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If you’ve been following the weekly remix contest, you may have heard a few remixes from my man Beewirks.  Well, he dropped an EP recently and the production is just off the chain! Check this out ya’ll.  For mature audiences only! Download Beewirks on MySpace  Also from Beewirks… American Racketeer Read More »

My man Malicious was recently on the red carpet at Canada’s Much Music Video Awards and from the pics I saw, looks like he had a blast!  Malish has been working hard on tour promoting his album Music Starts With M.  If you haven’t heard it, make sure you cop that ish! Malish just dropped a new track on me ... Read More »

Although most of the details are sketchy, the one thing that’s certain is that the once highly influential underground hip-hop DJ/Producer and Perceptionist member, Fakts One, one day, simply disappeared. Some blame problems with his record label that folded right before the scheduled release of his debut solo album. Others say the stresses of the unstable music industry led Fakts ... Read More »

Instead of arguing or preaching, Tanya Morgan disproves the “Hip-Hop Is Dead” argument with a simple song that demonstrates the existence of good, living hip-hop in 2008. “Hip-Hop Is Dead 2″ features fun rhymes and a beat that samples the smile itself… yet many think the art form is dead? That’s pretty incongruous, if you ask Tanya Morgan: “They keep ... Read More »

I don’t normally do political posts here on the site, but I am a firm supporter of Barack Obama. My man J. Brookinz hit me up with a track he just finished with his boy Alpha. It’s more or less a hip-hop biography of our hopeful next President. J. Brookinz is probably best known around here for his American Gangster: ... Read More »

Brand new joint off David Banner‘s The Greatest Story Ever Told, due in stores July 15th.  This time he teamed up with Nasty Nas. Check it below. Read More »

DJ SoulClap hit me up over the weekend to let me know that his group, The Soul Occs, are putting the finishing touches on their new album. Apparently they have a few special guest appearance that they can’t announce yet, but they were able to leak us this new track that they did here with Punchline from eMC. The Soul ... Read More »

Indie hip-hop icon C-Rayz Walz teams up with fresh-faced, yeshiva-trained wordsmith Kosha Dillz for twelve tracks that mix freestyle and written rhymes, classic and new-school beats, and the frantic, fast-paced energy of a single, manic 24-hour recording session to produce, yes, “Freestyle Vs. Written,” the first collaboration of its type. CMJ writes, “.. it’s both a statement of cultural solidarity ... Read More »

Great Expectations is finally here! After two years of recording in between five group projects, Element from the critically acclaimed LA hip-hop collective, Custom Made, debuts with his solo mixtape. Known from his role as a founding member of Custom Made, Element is here to showcase the skills and talents he brings to the table. After emerging on the hip-hop ... Read More »

Someone I know on the inside says this is the track that’s gonna blow up in the clubs this summer. Not because of O’Neal McKnight, but because he’s got the two producers who claim they invented the remix on this remix; Puff Daddy and Jermaine Dupri. That’s right I said Puff Daddy. Not Diddy. Not P. Diddy. Puff Daddy. He ... Read More »