Single: Big Noyd - Light Up The Night (prod. by Havoc)

Rapper Noyd! It does my heart well to see that the QB vet is still out there ripping up Havoc joints..

Beat goes hard and Noyd delivers that hardcore imagery that we all have come to love him for..

Single: The Away Team - The Blah Blah 2

It's time for part 2 ppl!

Sean Boog and Khrysis collectively known as The Away Team connect again for the sequel to one of their illest tracks ever IMO.. At least I think this is the sequel to that... In any case yo, you can get ya stream on below and then promptly purchase afterwards...

Single: Roc Marciano - Belly Belts

Roc Marcy always come off harder than ya shit after eatin a block of cheese... this joint is no different..

Something of note here tho, i guess Roc actually produced this one himself.. nicely done, nicely done..

Single: Alexander Spit - December 31, 2012

New West Coast artist Alexander Spit comes with brand new heat here as he gives us yesterday, in a sense, on his new track "December 31, 2012"...

It's short, sweet and to the hardcore point... enjoy..

Video: Sean Born - Grandeur (prod. by Kev Brown)

I'm always down for some Low Budget Crew horadcore'ness...

Here Sean Born gives us the video take on his joint "Grandeur", produced by Kev Brown...

Taken from Sean's debut album "Behind The Scale", which has BEEN out kid..

9th Wonder - Black American Gangster

Okay, it's 2013 ppl, and you know what that means.. Time to get things started proper...

I could think of few better ways to do just that then hooking ya'll up with a brand new 9th Wonder remix tape, "Black American Gangster", that features him going to work, re-working Jigga Man's "American Gangster" album from 2007..


9th Wonder - Black American Gangster 

Sha Stimuli & Dynamite Bruhz - The Present

Aye, we still messin' with Sha Stimuli AKA one of the best new emcees comin outta Brooklyn that you need to be followin a lot closer..

"The Present" is his latest effort and the 12th entry in his #TheRentTapeSeries that you can google or tweet and do the knowledge on..

More great work from him here as he workd with the Dynamite Bruhz and lines up a bevy of great features including Skyzoo, Big Pooh, Reks, Senor Kaos, Planet Asia, Playboy Tre, Wordsworth, J-Live and many others..

Jean Grae - Ho X 3. A Christmas Thingy.

In continuing to catch up with all the X-Mas EP and tape releases (I know, I'm late) here is what Jean Greasy herself had to add to the proverbial pot..

If you love Jean's wonky, yet uber-skilled approach than pile into this 5-track freEP, "Ho X 3. A Christmas Thingy", that she so kindly dropped on Christmas day.. You can stream for free and DL for $5 bones..

Video/Trailer: Slum Village - Dirty Slums 2

Ahhhh man, can't wait for this! The first one was that deal, you know how Slum Villa and Mick Boogie do...

January 29th is comin right up man... get ready!

Torae - Black Christmas EP

Even tho X-Mas is now two days in the books, Tor has a lil' somethin brand new fa us..

The Coney Island emcee that we all love to root for is dropped his new EP "Black Christmas" on X-Mas day, but ya know, things get crowded and backed up and so on and so forth and yeah, we're gettin around to it now... and you'd be foollish to pass it up..

The 5 track EP features production from Haz Solo, E.Jones, Khrysis and the Kush Broverz... enjoy..

Single: Raekwon - Neither One Of Us (freestyle)

Rae over a Gladys Knight loop? I'm there..

Here, The Chef gives us "Neither One Of Us", a laid back ode to all things dope that Rae likes to rhyme about and a single that marks his new and free EP that drops tomorrow, "Lost Jewelry"....

Video: Journalist 103 - The Foundation

Journalist 103 with that real spit for ya.. fresh off his new album "Reporting Live", which is available now..

Green Lantern - Altitude Mix

So this is a bit unorthodox for Green, but yet, here it is; a 40 minute mix of what he describes as "beats, sounds, remixes, songs I made and like" ... So there it is.. Merry X-Mas kiddies..

22 cuts in all, among them are joints from Kendrick Lamar, Bro Safari, 2 Chainz, Carnage, Sidney Sampson, RL Grime and Dillon Francis among others..

Single: Skillz - Rap-Up 2012

Yup, it's that time of the year, so you know, Skillz' "2012 Rap-Up" is what's goin down..

As always, it's clever, it's witty, it's honest and maybe even slightly mean, but always creative and Skillz lives up to his name..

Reef The Lost Cauze - Reef The Lost Cauze Is Dead

New Reef The Lost Cauze baby... you know what time it is..

The Philly tuff doles out a brand new collection of songs, 16 to be exact, all of which (except for one) are produced by Caliph-NOW, a producer that is def. gifted in his pursuits..

Peep this out and long live Reef!

Singles: MF Doom - Doomsayer (Young Guru Remix)

Who's ready for their holiday dose of Doooooooom???

You get just that here, with Young Guru's remix of "Doomsayer", that as a cat who's heard his fair share of Doom remixes, is really that deal man.. nicely done.. hopefully Young Guru puts out more of his production and remix work...

Shafiq Husayn Presents The Pre-Alignment Volume 1

The beatmaking, DJing and auditory talent that is Mr. Shafiq Husayn returns to us with a bit of a soft prep for his latest LP, with a free download.. peep game on what the Sa-Ra member is cookin up now, below:

In preparation for his upcoming album, The L∞P the follow-up to his movement-defining Shafiq En’ A Free Ka LP Shafiq has put together a series of previews, dubbed Pre-Alignment, to lead up to this highly anticipated release. 

And it all starts now, with Vol. 1: Beatstrumentals & Dialog a 26 minute mix of just that, specifically released today, 12/21/12 the long-prophesied end of an era and beginning of a new, hence…. the staring point of The L∞P.

Freeway - Bad Santa [EP]

Philly Freezer is back and hittin us with a creative new EP, titled "Bad Santa" and as per usual, you can expect Freezer to go off as only he can..

DJ Self is on board with the hosting duties for the 9-track offering, which also boasts "Roc Reloaded", a track that's been making the Internet rounds and sends all of us old Roc-A-Fella fans back to another time!

Single: Kaimbr - Quiche (prod. by Kaimbr)

New one from Low Budget crew member Kaimbr, who supplies ya'll with some X-Mas joy in the form of his new teaser "Quiche", off his upcoming mixtape "Release The Kraken", set to drop real soon...

Some real hard hittin', DMV goodness here..

Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era: PEEP: The Aprocalypse

So yeah, I been down awhile (yet again) but while so, I still have had the opportunity to peep a few things, and in all honesty, this one right here stands alone at the top in terms of dopeness...

Joey Badass links with his skilled crew, jumps in Micheal J. Fox's time machine and guns it to 1994 for "Peep The Apocolypse"; a 17-track compilation of some of their newer work that must be peeped.. MUST..

Excellent production and rhymes all over this..


Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era: PEEP: The Aprocalypse