Jay-Z will close out the final night of his eight night concert series at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, by launching his new YouTube channel, and streaming the show on it. This will be an expansion of his Life + Times imprint, a lifestyle site launched by the rapper last year. Jay partnered with IconicTV, who will [cont.]

RZA’s directorial debut is a martial arts epic set in 19th century China and co-starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu. In our interview, he explains the concept behind his new movie “The Man With The Iron Fists”, check it out!

James Brown, Jackson 5, Rick James, and…. Kiss?

The Lox and Wu-Tang’s ambitious Wu-Block project has some new cover art, seen above, and a new street date, from it’s originally projected Oct. 16 release date. The album will now hit store shelves on November 9th, on eOne Music.

Young Jack Thriller speaks with Joe Budden – reluctantly – explaining why the Shady / Slaughterhouse crews are not appearing at this year’s BET Hip-Hop Awards cyphers.

Kool Keith decided to unleash three new tracks over Twitter last night, each produced by Number One Producer, which may or may not be a Keith alias. Balls Out: NY Bitches: Fly Star:

Another remix from The Robert Glasper Project, Black Radio Rediscovered, which also features collaborations with Mos Def, Little Brother, and Pete Rock.

Nardwuar interviews Riff Raff at Triange Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada before his gig at Fortune Sound Club.

Part 4 of Hard Knock TV’s interview with Immortal Technique, starts with talking to about the media blackout of the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Burma. Technique continues by addressing Syria and US Foreign Policy. Stating that the US government is not trying to stop communism or end the Taliban there are just against people [cont.]

In a story we broke on September 20th, 9th Wonder will team with Buckshot and Murs for two new collaborative LP’s, The Solution and The Final Adventure, respectively, on the same date, November 13th. In the above clip, 9th speaks on the both albums. “9th Wonder & I have always had good chemistry together. This [cont.]

On October 30th, MHz Legacy will release their new, self-titled album via Man Bites Dog Records. The album will be the first cohesive offering from MHz Legacy in over a decade – but it’s not because the crew hasn’t been busy. Quite the contrary: RJD2 has become one of music’s most rangy and talented producers; [cont.]

No, Steve Rifkind has not started a car dealership. Yes, Stalley is releasing a new volume of his Songs By Me Stalley, series. Here’s the first entry, prod. Rashad.

Wale delivers new music today, via Twitter.

The famed Minneapolis rapper got real about a number of topics including the upcoming presidential election, which he believes is more symbolic than anything else, but encourages voters to get educated about each candidate. Ali also speaks on being a white albino rapper, and believes that everything is easier as a white person, but he [cont.]

Staying lifted as ever, Jet Life returns with the follow-up to last year’s highly-acclaimed album, Jet World Order. The crew which includes Curren$y, Trademark Da Skydiver, Young Roddy, Smoke DZA, Sir Michael Rocks & more continues to raise the bar and elevate its craft far beyond the limits of aviation with the much anticipated Jet [cont.]

Big K.R.I.T.’s homie Big Sant will release his mixtape October 9th, MFxOG. K.R.I.T. appears on this track and produced it as well.

Sean Price delivers this video from highly-anticipated October 30th release, Mic Tyson. Produced by The Alchemist. Directed by The Chain Gang.

In honor of his *new* The Bumpy Johnson Album LP release this week, P delivers two videos – the first for his track, “Without Rhyme Or Reason”, from H.N.I.C. 3, directed by Daniel Czemilofsky. The second is for his “Show N Off” freestyle with Statik Selektah.

Cee-Lo brings the first video from his Cee-Lo’s Magic Moment holiday album. The album is in stores Oct. 30th. Ho, ho, hoes.

Bishop Lamont assembles a star-studded cast for his new mixtape, The Layover, with DJ Woogie. Includes appearances from Raekwon, Planet Asia, Black Milk, Chevy Jones, Evidence, Rapper Big Pooh, Krondon, Royce Da 59 and more. Download Mixtape | Free Mixtapes Powered by DatPiff.com