Prince Sole drops his sophmore mixtape release, Opening Minds + Mending Hearts. With features from, Oktane (from Audio Push), Ty$, Ray J, Rayven Justice and more! Check out the tracklisting below and grab your copy underneath.

New self-produced clap from GetItBackFam's Jay Ant, and believe me this shit slap on "Everything."

So Kid Cudi, the cry baby rapper himself does it again... I'll let him do the rest of the talkin' below.

"Ok so just a heads up, my weak ass label only shipped 55k physicals cuz they treated this like some indie side project tax right off. So i apologize on behalf of my weak ass major label. And I apologize for the lack of promo, again, my weak ass major label. They tried to rush me thru this so i can just give em another MOTM, but guess what? Fuck that, next album is WZRD. MOTM3 on hold til 2014. who mad??? not me and @DotDaGenius. So its def gonna be tough to find one in the stores guys, I’m sorry about that. I gotta go out and find one too, becuz my weak ass label never even gave us a copy of our own album. FAIL!!! Im lettin Universal Republic have it, fuck it. What they gon’ do, spank me?? hahahaha. AND Teleport 2 Me, Jamie aint on the radio!!!! like helloooooooooo????? HIT HIT HIT!!!"

With his latest video, Lock paints a picture of his formative years and gives us an introspective glimpse of the person behind his rap moniker. Labyrinth coming soon!

For no other reason than.. he can, GLC teams up with T&A Records and drops a four-track EP for the fans. Tracklist, stream and download link after the jump.

No Freshman Class nod, no problem. Chip Tha Ripper and Casey Veggies link for a new cut titled “The Jam.” No word has been revealed as to a landing spot for the collaborative cut but shit who's complainin'?

Taylor Gang rep Juicy J drops some new visuals off his Blue Dream & Lean mixtape.

More visuals from the big homie Killa Kyleon’s “Candy Paint N’ Texas Plates 2″.

One of my favorite cuts off Q's recent Habits and Contradictions project gets the visual treatment. Again featuring fellow Black Hippy/TDE representative Ab-Soul.

Another exlusive from Sacramento emcee CKool, I'll let the song do the rest of the talkin' for me.

As a warm-up for his new release “Savage Journey to the American Dream”, Stalley offers a series of songs called “Songs by Me, Stalley”. The eighth and final leak is "Volley Express”, an original song featuring Scar, over Block Beattaz production. Savage Journey to the American Dream is coming soon! Stalley will unveil the release date when he gets 50,000 followers on twitter. I definitely fuck wit this record... your trippin if you feel otherwise.

Police are seeking to question rapper Rick Ross, after a 40-year-old man was shot to death in front of his Miami home. TMZ.com reports that the man was found dead in front of Rick Ross’ Miami Gardens mansion. Police said they found the man shot to death near a gate, in front of the rap star’s home. Rick Ross was not home when the murder occurred and he is not being considered a suspect. But police are seeking to question him, since he is the owner of the property.

BanksOnTheBeat steps both behind the mic, as well as behind the boards as he teams up with fellow YachTs member J.A.E to present to you "For The Thrill (Prod. By BanksOnTheBeat)". The first song release from BanksOnTheBeats "No Boundaries" Mixtape. "No Boundaries" drops on next week March 5th.

After his self-produced song, "UnderRated" premiered on JENESIS Magazine a couple weeks ago, the video premiered on MostlyJunkfood.com yesterday. Directed by Freeway's videographer, Jimmy Giambrone, Mel keeps it classy for Philly in this one. "UnderRated" will appear on his upcoming mixtape, Noise In The Library 2, dropping 3/27.

