This was an incredible month for free hip hop MP3s, and it was an incredible month for songs by Lemonade because "Neptune" is one of this year's finest. And so the paramaters I gave myself with this…   Read Story »

The X-rated, id-driven Brooklyn rapper Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire recently inked a deal with Universal Republic Records -- this, even though his name is Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire. To further indicate…   Read Story »

Hey, everybody, it's that time again! South By Southwest 2012. Are you ready? How's your hashtag game? Can you feel the early-onset FOMO? As the Austin institution grows larger and larger, with more…   Read Story »

The members of New York's suddenly-awesome underground rap scene aren't exactly the most conventionally attractive group of dudes on the face of the earth, but they do know how to look cool. And the…   Read Story »

All three members of Das Racist are planning to release solo mixtapes in 2012, and a couple of weeks into the year, two of them have already done it. We've already posted The Palm Wine Drinkard, Kool…   Read Story »

Brooklyn knucklehead-rap wonder Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire broke out big this year with his excellent Lost In Translation mixtape, but he's been making grimy New York rap for way longer than that. The…   Read Story »

The new video for "Lou Ferigno's Mad," one of the tracks from Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's excellently scuzzed-out New York rap mixtape Lost in Translation, has a whole lot of clips of the titular…   Read Story »

ASAP Rocky and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire are the two young rappers currently doing the most to make New York an exciting rap scene again. Except maybe they don't like each other? There's definitely a…   Read Story »

It's the return of Remixtape, the feature where I listen to a tremendous amount of shitty blog-bait "X Remixes Y" tracks and weed out those worth your weed-out. (Right?) Volume 6 opens with this…   Read Story »

We actually got a ridiculous number of strong, visually striking music videos this week: everything on this week's list is pretty much must-see. And it does my heart good to see that two of them come…   Read Story »