Black Thought: The Professional

Black Thought, the front man for the legendary Roots, drops some true science on this newly released track. It doesn't have a hook at all it's just straight lyricism all the way and i'm loving it.

Listen to it/download it here

Blakroc: Ain't Nothing Like You feat. Mos Def & Jim Jones

Here it is Dame Dash's latest musical venture, Blakroc. It teams up The Black Keys with emcees such as Q-Tip, Ludacris, Raekwon, RZA, Pharoahe Monch & the late ODB to name a few. With the release of the video to their first single “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) featuring the talents of Mos Def and Jim Jones it becomes more than obvious that this blend of rock and rap will cause some major ruckus within the industry. Blakroc is expected to release their debut album on November 27th.

BET: Eminem, Black Thought, & Mos Def 2009 Cypher

The highlight of the 2009 BET Awards, at least for me, was without a doubt the 3 minute cypher featuring Black Thought, Mos Def, and Eminem. With DJ Premier on the wheels of steel these three emcees take turns dropping the best freestyle verses I've heard since the Slaughterhouse Greenlantern OnDaSpot cypher.

Rakim: Walk These Streets feat. Maino

New dopeness from the God Rakim himself. No word on if this will be on the new album yet.

Click here to download/listen to Walk These Streets feat. Maino

Slaughterhouse: The One

This isn't that new (came out this summer) but a lot of people still haven't heard of Slaughterhouse despite their star power. Slaughterhouse consists of Royce Da 5'9", Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, and Joe Budden. Now I'm usually a big advocate of illegal downloads, but this group is dope and they deserve to be famous so cop the album. Also if this is the first you've heard of Crooked I you should go download one of his mixtapes this minute.

Lupe Fiasco: Fire

Lupe drops another gem for the masses. The song, Fire, samples Jimi Hendrix's '69 classic of the same name. I'm really digging the uptempo and Lupe's lyrics are insanely good as usual. There's a rumor going around that this song was a response to the total snub Lu got from MTV's Hottest MC's list but that doesn't make much sense to me. I'm hoping this is off his new album.

Click here to download Fire by Lupe Fiasco

Gnarls Barkley: Who's Gonna Save My Soul

Here's a new video from Gnarls Barkley directed by Chris Milk. It's a little artsy for some peoples tastes but quite frankly I like everything Danger Mouse does (Gnarls Barkley, The Grey Album, Demon Dayz, DangerDoom...the guy is physically unable to make bad music) Anyway enjoy the video, Cee-Lo sings his heart out, literally.

Eminem: Beautiful (Video)

The newest music video from Eminem dropped officially today. This one is for the song Beautiful off of his latest album Relapse.

Wale x LRG: Back To The Feature

Wale's newest mixtape dropped yesterday and is available for free download. If you haven't heard about it yet its a LRG collab called Back To The Feature. This was supposed to be released months ago but its been worth the wait.

Click here to download it.

Jay-Z: Death Of Autotune (Prod. Kanye West)

Here's a new song leaked from Jay-Z titled D.O.A. or Death of Autotune. It was produced by Kanye and the beat is so dope. Also, in related news, Jay-Z has removed every song featuring autotune off of his upcoming album The Blueprint 3.

Quotable: "The only rapper to rewrite history without a pen"

Download it here

Lupe Fiasco: Street Stories

Here's a brand new song from Lupe Fiasco via DJ Drama & DJ MoonDawg’s newest mixtape. The song is very reminiscent of his early mixtapes and to be honest his flow seriously sounds like Biggie at more than a couple points. It can be hard to hear because their voices are so different but imagine Biggie spitting the same thing and you'll see what I mean.

Download it here

K'naan: TIA (Video)

I actually found this on Wale's Hypebeast blog and was kinda surprised to see him say "K’Naan is my favorite artist right now." Well as far as favorite artists go K'naan is a pretty good choice.

Rapping Flight Attendant

A lot perks and features have been getting cut from airlines due to the economy, but no matter how much they cut Southwest Airlines will still have this rapping flight attendant.

Nathan "Flutebox" Lee and Beardyman @ Google, London

There's not much to know about this video other than it's sick nasty. The dude is playing the flute and then he starts beatboxing. Shit's crazy!

Asher Roth: Be By Myself feat. Cee-Lo (Video)

After a week or 2 on the top of the charts Asher Roth's new album, Asleep In The Bread Aisle, has fallen out of the top ten. I'm guessing that's the reason he dropped this video, to see if he could boost sales right quick. Well regardless of the motives, this video is for a good song and features plenty of scantily clad women so I'm not complaining.

Exile w/ Yours Truly Pt. 1

Exile is an incredibly skilled producer probably most famous for his work with Blu on Below The Heavens. In this video he talks about making beats through his car radio and makes a beat as well. If you dig this check out more Exile here.

Raekwon: New Wu feat. Ghostface Killah & Method Man

All too often I find myself thinking, "I miss Wu-Tang" but come August 11th I won't have to think that anymore (or at least not until I've listened to every song a million times and start fiendin' again) This is the video for New Wu (formerly titled Wu Ooh) off OB4CL2 it features Ghostface and Method Man with production by the Alchemist. The album drops August 11th.

Eminem: 3 A.M.

Another Relapse leak, Eminem has a really interesting flow on this track which makes sense since he said he chose beats to challenge himself rhythmically. Good beat too, I'm looking forward to the album May 15th.

Download it here

Señor Kaos: Wordplay Remix

New song from Señor Kaos featuring Wale and Curren$y. It's a remix of Wordplay, exactly like the original only with the addition of Señor Kaos. You can find the original song here or download the remix below.

Download the remix here

Skyzoo: Freshfest feat. Wale

Now that I think about it I should have made Skyzoo a choice in the poll for best up-and-coming emcee but what can you do. Skyzoo is drawing a lot of comparisons to Jay-Z these days, I'm not sure if I agree but he is dope. Couple that with Wale and you got a damn good song.



Download it here