New music out of Miami, featuring local heroes !Mayday! and Rikc Ross, as well as Ras Kass, Ghostwridah, and others. Miami Beat Wave Presents: The Launch

“For the ‘Wake Up Show Anthem,’ it’s just usually people or artists that we respect, who are known spitters that innovated their own styles,” Sway explained of the posse cuts. “Someone like the RZA a.k.a. Bobby Digital, there’s something really distinct about when he came out early in his career as Prince Raheem and then [cont.]

Clement & Co. presents: FIELD STUDIES – Ras Kass & DJ Rhettmatic: ADIDAS from Clement & Co. on Vimeo. DAS AND “WHITE POWER” ‘Field Studies’ is a series of videos from Clement & Co. documenting upcoming and in-progress projects from established artists. In the first installment, underground hip-hop veterans Ras Kass and DJ Rhettmatic discuss [cont.]

New track and video from Ras Kass and Royce with production from C-Sik & Sick Jacken. Check out the video above and download the mp3 below. Ras Kass + Royce Da 5’9″ – “Attitudes 2012″ (MP3)

Official remix to Ras Kass’s “Release Ya Self” from the forthcoming A.D.I.D.A.S project.

With the release date for his debut album Patience only a week away, TRUTHLiVE is proud to release his latest single, “Catalyst For Change,” produced by Jake One, as is the rest of Patience, and featuring two of TRUTHLiVE’s favorites in the hip-hop scene, Ras Kass and Finale. An eerie keyboard lick repeats throughout the [cont.]

Eternia & MoSS’ collaborative effort At Last will be in stores on 6-15-10 on Fat Beats Records Eternia and MoSS will also be releasing an “At Last” vinyl EP on 5-15-10, which will feature Joell Ortiz, Ras Kass, Jean Grae, Rage (formerly Lady Of Rage) and Rah Digga. At Last Vinyl EP on 5-15-10 Eternia [cont.]

Kazziano returns with a mixtape of all things dope he’s done in his past. We think we have to send you a reminder, here it is. Ras Kass “The Endangered Lyricist Vol.2″ (Mixtape)

Catch Razzy recording his verse for Ski Beatz’ 24 Hr. Karate School mixtape (dropping this week, allegedly), and sitting down with The Source Magazine.

Choice quotes from the above clip “Another day, another dollar” and “Oh, yo! Shout out to everybody that pledged….”

New hilarity from Ras Kass, showing how you can do you part to save the endangered emcee.

Ras Kass on Kickstarter and ADIDAS from Ras Kass on Vimeo. Kazzy discusses his next project, A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Spittin’) with DJ Rhettmatic. (Tentative) Appearances by Sean Price, Chino XL, Xzibit, Alchemist, Mr. Porter, Strong Arm Steady, Jean Grae, and…. Pete Rock? Maybe…. Ras also clarifies his involvement with the Kickstarter project….

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.]