Here’s the video for the pulsating, lyrically mesmerizing standout track from Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Where will Yelawolf’s skills take him next?

And if you’re in NYC on Monday September 6, come see Yelawolf, Pill, Just Blaze, and more perform for free at Fool’s Gold’s Labor Day party.

I didn’t know Statik was capable of something as dark and elegant as this. Sonic’s mixtape Look, Listen & Observe drops next week (no Charles Hamilton).

Download: Sonic – Money & Power (ft. Termanology, Reks) (produced by Statik Selektah)

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Gaslamp Killer is another one of those LA producers who I should have been checking for a year and a half ago, but instead I’m going to peep his new EP Death Gate and then stumble through his discog ass backwards. “When I’m In Awe” sounds like something the Swamp Thing plays when he’s having sex. Gonjasufi’s debut album A Sufi and a Killer is just as trippy as everyone says it is.

Download: The Gaslamp Killer – When I’m In Awe (ft. Gonjasufi)

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The great Kanye, Raekwon, Justin Bieber collaboration is actually a mashup of “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta F’ Wit” and young Bieber’s “Runaway Love.” The story begins on Twitter when Kanye shouted out Justin. The two got to patting each other on the back and Kanye suggested they work together… along with Raekwon.

Justin Bieber, a throwback to virginal Mickey Mouse Club pop, recognizes the irony aligning himself with big scary rappers. Both he and Kanye understand the pop culture magnitude and humor in remixing “Runaway Love” with Raekwon the Chef. Delighted to see his name mentioned by two of the biggest artists in the world, Rae got his ass over to Kanye’s studio.

Kanye is the master of making authentic yet mainstream rap music and thus the ideal candidate for such an undertaking. Raekwon raps his heart out because he knows what it means for his career to make headlines with Kanye and Justin Bieber. Kanye breaks out his sharpest Wu references to keep up.

Heads can rest easy. The “Runaway Love” remix is unfettered Wu-Tang with Justin Bieber doing his best Michael Jackson impression. Not only does the song work, it sounds eerily natural. Justin appears as a sample on the hook and Raekwon doesn’t strain himself to accommodate the teenyboppers.

The track is more a quirk of the Internet age than a major crossroads in popular music, but if Team Bieber starts bumping Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, we can look back on “Runaway Love” as “Walk This Way” 2010.

Download: Justin Bieber – Runaway Love (Remix) (ft. Kanye West, Raekwon)

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Ignore the terrible artwork. “Stop It” is great background music for casually committing felonies.

Download: Sean Price & Eddie B – Stop It (produced by Harry Fraud) (cuts by DJ Buffalo)

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Time to start checking for Harry Fraud.

Bonus: Ill Bill & Steven King – Muzzle The Nose (produced by Harry Fraud)

Kanye West made good on his promise to release a new song on Friday with the rich kids posse cut “Monster.” Between joining Twitter and pledging to leak a song every Friday until Christmas, Kanye is making Internet promo his bitch right now. Am I losing it if I think Nicki Minaj’s verse reigns supreme? This is the second of five songs from Kanye and Jay-Z’s EP Watch the Throne, the first being the sloppy “Power” remix. An earlier version was edited, but this is the full, dirty track.

Download: Kanye West & Jay-Z – Monster (ft. Rick Ross, Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj)

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Bonus: Stromae – Alors On Danse (ft. Kanye West, Gilbere Forte)

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Funny how KRS-One and RZA contradict each other while tryna kick knowledge. KRS knocks corporations and then RZA shouts out Hollywood execs. The most eyebrow raising-line is RZA’s nod to the cops. Few rappers have the ‘nads to take their positive raps that far. True Master provides a dilapidated Wu-Tang beat. Off KRS-One & True Master’s Meta-Historical, out August 31.

Download: KRS-One & True Master – 1-2, Heres What We Gone Do (ft. RZA)

I wish Drake made a pop rap album in the vein of this track with singer Choklate instead of the hopelessly generic debut that was Thank Me Later.

Tha Bizness wrote on their blog, “This Is Not The Official But Its Something We Thought The People Would Enjoy!!”

Download: Choklate – Overdose (ft. Drake) (produced by Tha Bizness)

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Bemoaning the current state of hip-hop is a tradition as old as hip-hop itself. “No Shots” goes a step further than the usual state-of-the-game assessment by actually naming names. 7L & Esoteric fire an arrow over the widening generational gap and tear into 3OH!3, Wiz Khalifa, Nicki Minaj, Waka Flocka, and Travis Barker. Most rappers will only go as far as vaguely criticizing “these new cats.”

The duo’s new album 1212 drops October 12.

Download: 7L & Esoteric – No Shots

The next time there’s long stretch of time when I don’t post anything on ML, you can blame Halo: Reach. Even though I’ve sworn all kinds of unbreakable oaths to the deity known as Nintendo, Halo has dominated most of my gaming time since Halo 3 came out in 2007.

The next entry in the series, Halo: Reach, comes out September 14 and it promises to be as big of a blockbuster as ever. While you’re waiting to empty a clip in a friend, you can check out HaloFest over at GameStop, where they have videos, contests, and giveaways. One of those life-size statues would go great with the life-size Wu-Tang tapestry I’m trying to commission for my living room (artists, holler).

Check back soon for our thoughts on the game when we get our review copy AND a special Metal Lungies giveaway.