After Wednesday’s hints I was sure we’d be finally getting the highly anticipated sophomore release from The Weeknd yesterday; however it wasn’t until very late in the day that it dropped, where I almost thought it wasn’t going to. I haven’t had the chance to listen yet, but I’m pretty sure from the couple of things I’ve heard already, that it’s going to at least live up to the standard of House Of Balloons…

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I’m not sure why, but I got this 2005 track from Houston rapper Mike Jones, stuck in my head this morning, and it brought back his whole “Who Is Mike Jones?” marketing campaign, giving out his phone number to fans etc. I couldn’t resist posting it as a throwback…

More new output from OF, in the form of a new track (over KiD CuDi’s “Glory” instrumental) from resident pothead, Domo Genesis, which will be included on his upcoming project, Under The Influence, dropping sometime soon…

Visuals for the track off the upcoming retail re-release of the now Maybach Music representer’s excellent Lincoln Way Nights LP, which drops on the 25th of this month…

The latest leak from DZA’s upcoming retail release, Rolling Stoned, which drops on the 30th of this month…

I usually avoid listening to freestyles over beats that have been “overdone” such as this, but since GhostWridah is on such a winning run of quality output recently, I (quite rightly) thought that this would be worth a listen…

Download his American Alien album here…

A behind the scenes look into the making of Ski and Stalley’s “Larry Bird” from 24 Hour Karate School 2, which is out now. For a closer look into the background and making of the tracks on the album, check out my interview with Ski here…

Out of the blue comes the latest single from MellowHype and their upcoming album Numbers, which is set to drop later this year. If it’s anywhere near as good as the last two albums then it’s going to well worth waiting for…

I missed this somehow when it dropped last week. Skeme reminds the rap game that Tupac isn’t back, and will never be replaced. Focus on doing you!

I’m way more interested in Cons when it’s got nothing to do with dissing Kanye and co…