Stones is the cousin of Buckshot from Black Moon, who’s got a dope gravelly voice with flow similar to his sibling. I’m skeptical of J Dilla tributes in general but this is pretty nice. Over “In The Night/While You Slept (I Crept)” off Jay Stay Paid. Download: Stones – Far..

CNN are the latest New York rappers to revisit the album that made them who they are today. Raekwon, Fat Joe, Kurious, and Sadat X are some of the rappers who have made or are making “sequels” to their debut albums. This is one trend I can get behind, because..

We wrote about RADix last year, but the little known duo is going to turn a lot more heads now that they’re working on an album with Statik Selektah. Is there anyone that Statik isn’t doing an album with? Download: RADix – The Return (produced by Statik Selektah) via TheCrypt..

For all our harping about vapid lyrics and materialism, sometimes a song about rims is just right. Call me a hypocrite, but hey, this is hip-hop. Gotta love the double time flow. This comes from Alley Boy’s street album Definition Of Fuck Shit, dropping Saturday. Download: Alley Boy – Tall..

Don’t pay attention to the cheap cover art. Terrace Martin’s Valentine’s Day EP is all kinds of funky. The Lover’s Edition is a departure from his West Coast bangers. Terrace teams with a few rappers, but mostly lesser known singers for eight songs of fine-wine-and-satin-sheets shit. Download: Terrace Martin –..

More heat by the 5’O Clock Shadowboxers, who I’ve been raving about for a minute. “No Resolution 2” is sequel to a track off their album The Slow Twilight, supplemented by some slight tweaks to the beat and stellar verses by an all-star cast of Philly underground rappers. This is..