On “Heaven Or Hell,” a track from his great Dreamchasers 3 mixtape, the Philly rap animal Meek Mill flipped the Luniz classic “I Got 5 On It” into a gritty street-life lament. This was a smart thing to do. He also recruited craggy O.G. Jadakiss and R&B singer Guordan Banks for help, and that decis...

On his new mixtape New Jet City, released just yesterday, the heavy-lidded and crazy-prolific New Orleans rapper Curren$y went big, lining up a very serious roster of guests: Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, French Montana, Trinidad James, Jadakiss, Styles P, hometown hero Juvenile. He also enlisted big-deal producers like Harry Fraud, Lex Luger...

DJ Khaled might not have too many talents in this world, but he’s better than just about anyone else at lining up hard-as-fuck rappers for overblown, triumphal posse cuts like this one. Songs like this have gotten a bit more exciting since Meek Mill’s rise to fame, and videos like this have gotten a bit [...]

Kanye is still going with this G.O.O.D. Fridays thing! That’s that shit I do like. “Mercy,” Kanye’s last new track, came a couple of weeks ago, and now we’ve got an early leak of the next one: A posse-cut remix of “I Don’t Like,” a fiery viral hit from the teenage Ch...

All you really need to know about this posse cut in in this Cam’ron line: “SMACK THE SHIT OUT YOUR NEIGHBOR / SMACK THE SHIT OUT THE MAYOR / SMACK THE SHIT OUT YOUR PREGNANT BABY MOM WHILE SHE IN LABOR.” Also, nobody rips tag-team verses anymore the way Jada and Styles do here. Songs [...]