DJ Khaled delivers the “Hold You Down” remix, featuring many of the usual suspects. In the video clip, he celebrates the original track “going #1 on the urban charts”. Purposely vague.

With election day upon us, Cuepoint examines when musicians endorse a candidate; in this case Jay Z and James Brown. Election Day Sets a Funky Precedent

Produced by SX. Tetsuo & Youth due January 20th.

Recruiting the talents of some of New Orleans’ most legendary artist & musicians, producer/rapper Lyrics Born is proud to announce the upcoming release of his eighth album, Real People, set to drop in early 2015 via his newly formed Mobile Home Recordings label. Recorded entirely in The Big Easy by Galactic’s Robert Mercurio and Ben [cont.]

Mello Music Group: “It’s been an incredible year for Open Mike Eagle, first he signed a multi-album deal with Mello Music Group, then he released the critically acclaimed album Dark Comedy, and after months of touring North America, he is off for his first ever European Tour. Oh, and he has an incredible new podcast [cont.]

From The Cathedral Mixtape presented by Javotti Media.

From Mac & Cheese: The Album, coming soon.

Dream.ZONE.Achieve is available now. Directed By Slick Jackson.

Joe Budden’s Some Love Lost hits tomorrow, November 4th.

Mike Bigga helps out Snoh Aalegra on the “Bad Things” remix. No I.D. on the track let the story begin…

Hot 97: “The Compton rapper opened up about the state of hip hop music on deeper level and explained where it needs to go. He also gave a surprising opinion on the Macklemore and those Grammy text messages but the thing that stood out most was when Kendrick discussed his new Outkast-esque record ‘i’.”

Big K.R.I.T.’s second album for Def Jam, Cadillactica, hits November 11th. Stream the entire thing below, courtesy of NPR.

Phat joint.

From the album A Lesson Unlearnt. Directed by Peter Lawrie Winfield & Storme Whitby Grubb.

Trap music by way of South Africa, with help from Talib Kweli.

Produced by Ted Smooth, from Grafh’s 88 Crack Era mixtape, impacting this week.

From Baby Yu Presents Snow The Rebirth, a compilation of Jeezy remixes produced by Baby Yu & friends. Tracklist for the set is as follows: 1. Intro feat. DJ Drama 2. Jeezy – Bottom Of The Map (Produced By: Baby Yu) 3. Jeezy – Get Ya Mind Right (Produced By: Baby Yu & Nebo) 4. [cont.]

Rozay helps out this MMG rookie on “Burn.”

After completing his contract with Atlantic Records, what does the self-proclaimed and eventually deserved “king of the south” do to keep things interesting on his first album for Columbia, Paperwork? Team up with Pharrell, of course. The two made magic together on one of the biggest breakthrough singles of 2013, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” so [cont.]

Here’s a look at Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint deluxe edition album cover, hitting December 4th. Not what we expected.