Los pays tribute to his home city's football team on "Purple Reign," a new song that he has released for free download. You can pick it up at Limelinx, care of HotNewHipHop.
Bad Boy has serviced a new song from Cassie, "All Gold, All Girls (Remix)," which is a take on Trinidad James' "All Gold Everything. It features Trina and Lola Monroe. You can listen below.
Fuse has a great feature on Lord Finesse for their Crate Diggers series. Watch below. At the start of it, he says how he wanted to do a remix for Mary J. Blige, but Diddy said he wasn't ready and, instead, wanted the producer to work with an up and coming rapper: Biggie Smalls.
"I used to hang out with Puff," he said. "[We would] go to his crib, bug out. The prize remix you wanted to do was Mary. Mary was blazing. I want to do a Mary remix. 'You're not ready for a Mary remix.' He was like, 'I want you to work with Big.' Big? Who's Big? He was Biggie Smalls at the time. I was like, OK, I was open minded. When I heard this dude, it started with the 'Party & Bulls***' remix. When I had a chance to really hear this dude flow, I knew he was exceptional then. Just his flow, 'cause it just bounced all over and it came back on beat."
Lord Finesse also reflected on "Suicidal Thoughts," a record he produced that would serve as the finale on The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album, "Ready to Die."
"I'm playing him beats and he picks this just God forsaken, don't let me catch you in the alley beat. I'm like, 'What you gonna do with that?' 'Naw, I got an idea, I got an idea.' And it's like, 'You sure?' As a producer, I don't want to just sell you a beat to make a dollar. I want to make sure you gonna do something incredible with it and I never heard the record until it came out. And when I heard it, it was just like... crazy. I just remember somebody telling me 'Yo, your joint made the album, 'Ness.' It actually closes the album. I was shocked."
XXL is now accepting votes for the 10th spot of their 2013 edition of The XXL Freshman list. You can vote for Los through a poll on their site and by tweeting in a format they specified. See their site for more.
The music videos for "Stereo" and "See My Tears" have both been added to Machine Gun Kelly's Cap That store. That means you can order merchandise featuring still images from those videos.
Last week, a previously unreleased reference vocal from The Notorious B.I.G. appeared online. A reference track provides the performer with guidance on how the lines should be performed. This particular reference was for the opening verse on Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s White Chalk, Pt. 2," which was featured on the soundtrack for the 1996 film "Original Gangstas."
According to a retweet from DJ Khaled, the music video for the remix to Nino Brown's "Tryna Come Up" is coming soon. The song features Yo Gotti, French Montana and Ace Hood.
