Everyone’s favorite insane rapper/NYU lecturer/Kevin Durant scourge/non-sequitur philosopher Lil B dropped a new mixtape titled Hoop Life this weekend. Perhaps you heard of the Twitter War he’s been waging with Kevin Durant? Well who’s to say the Bay Area rapper hasn’t applied his voodoo to the Oklahoma City Thunder, who went down in the last […]
After releasing the single “Lost You” (featuring Twin Shadow on vocals) last week, Zeds Dead just dropped a preview mini-mix of their upcoming Somewhere Else EP set to release July 1st. With a collection of sounds spanning everything from house to hip-hop to glitch to dubstep, and a whole crew of collaborations (namely Bright Lights, Perry Ferrel, […]
Wednesday marked what would have been the b-day of the singular Biggie Smalls, aka Notorious B.I.G.. In honor of such, past collaborator and old friend Mister Cee showed an hour of love on HOT 97 FM, NYC’s goto hip-hop station. Classic cuts, lesser knowns, radio hits, remixes and all sorts of shit curated on behalf of […]
For about 10 years between the late 90s and throughout the naughts, Winter Music Conference in Miami was pretty much the greatest place on god’s green Earth. Directly following SXSW, WMC was the electronic/dance/EDM equivalent, except with turquoise water, bikinis, late night Cuban food and gorgeous art deco hotels. Just the thought of it makes […]
Nashville producer Amerigo Gazaway has launched a new mashup series called Soul Mates, aimed at combining legendary artists of yore with the best talent from today. The first installment conflates Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) with legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye. Titled Yasiin Gaye, the idea of the series is for the finished […]
Krafty Kuts teams up with Dynamite MC and Erb N Dub for a new live act called Wicked City. The bass ‘n’ breaks supergroup will be touring extensively this season, and offer up this 40-minute mixtape — aptly titled Wicked City DJ MIX — to give kids a chance to hear their funk and bass sound, all […]
Diplo selects the best and bangin’est tracks from 2013 for a year-end sonic review. Fittingly, he starts the obese two-hour mix with Baauer’s game changing “Harlem Shake”, arguably the biggest most overplayed track of the year. Then it’s onto RL Grime and A$AP Skrillex, and you can pretty much tell where this is going. At nearly 60 […]
Need a little background music to get your Monday spliff rolling right? Then you might wanna hit play on Stussy Toronto and Bevstmode’s collaborative mixtape below. Titled 431 Richmond after the Toronto landmark, the mix is nearly 2 hours of blunted trap and slow flowing weed-brained leftfield beats. Not to be confused with the always excellent DJ Kicks series, 431 […]