Joey Bada$$ and his Pro Era crew freestyle surrounded by Christmas gifts for the folks at Buzz Feed.

Top Dawg Entertainment’s Ab-Soul breaks down the lyrics to “ILLuminate,” a track featured on his second album Control System, for S. Carter’s Life & Times.

Cons is the latest to take on Trindad James hit single. Movies On Demand 4 coming soon. Woo!

2 Chainz performs on Kimmel.

Busta Rhymes and The Conglomerate will release their new mixtape, Catastrophic, on December 21st. Here is the new video for J-Doe and Busta’s “Elevator Music”, as well as a freestyle over Dom Kennedy’s infectious “My Type Of Party”.

From the Freedom Of Speech mixtape.

King of the terrible adlibs (oh god! boy!), Big Sean, visits The Breakfast Club, speaking on his next album Hall of Fame, Eminem, Trinidad James, and more.

PATTCH82: First off, the new album Eyrth, Wynd And Fyre is set to drop on February 12th. How do you feel it stacks up against your other solo records…? CAPPADONNA: It’s just different man, it’s more together you know what I mean? The message is a little more clearer and I think it’s just an [cont.]

Chief Keef is one of these artists whose personal drama is as or more interesting than his music. The 17-year-old from the South Side of Chicago has not only led a surge in popularity for a new local subgenre called “drill music”, he’s admittedly shot at police (so he says at the beginning of this [cont.]

Legendary Bay Area outfit, the Hieroglyphics, teamed w/ FLuD Watches for a special watch collaboration out now. The “Meet The Crew” video series spotlights the crew with a unique personal perspective from each of the guys. Pt. 2 spotlights Casual, A-Plus, and DJ Toure each giving a one-on-one message to the camera.

Uptown XO continues the march towards the release of his new solo album: “Colour de Grey.” Today, XO offers a new visual for the track “Rugged” off his pre-album mixtape “The Color Gray.” The track, produced by A.B. the Pro, features Obi Say and Awthentik spitting bars alongside XO who breaks it down to a [cont.]

Dark, aggressive and almost exhibiting a life of its own, the Sound Boy Killa exposes a new side of DJ Muggs we have not seen before, although always expected. As if he is reconstructing the rules of dubstep, the much less hip/hop influenced EP, indulges in emotional and grinding overtones that while overly layered, still [cont.]

Preach on, Trouble Man.

Troy and Mac take they’re independent Hustlers Grind & collaborate on this Certified BANGER titled “CHILLIN” produced by Cy Fyre.

From Indicud, hitting next year.

The backpack answer to “Fuckin’ Problem”, also taken from next month’s Long.Live.ASAP LP. Both feature Kendrick.

From Mayalino’s upcoming mixtape, Bird Day (?), which will also feature Pusha T, Jadakiss, Scarface, Bun B, among others.

A-Trak’s Fool’s Gold imprint released this rap compilation called Loosies yesterday, which features all new tracks from Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Araabmuzik, Juicy J, Jim Jones, Flatbush Zombies, El-P, Freddie Gibbs and more. Stream the whole thing down bottom.