Flying Lotus performed at this weekend’s Adult Swim Festival in downtown Los Angeles and during his set, the electronic producer brought out MF Doom to join him for a few songs. Or at least, that’s what fans thought; soon enough, the man behind the mask was revealed instead to be a Doom imposter by the…

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous struck up quite the creative partnership before Linkous' death in 2010. They recorded a collaborative full-length album together, Dark Night Of The Soul, which was unofficially released in 2009 and officially released the following year, and Danger Mouse co-produced songs on Sparklehorse's 2006 album ...

Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle have a new Comedy Central show focused on social commentary called The New Negroes premiered last week. Every episode ends with an original song and video by Open Mike Eagle and one other artist. Last week we were treated to a song with Danny Brown, "Unfiltered." The end of…

Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs will debut a new album called Assassination Day in August. It'll be released in individual chapters and Muggs worked with different MCs on each one. Rappcats says the album is "a thematic album with a vigilante concept where hip-hop takes corruption head-on, figuratively killing off powerful evildoers in positions of powe...

As the legendary sonic mastermind behind Cypress Hill, DJ Muggs helped push rap production out into dark, brooding, sample-heavy psychedelia. Since then, he's worked with everyone from Ice Cube to Dr. Dre to RZA to GZA to Tricky, and now he's announced a new collaborative project called Assassination Day.