“211″ is the newest leak from Glasses Malone, who is set to drop his new album “Beach Cruiser” on August 30th, 2011 on Suburan Noize Records/Cash Money. Here is a quote from Glasses about the track: “The song ’211′ was meant for the ‘Beach Cruiser’ album, but there wasn’t enough time to clear the samples” [cont.]

New joint featuring NC emcees MindsOne featuring Lone Cat emcee J.Sands.

New video from Washington DC emcee, Uptown X.O (member of the Diamond District) off his upcoming solo LP Monumental II. The album will be available August 30th and produced entirely by A.B. The Pro. Nino bitches!

New video for “The Book Of Shadowz” featuring Aslan & Killah Priest of the Maccabeez. Produced by Aslan. A trailer surfaced for this around 2 years ago, now the full video for “The Book Of Shadowz” has finally been released.

When Jay-Z released The Dynasty LP in 2000, his team consisted of Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, and Amil. At the time, the LP seemed like it would be an automatic disappointment, as not only did Jay have to share the mic with his crew, but he also didn’t spend any money on production. Who were [cont.]

It happens to the best of them.

From Watch The Throne. Directed by Spike Jonez.

New single taken from Median’s upcoming album, The Sender, hitting 8/16 on +FE Music/Jamla. LISTEN: Median – “Bright Individual” (prod. Khrysis) Median – “Bright Individual” (prod. Khrysis)

From DatPiff: There are two types of people in the music business: ones who sit around, dream and wait for opportunity and ones who dream, wake up and chase that dream. Through his progress in the last year, Meek Mill falls into the latter. Linking with DJ Drama again, the two provide more great music [cont.]

Skyzoo tells us: The beat, a hidden track off of my homey Black Milk’s ’09 debut “Popular Demand”, is one of my favorite beats EVER. I wanted to tag that beat for awhile now, and this was the perfect time to do so. LISTEN: Skyzoo – “Black Hero Music (Superman Freestyle)” Skyzoo – “Black Hero [cont.]

This isn’t what you think. David Banner flips the meaning of the industry’s current buzzword. LISTEN: David Banner – “Swag”

Free appears on the Maya The B show, to speak about his role in the upcoming Roc-A-Fella documentary.

Directed By Nic Delikat.

From Common’s highly anticipated album, The Dreamer The Believer, coming this fall.

LISTEN: Wale – “Ocean Drive” (feat. Magazeen, Tre & Black Cobain)

New video from Los Angeles rapper Trek Life off of his recently released remix project titled “Wouldn’t Change Nothing“. The video was shot on the streets of Downtown Los Angeles & at The Artform Studio by DJ Buddy.

Blu released an independent classic with Exile on Below The Heavens a few years back, and since then has struggled to match the acclaim of that release. Or, perhaps he is indifferent to it, as many of his consecutive releases have been solid, but not quite as game-changing. Jesus is his latest, another self-released LP, [cont.]

From StonesThrow.Com: When Madlib launched the Madlib Medicine Show last year, the original idea was twelve releases, one a month, alternating between original works and mixtapes spanning different music genres. For the most part, he kept his word – it just took a little longer to finally see number 12. For us, presenting the Medicine [cont.]