DJ Soul assembles a veritable Who’s Who of hip-hop both old and new for his latest mixtape celebrating the 8-year anniversary of Japanese label Lafayette. The 1-hour 10-minute megamix blends everyone from Ghostface & MF Doom, Reflection Eternal, Nas, Mobb Deep, Raekwon and Common to Kanye, Prince Paul, Jay-Z, Tyler The Creator, Pusha T and Cam’ron. Plus many […]

When you say that Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s landmark 1995 debut Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version is one of the best Wu Tang Clan records, you’re basically suggesting it’s one of the best hip hop albums of all time. And you’d be right. Next to eminent classics like GZA’s Liquid Swords and Raekwon’s […]

Get your Monday workweek percolating with some Florida-simmered party time raps. The UK producer David Alexander jumps from one Tampa act (Yo! Majesty) to another with his latest spitfire rapper, Dominique Young Unique. Unique’s new mixtape, the 8-track Stupid Pretty, shows off deliveries that may have you reminiscing a bit of Shunda K without being overly familiar. […]

Everyone’s favorite/most hated white girl rapper Kreayshawn claims her first big cover story, which Complex can boast getting. If you want to know more about the Oakland-bred punk-guitarist-raised White Girl Mob emcee, peep the video below and hop on over to Complex for the full feature. She talks about the genesis of “Gucci Gucci” and […]

UPDATE: Seeing as Asher Roth’s brand new video for “Last Man Standing” — the first video from his upcoming album — dropped today as well, and it totally fits the theme, we’re gonna add it on to our Wednesday video 4-Pack. Today’s music video 3-pack 4-pack throws together 3 indie hip-hop acts all in different […]

Surface to Air pillar member Jeremie Rozan directs Kid Cudi’s latest long play video for “Mr Rager”. Sure they call it a mini-film, but it’s essentially one long fight sequence. Are those all S2A leather jackets their wearing in the gang beatdown scene by the way…? Kid Cudi x S2A – “Mr Rager” from Surface to […]

Last name London, first name Theophilus. Newest video? “I Stand Alone”. Off the Brooklyn emcee’s Timez are Weird These Days LP, which you can direclty from iTunes. Enjoy for the long weekend…

British culture magazine i-D offers up an interesting selection of tracks for their August mixtape. The longest mixtape they’ve ever assembled, the August edition treads from bass, grime and trip-pop to acoustic, folktronica and alt ambient, including tracks from an army of artists such as Afrikan Boy (who rapped on DJ Shadow’s “I’m Excited” video), Joe […]