Just in time for Thanksgiving weekend, Lupe Fiasco gives the world his long anticipated mixtape Friend of the People. Give the master Chi-town lyricist’s latest a stream below, and if you like what you hear download Lupe Fiasco’s Friend of the People and share it with the ones you love. Leftover turkey, stuffing & Lupe? Better […]

It seems like every week another highly hyped collaboration is announced in the world of hip hop, most producing quality well below that of either artist. Unfortunately the sum is usually less than value of the parts. This upcoming collab, pairing Freddi Gibbs fast spitting tales of urban woe with the production genius of Madlib, […]

The great MF DOOM sits down with the Red Bull Academy in Madrid to wax eloquent on sorts of topics, from his early cameos on 3rd Bass’s “Gas Face” and his time in KMD to explaining the origins — and characteristics — of his many aliases. It’s a long talk — about an hour and […]

Turns out to be a very musical Tuesday here at the LIAS bunker, as the first video from Odd Future sub-group The Internet hits the, ummm, internets. Syd The Kyd and Matt Martian together make up The Internet, and after releasing a couple tracks (“Love Song -1″ and “They Say”) have decided on making “Cocaine” the […]

The man behind “Purple Swag” drops a little aural appetizer for his upcoming major label debut. Reportedly signed for $3 mill, ASAP Rocky has been all over the map since, directing Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s latest video (whose XXX mixtape we posted this summer) and hitting on tour with Drake. Straight from Harlem, ASAP (“Always […]

Los Angeles-based creativity house SceneFour and its army of collaborators have joined forces to showcase their art in an exhibition aptly titled Come Together. The exhibit, which is held at the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Beverly Hills, features work from RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, Chuck D of Public Enemy, DJ Qbert (above), Shavo Odadjian […]

The great Modeselektor team up once again with Carhartt on a collection of gear for their latest tour in support of the recently released Monkeytown album (which we previewed here if you want a teaser). Beyond the hoodie, tshirt and varsity jacket above, Modeselektor (aka Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary) mixed up an exclusive Cahartt […]

I think four hundred years from now, when we’re zipping around on jetpacks and making sweet tender love to our personal Marilyn Monroe clones (with bi-polar disorder removed, naturally), we’ll still be listening to new Wu Tang-based mixtapes being freshly released. You just can’t go wrong with the formula: take some rare Wu accapellas (there’s […]