Backed by The Roots, Frank made his national TV debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and performed “Bad Religion”. Channel ORANGE is now on iTunes and arrives in stores next Tuesday.

La musica de Harry Fraud and the rhymes of Spitta combine on their joint EP. Features include Styles P and Smoke DZA. The five titles and download link after the jump.

During his Paris show last Tuesday, Nas spoke on his musical influence then segued into Life Is Good‘s third track with a Marvin Gaye sample flipped by DJ Green Lantern and the Z band. Nice mix.

Earlier today, L.A.’s Power 106’s DJ Charisma got the go to premiere the new remix from E-40’s street banger now featuring Big Sean. Sean floated on this one. The Block Brochure is in stores now. xzone

So here’s the skinny. Last Friday, yours truly called out Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex for putting too much energy into his beef with Power 105.1—instead of breaking records. Dialogue followed and Flex told me to make a list of 10 songs that I felt were overlooked for NYC radio play. It wasn’t an easy task. And after listening to a string of recent releases, here’s a list of recordings that I felt had the most potential for the airwaves. Here […]

Produced by Sonny Digital, Diamond reminds us all she’s rich bitch. Reality check: This is awful. The Young Life drops July 31. hiphop-n-more

I thought no one could stop us. Ty Kidd Previously: Real Monsters

The consistency continues as Nasir airs out his past marriage’s highs and lows for the album’s closing track. Produced by Salaam Remi and Noah “40” Shebib. Life’s so much better now, but Life Is Good on July 17. Pitchfork

Damn it’s foggy. While discussing industry folks including his work with Madlib with the Soul Assassins, Gibbs drops a quick freebie at the 3:18 mark. Baby Face Killa coming soon.

Produced by Brix, Jon stays true to himself and says it the best way he knows how on the second leak off While You Were Sleeping, dropping July 26.