The Weeknd - Initiation [New Music]

As we near the actual weeknd, we bring you the latest from upcoming hip-hop singer The Weeknd; features quicker-paced, trippy vocals (if the vocal-pitch switches don't trip you out, then damn) and creates an overall surreal mood.(I call him "Better Drake", but thats just me, yo).


Download: Initiation - The Weeknd


Also, check out this incredibly dope and deep video for The Weeknd's song: "The Morning":

Download: The Morning - The Weeknd

2011 BET Cyphers [New Video]

In case you didn't get a chance to catch the BET Hip-Hop Music Award Cyphers of 2011, check 'em out here. Cyphers featuring Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Yelawolf, Slaughterhouse, Eminem, Tyga, Chris Brown, Dom Kennedy, Busta Rhymes, Big K.R.I.T., Kendrick Lamar and Tech N9ne

Maybach Music Group (Rick Ross x Meek Mill x MMG) Cypher




Yelawolf x Slaughterhouse x Shady Cypher




Ace Hood x Tyga x Chris Brown Cypher




Big K.R.I.T. x Tech N9ne x Machine Gun Kelly x Kendrick Lamar Cypher





Busta Rhymes x Reek da Villain x 2 Chainz x Ludacris Cypher





Mr. Rap Up x Lady of Rage x Blind Fury x Dom Kennedy x Skillz Cypher

Nas - Nasty [New Video]

When we hear the name Nas, we think classic. We think Illmatic, we think N.Y. State of Mind. Nas is just a real N.Y. rapper and has been on the backburner of mainstream social media, as we have seen watched him over the past 10 years take a backseat to old-rival-turned-friend, Jay-Z who basically has taken over the media scene.

Nas visually shows you in this video what his career record spells out: After 15+ years of rap, and being "God's son" in the hip-hop community, he is still with his hood. (Despite Lil Wayne's humble beginnings and a now big commercial name, would he shoot a music video in Hollygrove, New Orleans?) There's no place like home.

Download: Nasty - Nas

Lil Wayne's Public Service Announcement [New Video]

EDIT: The full-length Lil Wayne PSA has gone completely private on his channel, so check out this clip instead:


Seems the death of Steve Jobs struck a chord in the dude Weezy, and talks a little bit of about his morality and past drugs use. He speaks of his philosophy, and his past habits, as well his work ethic and past prescriptions, his tattoos, his skateboarding...The original video, which goes in full detail on these subjects (as well as his YoungMoney Discover card...) is no longer available.

Curren$y - Corvette Doors [New Music]

Download: Corvette Doors - Curren$y

A real nice jam that takes you back with talk of old school cars and a slow backbeat, Spitta just dropped Verde Terrace but he's still pushing these out.

Snoop Dogg x 12th Planet x Flux (and more) - Throw Your Dubs Up [Mixtape] [New Music]

Snoop Dogg. This is one guy dedicated to his tree since day one... he has brought us hip-hop classics, and now he has brought us among the first mixtapes to feature a Rap/Dubstep fusion. If you thought Snoop's age has closed his mind to this new genre, think again. I really feel this mixtape, even though I don't enjoy all of its tracks. I feel this mixtape because I feel the genre evolving, and I think its only a matter of time until the US catches onto this...  Download it >exclusively here< or download individual tracks below. The tracks I think would be most enjoyed are as follows, but by all means download the mixtape and make your own opinions.



Download: Smoke Some - Problem x Dream



Download:  Platinum Remix - Snoop Dogg ft. R. Kelly and Busta Rhymes x Lex Luger



Download: Be Like Me (Remix) - Snoop Dogg ft P Money, D Double E & Professor Green x True Tiger



Download: Speaker Pop - Soopafly x 16Bit

Kendrick Lamar - Cloud 10 [New Music] and Behind the Scenes [Video]

Download: Cloud 10 - Kendrick Lamar

Windows isn't sleeping on Kendrick, why should you? Lamar brings you "Cloud 10", a Windows sponsored track, and part of "Me Series", that Windows is bringing to life. Looks to me as if Windows is jumping on the music scene, where most people are hanging out, to try to gain more consumers for their phone. iPhone competition in the works? (Doubtful)

Check out the behind the scenes, Windows-sponsored look into Kendrick Lamar's beginnings and song-choices:

Drake - Headlines [New Video]

This be the new video for Headlines by Drake that came out earlier today. A song off Take Care that was dropped earlier this year, feel free to download it here if you haven't got it yet.

Tyga - [New Music]

With all the new music coming out right now, and all these albums poised to drop, Tyga is making sure that his fans don't forget his grind...Don't forget it, then. Careless World, November 19th. He claims this track is yet to be finished, and rumors are circulating throughout the web naming Nas as the artist to be featured.

Download: Apollyon's Theme - Tyga

Tyga also let go two new tracks off #BitchImTheShit, dropping sometime soon, before Careless World.

Download: Make it Nasty - Tyga


Download: Pop It - Tyga

Busta Rhymes - Niggas in Paris [Remix] [New Music]

Download: Niggas in Paris (Remix) - Busta Rhymes 

Quite possibly ones of the most sought-out collaborators in hip-hop within the past year, it just isn't a remix without a Busta Rhyme's verse. It's one verse coming from Busta in this Watch the Throne remix (something not many have attempted).

