Nearly 20 years after his classic debut album Fear Itself, Hieroglyphics emcee Casual is a certified Bay Area hip-hop legend. Now, he’s joining forces with veteran beatsmith J Rawls (producer for Black Star, J-Live, Stalley, Count Bass D, John Robinson, and more) for a brand new album, Respect Game Or Expect Flames. The project will [cont.]

Showbiz & AG continue their onslaught of new music for their fans worldwide. Recently the duo released their free album “Preloaded” which is a pre-cursor to their upcoming retail album “Mug Shot Music.” On July 17th, DITC Records will be releasing the “Preloaded Remixes” album which features 7 brand new tracks and remixes from the [cont.]

Directed by Joseph Gherardi.

Always known for tackling controversial topic matter, the group’s sophomore project, Masters Of The Dark Arts, (release date 7-31-2012) finds them once again in torch-bearing mode, addressing subjects that most artists shy away from as ILL BILL illustrates “as conceptually and musically dark as this album appears to be, there’s also a flip side layer [cont.]

Audio’s a little rough, but Rakim interviews are few and far in between. The Elite Money Empire (@EMETakeover) Presents to you: Rakim’s (@EricBandRakim) Reebok (@Reebok) Classics (@ReebokClassics) Interview in NYC hosted by Complex Magazine (@ComplexMag). We sat down with the great and asked him “Who he is a fan of and who he’d like to [cont.]

Class is now in session with Film School With R.A. The Rugged Man, a must-see new web series from MTV’s Film.com hosted by rapper/film historian R.A. The Rugged Man. “I’ve wrote and produced full length features, was a film columnist for Mass Appeal Magazine for 5 years, and wrote movie articles for Vibe, The Source, [cont.]

It’s been only a few short months since billy woods released his dense, mission-statement of an album, History Will Absolve Me, and already the Washington, DC-born, NYC-based lyricist is back in the studio working on new music. This time around, however, he’s working with long-time Aesop Rock-producer Blockhead, and the two are currently deep into [cont.]

For those of you who’ve been out of the loop, Tonedeff has announced several new projects, including an all-sung album under the name Peter Anthony Red. With that, he brings you the release of The Projectionist – a sweeping conceptual FREE DOWNLOADABLE EP which follows a short, yet powerful narrative of a forgotten man working [cont.]

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Directed by Dre Films from The Self Made Vol 2 album. In the second clip, Rick Ross speaks to L.A. Leakers about the possibility of signing Nipsey Hussle and Dom Kennedy.

Produced by Beat Billionaire, originally from his It’s My Time mixtape, but without Wale’s verse.

In the above clip, the Mobb Deep frontman speaks to Vibe about a collaborative album with rapper Jim Jones. Below, comes another single from next month’s H.N.I.C. 3.

New music from one of three new Big Sean projects, with Drumma Boy. After that, Bootleg Kev speaks with Big Sean: The homie Big Sean called in last week to welcome me on the air here in Phoenix at Power 98.3. He speaks on his 2nd album and also confirms the line-up for the song [cont.]

Not only did Childish Gambino exclusively drop the name of his mixtape, Royalty, the release date of his project, July 4, and drop the premiere of One Up on #SwayInTheMorning — but he also debuted this unheard verse over Biggie’s 10 Crack Commandments! According to Sway: He flows off the top of the head. He’s [cont.]

Nicki Minaj sits in with Tim Westwood once again, touching upon a number of topics.

Big Boi unleashes his second single from Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors. K.R.I.T. speaks on the track in the above clip.

Directed And Scored By Wolf Haley. Filmed By Luis Ponch. Produced By Tara Razavi. OF Tape Vol 2 out now.