Although Rockie Fresh’s signing to Maybach Music Group widely went under the radar to the general public, the Chicago rapper is rising to the surface, building his own lane on Electric Highway.   (more…)

Fresh off of house arrest, Gunplay drops his anticipated mixtape, Cops & Robbers.  The tape features guest appearances from fellow MMG members Rick Ross and Rocky Fresh, as well as A$AP Rocky, Pusha T, Alley Boy, Yo Gotti and Trina. (more…)

Raekwon’s back, serving up a brand new FreeEP as an appetizer to his sixth studio album, F.I.L.A. (Fly International Luxurious Art), due out later this year.   (more…)

Frank Ocean gives us a semi Outkast reunion on the official remix for “Pink Matter.” (more…)

In the early morning hours of Christmas Eve, Jamal “Capital Steez” Dewar sent his followers a cryptically eerie tweet, reading “the end.”   (more…)

Say what you will about A$AP Rocky, but his visuals never disappoint   The Harlem native stripped down from the over-the-top imagery of his previous video, “Goldie,” although this one is still fairly elaborate. (more…)

After heavily sampling their melody on the original version, Game enlisted Bong Thugs to jump on the Jesus Piece single “Celebration.”  I like this version better because it doesn’t have a full verse of singing by Chris Brown, plus this brings me back to the days of E. 1999.  (more…)

The Jet Life crew will touch down in New York City on November 20th to celebrate the release of Jet World Order 2 at the Highline Ballroom in New York City.  (more…)

The Jets come through with plenty of loud and some bad chicks for the music to the first single from Jet World Order 2. (more…)

West Coast songstress Marz Lovejoy serves up a preview of what we can expect from her debut album, Elephant Soundz. (more…)

Saigon returns to his roots in the latest video from his new album, The Greatest Story Never Told 2: Bread And Circuses.  ”Blown Away” is a pretty hot track in my opinion, but how will Bread And Circuses stack up to Sai’s debut?  We’ll have to find out tomorrow when the album hits stores.

Hopsin, Jarren Benton, Dizzy Wright and SwizZz take it back to the essence in this cypher.  The Funk Volume team goes in over the classic LOX posse cut “None Of Y’all Better” produced by the one and only DJ Premier. (more…)

And who said Earl fell off? (more…)

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Freeway and Just Blaze reuniting?  I like the sound of that.  I’m also liking the sound of Free’s latest single “Jungle.”  Diamond In The Ruff hits stores November 27th.