When production team Cookin Soul dropped their “Thank Me Later” remix mixtape I was intrigued by their style, but after they dropped the incredibly dope “Summer in Brooklyn”, a remix to Jay-Z’s “Hello Brooklyn” that’s unarguably better than the original, I committed to listening to anything they felt like cookin up, including their flip of Rick Ross’ banger “Blowin Money Fast (B.M.F.). Listen and watch…

If I said I was thinking of an unapologetically Southern young rapper whose fame has exploded in the last few months due to an incredibly dope mixalbum, who would you guess? Would you guess recent Def Jam signee and “K.R.I.T. Wuz Here” creator Big K.R.I.T.? Or would you go with “Trunk Muzik” author Yelawolf?  Listen and download…

Today Laws turns in a remix of the mixtape standout track “Hold You Down”. This time around the bouncing, DJ Khalid-produced cut features two new verses from Laws (see Busta, was that so hard), an absolutely sick flow from “The Natural” Emilio Rojas and a solid Southern verse from recent Def Jam signee Big K.R.I.T.

I had just finished writing a column titled “When Did Busta Rhymes Become Terrible” when Busta Bust decided to prove my point and drop the terrible “Stop the Party”. You’ll have to excuse me for not posting it…but with T.I., Cam’ron, Ghostface Killah and DMX joining in on the remix, the track’s now interesting enough to discuss. Listen and download…

Well this is ill. Having already had their way with Drake’s breakthrough debut (“Thank Us Later”) production team Cookin’ Soul has turned their sites to their immediate surroundings and crafted one of the better flips you’re ever going to hear. Listen and download…

Here’s M.I.A.‘s plan. Drop a crazy, electronically-oriented single aimed at club going hipster kids, and then throw on a popular rapper on the remix in order to suck in the hip-hop crowd as well. It’s what she did with Jay for the “XXXO Remix”, and she’s pulled out the same formula again for her new “Teqkilla (Remix)”, only this time around she’s recruited Nicki Minaj. Listen and download…

Yep, you read that right. El-P, the Def Jux label head and master of post-apocalyptic hip-hop went in over some wholesome goodness from Justin Bieber. No one saw that coming, but the unlikely combo isn’t completely random. The folks over at XLR8R had been challenging El to do a remix with the Biebs, going so far as to provide him an a cappella of “Baby”, and El finally took them up on the offer. Listen and download…

think we all saw this coming. Once Rick Ross dropped “Super High” it was only a matter of time before it became a stoner anthem - and that day is today. Ricky has recruited Stoner All-Stars Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y (who’s apparently recovered from his “Hangover”) to jump in on the track. Listen and download…

When he’s not busy taking shots at Rick Ross, Young Jeezy is at the BET Awards onstage with Drake premiering his new track “Lose My Mind (Remix)”. As you knew it would, the album-quality version o f the booming remix has found it’s way onto the interwebs, so if you’re looking for a “turn up the volume and turn off your brain” track to make your work day go a little faster, look no further. Listen and download…

The always busy Mick Boogie is putting together a Big Boi x Rick Ross mash-up mixtape, cleverly titled “SouthernPlayalisticMaybachMusic” and featuring Ross verses on Big Boi tracks and vice-versa, and while at first it may seem like the two emcee’s are too far apart stylistically to work, the first release off the project, a remix of Big Boi’s dope single “Shutterbug”, proves otherwise. Listen and download…