New Music: The Insomniax "Love She Wants" EP

Unfolding "Mourning In America" By Brother Ali

When Brother Ali dropped his Mourning In America video a few days ago, it was instantly trending on twitter. Make sure you go pre-order Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color which is set to release sometime today.

New Music: The Cafeteria Line presents HNGRY

Midnight Mission has teamed up with some of Los Angeles  hottest stars to create an album where the proceeds will go to helping keep the homeless off the streets.

New Music: Phresh James "Universal Lve Period"

Miami's own brings us his latest release which you can stream in full over at DJ Booth, and if you like it show support and buy it on iTunes.

Slaughterhouse "welcome to: OUR HOUSE" album snippets

I guess since the album dropped today, they decided to release the snippets to create more buzz, for some reason I can't get into snippets "previewing" a song does nothing I'd rather hear the whole thing or not at all. If you haven't heard this album yet I would recommend (I'm impatiently waiting to hear Frat House drunk at a house party thrown by white people) giving it a spin it's way better than their first album in my opinion

New Music: Rapsody "The Idea Of Beautiful"

Hit up DJ Booth for the stream or buy it on iTunes.

New Music: Nitty Scott drops "The Boombox Diaries"

The New York femcee has dropped her highly anticipated The Boombox Diaries, you can stream the album and if you like what you hear you can but it on iTunes.

Tracklist:

1. Concrete Roses [prod. Yuri Beats]

2. H.O.T [prod. Illmind]

3. Is This Thing On (f/ Outasight) [prod. 6th Sense]

4. Planes, Trains and Automobiles [prod. JetAudio]

5. Flower Child (f/ Kendrick Lamar) [prod. Paul Boogie]

6. No Standing Here [prod. J57, cuts by DJ Element]

7. IllumiNITTY [prod. AraabMUZIK]

8. Dear Diary (f/ Meagan McNeal) [prod. Cassius Clay]

9. You’re My Favorite (f/ Tiara Wiles) [prod. DJ Tedsmooth]

10. Auntie Maria’s Crib (Remix) (f/ Action Bronson x The Kid Daytona) [prod. Cassius Clay]

11. Skippin Clouds [prod. Yuri Beats]

12. A Beautiful Struggle (f/ Soul Khan x Akie Bermiss) [prod. DJ Goo]

New Music: Rita Ora "Radioactive"

Just like that Rita Ora's debut album is now officially out along with its fourth single, Radioactive.

Win 2 gold chains like on the cover of 2 Chainz album

Purchase Based On A T.R.U. Story here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/based-on-t.r.u.-story-deluxe/id548102442

New Music: Flying Lotus "See Thru To U" Feat. Erykah Badu

Electronic beatsmith, Flying Lotus teams up with Erykah Badu for his latest single off his fourth album, Until The Quiet Comes.

You can pre order the album here: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/until-the-quiet-comes/id553317184

New Music: Makeda (Thee Red Fox) "808's and Funbreaks"

On this LP the singer channel's 80's style music reminiscent of Prince (she reminds me a lot of the first time I heard M.I.A. only she's singing not rapping). 808's and Funbreaks is an RnB type of album filled with a mix of electro pop filled with synths, if your into that kinda thing check it out below.

Trey Songz reveals album cover and tracklist for Chapter 5

1 Chapter V (Intro)

2 Dive In

3 Panty Wetter (Interlude)

4 Heart Attack

5 2 Reasons (feat. T.I.)

6 Go Hard

7 Don’t Be Scared

8 Pretty Girl’s Lie

9 Bad Decisions

10 Playin’ Hard

11 Forever Yours

12 Inside Enterlude (Interlude)

13 Fumble

14 Without a Woman

15 Interlude 4 U (Interlude)

16 Simply Amazing

17 Ladies Go Wild

18 Check Me Out

19 Turn On (Bonus Track)

20 Almost Lose It (Bonus Track)

The album is set to drop August 21st.

You can pre order the album here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/chapter-v-deluxe-version/id536265865

Insane Clown Posse goes in on Chris Brown

You can purchase their new album here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/mighty-death-pop-freaky-tales/id545864994

New Music: Brother Ali "Mourning In America" prod. by Jake One

This is the second release from their upcoming album, Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color. The album is expecting a September 18th release.

 Brother Ali - Mourning in America by rhymesayers 

Murs and Fashawn dropping collab album "This Generation"

1. Just Begun

2. 64’ Impala

3. Reina De Barrio (Ghetto Queen) (f/ Adrian)

4. Stone Cold

5. Yellow Tape (f/ Krondon)

6. Peace Treaty

7. And It Goes

8. Slash Gordan

9. Heartbreaks & Handcuffs

10. This Generation (f/ Adrian)

11. Future Love

12. The Other Side

The album is set to drop Setember 25th.

