Single: Sean Price - New Shit No Name

Straight forward titling and straight forward hardcore shit courtesy of none other than Sean P baby!

P dropped this off on Twitter the other day and it's that good ol' stuttery beat, with him kicking hardcore verses type shit...

House Shoes Presents... The Gift Volume III: EXT AKA Rudy Eckes

Ahhh man, another new producer brnging that heat! I love that House Shoes (who's no slouch himself on the beats) is puttin on new names man, for the third installment of his "The Gift" series he's puttin on Brooklyn-based soul producer EXT AKA Rudy Eckes; who is I could describe his beats in a sentence I'd say, something like Madlib meets Pete Rock with a twist of 9th Wonder in there..

Please peep this beautiful ass noize!!

Volume III of The Gift brings you Ext aka Rudy Eckes.
From raw loop chops to layered synths, Ext has all that a true beathead wants. And he said fuck being a lawyer. Imma make beats.
From Brooklyn NYC to the world, House Shoes presents The Gift -Volume III: Ext aka Rudy Eckes...

Single: Sean Born ft. Maffew Ragazino - Trust in Me (prod. by Dunc)

The DMV-repper known as Sean Born links with one of Brooklyn's best new hopes in Maffew Ragazino for a superbly produced cut (courtesy of fellow DMV'er Dunc of DTMD fame) that is is guaranteed to have the nostalgia pulsating within you...

Curly Castro - Fidel

Time to get hipper to a fresh face that is someone you def. need to check for, i.e. Brooklyn's own, Curly Castro...

His new tape/LP "Fidel" is 13 tracks deep and features production from Has-Lo, Small Pro, Blurry Drones and others as well as guest spots from Georgia Anne muldrow, Zilla Rocca and Ari Lourdes.


Curly Castro - Fidel

Single: Maffew Ragazino ft. Troy Ave. - Box Office Smash

Leaking another track off his upcoming "White Gold" EP, Maffew Ragazino teams up with Troy Ave. for a blockbuster type track..

"Box Office Smash" provides a hustler-braggadocio climate over upbeat hats and a chopped up soul sample from Joe Black and Noyz..

Video: Skyzoo ft. Talib Kweli - Spike Lee Was My Hero

Hey, Spike was my hero too!

Skyzoo continues to prep us for his new album "A Dream Deferred", and lets loose the visual accompaniment for "Spike Lee Was My Hero". As well as scoring a cameo from Spike himself, Sky gets Talib to hop on the track.. Real dope stuff here.

Video/Interview: Maffew Ragazino Talks New Album And Sneakers

One of my fav. new emcees from back east, Maffew Ragazino sits down to politic about his new, upcoming and free album "White Gold" that's due out later this year and about what else? Jordans!

As cool as all that is, best moment of the interview is when Maff talks about his dream of becoming the featured 'Unsigned Hype' in The Source..

Single: Ill Bill - Truth (prod. by Pete Rock)

Everyone's favorite hardcore, white, Jewish emcee, Ill Bill gives us a great look off his upcoming new project "The Grimy Awards" that features none other than Pete Rock lending him a hand on on the production tip..

This is that deal man.. a great look for Bill.. and yes, Pete is still in rare form providing stirring beats..

Single: Joey Bada$$ - Unorthodox (prod. by DJ Premier)

Now we have the CDQ version! Posted the radio rip up yesterday, now we have the official Joey Bada$$ banger that features that timeless ass Premo production...

Single: AZ - Genesis (freestyle)

AZ The Visualiza takes time outta his new year to release a highly proper new freestyle.. over, of all things the Intro to his longtime collaborator's most classic LP...

"Doe Or Die II" is still apparently on it's way... we're waiting patiently..

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..

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: Torae - Product (Instrumental by Kanye West)

"either you get it or you don't/ no diminishin' the venom in my quotes, it's still been a minute since the way a nigga pen it gave em hope/ it's been 4 yrs since you went to vote" 

Another look from Torae's #DailyBread series that comes your way every weeknight at 9:15 pm..

