(image source) 2Pac disses everyone and their mom on this unreleased a cappella freestyle. One needs only listen to the first few seconds of “Hit Em Up” (“That’s why I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker”) to realize hip-hop beef has lost its spark. Where have all the angry rappers..

According to Drake, this track was originally for Rihanna. And yet, it still goes harder than “Death of Auto-Tune.” So far, Jay hasn’t given us too much to be excited about for Blueprint 3. “Run This Town” is decent and has an edge that was missing from “D.O.A.,” but it’s..

(image source)  This first leaked alongside “Hallelujah” but  I didn’t post it because it had DJ Skee tags. Here’s the untagged version of the feel-good West Coast posse cut. The song is co-produced by the odd combination of the legendary DJ Battlecat (overdue for a Beat Drop) and relative newcomers..

Nore took a page out of Cudi’s book with this one, but still sounds like good ol’ Nore. Off S.O.R.E. (Still On the Run Eating). Said Nore about the track in March, I like Kid Cudi. It was crazy, ’cause I kind of wanted to use him for a single...

Sareem Poems of Long Beach, California raps about his lady over Oddisee’s crackling, popping, soulful beat. The album, Black & Read All Over, is nothing but beautiful samples and dusty drums from top to bottom. Producers Oddisee and Theory Hazit knocked it out the park with this one. Download: Sareem..

(image source) “Baby” is by far the best cut I’ve heard off Ghost’s new album Wizard of Poetry (due September 29). However, unnecessary Auto-Tune mars a perfectly good hook sung by Raheem DeVaughn. Download: Ghostface Killah – Baby (ft. Raheem DeVaughn) via 2dopeboyz Sphere: Related Content

Off Time Machine (Hood Politics VI), dropping September 22. Term’s new mixtape is a mix of old and new, “Nobody’s Smiling” being one of the new tracks. Tracklisting after the jump. Download: Termanology – Nobody’s Smiling (produced by Statik Selektah) (more…) Sphere: Related Content

For some reason, I never like Khalil tracks the first time I hear them, but I can’t stop listening to them after a week or two. So I’m going to give Khalil the benefit of the doubt today. I’m anxious to see if the Slaughterhouse supergroup (Joell Ortiz, Crooked I,..