“I’m back. I forgot my drum!” exclaims a crotchety old man at the beginning of DJ Shadow’s The Less You Know, The Better. While many cried that Shadow fell off with the release of his last critically-panned LP, The Outsider, the sample suggests that the old DJ Shadow we all know and love has returned, [cont.]

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Off of Aquil & Yahzilla’s upcoming EP the bright Lady sessions. Directed by Yahya Ismail

Here 30 seconds of each track from JMT’s upcoming Violence Begets Violence LP. 1. Intro (prod. Scott Stallone) 2. Burning the Mirror (prod.C-Lance) 3. When Crows Descend Upon You f. Demoz (prod.Hypnotist Beats) 4. Fuck Ya Life featuring Blacastan (prod.Junior Makhno) 5. Imperial Tyranny f. King Magnetic (prod.C-Lance) 6. Design in Malice f. Young Zee [cont.]

A few Great Lakes didn’t stop Low Budget Collective affiliate Hassaan Mackey and Mello Music Group’s Apollo Brown from connecting to bake Daily Bread. The New York MC and Michigan bred producer offered fifteen strong, emotion evoking tracks this summer; give or take a few interludes. Their integration is seamless – Brown provides a musical [cont.]

After Has-Lo’s brilliant debut, In Case I Don’t Make It, the producer/emcee has stayed busy working on his upcoming project, a re-envisioning of ICIDMI, entitled Conversation B. To hold fans over until the November 15th release of Conversation B, Has-Lo decided to team up with Illegal Promo to put out some music from his vaults. [cont.]

More “evidence” that Cats & Dogs is dropping September 27th. That was a little joke in there for you.

Styles P’s latest hits October 4th, tracklist below. 1. How We Fly Ft. Avery Storm 2. We Don’t Play Ft. Lloyd Banks 3. I’m A Gee Ft. Rell 4. Ryde On Da Regular 5. Keep The Faith Ft. Aja 6. Children Ft. Pharoahe Monch 7. Street Shit Ft. Sheek Louch 8. Feelings Gone 9. Harsh [cont.]

Lo Phi Records and TheDownRockRecords.com proudly present the new Instrumental Project “Pizza And A Movie” from MindsOne Emcee/Producer KON Sci. The project will be availble for free download on September 27 through TheDownRockRecords.com LoPhiRecords.Bandcamp and MindsOne.Bandcamp.

From Stones Throw: Eight-piece soul-funk ensemble Will Sessions began making a name for themselves by playing gigs with fellow Detroit natives Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, and Phat Kat, backing them with live interpretations of Madlib, Dilla and Black Milk beats. Now the group has dropped a free live album, Real Sessions, a compilation of live [cont.]

Flud Watches presents the seventh “Beats Per Minute” Video featuring MPC Master araabMUZIK in celebration of their “BPM” Watch as part of their new Summer collection. The “Beats Per Minute” Video Series showcases some of hip hop’s most influential producers highlighting their craft, while discussing changes in the game, crate diggin’, equipment and their advise [cont.]

On November 15th, Eligh of the Living Legends and Amp Live of Zion I team up to present a collaborative album titled “Therapy at 3.” With Amp Live handling all production duties, Eligh was able to focus solely on his lyrical content, which he often viewed as ‘therapy sessions’ discussing his various personal struggles with [cont.]

Let’s Get It On produced by Tranzformer and is the second leak from Tenacity’s “I’m Different” project. I’m Different is a compilation of Tenacity material mixed by DJ Rhettmatic, and Hosted by House Shoes. It features producers from around the world and guest appearances from Guilty Simpson, & The Abolitionists.

Young De aka Demrick links up with mega producer Jim Jonsin & Danny Morris to bring you his new Matt Alonzo directed video “She’s A Freak.” Young De has been working heavily with Jim Jonsin and his Rebel Rock production team since meeting in LA over a year ago while working on Cypress Hill’s lastest [cont.]

Evidence’s Cats & Dogs hits September 27th. You want to front, what?

“Ride To Dat” is the follow up to Libretto’s classic single “Volume” ft. Lifesavas and it finds him at the top of his game trading verses with Detroit’s Guilty Simpson. Jumbo’s remix of “Ride To Dat” transforms this certified summer jam into a hard hitting, breakbeat backed track that is the perfect compliment for these [cont.]

Latest video from J. Cole’s Cole World: The Sideline Story, hitting this coming Tuesday.

New from Xone Hardfonk Figurines comes the M.F. Grimm collectible action figure, as seen above. Looks like they made one of Big Pun, as well.

A newly discovered Nas “lost tape”, which may or may not be on The Lost Tapes 2, which may or may not come out, ever. LISTEN: Nas – “Your Mouth Go You Into It”

Bleek links up with Vegas’ own Bootleg Kev.