A$AP Rocky's new video, plus new music from Sonny Cheba (Camp Lo), Koncept (Brown Bag AllStars), DJ Modesty and Sumnlite on today's NY Rap Roundup

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"Wax Aesthetic," the free EP from the Long Island/Brooklyn Brown Bag AllStars representative, is a smooth mix of great music and wordplay

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The Act Live Music blog is often heavy with great NY-area hip hop, and their recent compilation is no different. Even though the lineup is not exclusively artists from our area, this should fit right in the wheelhouse of any NY hip hop head.

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Many of the music submissions and release notifications we received during the two weeks following Sandy, had to be flagged for review, and ignored, while we got things back to some semblance of normality. Here are ten notable items that came through to us during those crazy days after Sandy, for our NY-area friends who might have been, as we were, a bit distracted by the pressing matters at hand.

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Brown Bag AllStar MC/producer J57's dual EP releases 2057 and The Ports EP delivered good stuff, with one of a few standout tracks being his collaboration with the charismatic wordsmith Rasheed Chappell "Elite Status". Now the video is out, and it just gives us another chance to big up a dope track.

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An example of how to do hip hop today that maintains traditional NY-boom-bap DNA while making sure to stay progressive. If this is up your alley, The Brown Bag AllStars drop an EP worthy of your eartime.

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Before you continue to cry about the lost "Golden Age" of NY hip hop, listen to '2057 EP' and 'The Ports EP', the simultaneous releases by MC/producer J57, featuring a slew of NY-area lyrical talent over nostalgic-but-not-dated, smooth, sample-driven tracks that easily continues the streak of solid material from him and his Brown Bag AllStar family.

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Award-winning Australian producer/remixer M-Phazes teams up with plenty of MCs from the US of A, and dishes out a video for his reworking of the Brown Bag AllStars track "What It's All About," starring everyone's favorite brownbaggers.

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A new crop of NY's finest are marrying the home of hip hop's traditions with a bold look toward the future. Here's a quick playlist of names you either should know by now or need to know in 2012.

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