Freeway and producer Jake One's album The Stimulus Package is now on my must buy(or download) list. The first official leak "Know What I Mean" bangs hard. Freeway actually rides the beat in a non annoying way and convinced me this album will show growth. Enjoy. (Listen below) ...

Juelz Santana finally makes a return to rap after not dropping an album in 5 years almost. Yes, it's been that long. New video features Lil Wayne, with the usual money, cars, and hoes visuals. Cameos from Jim Jones and Juelz crew included. This is only part one people, stay tuned. Props to homie James Del Gatto. P.S.: Rappers, stop remixing this...

The latest cover story for Complex Magazine features Eminem and he drops a few gems on the second installment of Relapse, who had the best verse on the "Forever" song, and being sober. Complex put the whole feature online for your reading pleasure. I took out the excerpt about video games though, I found it hilarious. The fact that he doesn't play ...

It's officially Thanksgiving day and to show his appreciation to fans, Lupe Fiasco has dropped a new free mixtape entitled, Enemy of the State (A Love Story). It's been a while since we've heard new music from Lupe but this mixtape according to him will "show that I’m nicer than all of them." Yup, he said that. Anyways, I've listened to about fo...

UK retailer Play.com have revealed both the cover art and tracklistings for Eminem's Relapse expansion and I must say it looks pretty impressive. Relapse: Refill will be a double disc album featuring seven new tracks from Mr. Marshall including Forever and the former DJ Hero exclusive Taking My Ball. Eminem recently stated that Relapse: Refill is i...

The Sonic The Hedgehog of rap has returned. He hasn't been heard from since June when the whole J Dilla executive producer controversy went down. He flows over a victorious sounding beat and brags about how he runs the internet. Don't sleep, he has a few quotable lines throughout the song. His full return will come with a mixtape that's dropping De...

"Uh-Oh" just a week after shaking up the industry with the release of the 50 cent assisted "I Go Off" Beans is back with his third diss track aimed at his former friend/mentor Jay-Z. Now I'm a firm believer in not biting the hand that feeds (or in this case, fed) you so I'm afraid I can't fuck with Beanie on this shit, but I'm sure all you hyper di...

The video every Joe Budden and Slaughterhouse fan has been waiting for is finally here. This is one of the hardest tracks from the Slaughterhouse album right here, they all shine nicely on the record. Expect some new Slaughterhouse music to drop shortly as they have just finished touring. Enjoy the video. ...

I usually don't put out freestyles unless its something amazing. Well, I present something amazing. I know im going to get a bunch of hate for this, but even a Joe Budden hater can't deny the fact that he is talented after listening to this track. He speaks on everything from his disputes with Fabolous, Beans, and even showcases frustration of 50 C...

Calling all hip hop practitioners, it’s that time again. Last night the CBS television show “Cold Case” took it back to the bridge, Philly style in it’s latest episode “Read Between The Lines.” Philadelphia has always had rapper contributors from the Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff all the way to The Roots. As hip hop still remains a f...

Tony Yayo was at a Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 launch party in NY along with DJ Jazzy Jeff, Ice-T, DJ Whoo Kid & Coco. It looks like Tony Yayo's gaming skills aren't half as good as his rap skills (Those last few mixtape's were fire). Ice T on the other hand plays games on the regular; and as Yayo says in the video, "he be playin with Xzibit n th...

The Clipse are back with a new video "Doorman" from the upcoming album "Til The Casket Drops" which drops just in time for a holiday gift (Dec. 8). Joint is produced by Eddie V's hero Pharell, who's been kind of missing from the production scene for a while now. Good to see hes returning. Props to YN...

While your at the crib clocking in crazy hours playing Modern Warfare 2 you need at least two things. Great snacks and great music. Now we can't help you guys on the snack front, but being the number one video game and hip hop site out we will hold you down on the music. So what we have put together were a group of songs that inspired us to play th...

It feels as if he was stamped a "XXL Freshman" so long ago, but in the past two years, Wale Folarin has utilized every possible outlet in order to keep his name within ears' length. Aided by popular singles "Dig Dug (Shake It)", "W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E." and "Nike Boots", Wale was thrust into position as the frontman for hip hop stemming from the DMV (D...

Shouts to the homie Diego over at Cornerstone for shooting this to me. Here is a bit of video footage from the DJ Skee hosted NBA Live tournament that went down recently. Feature Murs, Xzibit & more. Is it me or did NBA Live have an overall bigger buzz this year? Things are getting bright for the franchise....

This is the follow up to the video crime wave, this song is called Stretch. Stretch is featured on the new album Before I Self Destruct, which will be in stores on the 16th of November. This is a hilarious video, but see if you can spot the Playstation 3 controller. Usually it's the Xbox 360 that gets all the cameo appearances these days, but in th...