What happens when founding member of the Pharcyde, Slimkid3, and Jurassic 5 DJ/producer DJ Nu-Mark go record shopping?

So Rugged Soul Records' DJ Rob A and legendary emcee Masta Ace got together and music happened. And it's good. The digital album, "Put to Paper" dropped today and is now available through Rob A's Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon and features explicit and clean versions of the title track, another Rob A solo track ("Still Have Strenf") as well as instrumentals for both. Back in the cassette days we called this a "Maxi Single", but I digress.

Marshall Mathers has done it again. This time around Em recruits Slaughterhouse and Yelawolf. This one is all bars with no beats to distract from the lyrical onslaught. Now dig in to Shady's cXVypher.

A day after dropping the first part of his double release, Gambino comes through with the second half of his STN MTN/Kauai project. The STN MTN side, which is free to download, was an homage to Atlanta and featured remixes to Lil Wayne's "Go DJ," Ludacris' "Southern Hospitality," and Timbaland & Magoo's "All Y’all."

What do you do when Kanye West tells you that the entire premise behind your next passion project is dead as a doornail? If you’re veteran hip-hop producer Statik Selektah, you completely ignore him.