T.I. comes with his new single of Paper Trial entitled “Life of the Party” to follow is current single “No Matter What“. “Life of the Party” features R. Kelly right off the heals of his acquittal of Child Porn charges. The two embattled artists flow over a smoothed out party track talking about how […]

This is a great interview with Lil Wayne where is speaks on a number of topics and it includes portions of him performing live!

Memphis, TN rapper “Kinfolk” Kia Shine has a new mixtape and DVD “The Kush” coming soon and one of the lead off tracks is “Co-Pilot”. Shine has been doing his thing on the southern underground for a minute and first broke nationally last year when the addictive pop hop recording “So Krispy” gained significant rotation […]

After 2007’s critically acclaimed “Hip Hop Lives” album produced by Legendary Rap producer Marley Marl, KRS-ONE comes back hard with “Criminal Minded 08″ produced by DJ Premier from the Smirnoff Signature Mix series. There is nothing much that needs to be said about this track other than it is a banger! Check out the official […]

Joe Budden talks candidly with Smacktube on various issues including a number of rappers that have taken shots at him such as Saigon, Prodigy and Fabolous.
Budden calls Prodigy of Mobb Deep “the Hip Hop version of Bobby Brown”, says “Fabolous is wack” and doesn’t care about any issues Saigon may have with him. Watch it […]

Rapper 50 Cent apparently had his chain snatch at one of his shows in Africa. The video below shows a man on stage snatching 50 Cent’s chain jumping off stage and running off into the crowd. Being the gangster rapper he is 50 Cent jumps off stage to chase the man. 50 Cent did not […]

Rich Boy’s new joint featuring Gucci Mane “Ms. Pac Man” is an ode to their “down-ass chick”. Aside from Gucci Mane’s weak verse the track is not half bad. The beat is a synth heavy instrumental complete with those southern 808’s we love in the club and has a catchy flavor to it. Listen […]

Riding dirty on a soulful bluesy track laced with blues guitar licks, driving organs and a rolling baseline Underground King Bun B and Cash Money’s Lil Wayne let us in on just how cold they are. Produced by Chopz the track has the perfect UGK feel Pimp C (RIP) would be proud of complete with […]

The uptown soldiers from the NO are letting us know they run this on the new remix for Birdman and Weezy’s “I Run This“. The beat is heavy and of course Lil Wayne steals the show from his simplistic braggadocio “daddy” Birdman. Despite the stale topic matter Lil Wayne spits some heavy metaphor laden […]

For their 153rd issues URB Magazine have chosen legendary rap music band The Roots and rap legend Nas to grace the covers of what they call “The Conscious” issue. The Roots feature can be read here