Here’s your definitive auditory guide to XXL’s 2014 Freshmen list, presented by DJ Drama in mixtape form. Everyone dropped off original new music, so now you can really decide for yourself who deserved to make the list or not. New tracks from the entire team, with a little extra help from 2 Chainz, Fabolous and [cont.]

The first of a new #TBT series from The Chef, covering Rose Royce’s “Wishing On A Star”.

Contemporary art phenom Naturel mashes up Tupac and Basquiat in celebration of Tupac’s birth, death and musical resurrection. The four piece series was created to chronologically parallel the careers of both artists. !llmind contributes to the project sonically, with this Boomtrap remix.

First single from Busdriver’s upcoming album Perfect Hair. Due out worldwide Sept. 9th via Big Dada.

First single/video from Dilated Peoples’ long-awaited comeback LP, Directors Of Photography – first mentioned to us by DJ Babu, way back in 2011. Check out the cover art and tracklist for the August 12th Rhymesayers release down below. 1. Intro 2. Directors 3. Cut My Teeth 4. Defari Interlude 5. The Dark Room (feat. Vince [cont.]

Complex covers Kanye West’s return to Bonnaoo, after his botched 2008 performance. He took some shots Bruno Mars in a rant heavy performance, while chants of “Fuck Kanye” rang out at some of the festival’s other stages.

The Game gets a bunch of shit off his chest with “Bigger Than Me”, in his usual name dropping fashion, going after the new generation of rap cats.

DJ Mustard pulls out the iron drums for the latest single from Tip’s Paperwork, feat Ms. Iggy Azalea.

Here’s a piece of Mike Will’s upcoming single, “Buy The World”, which features King Kendrick, Future Hendrix, and Weezy F. Baby. From the forthcoming album, Est. In 1989 (Pt. 3), due June 17th.

Some late 90′s R&B formulas being employed on Jo’zzy’s “Tryna Wife”.

Up and coming Venice Beach emcee Jokem delivers his Craftmatic EP, spitting over some Blueprint beats.

Directed by Fafu.

After the runaway success of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, 50 Cent was championed as both a top selling artist, and an astute businessman. The Curtis Jackson brand took on a life of it’s own, and within the period of a decade, 50 had released an autobiographical novel, a collaborative chapter in Robert Greene’s 48 [cont.]

That track you heard in the Beats By Dre World Cup ad campaign gets some added bars from one S. Carter.

In celebration of hitting the 5-year anniversary of the release of The Warm Up EP, J. Cole delivers a video for “Lights Please” from the 2009 set, and pens a letter to his fans about reaching the landmark date. Get More: Music News Cole writes: 5 years ago, we started a journey together. On June [cont.]

MMG’s Living Legend adds the Don Logan touch to Future / Pharrell / Pusha T’s banger, “Move That Dope”.

From Cilvia Demo, available now. Directed by Eric Swiz of Scheme Engine.

One more from The Block Brochure 4,5,6′n it.

While at his HAW (Houston Appreciation Weekend) event in Texas this past week, Drake fielded questions from the press.

Danny Brown’s Brusier Brigade member, Zelooperz, delivers his new mixtape, Help, with some added contributions from Danny and other members of the crew.