Common’s 10th album, Nobody’s Smiling, is available now, and here he speaks with Sway In The Morning about putting together the project, working with up-and-coming Chi-town artists and having No I.D executive produce his album. While in-studio, he also opened up about his situation with Drake — which has now been squashed. He also spits [cont.]

B.o.B. keeps ‘em coming with another three videos from his No Genre 2 mixtape, available now.

Daz and Kurupt spit some bars over the nation’s two most popular club/radio bangers of the moment, with some help from Snoop and Soopafly. How’s that for loyalty?

Previously unreleased music from Roc Maricano’s former crew, The UN, which also included Dino Brave, Mike Raw, and Laku. Time For Some Action (Unreleased) by The U.N.

From the new yet to be released DirtyDiggs instrumental LP, coming soon on Planet Asia’s Gold Chain Music imprint.

At the 2014 DC Loves Dilla Tribute Concert, the DC Smithsonian announced that late legendary hip hop producer, J. Dilla, will have his beat equipment added to the Smithsonian’s new museum of African American History & Culture.

Follow the Ill Mind of Hopsin series and you’ll have a diary-like timeline of Hopsin’s rise in the industry from a hard-spitting, white contact lens-wearing rapper with an overcrowded MySpace account sitting in a dark, dungeon-like room in the first episode to a fearless, developed artist who’s toured the world and garnered nearly 200 million [cont.]

Late edition video from Juicy’s 2013 Stay Trippy release.

Official posse cut remix of CyHi’s “Mandela”, from The Black Hystori Project.

Produced by Jayze. Rostrum Records 2014.

An hour of world premieres from Statik’s What Goes Around album as well as exclusives and freestyles from Joey & Kirk. Live from London.

Pusha T is the latest to hop on Ear Drummers-backwards’ “No Flex Zone”. Meanwhile, Versable have cut-and-pasted all of the unofficial remixes into one massive posse cut, featuring Push’s verse, along with Busta Rhymes, Nicki Minaj, and Juicy J. Nicki wins.

From 2013′s New York City LP.

Here is one of the bonus tracks from Twista’s The Dark Horse LP, due August 12th.

Putting it down on the mixtape scene over the last five years, G-Eazy has carved out a name for himself with a series of six mixtape releases, his last being 2011′s critically acclaimed The Endless Summer. A white rapper from the Bay Area, G-Eazy doesn’t really sound like anyone else from region, yet wisely gets [cont.]

Should white fans be allowed to say the N-word at shows? As S.T.S. attempts to address one of hip-hop’s long-standing, but commonly wiped under the rug social hurdles and as hip-hop continues to grow culturally, the question becomes “Why Can’t I Say It”. Produced by @khari-mateen.

Mike tells us: “this is about my favorite radio show. they play it on the air sometimes too. when they do i giggle. theronandfezshow.com.”

Stones Throw’s own Jonwayne rapping over about 20 DOOM beats in about 5 minutes.

Another one from Mandatory Fun. Get ‘em, Al.

New music from rising Flatbush Brooklyn crew, who recently linked up with producer Flying Lotus. Watch for their upcoming album Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium, due August 12th.