Stu Bangas & Vanderslice are still riding high on the success of their recent album, Diggaz With Attitude, released in late summer via Man Bites Dog Records. The album, which has been met with high acclaim and strong reviews, featured the likes of Roc Marciano, The Alchemist, Evidence, Vinnie Paz, Celph Titled, Planet Asia, La [cont.]

From E-40 & Too Short’s massive double LP release, History: Mob Music and History: Function Music.

BET has partnered with the Brick City TV producers Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin, (producers of the Peabody Award-winning and twice Emmy nominated series “Brick City”) and Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award nominated filmmaker Sam Pollard (“Slavery By Another Name” and “Four Little Girls”) to produce a two-part news documentary, “SECOND COMING?: WILL BLACK AMERICA [cont.]

Due this Tuesday, October 23rd. Features the Wu-Tang Clan, Kanye West, Ghostface Killah, Pusha T, Method Man, Freddie Gibbs, Raekwon, Flatbush Zombies, Talib Kweli, M.O.P., and more. The Man With The Iron Fists Soundtrack by Man With The Iron Fists

Nicki’s latest video is a visual tour-de-force, directed by Collin Tilley. Pink Friday Roman Reloaded: The Re-Up hits November 19th.

Directed by Talib Kweli & Bernard Gourley. Available on Habits of the Heart, up on iTunes now.

A$ap Rocky’s debut album has been pushed back from it’s projected Halloween release date, that hasn’t stopped him from releasing this star-studded new single, produced by Noah “40″ Shebib.

Budden spits some bars for Sway up at MTV’s RapFix Live.

Louis Vuitton pays tribute to The Greatest – Muhammad Ali with the digital experience The Greatest Words. The artist formerly known as Mos Def, Yasiin Bey, and calligrapher Niels Shoe Meulman revisit the words of Muhammad Ali.

Gucci Mane – “Trap God” (Mixtape)

On this new freestyle, G.O.O.D. Music’s Cy-Hi The Prynce compares himself to Oklahoma City Thunder player James Harden, saying “I’m on the team, but they say I ain’t startin’ / but I’m still ballin’ / shout out to James Hardin.”

Directed by DanTheMan, from The Man With The Iron Fists soundtrack, due Oct. 22nd.

New Music from Sean Price’s Mic Tyson album out Oct. 30th. Track produced by The Alchemist.

To cap off a year of career highlights, including producing a pair of the years most critically heralded albums (his own and Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music), playing festivals like Coachella and it’s sister cruise ship festival, and collaborating with a diverse litany of artists like Gucci Mane, Slaughterhouse, Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, and Danny Brown, El-P [cont.]

HipHopSite: In preparation for Napalm, you did a tour with the troops in the middle east. What made you want to do this, and how does it apply to the album itself? Xzibit: The tour was to support the soliders, I knew I was going to spend two weeks out there. The song “Napalm”, was [cont.]

Bootleg Kev talks with DJ Quik at the 2012 Dub convention. They speak on production, influences, classic beats, cars, and more.

Country Rap Tunes Vol. 2 coming soon.

Here is what the front of Lil Wayne’s new autobiographical account of his time at Riker’s Island looks like, entitled, Gone Til November: 8 Months On Riker’s Island. The book will hit stores May 14, 2013.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ stellar The Heist LP, performed well beyond expectations, which predicted to be in the 40,000-to-60,000 range, actually opening with 78,000 copies sold in it’s first week, released independently through Alternative Distribution Alliance. 83% of the sales were digital, helping it land that coveted number 1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums [cont.]

Produced by G ROCKA and MEDI. From the mixtape, In The Grind We Trust.