Hear the first single Slash Gordon here:   Slash Gordon - Murs & Fashawn by thedopesteez 

You can pre order the album here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/this-generation/id552424173

2 Chainz "Based On A T.R.U Story" Album Review

Back in 2007, 2 Chainz, who was then known as Tity Boi, was in a group called the Playaz Circle, and was signed to Ludacris' DTP label. After having a relatively large hit with Playaz Circle, called Duffle Bag Boy, which featured Lil' Wayne, the rapper kinda went cold. However, that all changed when he dropped his T.R.U. REALigon mixtape back in 2011. He has since then flooded the airwaves with features, went on to tour doing over 120 shows, all of which led up to him inking a deal with Def Jam, while being G.O.O.D. Music "affiliated" as he likes to say. This album is probably the second most anticipated debut hip hop album of the year, second to Kendrick Lamar's Good Kid, m.A.A.d City. The first words you hear on the album are none other than 2 Chainz's daughter saying "yuck daddy yuck". In the hip-hop world, where bad can mean good, with that being said, this album is good, or "yucky". If you liked his T.R.U. REALigon mixtape there's really no reason you shouldn't also be able to get into this album. With lines like "I wish a ni**a would like a kitchen cabinet", you can't help but laugh, lines like this are so corny, that I can't not like them. His ear for beats and making catchy hooks are really his golden ticket though, most songs only take one listen to get them stuck in your head (after the first listen, I had to run I'm Different back). If he's not even taking himself seriously why should I? This is the kinda music that you can play while you're getting ready to go out or you want some background noise while you clean up your apartment. The chemistry between him and The Dream on Extremely Blessed comes off sounding natural and not forced, giving him another advantaged over other rappers who make this type of music, being  able to make a "sex/love" song that actually works (Plies is the first person who comes to mind who gets away with being a trapper and being exceptionally freaky). The album isn't all pure greatness though, on the Scarface and John Legend assisted track Ghetto Dreams I'm not really feeling the production which makes it impossible for me to get into the song (which sucks because I usually love John Legend singing on hooks). This album is formatted very well out of 13 tracks, I would say seven could be released as singles. Three out of the remaining six have some moderate replay value as well with that being said, this is a pretty good debut from the ATLien, I'd give it a 7/10.

Favorite Tracks: Dope Peddler, No Lie, I'm Different, Extremely Blessed, In Town

Least Favorite Tracks: Ghetto Dreams, Wut We Doin, Stop Me Now

written by, @LUSHnLUSTnoLOVE

You can purchase Based On A T.R.U Story here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/based-on-t.r.u.-story-deluxe/id548323454

New Music by Naughty Boy "Wonder" Feat. Emeli Sandi

My new favorite singer from the UK, Emeli Sande teams up with UK producer and songwriter, Naughty Boy. Naughty who helped with much of Emeli's debut album Our Version Of Events, teams back up with her again for his project entitled, Hotel Cabana.

The album Our Version Of Events can be purchased here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/our-version-of-events/id526905373

New music from Lana Del Rey, "Serial Killer"

I can't quite remember how I heard about UK songstress Lana Del Rey but I know that after watching her video for National Anthem (which features A$AP Rocky playing a black JFK, if you haven't seen it I suggest you youtube it asap) I became a fan. Well shes already peaked at number 1 with her debut album Born To Die on the UK album charts, but that hasn't seemed to slow her down as she is now prepping to re release the album with 7 new tracks. The new album , which is to be released in November, will be titled Born To Die: Paradise Edition, and the first song can be heard below and is called Serial Killer.

 Lana Del Rey - Serial Killer (Unreleased) by delreylane 

You can purchase Born To Die here http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/born-to-die-deluxe-version/id493396277

written by, @LUSHnLUSTnoLOVE

Gensue Dean Feat. Oliver Daysoul on Wantchu

Texas based producer Gensue Dean has gotten co signs from DJ Premier and DMC (of Run DMC) from the work he's done with David Banner and Lord Jamar (of Brand Nubian). His debut album called Standard Life dropped back in Febuary. He's back at it again this time with UK singer/songwriter Oliver Daysoul on a track called Wantchu.

The album Standard Life can be purchased here http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Life-Explicit/dp/B006LKWAQU

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib release visual for Shame

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib drop another visual from their Shame EP which dropped back in June. This track also features BJ The Chicago Kid

The Shame EP can be purchased here http://stonesthrow.com/store/ep/freddiegibbsmadlib/shame-ep