Last night, Styles P and Just Blaze were in the cooker. Before the end result arrives this way, Styles warms us up with freebie over Jay Electronica and Just Blaze’s instrumental. Exhibit below. Sidebar: Is this the beat? We’ll see.

Paul Wall rolls his Wednesday music series in to the new year and comes double fisted with his latest installment. Come and get you some. Aww ready.

[vodpod id=Video.15911067&w=540&h=350&fv=] MTV watched the ball drop during their NYE In NYC 2012 at Times Square. Above J.Cole brings the “Work Out” to the stage while Mac Miller rolled through with his own “Party On Fifth Ave.”

Gotti’s new album, Live From The Kitchen will finally be hitting stores next Tuesday. But before it does, here is one more track from the album featuring Krit, Wiz Khalifa and Big Sean.

We young, black, and getting it. Ty Kidd Previously: You Don’t Know The Half

Despite Pill’s current label drama, he’s still sitting on new music and lets XXL deliver his latest tune. The Epidemic is still on its way.

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Once again, Rihanna has the Midas touch. This week, her latest album, Talk That Talk lands at #9 on the charts and surpassed the 500k mark according to the RIAA. Congrats Ri Ri!

Hoping to keep the OFWGKTA mania going in 2012, Odd Future’s Hodgy Beats and Left Brain release some new material.

While spending the holidays in Aspen, CO. Nick Cannon was hospitalized for kidney failure. His wife Mariah Carey discussed on her site what happened and Nick’s recuperation. This is us in the hospital – role reversal; Last year it was me attached to the machines (after having dembabies) and Nick was there with me through it, and now here we are. We’re trying to be as festive as possible under the circumstances but please keep Nick in your thoughts because this […]