Sir French Montana has thrown out a new release date for his Bad Boy debut, Excuse My French. The new date, as Tweeted this week, is slated for March 12th, 2013, with the message “#excusemyfrench march 12 juuhearddd haannnn.” Guests slated to appear on the album include Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, The Weeknd, Big Sean, [cont.]

J. Cole releases this 2008 track in honor of “the end of the world”. Considering we’re still here, we wonder if Cole is having regrets today….

This is the best cut we’ve heard yet from Fif’s Street King Immortal, which drops next year.

Fat Joe pled guilty in an NJ court on Thursday, for failing to pay taxes on nearly $3 million in income, earned over a period of two years from royalties and performances in 2007 and 2008. The initial allegation covered 2007-2010, with $718,038 in taxes owed. When asked by the court if he understood the [cont.]

Kwame, Lee Bannon, and Chuck Strangers have united to form Super Helpful. Their first single together features an appearance from Joey Bada$$. This is on some Stretch and Bobbito shit.

Sha Stimuli’s Rent Tape Series has reached it’s finale. To celebrate a year of dope music released every month he teamed with production team The Dynamite Bruhz and DJ Presyce to bring his fans The Present. In the projects first release “Rapping Paper,” Skyzoo and Torae linked up with Sha Stimuli. This banger is a [cont.]

The charismatic rapper, T.I., sits in with The Breakfast Club, speaking on his new album, Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head, his problems with the law, jail time, and much more.

From Wale’s Folarin mixtape, which drops Christmas eve.

MC Eiht will release his Keep It Hood EP on Jan. 31st of next year, with it’s first single produced by Brenk Sinatra, with cuts by DJ Premier.

From Mandatory Brunch Meetings, available now.

In this hour long clip, Murs reveals the line-up for the 2013 Paid Dues Line Up and also answers questions from the fans. Scheduled to perform at the March 30th event are The Black Hippy crew, (Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock), plus De La Soul, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech [cont.]

From the album, Live From The Underground. A flip book through Big K.R.I.T.’s memories. Directed by KRSP.

Rae previews another track from the Lost Jewelry EP, hitting next month. Sample as used by DJ Shadow for “In/Flux”.

After pulling DJ Shadow off the decks for being “too future” last weekend, Mansion Miami has issued a formal apology to the legendary producer. The statement reads as follows: Mansion on DJ Shadow: The Official Statement We offer our most sincere apologies to DJ Shadow and his fans for his set being cut short at [cont.]

HELLAFINE FRIDAYS is a bi-weekly podcast series mixed by DJ PIZZO of fabulous Las Vegas. This series selects the best, breaking new tracks across all generes, as well as selections from Pizzo’s label, HELLAFINE RECORDS. And best of all, it doesn’t suck. We wish we could say that about everything. 1. Shout (Intro) – Stefano [cont.]

When soon-to-be-renowned Boston hip-hop duo 7L & Esoteric collaborated with the Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck on the title track to 7LES’s debut EP Speaking Real Words in 1999, the timing was perfect. The upstart duo was building a serious buzz on the East Coast and beyond, while Deck was still winning praise for his gold-selling [cont.]

Motor City brothers Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson have wasted no time pounding the pavement for Dice Game. In the past few weeks Apollo has toured Australia and New Zealand while Guilty did a lean and mean west coast run that spanned Los Angeles to Seattle before hitting the NBC/Universal lot to be on Carson [cont.]

Bilal preps for his new album, A Love Surreal, out February 2013, with this retrospective mixtape, curated by the legendary Vikter Duplaix.

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Check out the entire Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head LP below via the YouTube playlist, then peep the iTunes bonus track, “Check This Dig That”.