Kool Keith is excited to announce that his forthcoming album, Love & Danger, will be released June 5th via Junkadelic Music, with worldwide distribution via Fat Beats. To celebrate the announcement, the Bronx native and founding member of Ultramagnetic MCs, is releasing a remix of the album’s lead single “New York,” now featuring Agallah Don [cont.]

Two new tracks from Blockhead’s Interludes After Midnight, which drops on May 5th via Ninja Tune. Also look out for The Robin Byrd Mixtape which hits just before the album, mixed by DJ Pizzo. Oh hey, that’s me.

Out Da Box TV is extremely proud to bring you a special new interview with the unique and talented NY Emcee “Roc Marciano”. After pursuing an interview with Roc for almost 2 years, we finally got the chance to speak with him, during his recent visit back to his hometown of NY. We captured quite [cont.]

Directed by Dre Films. From The Savage Journey To The American Dream, up above.

Rap supergroup Slaughterhouse discuss Joe Budden’s arrest just before their March 29 concert at New York’s Best Buy Theater.

First official leak from Stat and Term’s second 1982 LP, 2012, hitting in May.

Nardwuar interviews Young Jeezy in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Wale spits over D’Banj’s club record “Oliver Twist” for DJ Semtex. In the above pic, he poses with A-Trak at Marquee in Las Vegas, in a performance from last month. In other news, it’s A-Trak’s birthday today. You can wish him a happy birthday/harass him via Twitter @atrak.

In part two of Westwood’s interview with Drake, he tells all about fine looking women, his middle finger in the air to Ericka Lee for Marvin’s Room, using the N word, Westwood reveals his EXCLUSIVE YOLO sneakers & more!

Noisey writes: We caught Detroit rapper Danny Brown on the first wave of his rise to success to catch a sick freestyle and talk about eating hotdogs with broken teeth, car accidents, and slurping clitoris.

State Property’s Beanie Sigel inks a distribution deal with EMI and Chris Schwartz. In other news, Beanie announced on Shade 45 that he and Scarface will reunite for a collaborative album called Mack & Brad.

XXL speaks to Kendrick Lamar about Top Dawg’s joint venture deal with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment. In other news, Kendrick’s first single, featuring Dr. Dre, will hit on April 2nd. Power 106′s Big Boi speaks on it in the second clip.

The young rapper has a pretty positive attitude, despite only selling 23k copies of Unexpected Arrival in it’s first week.

First single off of Cage’s upcoming EP Illuminated: Kill The Architect. Produced by Mighty Mi. For classic Cage fans… The Cutting Room Floor EP/ is soon to follow. I will say this… I like the Gapsar Noe reference and after hearing Cage’s ode to A Serbian film I am suspicious that he may have access [cont.]

“Mine All Mine” from the Subject Matter EP…can’t wait for the Homeboy’s next full LP!

“I’m here to tell the world man, I ain’t fuckin’ with PA Medallions.” So says Planet Asia on “Tell The World”, a soulful head-nodder three tracks into his latest LP, Black Belt Theatre, a return to form for the indie hip-hop movement pioneer. King Medallions was an alias for Planet Asia, midway through his career, [cont.]

Immortal Technique speaks on the tragic death of teenager Trayvon Martin with the folks at AHH.

Latest leak from Blacastan’s forthcoming LP “The Master Builder Part II” 2 X CD (disc 1-full length album; disc 2-mixtape version of full album plus bonus cuts) which is now available, hosted & mixed by Doo Wop & Mr. Peter Parker. Blacastan’s “The Master Builder Part II” features appearances from Slaine, Celph Titled, Moe Pope, [cont.]

In promotion for M-Phaze’s remix producer compilation Phazed Out, the ARIA Award winning beatsmith bands together with New York’s Brown Bag AllStars for the MonStar Films directed visuals for the album cut “What It’s All About.” Phazed Out is now available both digitally and on CD through Coalmine Records.