Detroit’s Boldy James – whom you might remember from Alchemist’s new Russian Roulette LP, teams with producer Chuck Inglish for this new track off his forthcoming Grand Quarters EP, dropping this October.

Pre-order a copy of the super limited edition 7″. 400 numbered copies, hand screen printed. Andy Warhol would be proud. For now only available here or at the upcoming Blu & Exile europe tour. Copies will be shipped early october. Blu – Lemonade by Blu

Horseshoe Gang release a 2 in 1 video for their track’s “Homeless” & “Real Talk” ft. Kobe. You can find both these track’s on the Gang’s new EP #TrueStory. Directed by Blind Republic.

Title track from the new Blaq Poet album dropping on 9/25/2012 featuring Ruste Juxx, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Reef the Lost Cauze, Sha Stimuli, Punchline, Nutso, Ty Nitty and more.

The first episode in the “Animated Archive” series features Chappelle Show Co-Creator Neal Brennan’s tale of an evening he, Dave Chappelle and Questlove of The Roots spent at an after party of sorts in Prince’s hotel room. It got weird.

Directed by Ricky Ricardo. If you are in your 20′s, go download Constipated Monkey right now.

New music from The Man With The Iron Fists soundtrack, produced by Frank Dukes and S-1. Tracklist for the album is as follows: 1. The Black Keys / RZA : The Baddest Man Alive [produced by The Black Keys and The RZA] 2. Ghostface Killah / M.O.P. / Pharoahe Monch : Black Out [produced by [cont.]

Mello Music Group is ecstatic to announce Dice Game, a 16 track collaborative album between Detroit’s Guilty Simpson & Apollo Brown. The former’s work with Madlib and Dilla already establish him as one of the current greats on the mic and the latter’s heralded music with OC and his own group, The Left, hint towards [cont.]

Hard Knock TV’s in-depth interview with Immortal Technique at Rock The Bells . Part 2 starts with Technique talking to Nick Huff Barili about the up coming presidential elections and how he cant see why Latinos would vote for Mitt Romney. Other topics in this interview include Israel, Christopher Columbus, Immigration, Barack Obama, former president [cont.]

New EP from Oddisee for I Love Ugly.

Jimmy Kimmel plays a clip of Snoop at his Reincarnated release press conference, suggesting that we need Barack Obama as our next president. “They need to give Obama four more years, man,” said Snoop. “Bush fucked up for 8 years. So you got to give [Obama] at least 8 years. I mean, he cleaned up [cont.]

On Saturday, September 8th, Slaughterhouse had a special at the newest venue in Brooklyn, The Well, alongside Pharoah Monch and Freeway. They were supposed to have this show in August, but it was postponed due to rain. This time around however, they didn’t let anything stop them. Here, Crooked I spits a 7 minute acapella [cont.]

Second video from the album, No Better Time Than The Present. Produced by Bink.

Video directed by Dave Wilson, from the album, Mourning In America & Dreaming In Color, due Sept. 18th. In the second clip, catch Brother Ali and the band behind the scenes. ON TOUR THIS FALL: *With Homeboy Sandman, DJ Sosa 09.12 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brewing 09.13 – Santa Ana, CA @ [cont.]

In the above clip, the artist formerly known as Mos Def freestyles for GQ. While at the shoot, Bey explained his name-change from to Yasiin Bey from Mos Def, fearing that he was becoming too much of a “product”. “I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, [cont.]

Big Sean meets up with Bootleg Kev once again, and they speak on his new mixtape, Detroit, his sophomore LP, and much more.

Shot & Edited By CJ Wallis. “LeavingTheDock” is the first video from the EP Cigarette Boats. The video features the studio footage from the one-take recording of the verse & hook mixed with performance footage of the #jet lifestyle. Curren$y’s first studio album, The Stoned Immaculate, is in stores and available on iTunes now.

In this series #SpittinInDaWip, Masta Ace talks about his new album MA DOOM: Son of Yvonne, and spits some bars, live from the backseat. Ace killed on all fronts.

From the upcoming album, The Black Card.

Covering a mix of soul, funk, and hip-hop, independent label Delicious Vinyl is responsible for the careers of The Pharcyde, Tone Loc, and Brand New Heavies just to name a few. Formed in 1987, the record label is still around today shaping up and comers Casey Veggies and Dom Kennedy. This year marks the label’s [cont.]