So, Ras Kass is currently working on a new “untitled” project that will have “18 or 20″ tracks, and will also feature “guest appearances” and “top notch features and production”. The project will be limited edition, with 1000 CD’s pressed, and 500 pieces of vinyl and will ship “late Spring”. The cost? $3800. Well, not [cont.]

Prepare yourselves for the looooongest version of this song ever…. Too many rappers get on this ensemble west coast version of Snoop’s “I Wanna Rock”. The line-up includes Tha Dogg Pound, Ras Kass, Nipsy Hustle, 211, Mr. Silky Slim (?), and….Crooked I. Crook murders the track extending way past the 16-bar deadline, simultaneously making everyone [cont.]

Ras Kass will return to the game after a long hiatus with his new “Quarterly” mixtape, dropping sometime within the next month. “Mike Jacks” is the latest in a series of MJ tributes we’ve seen over the last week, where Razzy pulls an Ice Cube, playing “Jackin’ For Beats” over various beats from the King [cont.]

There was a time when Ras Kass was considered something like the West Coast Nas – a street, but cerebral and intellectual MC, naming albums after Eldridge Cleaver books (Soul on Ice) and doing songs about the history of slavery and religion (“Nature of the Threat”).  He also had major skills, making him a compelling [cont.]

Mixtape album, no rating given.      After Rasassination we had to wait 7 years (yes, seven years) to get an album out of the self proclaimed “King of the West Coast.” Now we get 2 albums (or mixtapes if you will) in less than 6 months! Ras Kass came back hard with Institutionalized but apparently [cont.]

By Andreas Hale HHS: So Ras Kass tell us exactly how you are feeling today, Institutionalized dropped, being a free man after 19 months of being incarcerated and back on the scene. Ras Kass: Man I’m feeling blessed really. Motivated. Still hungry. I really feel like I accomplished something on my own terms. I put [cont.]

     If you look up “underappreciated” in the dictionary (or at least on Wikipedia), you’d probably see a big picture of John Austin (also known as Ras Kass) plastered across the page. The Carson emcee has been ballyhooed amongst hip hop peers of being lyrically one of the most incredible emcees in the game. But [cont.]