Nas performed “Hip Hop Is Dead,” “NY State Of Mind,” and “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” at Honolulu’s Aloha Tower last Friday, with the homie Statik Selektah on the wheels.

“When this song came out, some of y’all were 8”

This leaked yesterday with obnoxious “Sample Clearance Only” tags, but someone managed to get rid of them.

Off Thank Me Later, but earlier today Omen (the track’s producer,) said this is the unfinished version. Shout to Angel for getting mentioned by Terius on this shit.

Drake feat. The-Dream – Shut It Down (Unfinished)

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Produced by Omen & Noah “40″ Shebib.

UPDATE 6/1: Now that the album’s leaked, here’s the final/mastered version, which has a brand new outro section titled “Lay You Down”.

Drake feat. The-Dream – Shut It Down/Lay You Down (Final/Mastered)

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This song came out with DJ Haze tags on Friday, but this one is No DJ.

Lloyd Banks – Got Em Like | Mediafire

Shouts to DJ Plus.

Previously: Lloyd Banks feat. Juelz Santana – Beamer, Benz Or Bentley

Off Brooklyn rapper Charlie Hustle’s Charlie’s World.

The recently-granted-appeal Max B has a verse & hook but appears here in the form of “police surveillance video” i.e. repurposed visuals.

Download: Charlie Hustle ft. Max B & French Montana – Coke Mobb

Cassidy – All The Haze Burnt Up | Mediafire

Previously: Cassidy feat. Swizz Beatz – Henny N Bacardi (Final)

Off The Exxecution, in stores this Tuesday.

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Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx ft. Sean Price – Fuckin Wit A Gangster

After the jump, find the 10th and 11th “Pre-eXXecution” freestyle videos.

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In this preview to his interview with Mixtape Daily, Jim talks about the Children of the Corn rapper who was Cam’s cousin, one of the founding members of The Diplomats and who came up with Big L and Mase before he passed away 13 years ago.

Previously: Jim Jones & Kingpen Slim – My Life Is A Movie

Tony Touch premiered this first leak off Nickelus F‘s Season Premiere last week on his Toca Tuesdays show. The full project drops in late April/early May.

Nickelus F feat. XV – Shine On (prod. C4 for Wiseguy Productions) | Mediafire

Artwork by PS The Artist, inspired by Pink Floyd’s “Shine On” cover art.

Previously: Nickelus F – Season Premier (Trailer)

“I’m fresh, I’m fly, I always try,
to make it to the bus before it rides by,”

I finally watched this after seeing it posted at Splash’s then Vulture, XXL, 2DB, UHTN… so yes, I’m a day late but it’s worth it.

Shouts to Brandon Carter, and special shout to Malik-16 for bringing back the Rav4.

On the set of Nicki’s first single, “Massive Attack”, she tries to justify to MTV News her snub of XXL’s Freshmen ’10 list:

“Drake & I, we love XXL. We just shot for XXL. With all due respect, we felt like we kinda had graduated from the freshman class. We felt that XXL missed the mark when they didn’t put us on the cover prior to that. They have to pay for that. They can’t say, ‘Hey, get on the next one.’ But we love XXL. That’s like a hip-hop classic. So we said, ‘Can we have something just a little bit more catered to us, so that we feel like we have still grown as artists, so we’re not at all disrespecting the magazine?’ They were cool with that.”

She’s the biggest female rapper now, absolutely. But let’s be real, she knows deep down she wasn’t buzzing like that in October 2008 when they made 2009′s list.