I love occasions like this. I had totally forgotten that Mikey was dropping a project today, then I noticed it in my inbox. IllRoots hosted the tape which has contributions from the likes of Alchemist, Casey Veggies, Jeremih, Cardo, Boldy James, Shorty K, Chuck Inglish and more.

If it’s anything like the last mixtape he dropped this year then this is definitely something that I’ll be playing for a while! Hit the jump for tracklist and download…
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9th Wonder and some of Jamla’s finest team up for a posse cut to represent their label/family which will appear on the AC3 Volume 1 compilation which drops October 4th…

9th’s The Wonder Years is out now, if you didn’t already, then check out my track-by-track interview with him here…

The third of tonight’s T.I. tracks is his latest single, featuring the talents of Big K.R.I.T on the hook. Shame K.R.I.T didn’t put a verse on there, but a good track nonetheless…

More output from Clifford, who seems to have been hard at work since getting out of jail for the second time in recent years, this time on the remix of 2 Chainz’ ‘Spend It’…

New Danny Brown to hold us over until he and Black Milk start dropping tracks from their upcoming collaborative EP…

Another new track from Gilbere Forte’s upcoming EP, Some Dreams Never Sleep, which drops this coming Tuesday…

I was actually thinking about this EP earlier today and wondering whether we’d be hearing it before the year is out. As a huge fan of both Milk and Danny, I can’t wait to hear what they’ve been working on. It drops just over a month away on November 1st, and the great news is that despite it being called an ‘EP’ it is still a full ten tracks long…

01 Sound Check
02 Wake Up
03 Loosie
04 Zap
05 Jordan VIII
06 Dada
07 WTF
08 LOL
09 Dark Sunshine
10 Black And Brown

While you wait be sure to check out Black Milk’s work on the brilliant Random Axe LP, and one of my current favourites, Danny Brown’s XXX album…

In his second recent collaboration with Stones Throw records, Hodgy Beats this time goes in over some production by South African producer Jonti, for his upcoming debut album Twirigig which drops October 11th…

In an attempt to help push the local hip-hop/street dance scene in my area, I’m looking at hosting a freestyle dance competition (as well as out usual B-Boy Battles) at the next HipHopFiend club night. Whilst looking into the hip-hop/street dance culture B-Boy Rokas put me onto this video edited by Yak Films, documenting a great freestyle battle in the streets of Paris…

The ever hard-working Spitta drops a light snack for fans whilst we await his next project which, whatever it may be, is probably coming soon!