Producer Psych Major returns with new single “Dystopia.” Featuring cerebral West-Coast legend Ras Kass and a verse by Psych himself (under his emcee alias Psych 101) the hard-body track is a lyrical dive into the runaway future that can await us all. Speaking on the raw/lo-fi fidelity on his verse Psych relayed “It’s been a few years since I recorded […]

It’s a double-blast of cinematic sound this morning. South Side Chicago beat-scion Onaje Jordan and Atlanta production don, Tone Beatz have leaked a track each from their forthcoming joint production LP, Alpha.   “Big Boy” is Onaje’s contribution and features verbal heat from his Hometeam brethren Charlie Chan and Southside Jonesy as well as turntable cuts courtesy of Joe Mack. “Powergun” is a Tone Beatz jawn featuring a […]

Weekly Rap Gods has the premiere of “Sinister” a new track pairing all-star lyricist Wordsworth with decorated turntablist Jay-Ef on the wheels.  Ominously produced by J Depina the lyrics and scratches reflect a litany of real-world issues that affect us today.  Speaking on the track Words revealed “Sinister touches on what’s going on in the […]

A new track entitled “Friends” has dropped today featuring the pairing of Jamal Gasol and Deuce Ellis. With this track comes the announcement of the October 8th release of their collaborative project entitled Oxtail. Though the release is over a week away the duo has already breezed through New England and New York playing several […]

The long hibernating Psych Major has come out of retirement blasting! New single “It’s Live!” is another dip into the rugged ’94 beat-bag for ruff-neck emcees Raf Almighty and Therealskitso to lyrically shred apart. Last week Psych dropped another single as a re-introduction to the game entitled “Peace Bridge” featuring Jamal Gasol, Wyze Wonda, DNTE […]

Buffalo, NY art dealers Toneyboi & Gaine$ bring us to the “Group Home” in new video. Produced by Toneyboi in his signature tones of electronic swag with boom-bap grit, the track has the biological brother emcees and guest Rochester, NY’s Brad Piff dropping that upstate reality rap. “Group Home” is taken from recently released Project […]

ochester NY’s man-of-many-beats Kidd Called Quest has just dropped a new EP for digital purchase. BXROCstrumentals is nine instrumental tracks of soulful, drum-laden boom-bap soundscapes. This is the instrumental version of his 2019 collaborative release BXROC with Bronx wordsmith G Fisher. However with a slight sonic variation, the original album was mixed by Parks (of […]

Rochester rhyme-vet, Curtis Coke returns with new visuals. “Gawd Willing” is a somberly laced gem (produced by DJ Sight) with motivational talk from Coke. Speaking on the joint he remarked “it’s the feeling of wanting and striving for it all, knowing it could all get fucked up but having enough faith to go full speed anyway.” This message […]

The “Peace Bridge” is an international structure that links upstate NY to Canada. In the newly released track of the same name, Producer Psych Major (Dagha, Reef The Lost Cauze) uses a xylophone and dusty drum soundscape to link up upstate NY spitters Jamal Gasol (pictured above) and Toneyboi with TO wordsmiths Wyze Wonda and […]

Buffalo emcee Y.N.X.716 has dropped a new two-fer video combining tracks “History” with “Solid Gold Soul.” For the “History” portion the street-scholar drives through his city dropping deep jewels to a vintage sounding 90’s soundscape. Fading into the “Solid Gold Soul” portion it’s straight soul-loop instrumental as Y.N.X shows us the opulent side of his personality. Speaking […]

Brooklyn emcee Lucky Tatt has dropped a new single this morning. “Sit Back” is that street-soul laced banger (Production courtesy of Endemic Emerald) with the additional sultry hook courtesy of Swedish singer Josy. The track is leaked from the forthcoming LP/CD from Lucky and Endemic entitled Provenance set to drop via No Cure Records (with distribution from Fat Beats) on 9/24 (pre-order at link […]

Florida based beatmaker SHARP.  and Rochester’s own ETO have combined to drop “Siamese” this morning.  Ominous n gritty, the track features ETO in deep internal combat with his shadow twin (reminiscent of DMX’s Damien tales) “Siamese” is taken from the forthcoming 3-song Maxi-Single dropping digitally this Friday 9/3 (with other tracks “Efforts” and “Colors”).  Cover […]

Fort Green, Brooklyn Emcee Lucky Tatt and NYC based producer Endemic Emerald have dropped a new single this morning. “Answer To A Question” is street conscious hip-hop about elevation of the community with orchestral flair. With the release of this single comes news of a full LP from this pairing of Tatt and Endemic. Provenance […]

Brooklyn’s Rome Streetz has not taken his foot off their necks at all this year. Currently on his Audio Narco Tour (which has dates in major markets on both coasts), recently featured on Top Shelf Premium‘s Supply And Demand showcase (which was hosted by Peter Rosenberg) and fresh off his collaboration project with ANKHLEJOHN (Genesis […]

New Jersey bred / Atlanta based emcee L.A. Mars returns with new single “From The Bottom.” Producted by German beat duo DopeBoyzMuzik (Torey Lanez) the keys laced, heavily thumping track is the perfect backing for Mars to share the dream and the struggle. Patiently refining his trade, Mars began dropping music back in 2006 and […]