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Nas’ New Song With DJ Premier Shows Time Is Illmatic

Nas’ New Song With DJ Premier Shows Time Is Illmatic

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Nas' Illmatic. In April of 1994, Nas debuted with a panel of legendary producers to deliver a debut album that Ambrosia For Heads readers determined to be the "Greatest Hip-Hop Album Of All-Time" through a poll in April of 2016. Thirty years later, Nas... Read more
April 19, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
J. Cole Has Released A Record Dissing Kendrick Lamar

J. Cole Has Released A Record Dissing Kendrick Lamar

Two weeks ago, Kendrick Lamar used a feature verse on Future & Metro Boomin's album to leave no questions about a Rap rivalry with peers J. Cole and Drake. While K-Dot has collaborated with both Drake and Cole (and competed with both in not-so-subtle lyrics more than a decade ago),... Read more
April 5, 2024 Audio, News, Trending Stories
Spice 1 Has Released 1 Of His Best Songs In Years

Spice 1 Has Released 1 Of His Best Songs In Years

Spice 1 has sustained a prominent Rap career for over 35 years. The Hayward, California MC who debuted with The Dangerous Crew during the late 1980s has made three gold albums, along with key collaborations with Tupac Shakur, MC Eiht, Method Man, and others. However, in 2024, Spice shows his... Read more
April 3, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
DJ Premier Recruits Snoop Dogg For His Latest Song

DJ Premier Recruits Snoop Dogg For His Latest Song

Snoop Dogg and DJ Premier have been working together for over a quarter-century. Both artists are cemented leaders in distinct sounds within Rap, but they collaborate well. The two first came together on Jermaine Dupri's debut album for "Protectors Of The 1472" (alongside Warren G and R.O.C.). In 2002, Preemo... Read more
March 30, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
Ras Kass, Method Man, Lil Fame & RJ Payne Roll On MCs

Ras Kass, Method Man, Lil Fame & RJ Payne Roll On MCs

Ras Kass knows a thing about super-groups. The Southern California veteran MC co-founded HRSMN with Kurupt, Killah Priest, and Canibus 25 years ago. He also linked with Xzibit and Saafir for several memorable songs, amid onetime reports of an album in the works. In 2024, Razzy Kazzy has teamed Philly-by-way-of-Brooklyn... Read more
March 29, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
Redman’s New Verse Reminds He’s A Top Storyteller

Redman’s New Verse Reminds He’s A Top Storyteller

Despite going over eight years without a new album, Redman stays incredibly active. During 2023, the Def Squad MC showered fans with a series of great video freestyles to top-notch beats. He also paid a Def Jam Records homage to a Slick Rick catalog classic and put in work with... Read more
March 7, 2024 Audio
Griselda Has Made A G-Funk Mixtape Inspired By The Chronic

Griselda Has Made A G-Funk Mixtape Inspired By The Chronic

In the late 1980s, Dr. Dre and N.W.A. led a movement that put Compton, California on the map for Rap fans. Dre and his crew described a place with vivid detail—from its hard-nosed reputation to the perils of life in the street. That movement ultimately propped the door for artists... Read more
February 20, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
Kevin Durant Is Ice Cold On The Mic Like He Is On The Court

Kevin Durant Is Ice Cold On The Mic Like He Is On The Court

Kevin Durant is an NBA MVP who does more than just ball. The two-time champion and current Phoenix Suns forward has publicly shared his music before. In 2012, KD appeared on "Some Winners" alongside Taylor Gang artist Chevy Woods and Philly MC Privaledge. A dozen years later, he teams with... Read more
February 17, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
Slum Village Shares New Details About Making Get Dis Money

Slum Village Shares New Details About Making Get Dis Money

A quarter-century ago, Slum Village was in the process of following up their Fan-Tas-Tic (Vol. 1) debut. That underground album became a calling card for a new sound coming out of Detroit, Michigan — and three artists bringing the change. T3, J Dilla, and Baatin were in the process of following up and... Read more
February 15, 2024 Exclusive, Throwback, Trending Stories
Masta Ace & Coast Contra Unite On A Certified Banger

