Brooklyn wordsmith Joell Ortiz adds his take to current joints from Sam Smith, French Montana, Tove Lo, Iggy Azalea on 6-track EP, Yaowa Nation

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Brooklyn's Joell Ortiz continues his trend of unleashing personal, introspective joints over epic-styled beats with a remix of Sam Smith's Stay With Me

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Bobby Shmurda is perfecting the art of milking a hot joint, with the release of the newest "Hot Nigga" remix, featuring heavyweights like Fabolous, Jadakiss, Chris Brown, Busta Rhymes, Yo Gotti and Rowdy Rebel.

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Buzzing Brooklyn upstart Bobby Shmurda updates his blazing "Hot Ni**a" with a cast of reggae spitters including Movado, Junior Reid, Jah X and Popcaan.

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Do yourself a favor and check out the full Yasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One). We will let their description speak for itself, but really, it doesn't matter. Just listen.

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Nicki Minaj's latest attempt to prove-slash-remind folks she's still a real raw spittress finds her jumping aboard Young Thug's "Danny Glover."

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Producer/remixer/journalist Manny Faces releases "Just Lights Music," a smoothly blended coalescing of a time-honored instrumental produced by hip hop icon Erick Sermon, and slightly-altered vocals from "Lights," the smash dance hit by the U.K.'s Ellie Goulding.

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Joell Ortiz takes a moment from rocking with the rest of his Slaughterhouse crew to drop the video for "Iron On You," his interpolation of Pusha T's "Exodus 23:1" complete with gritty, black and white New York City scenery to match the mood.

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Pittsburgh's Mac Miller gets the chance to grace our e-pages by snatching up a couple of vets to jump on the remix of his "Of The Soul"... Raekwon and, fittingly, Posdnuos, of De La Soul.

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On the anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination, Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, incorporates the iconic leader into the video for his re-style of The Throne's massive hit, "Ni**as in Paris," along with additional imagery to compliment his latest lyrical assault.

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