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Fresh off the release of his eye-catching debut music video ‘This One Chick‘, Chisom delivers the self-produced ‘Africa Get Money’, a lively, Rap-meets-Afrobeat anthem. The Detroit-based MC/producer shows off his Nigerian roots and the new wave of African culture in America. ‘Africa Get Money’ is a call to celebration: an ode to prosperity and enjoyment,…
Tampa, Florida emcee, Rahim Samad, teams up with Joey Bada$$/Pro Era beatmaker, Chuck Strangers, to deliver a hard hitting, dusty banger called ‘Strut’. From the upcoming Rahim Samad EP/album ‘Supreme 7’, that features production from Ski Beatz, Phil Chronics, Chuck Strangers, and Rahim Samad. https://twitter.com/rahimsamad https://twitter.com/Chuck_Strangers
Hip Hop has grown into something massive and beyond our own control. Our parents now listen to it, and our friends who hate Hip Hop have even found ways to like certain kinds of Hip Hop. For Jewish freestyle rapper Kosha Dillz, ‘We Are Different’ has become his live anthem on tour, celebrating his weirdness…
Brooklyn native Joey Bada$$ shares his new track ‘Ready’ which premiered on BEATS 1 Radio show. ‘Ready’ is produced by Statik Selektah via Joey’ own Pro Era Records. With work on his sophomore album underway, an appearance on ‘Forbes’ Hip Hop Cash Princes’ list under his belt and some new fire to feed the fans,…
Atlanta rapper Skinny-C presents his new single ‘Blow Strong’. Produced by Young Buck collaborator BeatGodz, ‘Blow Strong’ is the lead single from ‘Never Hungry Always Thirsty Vol. 2: Back For Seconds’, his new album featuring Monsta Luther King, Loc Barz, F1Phat, Skolar B, Shod Cooley and Holly Crew as well as production from Nobody Famous,…
Baltimore’s own legendary emcee Don Streat teams up with the french crate digger and producer Odweeyne to deliver a brand new joint smelling dusty drums and sharpen lines. ‘Streat Recognition’ is the new single off of the up coming Don Streat’s album ‘Streat Certified’. This single is produced by Odweeyne from France. STREAT RECOGNITION by…
Following the release last year of their critically acclaimed album ‘Avant Garde‘, Constant Deviants and their ever expanding label and entertainment group Six2Six Records return in 2016 with more music and a movie. MC M.I. has just dropped his new solo album ‘Catch 22’, available as a free download HERE. Having branched out into the…
Check out the new video from Travis Barker and Yelawolf, ‘Out Of Control‘ directed by Jason Goldwatch. TRAVIS BARKER UPCOMING GIGS: Feb 20 at Hyde Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV Feb 21 at Air+Style in Los Angeles, CA March 4-6 at Musink in Costa Mesa, CA http://travisbarker.com/ https://twitter.com/travisbarker www.facebook.com/travisbarkerofficial https://soundcloud.com/travis-barker-official https://twitter.com/Yelawolf
First video off Truth’s debut album ‘From Ashes To Kingdom Come‘, featuring O.C. (of D.I.T.C.). The Album is entirely recorded and mixed by PF Cuttin and features and production by Sean Price, O.C., AG, Da Beatminerz, PF Cuttin, DJ JS-1, JK1 The Supernova, DJ Doom, Psycho Les, The Barbarian, and Red E. The emergence of…
Woodbridge, VA, Rapper NoFace presents ‘A Couple For A Couple’, his new EP to celebrate Valentine’s Day. “This EP is inspired by two things,” he says. “For one I noticed that there’s a lack of adoration for our significant others in hip hop and as a MC I wanted to make actual love songs and…
In time for Valentines Day, T-pain releases the ultimate love song, Officially Yours produced by The Internz! Be sure to check out the lyric video featuring amazing wedding footage submitted by T-Pain’s biggest fans! Two-time Grammy Award winner T-Pain has debuted his new single entitled ‘Officially Yours’. Following fan requests that he release it after…
In honor of Dilla month and the 10th anniversary of J Dilla’s passing, New York producer Dezo Williams gives us a hard-hitting tribute instrumental ‘Spirit Of Dilla’. This track was composed of multiple samples and soundbytes straight from Dilla tracks, as well as compiled ‘dead-air’ spots from numerous J Dilla raps which overlays throughout the…
Mic Audio returns with a mixtape hosted by fellow Detroit native and Jay Electronica’s partner in rhyme, DJ TJ The King. After taking a long hiatus, Mic creates a concept around adapting to any environment in Hip Hop, thru honest lyricism. Having had his first child in 2015, he started hashtagging #dadrhymes hoping to Inspire…