Here Tor plucks a lil' somethin from Kanye's catalog and goes in on it properly..

Single: Torae - Shit On My Mind

Torae + 9th Wonder Instro = You already know playa..

Anytime the bruiser from Coney Island drops somethin it's well worth the listen, but his new, nightly challenge to secure his lyrical fitness really adds to the intrigue no?

For the last few days I’ve been challenging myself to write & record on a daily basis. I want to perform exercise in a sense, no different than doing push ups or crunches on the regular in an attempt to stay lyrically fit.

Catch Tor doing this every week night at 9:15 (I assume eastern time) ....

Single: Bekay - 5 Months Of Bloody Violins (prod. by DJ Morte)

New gun outta Brooklyn, Bekay, drops a stirring and heartfelt set of verses over some serious piano's and violins here...

Sometimes bad luck can push you toward something good.. this is a prime example of such... to get what I mean, read below...

Produced by DJ Morte of Argentina..

For Bekay, it was 15 months of back to back heart break, where he lost both friends and family to murder and illness. Bekay has always used music as an outlet to work through life’s speed bumps, but what happens when those speed bumps become mountains? On “15 Months of Bloody Violins,” Bekay returns to the mic after taking an inevitable hiatus to purge his mind of the trails and tribulations that have kept him at bay from what he loves most – rapping his ass off. Call this song Bekay’s catharsis, or call it plain insanity, either way Bekay hasn’t lost a step and spits with even more ferocity than even his most die hard of fans are used to. 

Single: Talib Kweli ft. Maino - To The Music (prod. by 9th Wonder)

Soothing new stuff from Kweli and a surprising (but it shouldn't be) guest spot from his Boro-mate, Maino...

This soulful excursion is produced by none other than 9th Wonder and stems from Kweli's upcoming new tape with DJ Z-Trip, "Attack The Block"...

As always, 9th gets ya head noddin', Kweli gets it thinkin' and Maino gets it plottin'...

Video Interview: Torae For The Urban Daily

Take a journey with none other than Coney Island's Torae as he gives one of the more detailed accounts of his genesis in the game, including his early records and groups as well as his trials and tribulations...

This is a documentary style look at Tor's beginnings and it's an excellent one at that, including interviews with a bunch of Tor's closest peoples, and some of Hip-Hop's biggest names that stay collab'n with him now..

spotted via TheUrbanDaily..

Video: Truth ft. Sean Price - A New Type Of Something

New visuals from Truth featuring none other than Mic Tyson AKA Sean P!

This is basically the typa shit you can catch most crews of friends doin together and damnit, through these bonds a collective can grow...

If you can build with this, than Truth's new album "The Magnum Opus" , which is set to feature names of boom bap lore like O.C., A.G., Da Beatminerz, DJ JS-1 and many others, will agree with you even more... look out for that in the near future..

Single: Maffew Ragazino ft. Lil' Fame & Teflon - Brownsville Bullies

Brownsville, BK's older generation meets it's future on this new cut from Maffew Ragazino that features the fresh faced wordsmith linking with his beloved boro-section's older guard, Lil' Fame and Teflon..

The result is decidedly more subdued and grooved out than what most old time M.O.P. and Teflon fans will remember the two being on, but nice nonetheless.. I know I wasn't the only one wishing that Danze was on this as well.. but, hey, no complaints here...

Ragazino's "Never Ran, Never Will" drops later this Summer time kids.. for now just seckle..

Single: Das Racist & Talib Kweli - The Actual

File this one under collabs I never saw comin'...

The legendary Talib Kweli is paired on this joint with enigmatic duo Das Racist for a cut called "The Actual" that finds all three artists in good form and crafting a really decent collabo..

In case this piqued your interest, you can DL the mixtape it stems from, "Eastern District Presents: Mosholu", here...