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I’ve been transfixed by this Gucci Mane song for the past few days. I don’t care where you’re from or what notions you have about “real hip-hop.” This beat bangs like Donkey Kong’s down+B in Smash Bros. And that’s coming from one of the most stalwart Gucci-haters.

Download: Gucci Mane – Tired of You (produced by Ced L Young)

via Ced_L_Young

Hi-Tek’s slow and deliberate beat keeps Kweli from sounding too preachy on “In This World.” Judging by the impressive and vastly different production on “Just Begun,” “Back Again” and now “In This World,” I think Revolutions Per Minute might be the capstone of Hi-Tek’s career.

Download: Reflection Eternal – In This World

via Nah Right

Aleon Craft and SMKA collaborated on this whisper-y Atlanta-flavored remake of the OG Temptations hit “The Way You Do The Things You Do.” The Prologue Pt. 1 comes out March 15. Ain’t shit changed since ‘64.

Download: Aleon Craft – The Way You Do The Things You Do (produced by SMKA)

Bonus: The Temptations – The Way You Do The Things You Do

off The Temptations Sing Smokey

I dug Raheem DeVaughn’s songs with Ghostface and I was actually really excited when I heard they might be doing an album together, but I’ve never seen DeVaughn as a viable solo artist. “The Greatness” may have just changed my mind. This is what a “song for the ladies” should sound like. Mature and funky. Check his mixtape from January.

Random: every time I hear the vocoder on the intro, I think of “Black Superman.”

Download: Raheem DeVaughn – The Greatness (ft. Wale)

via Xclusives Zone

All praises due to Black Spade for the hazy soulful “New U.”

Download: Black Spade – New U (produced by J*Davey)

via Saturn Never Sleeps

Danny Brown “Re-Up” Video from FWMJ on Vimeo.

Danny B rocking his typically half-gully/half-goofy style over a cold, creeping beat produced by Quelle of Crown Nation, who’s done work with Danny before.
Here’s another joint off Danny’s upcoming album, The Hybrid., “New Era”, produced by Nick Speed.

Download: Danny Brown – New Era

Via Rappers I Know

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Meyhem’s X-rated rhymes are wonderfully visual. He and Thirstin Howl III were messing around in the studio and beefed up the Slick Rick track.

Download: Thirstin Howl III, Meyhem Lauren – Treat Her Like A Prostitute

via dallaspenn.com

I consider myself to be a smart person. I subscribe to many RSS feeds. But some of the language being used to describe Free The Robots is way over my head. What the hell does this mean?

Heavily steeped in the Low End aesthetic, Free the Robots doesn’t as much assert a new vision as much as add a different angle, one occasionally angular and overly stiff, but often sleek and punishing, closer to traditional dubstep but unorthodox enough to dig up some dirty Levantine psych to make a beat called “Turkish Voodoo.”

Man, I don’t know. Free The Robots’ album Ctrl Alt Delete drops March 30. Listen to some jams.

Download: Free The Robots – Orion’s Belt Buckle

via Alpha Pup Records

Download: Free The Robots – Jupiter

via West Coast Sound

You have to admire how DJ Premier still works with unknowns like Smiley The Ghetto Child. Off The Antidote Pt. 2, dropping in May.

Download: Smiley The Ghetto Child – I’m Legend (produced by DJ Premier)

via DJ Premier Blog

Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke provides a wonderfully spacey, 8-bit sounding beat that Al Mighty and Distant Starr of MAGr tear to pieces.

If I don’t make it in rap, there’s always river dancing and driving mack trucks

This is off Al’s upcoming solo debut, Agony of Deceit.

Download: MAGr (Al Mighty & Distant Starr) – MAG Who?