t be captured better in this strange interview taking place on beaches of Cali. 9. David Copperfield Magically Appears At Rick Ross Performance – In perhaps the most surreal moment of the [cont.]

We pick our 25 favorite videos from 2012, across both major label and indie releases. 25. Waka Flocka Flame – “Rooster In My Rari”; Dir. Morocco Vaughn- So bad, it’s good. 24. Cypress Hill x Rusko – “Can’t Keep Me Down” (feat. Damian Marley); Dir: Kristofer Ström – It’s no secret that both Cypress Hill [cont.]

UK producer grabs Danny Brown for this single off his Tr-Ill EP.

GL remixes Dre and Snoop’s “The Next Episode”, and takes it…. TO THE TRAP!!