Cold Legistics – Northern Star (Instrumental Album)

Are you looking for something soothing, while breaking your neck? I didn’t think that was a possible combination until I heard this project. This album is full of dusty boom-bap, soulful emotions and a touch of storytelling vocal samples that paint imagery like no other instrumental collection that I can recall. Cold Legistics orchestration certainly [...]

Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx Working On eXXecution [VIDEO]

Duck Down members Marco Polo and Ruste Juxx finally get a chance to get some work in and the result sounds pretty mean so far. Heavy “execution” style beats and bars is what it’s described as from Juxx. March 23rd this album will see the light!

Damu The Fudgemunk – Kilawatt V1 Preview

Here is some new music from Damu The Fudgemunk which will be on his project, Kilawatt V1 dropping next month. Damu is a beatsmith who has some of the illest sampling capability (I know, I saw him spend countless time digging through records looking for that gem) that makes for a golden era vibe that [...]

Eminem Announces Relapse: Refill Album Coming December

“I want to deliver more material for the fans this year like I originally planned” Eminem says. “Hopefully these tracks on The Refill will tide the fans over until we put out Relapse 2 next year”. Eminem has been busy in the studio creating even more new material since Relapse was released. “I got back in with Dre and then a few more producers, including Just Blaze, and went in a completely different direction which made me start from scratch. The new tracks started to sound very different than the tracks I originally intended to be on Relapse 2, but I still want the other stuff to be heard.”

Diamond District – In The Ruff

Let’s be honest, the DMV has been taken pretty lightly in regards to a hip-hop presence. Yea, Wale has created a significant buzz hailing from the District and I tip my hat to him, but I’m talking about something different. I’m talking about dusty drums, neck-breaking boom-bap, conventional, but slick rhymes painting a raw image, [...]