Billy Danze of legendary Brownsville hip-hop duo M.O.P. recently sat down with VladTV to discuss the current state of the group and hip-hop in general. During the interview, Danze revealed some new details on the upcoming M.O.P. EP, including the involvement of iconic producer DJ Premier. “The new project is titled Street Certified,” Danze said. “Just to kind of bring it back to where we feel like Hip Hop is supposed to be. Got production on there by Fame, Premier is executive producing it. We’re going to put it out as an EP on Halloween day, just to get people warmed up for the next to come, which will be the actual album.”

Danzini also offered his thoughts on the current hip-hop scene. “Herc and Bam and all of those cats from the Bronx that created this thing, I don’t think they meant for it to be stuck right there in the Bronx and not branch out,” he explains. “I think we need everything that’s going on, so we can have this wide variety of Hip Hop. There’s cats like yourself and myself and other cats that actually come from poverty-stricken areas of these urban communities and we didn’t have the chance to do anything. So now, the same kind of cats that we were or that we hung out with are now multi-millionaires. I love this Hip Hop. I love the way it’s going and I think it should keep growing.”

Whoo Kid delivers two interviews with M.O.P. and Raekwon. Danze and Fame speak on their G-Unit deal, Macklemore, working with Mobb Deep for the first time and more. Raekwon speaks on his new album, his lost Jay-Z collaboration, and Macklemore.

“Land of the Crooks” is an anthemic Brooklyn banger featuring Kings County heavyweight emcees’ Sean Price and Billy Danze (of M.O.P.) along with the borough’s buzzworthy spit kicker, Maffew Ragazino. Scratches come courtesy of the turntablist himself, DJ Babu of Dilated Peoples/The Beat Junkies, who cuts up Jeru the Damaja’s quotable “Live in the land of crooks, yes Brooklyn’s the borough,” as originally featured on “D. Original.” Production on “Land of the Crooks” is handled by Australia’s Aria Award winning M-Phazes who incidentally won Sha Money’s 2008 One Stop Shop Producer’s Conference with an overtime victory against Canei Finch, with this very instrumental. “Land of the Crooks” is set to be featured on Coalmine Records forthcoming label compilation, Unearthed, which is set for a January 2014 release date.

LISTEN: Legato Shine – “Hold Dat” (feat. Billy Danze of M.O.P.)

Legato Shine – “Hold Dat” (feat. Billy Danze of M.O.P.) (via MP3Waxx)

Heh….. Easy stars. From Terminal 3 Presents The Academy , on Itunes now.

LISTEN: The Academy – “Rich Righteous Teachers” (feat. Jadakiss, Billy Danze, LA the Darkman, Sav Killz)
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LISTEN: Sonnie Carson – “Hood” (feat. Billy Danze of M.O.P.)

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Rock and company salute Brow-Brow-Brow-Brownsville in the latest Rock Monsta Mondays release.

LISTEN: Rock (of Heltah Skeltah) – “Straight Outta Brownsville” (feat. Billy Danze + Smoothe Da Hustla)

Rock (of Heltah Skeltah) – “Straight Outta Brownsville” (feat. Billy Danze + Smoothe Da Hustla)

Doc Ish’s debut, The First Treatment, is now available digitally at iTunes and a  physical retail version of the LP will be released with new and added bonus tracks at a later date.

LISTEN: Doc Ish – “She Did It Again” (feat. Crooked I & Billy Danze of M.O.P.)

Doc Ish – “She Did It Again” (feat. Crooked I & Billy Danze of M.O.P.) (MP3)

Another track fresh off The Manifesto by Inspectah Deck. Full album was released this morning and can be purchased on iTunes or at any retailer.

LISTEN: Inspectah Deck + Kurupt + Billy Danze – “Gotta Bang”