hip hop

  • 2013

    SUB by Kyle Rapps An eclectic and somewhat abstract hip hop project from Kyle Rapps titled SUB. There are some pretty impressive underground features here as well from Mr. MFN eXquire, Action Bronson, and Murs. Enjoy!

  • On Yeezus, Chicago rapper and producer Kanye West takes his typically ambitious production down some really dark, noisy passageways. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 420

    This cut, off of the upcoming mixtape BetterOffDEAD, is 4 minutes and 20 seconds long, for reasons obvious to fans of this drug-rap group. This song is darker than the song title suggests, conjuring lonely nights instead of a beach-resort in the summer. Erick Arc Elliot’s raps have been

  • A music video for a jazz group is rare, a jazz group using a distortion pedal on the guitar is even rarer. This video contains an edit of the 10-minute track “Hover” off of Black Host’s debut LP, Life in the Sugar Candle Mines, which has been released on

  • Dowhatyoulove by Ta-ku ta-ku, an Aussie beatmaker, has released a streaming-version of his most recent LP Dowhatyoulove. ta-ku has retained the ambient boom-bap thump of his earlier work, but adds more Dilla-fied chopped soul samples to the mix. You can buy the record on Bandcamp, or get a limited-edition vinyl

  • 2013

    Donny Oh is a New York rapper with a new video and single out; plus, he’s got a new EP on the way titled Stuffed Shells. Not only is Donny’s food choice there pretty classy, but he nabbed a sweet, soulful Knxwledge beat for the track featured in

  • 2013

    Gesus by YBP A new collection of tracks from the previously mentioned Black Jungle Squad. Brainfeeder’s Jeremiah Jae, a.k.a. Black Daffi, still delivers the production and most of the rap verses that you’ll come across on this thing, Gesus sees the involvement on Tre on a

  • 2013

    The Spring Up by Shad + Skratch Bastid Shad drops a handful of new tracks with fellow Canadian hip hop artist Skratch Bastid. Shad is on lyrics, and Bastid is bringing the beats, and it’s an incredibly solid effort, which you can grab on Bandcamp for whatever price you’d

  • 2013 XXL Freshman and Beast Coast MC Joey Bada$$ drops another track from his anticipated Summer Knights mixtape, which has been pushed back for a July 1st release. With all of these huge rap releases around the corner–Kanye, Cole, Miller–I’m not surprised, honestly. Producer Lee Bannon pulls

  • 2013

    Ghostly International producer Shigeto has announced the release of a new album, and you can stream a track from it via the widget above. The LP’s title is No Better Time Than Now, and “Detroit Part 1” has me pretty psyched to hear the rest of this thing. The