New music from Tito Lopez’s still untitled Capitol debut LP.

Here goes a new Talib Kweli single, produced by S1. This will either appear on his next LP Prisoner of Conscious or the prelude mixtape with Z-Trip.

From Fiend’s new Iron Chef mixtape, produced by Cookin’ Soul.

Nas tells us why his 1994 classic Illmatic is nine tracks of “hip hop excellence” on Review the Old, Plug the New. He refers to Life Is Good as “excellence”, however says he realizes how much better he could have made it. Review coming tonight….

Statik Selektah tells us… “some late night/early morning shit we just did to remind the world 2012 is on itunes right now…”

14KT teamed up with Oddisee and Olivier Daysoul for the song “High Horse” which is one of four vocal tracks from 14KT’s upcoming EP that features vocals from his slept on instrumental release “A Friendly Game of KT.” Look out for 14KT’s upcoming EP featuring vocal versions of the instrumentals from “A Friendly Game of [cont.]

From Rampage’s upcoming 7/31/12 EP R.E.A.L. (Road to Everyone Ain’t Loyal).

Legendary femcee, Boogie Down Productions crew members, and ex-wife to KRS-One, Ms. Melodie, has died. No cause of death has been revealed. Ms. Melodie, aka Ramona Parker, was best known for her verse on “Self Destruction”, as well as her 1989 Jive LP, Diva. R.I.P. Ms. Melodie and condolences to her friends and family.

First single from Mellowhype’s forthcoming, Numbers, due October.

A silent video montage of “A Day In The Life Of REKS” soundtracked by the instrumental for his single “Shotgun” ft. Jon Connor & Venessa Renee. REBELutionary (Produced entirely by Numonics) comes out July 24th via Gracie Productions.

This past February, Copywrite released God Save The King, which wound up being not only some of his most personal work to date but also some of his most critically acclaimed. Now, on August 7th, Copy will team back up with his label Man Bites Dog Records for the worldwide release of God Save The [cont.]

Odd Future released the following image on their website last night, showing off a handful of new release dates for upcoming crew albums, and various tour dates. Domo Genesis will release No Idols on 8/1, Trash Talk with 119 on 10/9, Mellowhype’s Numbers on 10/2, and Tyler The Creator’s newxt solo offering Wolf, slated for November. [cont.]

The Alchemist and Oh No stopped by Soul Assassins Studios to promote all of their new projects including the recently released Gangrene project, OhNo’s Ohnomite record, and Alchemist’s brand new album Russian Roulette.

In a recent interview with Billboard, Pusha T spoke on his upcoming G.O.O.D. Music solo debut, comparing it to the Al Pacino film, The Devil’s Advocate. “It’s cinematic in the sense that I wanted to make a dark album,” says Pusha. “I see music in colors and try to put it in a physical perspective [cont.]

New RZA of unknown origin. #WuWednesdays back in effect.

Second single from Ruby Hornet’s Closed Sessions Vol. 2, produced by Thelonious Martin.

All new remix slated to appear on Mr. Kartel’s Kingston Story: Deluxe Edition, featuring Bronson The Chef.

Director Jason Goldwatch’s NSFW video for the Alchemist’s track with Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q from Russian Roulette, out now.

First single from Beanie Sigel’s This Time, dropping next month.

Curren$y spoke on a number of mixtapes and albums he has in the works with the likes of Harry Fraud, Alchemist, Chuck Inglish and Wiz Khalifa. In addition to speaking on Pilot Talk 3 and Blackroc 2, Spitta directly asks Big K.R.I.T. to give him a call so the two can do an entire project [cont.]