Windy City emcee Neak has come together with The DJBooth, Earmilk and Prefix Mag to bring fans his latest digital album, Love Greater // The Prequel. Executive produced by Slot-A of Banghottv.com and Rashid Hadee of Honest-Management, the project features 13 original records (and one download-only bonus track) from the Chi-town rhymesayer. Joining Neak on the guest tip throughout Love Greater // The Prequel are The ILLZ, MC ADAD, Rashid Hadee, NidaNasheeda, Slot-A, Sincerely Yours, Dave Bovyn (of The Numbers) and more. All production comes courtesy of Slot-A and Rashid Hadee, except "God Help the Middle Class", which is co-produced by INTLMC. You can check out the tracklisting and download your copy below.

Here goes a new exclusive, off The NhT Boyz upcoming project comes the title track, Yangland. Be on the lookout for the project to drop on March 6th. 

XXL has finally revealed the 10 artists featured on their 2012 XXL Freshmen list. The rappers who made the cut are Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Kid Ink, Future, Roscoe Dash, Hopsin, Macklemore, Don Trip, Iggy Azalea and French Montana.

Today we find Curren$y & Styles P as the latest couple of artists to drop a collaborative EP. #The1st28 caps out at 5 tracks and will likely leave fans of both wanting more. Listen/download below and hear for yourselves.

The FIRST official from Slaughterhouse’s debut project Welcome to: Our House dropping May 15th. I can get use to this one. But, will the mainstream? Doubt it!

I'm kinda new to the Action Bronson bandwagon, but dude has definitely had my attention ever since watching them "Bird On A Wire" visuals with Riff Raff. Here goes a new cut from Bam Bam titled "Nothing To Worry About."

New visuals from singer Bobby V, directed by Jonathan Andrade.

Here's the latest from Amir' Driver, "I Do It For My City". "S.essions of E.levated X.cellence" The S.E.X tape", coming soon!!

Inglewood’s own Skeme drops the visual for one of my favorite joints off his mixtape, Before My Next Statement, “Swaggin”. There is no way you can deny this shit. Dir. Seven78Eight

The follow-up to Boldy James last year’s Trapper’s Alley: Pros & Cons mixtape. Hit the jump for the track list & download link.

Last night Wiz invited some folks to check out his upcoming mixtape, set to drop on March 13th, and Obese and JD Hunt were on hand to grab some footage (not illegally, of course) of the whole thing. Meanwhile, you can check out LowKey’s recap for his drug-addled experience on the matter.

Another video off Scram’s latest mixtape, The Hat Trick.

We get new visuals from Neak from his upcoming project entitled Love Greater // The Prequel which is due out tomorrow.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. It’s no wonder why Funk Volume’s Dizzy Wright has a same outlook as his captain, Hopsin. On SmokeOut Conversations‘ second single, Dizzy calmly expresses his lack-of care toward the opinions of others. It wouldn’t be a true smoking-style album if it wasn’t released on April 20 through iTunes.

New Odd Future material in the shape of this Untitled EP from Hodgy Beats. Now you may think it’s pretty awesome to get a free 8 track EP, but wait until you hear the production credits: Juicy J, Thelonius Martin, The Alchemist and, as promised on Twitter, FLYING LOTUS! I mean, we don’t often get to hear FlyLo production being rapped over, and to have him hooking up with a young upstart like Hodgy on a couple of tracks is pretty dope. Grab your copy below.

With Breakfast out digitally and flirting with a top 10 debut on Billboard with online sales only, Chiddy Bang decided to drop another unreleased cut to keep the hype going. The duo will drop the physical release of Breakfast next week, and they’ll be on Jay Leno tonight, Conan Monday, and 106 & Park Thursday. Get Breakfast on  iTunes now.

Rashad, he of many hats, releases the one-take video for “The Return,” directed by Picture Candy Productions and filmed in Columbus, Ohio. Written and produced by the man himself, the melodic number’s smooth enough for the ladies but the lyrics are tough enough for the hard knocks to hum along to as well. The Museum, coming soon.

Offering up a very dope selection of T-shirts, Cut & Sewn's and accessories, Black Scale gives us a look into their Spring 2012 Collection. All of which will be available tonight at Midnight on their online shop.