Coffee Music Hub recently brought Ab-Soul to Dallas To Perform in front of a very electric audience. Fly Times Daily were on hand to catch Ab-Soul perform “Terrorist Threats” live, as well as get Ab-Soul Kissing a fan on camera just before performing “Black Lip Bastard”, and rounded out the night with an exclusive interview.

Directed by Franck Trebillac. Produced by Soupfactory.co.uk. From Reconstructed : The Best Of DJ Shadow due September 24th. Definitive DJ Shadow, the boxset is also available to pre order now from DJ Shadow.Com and will be shipped November 12th.

For more than a decade and a half, Vinnie Paz has been a mainstay at the top of the independent hip-hop scene. He is the frontman of both Jedi Mind Tricks and Army of the Pharaohs and one half of the Heavy Metal Kings duo with ILL BILL. In 2010, he stepped out as a [cont.]

Kevlaar 7 & Woodenchainz bring us this dope single from their forthcoming album Sophisticated Movement featuring Styles P & Bronze Nazareth. This collaboration album dropped yesterday and also features guest appearances from Rain the Quiet Storm, The Wisemen, Shake C & more. Woodenchainz has been providing Kevlaar with great productions for a few years now [cont.]

Produced by The Produce Section & Consequence. From Movies On Demand 4, hitting soon.

For the most part, he holds it together, but when asked about Nate Dogg’s death at his recent press conference for his new film, Reincarnated, his voice cracks and his face glistens.

Oklahoma City’s Jabee was an opener for several dates on El-P’s “Into The Wild” tour, and the experience resulted in this collaboration presented today. Brooklyn producer/rapper El-P provided the production behind Jabee’s latest release, “Stephanie,” which also features vocals from North Carolina darling Carlitta Durand. “Stephanie” will appear as the A-side single on a 7-inch [cont.]

Boston underground crew Blak Madeen and Queensbridge rhymesayer Tragedy Khadafi have come together with The DJBooth and Leedz Edutainment to bring listeners their new collaborative EP, Militant Minds. Al-J and Yusuf’s second project released via the DJBooth (The acclaimed Divine Power Culture hit our front page back in March), the project finds the two trading [cont.]

Uptown XO (of Diamond District) is preparing to drop his latest mixtape The Color Grey October 1st. In anticipation Secret Society & MMG have the new video for the standout track “Good Vibes”. The song sounds exactly like the title: AB The Pro builds the beat around a soothing vibe chord change that XO compliments [cont.]

You might remember Jay Love from his album with Louis Logic as The Odd Couple. He returns with this new track that celebrates classic hip-hop. Video by 9Five Creative.

“Comfy In The Truck” is the latest single and documentary from Closed Sessions Vol. 2, released by Chicago indie label Closed Sessions. The song features Blu, who visited Chicago in February of 2011, and hit SoundScape Studio on the cusp of releasing No York!, his major label debut. The song is produced by DJ Babu, [cont.]

Ex-A$AP rapper/producer/designer Dominic Lord got Pusha-T for the remix of his lead single “Pierce” and tweaked the Hudson Mohawke beat by sampling Grimes. This one might break the internet.

The official video for “Jansport Strings,” the lead single off Skyzoo’s upcoming album, A Dream Deferred, out Oct. 2nd on The Faculty/Duck Down Music Inc. Directed by Anthony Sylvester In Skyzoo’s Words: The theme was to show the parallels between me as a 9-year old aspiring emcee and me now as an accomplished emcee and [cont.]

Freddie Gibbs dropped a gem from his forthcoming Baby Face Killa mixtape. “The Hard” is classic Midwest riding music, roll up and bump accordingly. Produced by Feb.9.

Dezert Eez (consisting of members O’Nill, 5-Star & Nivek) took shape at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI) and all three members have known each other for close to a decade now. The name Dezert Eez (Desert Eagle) is symbolic of a weapon created in Israel and then later brought to the states to be manufactured; [cont.]

Los Angeles hip-hop heroes, Styles of Beyond, return to bring you their long awaited third album entitled Reseda Beach which will be released on 10-23-2012 via Dirty Version Records. To set things off properly, it seems there was this song laying around featuring guest vocals from Grammy award winner Michael Bublé that was originally recorded [cont.]

Blu & Exile’s official follow up to their critically acclaimed 2007 album, Below the Heavens, is out now. Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them was officially released September 4th, via Fat Beats / Dirty Science. The album is fully mixed and mastered and features exclusive tracks not on the previous leak, [cont.]

Emcee Illogic and producer Blockhead reunite for the second EP in the Preparing For Capture series – which is merely a precursor to the duo’s forthcoming full-length album, Capture The Sun. You can name your price for the project via Bandcamp, below. Preparing for Capture 2 by Illogic & Blockhead

Hey bitch, try this. Xzibit collaborates with E-40 for this cut from Napalm, which drops next month.