Masta Ace & Coast Contra Unite On A Certified Banger

This weekend (January 26), Masta Ace & Marco Polo have released Richmond Hill. The longtime MC/producer battery's second album is a thematic sequel to 2018's A Breukelen Story. That concept LP, named one of Ambrosia For Heads' best of that year, looked at Brooklyn, New York's history—including as a home... Read more
January 27, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
Eminem Goes At Benzino’s Neck On A New Diss Record

Eminem Goes At Benzino’s Neck On A New Diss Record

During 2023, Eminem's primary target was a short-lived but high-profile exchange of diss records between legends — when he went at Grandmaster Melle Mel, and garnered a response. In 2024, it appears that for Em, it is back to business as usual: dissing Benzino in a feud that has lasted... Read more
January 26, 2024 Audio, Trending Stories
KRS-One & Smif-n-Wessun Are Back With Some New Boom Bap

KRS-One & Smif-n-Wessun Are Back With Some New Boom Bap

Thirty years ago, Da Beatminerz helped lead a charge with Black Moon's Enta Da Stage. The Nervous Records LP was produced by Evil Dee (also a Black Moon co-founder) and his brother Mr. Walt. The album help launch several movements—for the Boot Camp Clik, for underground/independent Hip-Hop, and for a... Read more
December 16, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories
Black Thought, Benny & DZA Link For A Song That’s 3x Dope

Black Thought, Benny & DZA Link For A Song That’s 3x Dope

In 2019, Benny The Butcher and Black Thought teamed for "Crowns For Kings," one of the hardest-hitting collaborations of the last five years. The Plugs I Met look was produced by Benny's mentor, DJ Shay, who has since passed away—and remains one of The Butcher's biggest songs. During the summer... Read more
December 9, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories
Masta Ace Releases A Song Filled With Positivity

Masta Ace Releases A Song Filled With Positivity

In 2018, Masta Ace and Marco Polo released their first album as a unit. A Breukelen Story was a concept album—something the Brooklyn, New York MC has done for much his 35-year career. That LP was named by Ambrosia For Heads among the best of '18, and it featured Smif-n-Wessun,... Read more
December 2, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories, Video
AZ Reintroduces Himself With Amazing New Music

AZ Reintroduces Himself With Amazing New Music

Today (December 1), Brooklyn, New York veteran MC AZ released a new album. However, unlike AZ's respected back-catalog, Truth Be Told marks his first album-long partnership with a producer. Diggin' In The Crates legend Buckwild has been working with S.O.S.A. since "Ho Happy Jacky" on Doe Or Die. The Bronx... Read more
December 1, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories
Busta Rhymes’ New Song Is A Statement About 30 Years Of Greatness

Busta Rhymes’ New Song Is A Statement About 30 Years Of Greatness

Today (November 24), Busta Rhymes has released his 11th solo album. Blockbusta follows a three-year break from Extinction Level Event 2 (aka E.L.E. 2), an album that some Busta fans—including Ambrosia For Heads–considered a classic album well-into his 30-year career. For Blockbusta, Busta returns to a major label, Epic Records,... Read more
November 24, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories
Common & DJ Premier Reunite On A New Song

Common & DJ Premier Reunite On A New Song

Over the last quarter-century, Common and DJ Premier have made magic together. In 2000, Premier was a guest within The Soulquarians ensemble for Comm's benchmark Like Water For Chocolate album. On Comm's fourth LP, Preemo produced the masterful "The 6th Sense," which featured Bilal. The video single showed new range... Read more
November 17, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories, Video
Del The Funky Homosapien & Living Legends Shine On A New Song

Del The Funky Homosapien & Living Legends Shine On A New Song

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
October 20, 2023 Audio, Trending Stories
C.L. Smooth Returns In A Verse With Rough Words

C.L. Smooth Returns In A Verse With Rough Words

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
October 17, 2023 Audio
Westside Gunn, JID & Conway Make 1 Of 2023’s Great Collabos

Westside Gunn, JID & Conway Make 1 Of 2023’s Great Collabos

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
October 13, 2023 Audio
Lil Yachty Shows He Can Really Rap On A Song With J. Cole

Lil Yachty Shows He Can Really Rap On A Song With J. Cole

Earlier this year, Lil Yachty released one of 2023's more surprising albums from an artist often categorized in Rap. January's Let's Start Here. deviated from the sound that the Atlanta, Georgia had established over the last decade. On this go-round, the Quality Control/Motown Records artist delved into contemporary Psychedelic Rock... Read more
October 7, 2023 Audio, Video
Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist’s Album Was Worth The Wait

Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist’s Album Was Worth The Wait

Since 2019, Earl Sweatshirt and Alchemist claimed a collaborative album existed under a fake name. Two years later, the production half of the duo confirmed its existence. “We hid a whole album on YouTube under a fake name and YouTube page. Fake album cover, song titles, the whole nine. Nobody... Read more
October 7, 2023 Audio
Nick Grant Has Released One Of The Year’s Best Albums

Nick Grant Has Released One Of The Year’s Best Albums

Nick Grant has been making waves since the mid-2010s. His 2017 debut, Return Of The Cool, garnered praise from Ambrosia For Heads and others at a time when the South Carolina MC was getting cosigns from Andre 3000, Nas, Bun B, and others. Since that Epic Records debut, Nick worked... Read more
September 22, 2023 Audio
Ghostface Killah & Westside Gunn Give Golden Age Raps To DJ Muggs

Ghostface Killah & Westside Gunn Give Golden Age Raps To DJ Muggs

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 25, 2023 Audio
Eminem Sends A Message To Melle Mel With A Furious Diss

Eminem Sends A Message To Melle Mel With A Furious Diss

Since entering August, Hip-Hop celebrations are in high gear as Heads march to August 11's symbolic 50th anniversary. Notably, one of the superstars of Rap is dissing a legendary MC from the culture's formative years. On the new song "Realest," Eminem serves a diss to Grandmaster Melle Mel, his fellow... Read more
August 4, 2023 Audio
Page Kennedy Makes A Song So Real It Hurts

Page Kennedy Makes A Song So Real It Hurts

For more than six years, Detroit, Michigan MC Page Kennedy has been making noise. A purebred MC, Page embodied a pivot to Hip-Hop. The actor from S.W.A.T., Weeds, Blue Mountain State, and countless other roles began releasing albums with 2017's Torn Pages, and his Straight Bars mixtape series. He made... Read more
July 22, 2023 Audio
Nas Shows What Real Black Magic Is On A New Song

Nas Shows What Real Black Magic Is On A New Song

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
July 21, 2023 Audio
M.O.P. & Cormega Are Cut From A Different Cloth Of MCs

M.O.P. & Cormega Are Cut From A Different Cloth Of MCs

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
June 10, 2023 Audio
Posdnuos Celebrates Dave On A Beautiful Tribute Song

Posdnuos Celebrates Dave On A Beautiful Tribute Song

Today (June 9), Statik Selektah released his first solo album since 2020. Round Trip, arriving on ShowOff/Mass Appeal Records, maintains Statik's gift for assembling interesting groupings of MCs for thought-provoking concepts, over his acclaimed production. This particular collection, Statik's 10th, involves four members of Wu-Tang Clan together on a posse... Read more
June 9, 2023 Audio
Snoop Dogg Releases One Of His Hardest Verses In Years

Snoop Dogg Releases One Of His Hardest Verses In Years

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
May 26, 2023 Audio
J. Cole’s Latest Guest Verse Is Much Bigger Than Hip-Hop

J. Cole’s Latest Guest Verse Is Much Bigger Than Hip-Hop

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
May 14, 2023 Audio
Jack Harlow Calls Out Whites Who Want To Be Black From Afar

Jack Harlow Calls Out Whites Who Want To Be Black From Afar

Yesterday (April 28), Jack Harlow released third album. Jackman. is a 10-track offering, with zero features that clocks in at 24 minute. DJ Dahi, Boi-1da, and Hollywood Cole were among the producers involved on the Generation Now/Atlantic Records project, which follows Jack's platinum debut and gold follow-up. On the album,... Read more
April 29, 2023 Audio, Video
Black Thought’s New Album Is Filled With Glorious Game

Black Thought’s New Album Is Filled With Glorious Game

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
April 14, 2023 Audio
Redman & Royce 5’9 Put Weak Rappers On Notice

Redman & Royce 5’9 Put Weak Rappers On Notice

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
March 31, 2023 Audio
Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface & Inspectah Deck Reunite On A New Song

Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface & Inspectah Deck Reunite On A New Song

