Pusha Thornton hooks up with The Big Bawseman for the perilous sinister-sounding heatbomb “Millions”; excerpted here from Push’s forthcoming Wrath of Caine mixtape. “Millions in the ceiling / Choppers in the closet”.
Pusha T ft. Rick Ross – MillionsPusha T 
(Official)
Rating 8.1
The earth moved, the heavens unfurled, Mike Will made it, and Our Man in Memphis Juicy J adds solo Gold single to his already impressive Academy Award-anchored resume with “Bands a Make Her Dance”. To celebrate this latest accomplishment the Juiceman lets loose new soul-driven track “In the Stars” which also features one Sean Khalifa. blahblahblahratchet.com.
Juicy J – In the Stars (Ft. Wiz Khalifa)Juicy J 
(Twitter)
Rating 8.1
Our man Apache Chief is a young rapper from New York and the Araabmuzik-produced “Here to Stay” is your intro to his sound.
Apache Chief – Here to Stay (Prod. Araabmuzik)Apache Chief 
(Soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
Young Veggies delivers fresh material from his just announced Life Changes project (due Jan. 22). The jazzy/heroin soul-tipped Terrence Clayton-produced track left us right defenseless against doing exactly what song says to. CV we fwchu.
Casey Veggies 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.2
“Cash Rules” comes to us via Mont Brown and features fellow Astronaut Pace-O Beats and two other Philly emcees, TJ Atoms and Swiper. Pace-O’s psychedelic, eerie beat and everyone’s clever delivery/punch-lines scream raw hip-hop. Mont talks like the OG, telling you how it is. Pace might just have everybody saying “Cash Rules Everything Around Me, CREAM” all cover again. TJ Atoms has the wild, what did he just say so quick flow and, “I’m Fresh Prince Y’all Jeffrey.” Philly’s style and substance is definitely different. But don’t we miss unique music? I know I can’t wait for Mont Brown’s forthcoming Helmets On 3. By Teddy Pendergrass
Mont Brown – Cash Rules (ft. Pace-O, TJ Atoms, & Swiper)Mont Brown 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.0
Our Cleveland brother Terry Urban executes the “nice n’ smooth” on elaborate internet prank Trinidad James’s paean to metal-plated Apple products. Big UP.
Trinidad James – Gold On My MacBook (Terry Urban Remix)Terry Urban (Official)
Miguel (Facebook)
Rating 8.3
Anthony Gaskins (also known as A-Lyrc) kicks it lo-fi and gets rhetorical with the righteous and smoothly methodical rhyme “Hip-Hop”. By Erin Feathers
A-Lyrc (Soundcloud)
Rating 8.0
Brother Troy Ave. grabs Candy Cane Mac Miller for his newest White Christmas drop. The Cy Fyre produced track sports a soul-sampling beat so fresh, you’re prob gonna need to change yo pants, ’cause the ones you’re wearing right now ain’t gonna get you anywhere on that dance floor. Nice look.
Troy Ave – Chillin ft. Mac Miller (Prod. Cy Fyre)Troy Ave. (Twitter)
Rating 8.3
Newcomer beatsman Nubbz continues his recent run of excellent remixes with his latest, the vibed out straight West Coastin’ of Blu’s “Soul Provider”.
Blu – Soul Provider (Nubbz Remix)Nubbz (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.4
Asap Rocky’s debut LongLiveASAP is due to drop on January 15th – and this track wants to make sure everybody knows how important that’s going to be: “1Train” goes in heavy and squeezes a plethora of big names into 6 minutes of triumphant beats, think of this as 2012’s executive summary of hip-hop. By Nathan Hetherington
A$AP ROCKY – 1TRAIN (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson & Big K.R.I.T.)A$AP Rocky (Official)
Rating 8.3
Things are about to get super wavy in your headphones. Piff Gang are the latest hip hop team to emerge from LDN’s labyrinthine scene and the buttery “Money Honey” is your introduction. DIFFERENT.
Piff Gang – Money HoneyPiff Gang 
(Facebook)
Rating 8.4
The much hyped VA rapper delivers maybe her best track to date with the gloomy Aaliyah-esque “Galaxy”.
Angel Haze – GalaxyAngel Haze 
(Official)
Rating 8.4
