Jay Electronica

"I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the king of New York/King of the Coast, one hand, I juggle them both." "I'm usually homeboys with the same niggas I'm rhymin' with/But this is hip-hop and them niggas should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Mills, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I

Big Sean premiered on Funkmaster Flex one of his bonus tracks off Hall Of Fame. On “No I.D. (Freestyle),” Sean, Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica go bar for bar over the gritty and sample-heavy production by No I.D. A few moments after the track dropped, he explained on Twitter the inspiration behind the record, simply stating, “I'm talking 7min shit.” You'll probably...

Mac Miller is wrapping up his huge Space Migration tour with Chance The Rapper, Vince Staples, The Internet and Action Bronson soon, and his press run for his Watching Movies With The Sound Off is continuing as well. Recently, in a video interview with HardKnockTV, he delved into the diss that Loaded Lux levied at the end of his track "Red Dot Music." ...

DJ Premier took some time out of his insanely busy schedule to hop on the phone with XXL and talk about some of his upcoming projects, including getting Joey Bada$$ back into the studio after his long tour to work on his debut album, and a beat he did for Rapsody's upcoming mixtape and the Slaughterhouse album. " act...

Last week, REVOLT TV announced that New York's one-time favorite son Saigon would be appearing on the upcoming season of Love & Hip-Hop New York. Now, while this is a strange decision for the street rapper who at some point would've clowned on anyone who appeared on a reality show, we're happy for him (and his current girlfriend, whoever she is) and looking forward to seeing what kind of braw

We know, we know. You’ve heard it all before, right? But, according to producer, The Bullitts, Jay Electronica’s long awaited album Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) is finally in the last process of recording and should be in your hands sooner than later. Bullitt...

Mac Miller is currently out on tour with Chance the Rapper, Vince Staples and The Internet in support of his new album Watching Movies With The Sound Off, his most mature work to date. But that doesn't mean he's lost the joking nature of his youth; Mac stopped by Reddit today to participate in an 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA) session, where he shifted back and forth between serious answers, ridiculous r

Jeymes Samuel a.k.a. The Bullitts enlist the help of the ever so mysterious Jay Electronica for "Murder Death Kill." Samuel will be releasing the upcoming project They Die By Dawn & Other Short Stories on July 9. It'll be interesting to see the video for this song from the filmmaker/singer/songwriter who always finds a creative way to depict his songs. Li...

This week was an important one for hip-hop. On Tuesday, four mainstream albums (and a litany of mixtapes, singles and album announcements) dropped, marking June 18 as 2013's first major release date. So, whether you spent the last five days arguing about J...

In the buildup to the release of Kanye West's sixth solo album Yeezus, we asked a handful of rappers and producers what their favorite tracks were in the Kanye discography. It's not an easy question, and can sometimes lead to deeper thoughts on which iteration of the Yeezy lexicon is more preferable than the others—the earnest, soul-sample-heavy early years of College Dropout and Late Registration

When Mac Miller announced his collaborative effort with Pharrell, many fans expected to see a large leap in creativity from the Pittsburgh spitter. After “Onaroll” and “Glow” dropped last year, the Pink Slime project sounded refreshingly different. The pair did a few fac...

If you were wrestling with the decision of copping Mac Miller's upcoming LP, Watching Movies With The Sound Off, on June 18, here's some more music to help with your choice. Mac taps the elusive Jay Electronica to spit over dreamy chords on , "Suplexes Inside of Complexes and Duplexes...