Statik speaks with Ski Beatz up at Shade45. 24 Hr. Karate School Pt 2 is in stores tomorrow.

This will be the bonus track on 5’9′s Success Is Certain, which drops in the A.M. Bootleg Watch The Throne, buy Success Is Certain. LISTEN: Royce Da 5’9 – “Writer’s Block (DJ Premier Remix)” (feat. Eminem)

Freeway spitting on Uncle Murda “Warning” beat on This Is 50 Radio.

Here is what your resident HHS founder does at night. Filmed at Spark 101 in Taipei and Filter Members Club in Singapore. I played some hip-hop too, heh.

Here is Ye’s entire 6 and a half minute rant at the Big Chill festival on Saturday, in which he compares himself to Hitler. And Michael Jordan. And gets booed. Imagine what he’ll be like when he’s old and crazy.

From The Doggumentary. Produced by Battle Cat, Directed by Dah Dah.

Hilarious. Get ‘em Urkel.

Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers mixtape will hit on August 11th.

Round two of Cole’s free music series. J. Cole tells us: 1. Bring Em’ In- Made this in ATL during the “single hunt” phase. Even though it wasn’t a single and won’t make the album, I love this shit! 2. Roll Call- Just some real shit. Venting 3. Be Freestyle- “Put on for my city [cont.]

Taken from Ski’s 24 Hour Karate School Part 2, in stores August 9th. LISTEN: Ski Beatz – “Illegal” (feat. Freddie Gibbs)

One from Jay’s recently reviewed Follow Me Home LP, directed by APlus.

Chris Brown delivers his “hip-hop mixtape”, featuring the likes of David Banner, 9th Wonder, Swizz Beatz, No I.D., DJ Chuckie, Tyga, Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., and more. 1.First 48 (Prod by Jukebox) 2.Crazy (Prod by David Banner) 3.Freaky I’m Iz feat. Kevin McCall, Diesel & Swizz Beats (Prod by Kevin McCall) 4.Body on Mine feat. [cont.]

New video from New Orleans emcee Lyrikill. Check out his new album More Heart More Sole out now.

New trailer of Ghetto Dreams from hip-hop icons Common and Nas.

Live clip of A Tribe Called Quest featuring Nas.

New video from King Mez and Khrysis off thier King’s Krhysis EP Produced entirely by Khrysis, the King’s Khrysis comes complete with guest appearances by Thee Tom Hardy, Sean Boog, Phonte of Little Brother and DJ Flash.

Video of Russell W reconstructing Jay-Z and Kanye’s latest track “Otis.” Interesting but…you needed to goolge where the sample is from? Really? The song is called “Otis” my man.

DJ PREMIER speaks about a few of the Jobs he’s had during his teenage years with Montreality. Following the interview is some footage of Premo showcasing his skills during a show in Montreal, Canada.

The West Coast has fallen on hard times in recent years, with very few names holding up the scene. Sure, we could count on legends like Ice Cube, Snoop, and Too $hort to hold it down, but let’s face it, the lack of a genre-defining Dr. Dre album over the last decade has left little [cont.]