Mayer Hawthorne’s six track How Do You Do remix EP, featuring remixes from RAC, Dam-Funk and the Bakaboyz, is available today for free via his Facebook. Seriously, no strings attached. Mayer Hawthorne – “How Do You Do Remixes” EP

Grey is not a color that gets much attention. But that’s not how Diamond District’s gritty lyricist Uptown XO sees it. For the DC spitter, grey represents the convergence of two worlds: dark and light. On the anticipated mixtape The Color Grey, XO continues to combine the street and the conscious in a way that’s [cont.]

RZA announces in addition to the release of his new film, The Man With The Iron Fists, in theatres November 2nd, he will also release an accompanying animated short, that will debut on Machinima.com. The short will be directed by Eric Calderon and will feature the RZA. Meanwhile, the plot synopsis for The Man With [cont.]

Follow Murs & Fashawn on the day of their album release for ‘This Generation.’ First they treat two lucky contest winners to lunch at King Taco. Following that they travel to Amoeba Records in Hollywood, CA for a sold out in-store performance. All songs previewed in the video are from their album, ‘This Generation,’ which [cont.]

MMG crew stays putting out content. Self Made Vol. 2 in stores now.

Mondays are non-stop for updates…. Kendrick Lamar reveals the latest single from Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, hitting Oct. 24th. Featuring Dr. Dre and produced by Just Blaze? Say word.

Danny Brown releases the limited edition The OD EP, which collects three bonus tracks from his XXX LP, “Bassline”, “Witit”, and “Shouldn’t Of”, each with instrumental. The vinyl is die-cut into a shaped picture disc, featuring the XXX logo. Grab the limited edition wax from Fool’s Gold’s webstore, while they last.

From the producers of HALF NELSON, BLUE VALENTINE and ESPN’S THE LIFE comes BECOMING; an interview series that uncovers what successful actors, musicians, chefs, athletes and others, did to get to be leaders in their industries. Johnny Knoxville, Chris Evans, Nas and Arian Foster are among many to star in this series where we learn [cont.]

Big Boi releases the second single from Viscous Lies And Dangerous Rumors. Sounds like it may have been produced by Prince, circa 1984.

From DZA’s Rugby Thompson, out now on High Times Records / Cinematic Music Group. Directed by Isaac Aguirre, produced by Harry Fraud.

Meek Mill unleashes the artwork for his October 30th MMG debut, Dreams and Nightmares. What do you think? 1 Dreams And Nightmares (produced by Tone the Best Bully for Nightrydas Productions) 2 In God We Trust (produced by Black Metaphor for Nightrydas Productions) 3 Young & Gettin’ It featuring Kirko Bangz (produced by Jahlil Beats) [cont.]

BET has released the official line-up for their popular “cypher” series, which traditionally feature new and seasoned emcees rhyming together, serving as interludes for the annual BET Awards show. Participating in the cyphers for this year’s show are: Ab-Soul, Angel Haze, A$AP Rocky, B.o.B, Boy Jones, Brianna Perry, Cassidy, Childish Gambino, Chip, DJ Premier, DJ [cont.]

While Talib Kweli’s long-awaited Prisoner of Conscious LP was originally set to drop October 23rd, it’s been given a new release date of November 20th, as announced by Talib today via Twitter. A wise move, considering that Oct. 23rd is already packed with releases from Kendrick Lamar, RZA, Ryan Leslie, Vinnie Paz, P.O.S., and Karriem [cont.]

While at this weekend’s BET Awards, Young Jack Thriller spoke briefly with Diggy Simmons about his recent dis track aimed at J. Cole, “Fall Down”. Look out for Diggy’s forthcoming Out Of This World mixtape dropping soon.

Torae begins a new daily release series called Daily Bread, which will find him releasing freestyles over some of his favorite instrumentals. Here are the first few entries, with beats by 9th Wonder, DJ Premier, and King I Divine, respectively.

This weekend, at the filming of the BET Awards, E-40 announced that he will follow up The Block Brochure Vol. 1-3, released earlier this year, with The Block Brochure Vol. 4-6 on March 26th, 2013. Look for his next two albums, History: Mob Music & Function Music, with Too $hort, on November 6th. Four-five-sixin’ it!

Skyzoo taps the just-released from prison, Chi Ali, for the official remix to “Jansport Strings”. Look out for A Dream Deferred in stores tomorrow.

MMG cohorts Wale and Stalley teamed up for this theme song to ESPN’s First Take show, which airs every morning at 10AM. Produced by Amadeus. Not that Amadeus.

B.o.B. will follow-up the release of his recent album, Strange Clouds, with a new mixtape entitled Fuck Em We Ball, the rapper announced today via Twitter. “Fuck Em We Ball Mixtape release date coming soon….” Tweeted @bobatl. “The world would be entertainment-less w/o wack a$& niccas,” he added.