The Mad Rapper drops off his new tape Appreciate The Hate Vol 2 featuring Kanye West, Gunplay, Meek Mill, Fred The Godson and more.

Tracklist and download link below.

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1/3 of Pac Div, Mibbs, drops off his debut solo project Free Bass produced entirely by Scoop DeVille. He already has 5 more EPs done, each with a different producer.

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Previously: Rapper Big Pooh – Gold Chain

Previously: Chase N. Cashe ft. Troy Ave – Word On The Street

Here we have the OG, pre-Dre, cassette version of Snoop’s now classic “Ain’t No Fun (If the Homies Can’t Have None)”, ripped from a tape purchased by DâM-FunK at the Slauson Swap Meet in 1992. It just doesn’t get more OG than that kids.

Spotted: ego trip via Miss Info

Previously: Snoop Dogg – Let The Bass Go

Ski for L-R-G’s “Off The Record” series:

Legendary producer Ski Beatz is responsible for some of the most influential and instantly recognizable hip-hop beats of all time. As part of our ongoing Off the Record series, we caught up with the storied beatsmith to discuss a variety of topics – ranging from his early days as an emcee with Original Flavor – to the fateful introduction to Jay-Z which was a moment that would inevitably shift the North Carolina native from double duty to strictly a producer of classics.

Previously: Ski Beatz Interview w/ Montreality

Previously: The Time Papoose Crashed Summer Jam | French Montana ft. The Game, Problem, Dizzy Wright & Crooked I – Aint Worried About Nothin (Remix)

New mixtape Cell Block To Your Block drops August 1st.

Previously: Young Scooter ft. Gucci Mane – Work (Video)

Shot by Mario Sorrenti

GQ landed the first real interview of the Nothing Was The Same media cycle. In it, not only does Drake discuss rap, love and Chris Brown, but also money, his security, family and talks at lengths about what goes into making his songs:

In one song off the new album, Drake delves into the pain of his parents’ split, but as always for Drake, it’s raw material—powerful, personal, and cautionary—reshaped as art. And it’s what makes Drake Drake: his willingness to go there and say it out loud, and in that way possess it. If it’s an impulse not wholly recognizable in rap, it suggests that perhaps Drake belongs on a slightly different continuum, one belonging, at least in spirit, to confessional poets or expressionist painters or indie bands like the xx, a band he loves. But, he says, his lodestar for the new work has been Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear, the 1978 double-album confessional chronicling the collapse of Gaye’s first marriage, described by one critic as “the sound of divorce…exposed in all its tender-nerve glory.”

“It’s so honest,” says Drake, who’s also been recording in Gaye’s old studio, Marvin’s Room. “He just puts it all out there.

Drake also revealed he was “four songs into the new album” at the time of this interview, including one which is titled “Tuscan Leather”:

Drake and 40 swivel at the same time and start tapping the keys of their laptops, cuing up the first track off of Nothing Was the Same, a song called “Tuscan Leather”—a title, Drake tells me, named for a Tom Ford fragrance that some say smells like a brick of cocaine.

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Off 40′s upcoming trilogy The Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil 4, 5 & 6.

Previously: E-40 – The Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil 4, 5 & 6 (Artwork)