Possible Earl Sweatshirt Track?

Could this be another part of Kitchen Cutlery, an old Earl/Sly project? Or is this a copycat?

Download: Unknown Track - Earl Sweatshirt?

A short track that we have no idea what it's called, so we'll call it Unknown Track. This track cannot be found anywhere official, no Odd Future blogs, no Twitter accounts. It's all speculation at this stage. What do you think? Is this a leak from old Earl/Sly Tendencies productions, or is not Earl at all? Perhaps a copycat trying to copy his flow, and left this on the web to be found?

Click read more to check out another old Kitchen Cutlery song and read a little more about the saga of Earl.

Chip tha Ripper - The Truth [New Music]

 Hey ya'll Cleveland is my ci-tay

Download: The Truth - Chip tha Ripper

You are now tuned in to some music from one of the real emcees today. The truth in this dude words, no pun intended though, are so real and true to home. Forever reppin' Cleveland where he goes to wreck mics, Chip tha Ripper released this song to be included on his TellYaFriends mixtape, widely promoted on Twitter.

Curren$y - Ways to Kill 'Em (Verde Terrace) [New Music Video]

Spitta drops his visual representation of "Ways to Kill 'Em" off Verde Terrace. Hopefully you all are very aware of that mixtape by now, endless plays in my iTunes library. Spitta Productions does not disappoint. Jet life.

#jetlife

Need to download this jam? We got you right here.

9th Wonder x Warren G, Murs, and Kendrick Lamar - Enjoy [New Music]

What I am personally calling the best collaboration in a good minute, 9th Wonder, the West Coast legend, pulls together a track that embodies the old school and the new school. Kendrick Lamar, the freshman, holds his own with names that have been around for years longer than he, this whole track is just a straight up banger. Released single off of The Wonder Years, buy the track and the album: on iTunes (artist profile: 9th Wonder)



Download (for promotional use only): 9th Wonder x Warren G, Murs, and Kendrick Lamar - Enjoy

Twin x Young Money's Short Dawg - Rendezvous [New Music Video]

Twin 6 as an upcoming Austin rapper, melded with an awesome verse by Young Money's Short Dawg whose mixtape, The Adventures of Drankenstein, is set to drop before Halloween. Just a cold jam brought to you by Rooftop Productions based in Austin, TX.

Enjoy this video? Check out: Rooftop Productions

 Plenty of blunt smokin' and rover rangin', the bass is mad nice on this too. I'm not telling ya how to live your life, but I recommend a download and a blunt cruise (or three).

Download: Twin 6 feat. Short Dawg - Rendezvous

More Music

Short Dawg has a way of killin' it, check out this Trouble on My Mind freestyle that you may have not heard yet:

Download: Short Dawg - Trouble on My Mind freestyle 


This video to Tupac Back freestyle by Short might be familiar to those Tyga fans... I'm keepin' a sharp eye out for this dudes next mixtape, I'm ready for Short Dawg to make moves.

Mac Miller - Smile Back [New Music Video]

Mac's back with his second single off Blue Slide Park, dropping November 8th.

Download the track here.

Frank Ocean - Swim Good [New Music Video]

Frank dropped this visual for Swim Good off his album Nosalgia, Ultra.

 Pretty creative guy that Frank Ocean eh?

Download the track here.

Tyga x Honey Cocaine - Heisman [New Music]

Download: Heisman - Tyga feat. Honey Cocaine

Girl rappers are tryna come up, what does it say about Tyga that he signed a female rapper as the first rapper to his Last Kings label? Has he gained a sort of sage foresight, like his YM labelmate Weezy? We are unsure which Tyga project this has come off of, but it gives us a look into the future. She sounds good, definite talent. Tyga's verse ain't nothin' you could fuck with. Careless World dropping on Novermber 19th, DON'T SLEEP ON IT.

Casey Veggies x Dom Kennedy x Kendrick Lamar - Ridin' Round Town (remix) [NEW MUSIC]

Download: Ridin' Round Town (remix) - Casey Veggies ft. Kendrick Lamar, Dom Kennedy

Tree Thoughts: Sweet, sweet stuff if you like these guys. A whole lot of talent on this track, however the production itself is low quality, but thats only because they want you to jump on iTunes and show some love for the deluxe addition. Little Veggies is trying to get paid; help him out, or not, but jam this piece.

[Video] Finito - NORE ft. Pharrell, Lil Wayne [New Music]

"Neptunes on the beat/ you know what it is/ NORE(aga) what it is"

 Lil Wayne's Verse on Finito

 Noreaga was an important influence on Pharrell's producing

Noreaga, or NORE, let this single go off his new tentative album, Superthug, last month. With the beat produced by young production genius Pharrell, and a solid Lil Wayne verse, he may just have it needs in this album to restir the hip-hop community. He released the video version today, and its quite the visual representation.

 Official Video to Finito - NORE, Pharrell and Lil Wayne

Download: Finito - NORE, feat. Lil Wayne and Pharrell