Phoenix, Arizona rapper Mr. Miranda presents the Jaron Ikner-directed music video for his new single ‘No You Don’t’. The track is produced by Ghanaian producer 3KubeBeats, who also collaborated with Mr. Miranda on previous single ‘The Thoughts’ (watch the video). Mr. Miranda has also collaborated with Hexsagon (watch the ‘Key To Success’ video) as well…
TOPE’ back! For the first official release of 2016 TOPE steps behind the boards as a producer for the new Cool Nutz remix, featuring the legendary Slum Village and Bosko. Appearing on Cool Nutz upcoming album, ‘N.P.Y’ (Never Play Yaself) dropping 23/02, the beat for ‘Best & Worst’ originally appeared on TOPE’s 2013 release ‘TROUBLEMAN’…
African born/Boston bred EK drops a collaborative effort with vocalist Mitymaose for his latest single ‘I Got You’ produced by Bueffard Mallary. This song about falling in love with a deceitful women, a cleopatra but whole heartily submitting to her deceitful ways, despite knowing its not towards your best interest. ‘I Got You’ is off…
Grabbing loads of attention back in 2015 with their hard hitting trap-house creation titled ‘Get Down‘, alongside Swagglerock, Jameston Thieves and YOOKiE are at it again, but this time with a wonky, hard hitting, EP titled ‘Freshkimo’, available for purchase via Beatport and Spotify. Last week teasing ‘Freshkimo’ with their first single released as a free…
Make sure to check out the Vinyl Edition of ‘MAN PLANS GOD LAUGHS’ Hip Hop legends Public Enemy’ latest album, available from rapcentralstation.com. ‘Man Plans God’ Laughs LP Tracklist: 1. NO SYMPATHY FROM THE DEVIL 2. ME TO WE 3. MAN PLANS GOD LAUGHS 4. GIVE PEACE A DAMN 5. THOSE WHO KNOW KNOW WHO 6.…
Check out the Brand New single from Skeezo ‘Between The Line’s’, featuring Mic Handz & Shabaam Sahdeeq and Produced by Khrysis. From The forthcoming album ‘Fouls and Free Throws’ From Skeezo Dropping Soon! https://twitter.com/THEREALSKEEZO https://soundcloud.com/skeezo-2 https://instagram.com/therealskeezo/ https://twitter.com/therealMICHANDZ https://twitter.com/ShabaamSahdeeq
Private Club member NephLon Don is back again with his latest release ‘Trenches’ a gritty trap based sound that is sure to get your speakers knocking. Look out for more releases in the near future from NephLon Don and the Private Club collective. https://twitter.com/NephLonDon https://soundcloud.com/nephlondon https://twitter.com/RicandThadeus
Since the late 80’s, the Hip Hop blood stream has been steadily injected with music and culture from this Southern realm. A regional resurgence in the early part of the millennium spawned a heat wave that would go on to warm the game for a while, so it’s only fitting that one of it’s own…
With his first release of 2016 Brooklyn Bred Muzik artist Dapa Don returns with his first studio offering since 2014 with the follow up to his first release in the ‘#FOOD‘ series now with ‘#FOOD2’. Taking most of 2015 to create this album, ‘#FOOD2’ features production from Synastetic, Chris Prythm, FastLifeBeats, Lef & More along…
Jo-E the MasterMind Hyphenate is a Recording Artist/Producer, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. Taken from his new album ‘Fighter‘, ‘The Emcee’ is a lyrical Hip Hop song about the realities of being a real emcee and the dedication to becoming successful despite all the frustrations and hardships of an independent artist. ‘Doubt Me’ Apparel…
If you’re looking for some turn-up tunes to pregame to, then C-Sharp’s ‘Flex On ‘Em’ should do the trick. The Cali-grown rapper is stepping his game up with recent leaks like ‘Welcome 2 the Juice‘ featuring Kevin Parx, Matt Allenn, and Kaliber and ‘Hotbox‘, which set the Internet ablaze, and made the front page of…
From getting his first taste in music from watching his father in the studio from a very early age, Maurice Woodard better known by his stage name SIIN CITI, a rapper from Bronx (Kingsbridge), NY, has just released his new Ep titled ‘Written In Siin’ via Money Mafia. At age 17 he started rapping with a…
Check out the first official label release, ‘Supreme’ by Harlem lyricist & producer Rayne Storm. The 6 track EP is a celebration of self, love, sex, style, unity and life, all in under 30 minutes. ‘Supreme‘ includes the pro-black anthem ‘All Black’, ‘Champagne’ feat. Perelini, ‘World Premiere’ feat. G.O.O.D Music Recording Artist Teyana Taylor &…
Indianapolis producer Maja7th (Freddie Gibbs, Mikkey Halsted, L.E.P Bogus Boys), connects with Jamla Records artist ADD-2 (Chicago) as he sharpens his lyrical blade, to bring you this gritty/grimey audible gift ‘The Evils’, which features a cornucopia of chi-town emcee samplings on the cuts by DJ Metrognome. This track doesn’t feature on any album at this…
