Tales from a trouble man sure sounds sweet. Here, T.I. runs through the tracklist of Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head and details the meaning behind each tune. Purchase the album here.

“Man, you don’t need no education for rapping.” The Breakfast Club’s extended member returned to the show to plug his mixtape, DuFlocka Rant 2. He also weighed in on some recent events including Gucci’s Career Day, Uncle Luke’s letter to Rozay and more.

Commemorating J. Dilla’s 32nd birthday and Big Pun‘s passing yesterday, Peter Rosenberg lit up the airwaves with a hour of classics. Listen to his tribute below.

Excuse the delay. According to French’s Facebook account, May 21 is now the date for his debut album, Excuse My French. His next single “Freaks” will feature Nicki Minaj. hhnm

Premiered last night by the LA Leakers, Young Jeezy makes himself comfortable for the official remix of Ty Dolla $ign’s song. The more the merrier.

Hip-hop pioneer and Video Music Box creator, Ralph McDaniels stopped by The Combat Jack Show this week for a trip down memory lane. Here’s what you missed. It’s the Box That Rocks! Ralph McDaniels, founder of the seminal Video Music Box talks thirty years of history. Highlights include how Big Daddy Kane shot someone causing him to miss “The Symphony” video shoot, how we wasn’t fucking with Mr. Magic at first, gunplay at NaS’s “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” video shoot, running […]

Speaking with MTV, Pusha T reassures that he and brother No Malice have a new Clipse album on the way. There’s no time frame set yet, but he announces As God As My Witness as the title. “When it comes to the Clipse, that’s a special brand to me. Me and Malice talk about doing a Clipse album. I’m not into toyin’ around with that, like just dropping records that ain’t related to an album. We owe our fans something super special, so […]

You know Jomo wasn’t going to let Drake’s instrumental pass him by. So for his and Trav’s latest revamp installment, they both add their rendition to the long list of others. Filmed in the studio of course.

It’s a New York takeover as A$AP and French split the Feb/Mar cover of XXL. In the issue, A$AP recalls the passing of his father and his parents’ musical influence. French discusses his debut album, 50 Cent and the time he was shot. Peep their solo covers below. All three issues hits newsstands February 19.

Mike Will made it over to Shade 45 for Sway’s morning show. In addition to name dropping his ideal MCs over his production, he talks working with Future and possibly future work with the Bieber God.