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British songstress, Estelle, has teamed with Atlanta's DJ Trauma to release a new mixtape in June. The project, titled '#Ialmostmadeamixtape,' is an eleven-track collaboration that features original songs as well as several covers. The mixtape's lead single, ',' features Estelle rhyming over the instrumental from Memphis Bleek's 2005 single 'Dear Summer...

T.I.'s 'F--- a Mixtape' will be released at 8PM on Thursday night, May 27, and hip-hop fans can expect a little West Coast tribute from the Atlanta rapper. In addition to his new material, TIP took on the remake of Ice Cube's classic 1990 song, 'Once Upon a Time in the Projects,' for his new street album...

Fresh off the release of their latest album 'Rise Up,' West Coast hip-hop group Cypress Hill are dropping the accompanying 'Uprising' mixtape. Boasting 25 tracks, the record is hosted by Peter Rosenberg, of New York City's Hot 97 radio station, and features previous Cypress Hill recordings like 'Insane in the Membrane' and 'How I Could Just Kill a Man...

It's been five years since Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy dropped his 'Trap or Die' mixtape, and the sequel, fittingly titled 'Trap or Die 2: By Any Means Necessary,' doesn't stray far from the mark. The follow-up, which was released on Tuesday (May 4), is hosted and produced by longtime Jeezy collaborator Don Cannon, and boasts a collaboration with the Clipse on 'Ill'in'...

Hot 97 DJ Kay Slay is no stranger to overkill. This past weekend, the former graffiti artist dropped a sequel to his mind-melting mixtape 'Rollin 25 Deep,' a track that features 25 MCs rapping circles around a beastly East Coast beat. Among the two dozen plus rappers who participate the second time around are Raekwon, Busta Rhymes, Styles P, Jim Jones, Bun B, Papoose, Redman, Mistah F...

The death of famed punk entrepreneur, producer, promoter and band manager Malcolm McLaren sent waves through the music world last week. As the bizarre inventor of the Sex Pistols, McLaren knew how to create spectacle like few others and had a lifetime of managerial successes to boot...

Hip-hop artists have embraced mixtapes as the best route to circumvent the delays and legal hoopla that come along with releasing studio albums, but big labels aren't ready to let this one go with a fight. On Thursday, April 9, Newindustrytips...

Somewhere along the race for the next King of New York, The Kid Daytona decided to take another route. Back track to the early 2000s, Daytona was in the fast lane, alongside other up-and-comers like Mickey Factz and Jae Millz, battling in the streets of New York...

Reflection Eternal -- rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek -- have pushed back the release of their sophomore album, 'Revolutions Per Minute.' The long-awaited follow-up to their 2000 debut, Train of Thought,' will now hit stores on April 20, two weeks after the original street date of April 6...

Yung Stack, the sibling of slain rapper Stack Bundles, has announced that he will follow in his elder brother's footsteps and become a rapper. Bundles, a member of Dip-Set's Byrd Gang, was shot to death outside of his Far Rockaway, Queens home in 2007...