Birthday Boys is a new duo consisting of King Of The Dot champ Illmaculate & Detroit battle rap legend Marv Won. Their self-titled EP, produced entirely by Calvin Valentine (fka G_Force), will be available digitally on February 4th. The EP’s title track has a playful tone as the Birthday Boys deliver an effortless barrage of…
Experience a 65 min sonic assault that features high powered unreleased personal remixes from the Mix Master Mike Vault. Methodically decomposed by the serial wax killer, Magma Chamber takes you on a journey through aggressive wormholes of sound, behind gigantic bass drums, epic soundscapes of scratching, sci fi loops and combative wordplay, challenging the listener during…
There are scores of Hip Hop bangers but there is only ‘Hip Hop’ banger and the Dead Prez classic is always 100% guaranteed to light up any dance-floor. Delivering hard-hitting beats, politically aware rhymes, deft lyricism and strong song concepts, Dead Prez emerged in 2000 as one of rap’s most politically strident outfits. Stic.Man &…
Portland rap legend, Cool Nutz drops off his latest slap ‘Yaper’ produced by Chillest Illest, off of his upcoming EP, ‘N.P.Y.’ (Never Play Yaself) available February 16th. Paying homage to Bay area icon, Too Short’s Freaky Tales, Cool Nutz gives the people what he’s best known for – flawless world play, hard hitting bass, and…
Last year, after the release of ‘Shameless‘, Blake Banks hit the ground running with his critically acclaimed single ‘America’ featuring Post Malone. Now Blake is back and taking his unique style to a whole new level with the trapped out, drug fueled music video for ‘Benzo’. Since joining forces with The Ambulance Factory, Banks’ new…
Charlotte, North Carolina Rapper, Yung Citizen, releases, ‘Bruised Generation’, the first single from his self-titled EP, ‘Yung Citizen’. This track is a powerful, socially conscious anthem that offers candid thoughts on the challenges faced by today’s society. Citizen believes that with all the obstacles that life has thrown at our youth of color, they appear to…
DJ/Producer collective AMS, hailing from Amsterdam, formally Illuminati AMS, share their debut single, ‘Places’. The track was initially teased in an exclusive mix for SSENCE, which also featured fellow unreleased cuts from the trio, as well as smooth-blending cuts from Drake, Roy Woods, Future, Kanye West and many more. The track recently premiered on THE FADER…
Cryptic One is an MC/producer from Brooklyn, NY that has been making and releasing hip hop music for well over 20 years. Over the course of his career, he has produced tracks & remixes for various artists including MF DOOM, Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock, Blueprint, Illogic, Atoms Fam, and Hangar 1. Cryptic has always been…
A native of the Upper East Side in New York City, Jay Kila is a Half- Indian and Jewish (a Hindjew) Hip Hop artist. An eternal partier, his music combines rapid-fire delivery and witty lyrics to create anthems guaranteed to get a crowd going. His work has been featured in New York Magazine, on The…
Nature drops the 1st single off of his upcoming album ‘Target Practice’ on Infamous Records. Enlisting John Jigg$ & QB cohort Tragedy to spit fire over the drummed out landscape provided by BP. ‘Target Practice’ drops in Feb with guest appearances from Prodigy, Royal Flush, Tragedy & John Jigg$. https://twitter.com/THEREALNATURE https://twitter.com/Jiggsthegreat https://twitter.com/tragedykhadafi https://twitter.com/BP11701
DeviceTrax is an Emcee/Producer practicing and perfecting his craft out of the city of Youngstown, Ohio. His influences derive from some of the ‘Golden Era Greats’ such as DJ Premier, J Dilla, Pete Rock, No I.D., along with too many others to name. His style consists of those warm old school vibes complemented with a…
Wane Enterprises CEO, New York-based Hip Hop artist Bruse Wane presents the music video for ‘Yuu’, a single from ‘Earl Manigault Of Rap’, his new album featuring the late Sean Price and Chris Rivers (listen to ‘Venom‘). Bruse previously collaborated with the Price (watch the music video for ‘Beast Inside‘) and Keith Murray (listen to…
Young Harry Brown of the HILLMOB, a Lawrence, Kansas, collective, drops his first single off of his upcoming freshman tape ‘Young Harry Brown’. The song entitled ‘Sucker Punch’ was actually inspired by the movie. YHB makes a good point in this track that, “If your not HILLMOB then we gotta watch you”. Keep your ears…