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.

In February, MF DOOM teamed up with underground rap group Czarface (7L and Esoteric, Inspectah Deck) to put out a collaborative album. Czarface Meets Metal Face hearkens back to the early days of underground hip-hop, and it invokes a serious love for comic books. Since then, we’ve seen the amazingly campy visuals for their single,…

Yasiin Bey, the former Mos Def, is a veteran of the New York rap underground who currently lives abroad and who has a history of changing his name. All those things are also true of MF Doom. Doom and Bey also shared a quick American tour a few years ago; it’s fair to say they […]

A decade and a half after putting out their celebrated debut album, The Cold Vein, subterranean hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox will drop their second LP, Blade Of The Ronin, on March 3. Lead single “Iron Rose” was a forceful, thumping track complete with a brief but notable appearance by MF Doom. Now, we have “Harlem [...]