During a recent stop at the University of Chicago,

Meek celebrated his birthday this past Friday at the 40/40 club in Atlantic City, NJ. If you couldn’t make it pass the velvet rope, here’s footage from the lens of PABO.

JD and Da Brat continue their remix takeover and bogart Miguel’s latest single. We sure need an official remix to this soon. Brat mixtape coming next week. global 14

The Based God is back at it again with a bitchin’ 24 track mixtape. Show some respect and check out the tracklist and download link after the cut.

[vodpod id=Video.8802997&w=540&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] So, instead of releasing the song in its entirety, Polow Da Don decided to drop the instrumental for Lloyd’s upcoming single with Trey Songz and Young Jeezy. No idea as to why, but hopefully the final product sounds as good as the beat. thisisrnb

Cali Swag District member M-Bone, was fatally shot twice in the head last night in a drive by shooting in Inglewood, California. He was 22. So far, no arrests have been made. Condolences go out to his friends and family. For any information or tips contact the following: The Inglewood Police Department homicide division at (310) 412-5246 or its 24-hour anonymous hotline number, (888) 41 CRIME, or (888) 412-7463. mtv UPDATE: TMZ says Twitter may have played a role.

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Here’s a new track from La Flare which will be featured on

With Self Made dropping a week from today, here’s the latest music video featuring Meek Mill and Rick Ross. As always directed by Dre Films and Spiff TV.  

The New Yorker‘s writer Kelefa Sanneh found Odd Future’s