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
March 17, 2023 Audio
J. Cole Teases His New Album On A Knockout Verse

J. Cole Teases His New Album On A Knockout Verse

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
March 4, 2023 Audio
Redman Keeps It All The Way Real On A New Song With Logic

Redman Keeps It All The Way Real On A New Song With Logic

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
February 25, 2023 Audio
Ab-Soul Goes Back To His Roots & Shows He’s Still A Top Dawg

Ab-Soul Goes Back To His Roots & Shows He’s Still A Top Dawg

Next month makes it six years since Ab-Soul released an album. In the time since Do What Thou Wilt., the Carson, California veteran worked on 2018's chart-topping Black Panther soundtrack, which was nominated for "Album Of The Year" at the following Grammy Awards. He made meaningful collaborations with fellow Carson... Read more
November 19, 2022 Video
Nas Uses 5 Heartbeats For A Song That’s A Perfect 10

Nas Uses 5 Heartbeats For A Song That’s A Perfect 10

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
November 11, 2022 Audio
Raekwon, Ghostface, Busta Rhymes & More Put On A Clinic In Dropping Science

Raekwon, Ghostface, Busta Rhymes & More Put On A Clinic In Dropping Science

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
October 29, 2022 Audio
Black Star & Westside Gunn Join Forces On A Collabo That’s Hot Fire

Black Star & Westside Gunn Join Forces On A Collabo That’s Hot Fire

Today (October 28), Westside Gunn delivers 10, the completion of his cult-lauded #HWH series. The Griselda Records founder's second LP of 2022 is a star-studded affair that features Run The Jewels, Raekwon, Busta Rhymes, A$AP Rocky, Ghostface Killah in a cast that also includes The Goo Goo Dolls' Robby Takac... Read more
October 28, 2022 Audio
Busta Rhymes, Big Daddy Kane & Conway Slap The Competition On A New Song

Busta Rhymes, Big Daddy Kane & Conway Slap The Competition On A New Song

Busta Rhymes approached the 2020s with something to prove. Two years ago, the veteran co-founder of Leaders Of The New School and Flipmode Squad gave fans a classic-level album—arguably the best in his career. Extinction Level Event 2 showed the many sides of Busta Bus, including collaborations with Rakim, Kendrick... Read more
October 28, 2022 Audio, Video
Freddie Gibbs Shows Love To Jeezy On A Song About Growth

Freddie Gibbs Shows Love To Jeezy On A Song About Growth

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
October 2, 2022 Audio
Jadakiss Says He’s BIG, Prodigy, DMX & Pun Combined

Jadakiss Says He’s BIG, Prodigy, DMX & Pun Combined

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 27, 2022 Audio
Roc Marciano & Alchemist Serve Up Pure & Uncut Hip-Hop

Roc Marciano & Alchemist Serve Up Pure & Uncut Hip-Hop

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 26, 2022 Audio
Jay Electronica Makes Magic With MF DOOM On A New Song

Jay Electronica Makes Magic With MF DOOM On A New Song

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 20, 2022 Audio
KRS-One Joins Forces With AZ & O.C. To Save The Culture

KRS-One Joins Forces With AZ & O.C. To Save The Culture

Last week, Ambrosia For Heads premiered "Represent The Real," a powerhouse collaboration between AZ, KRS-One, and O.C. That song, produced and released by Dublin, Ireland's Stylistic Murder (and the A-side to a special 7" vinyl single, with a B-side featuring ONYX, has now released a music video, which conveniently begins... Read more
August 19, 2022 Video
Black Thought & Raekwon Bring Out Each Other’s Best On A New Song

Black Thought & Raekwon Bring Out Each Other’s Best On A New Song

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 18, 2022 Audio
Black Thought Raps With MF DOOM On An Instant Classic

Black Thought Raps With MF DOOM On An Instant Classic

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 12, 2022 Audio
DJ Premier & Benny The Butcher Have Made A Rough & Tough New Song

DJ Premier & Benny The Butcher Have Made A Rough & Tough New Song

Life is too short to listen to bad music. So…let Ambrosia For Heads sift through it for you and only supply you with that great stuff. Despite the reports, Hip-Hop is alive and well and, in many ways, it’s better than it’s ever been. Not only can we go back... Read more
August 5, 2022 Audio, Video
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