A few years ago, the veteran Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy linked with the producer Alchemist to release Return Of The Mac, a deeply excellent album of wizened soul-sampling New York tough talk. Prodigy and Alchemist have once again linked for a new collaborative album called Albert Einstein, and on the prettily slow-rolling track “YNT,&...

Mobb Deep have inked a deal with RED Distribution (a division of Sony Music Entertainment) for their imprint Infamous Records.

-- Most artist vanity labels last a little while, put out next to nothing, and are forgotten without much notice. But not David Byrne's Luaka Bop imprint, which celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. In the spirit, the idiosyncratic label is offering a compilation called 21st Century, 21st Year (out May 26) featuring tracks from Luaka heavi...

The last EPMD album was 1999's Out of Business, and between its title and the fact that it was released almost a decade ago, it seemed to be the end of the EPMD story, at least on record. But not so: Erick Sermon and Parish Smith have returned with a seventh studio album, and yes, it has "business" in its title. We Mean Business arrives December...

Incarcerated Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy is set to drop the DVD companion to his latest album H.N.I.C. Pt. 2 next month. H.N.I.C. Pt. 2: The DVD Collection features never-before-seen videos and exclusives for new songs like "The Dough," "Get Trapped," "Represent Me," and "When I See Yo...