Mikey: Yesterday, the web was flooded with new Drake songs, some unreleased and reference sounding tracks of course. But the keeper of the bunch is “My New” which features Von Pea of Tanya Morgan & Phonte of Little Brother and Nottz on the beats. Such a dope mix of styles on this one…

Drake feat. Von Pea (Tanya Morgan) & Phonte (Little Brother) “My New” (produced by Nottz) (via RappersIKnow)

Drake “Love & Gunz” (Verse)  (Produced by Tha Bizness) (via Nahright)

Drake feat. Colin Munroe “Where Were You” (Unreleased) (via UHTN)

Off Heartbreak Drake 4.0 mixtape

Drake “Successful” (Unreleased Verse) (via Nahright)

Off Drake’s It’s Been a Pleasure Mixtape

Bonus: Lil Wayne “I’m Raw” (no tags)

Mikey:  Mystikal is finally a free man after serving 6 years behind bars. Fresh out of Louisiana State Prison, he called into Q93 FM in New Orleans and spoke with host Wild Wayne for his first interview since his release. Props to RapRadar for the rip.

Mystikal Interview w/ Q93 FM

(Freeway “Touch Down” via OS)

Mikey: Freeway’s latest video and another leak from his upcoming album with Jake One, The Stimulus Package which drops Feb 16. Shouts to Brent.

Freeway “She Makes Me Feel Alright”

(Barrington Levy feat. Kardinal Official “No War” via Onsmash )

Twista “911″ ( Haiti Freestyle) (via FSD)

Twista dedicates this one to all the earthquake victims in Haiti. Please remember you can donate by simply texting “yele” to “501 501″.

Jadakiss “Gangs In New York” (verse)
This is Jada’s verse off “Gangs of New York” which is supposed to be released on Game’s R.E.D. Album, the full version also features Jim Jones.

Lupe Fiasco “I’m Beaming”

The official version of Lupe’s “I’m Beaming”.

Lil Wayne feat. Pharrell “Smack Down” (via YourAudioFix)

Not sure what will become of these Weezy/Pharrell collabs, but here’s another one. (Nation posted two more)

Jaheim feat. Jadakiss “Ain’t Leaving Without You (remix)” (via NMC)

It’s always a treat when these two link for up a remix. Jaheim’s Another Round drops Feb.9.

NORE “Exhibit CNN” (via 57thave)

One of the only Just Blaze approved “Exhibit C freestyles”

Trina feat. Keri Hilson & Diddy “Million Dollar Girl” (via Splash)

Trina’s first single off her forthcoming album, Amazin’

Legend: After all the years of working together, Styles P & Sheek Louch explore their knowledge of each other while they sat down with BallerStatus and Souleo to speak on each others pet peeves, pranks and bad habits. They don’t put each other on blast too bad but you can see a little more personal side to the two.

Mikey: More auto-tune, and Trina’s verse gets the old switcheroo for Nicki’s verse.

Keri Hilson feat. Nicki Minaj & Keyshia Cole “Get Ya Money Up (remix)” (via Mr.X)

(Likeblood, Drake, Nicki Minaj performing at Club Ibiza in DC after the jump)

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Statik Selektah Ft. Talib Kweli, Termanology, & Royce da 5′9″ “Come Around”

To be featured on Statik Selektah & Reflection Eternal’s upcoming Re:Union Mixtape
(via RR)

Smoke DZA feat. Asher Roth, Devin The Dude, Curren$y & June Summers “Marley & Me” (Remix)

The new age Hip-Hop hippies team up with an OG Mary Jane rhymer for their dedication to the green leaf (via UHTN)

Jamie Foxx feat. Lil Wayne “Straight to the Dancefloor”

I think Jamie’s gonna make a trip to the bank before he hits the dancefloor with this one (via LilWayneHQ)

Mikey: MTV got their hands on an exclusive clip from DJ Scoob Doo & Lil Wayne’s next installment of “The Nino Brown Story” (pt.2). Part 1 dropped last year and chronicled Lil Wayne’s nonstop tour dates with all the backstage interviews and chaos. In this clip Weezy reminisces on becoming a platinum selling artist while still in high school and ultimately dropping out to follow his burgeoning rap career.

“Wayne also recalls that his mother ordered him to leave school. “My mom, she made quit,” he said. ” ‘Look, I’m going to let you quit school, but them b—-s better get you a tutor!’ ” Wayne said, mimicking his mother’s voice. He said he called up Baby to make it happen.”

Related: Gullible much?: A recap of inaccurate stories about Lil Wayne and Asher Roth

Mikey: Despite taking the stage after the date changed, The Legendary Roots Crew pulled off yet another soulful holiday jamboree. The 3rd annual Roots Holiday Jam took place last night at BB Kings in New York City with the cast of Fela and Blitz The Ambassador opening the evening up. After we took an unforgettable express tour of West Africa , the unmistakable afro and pick made their first appearance of the night then one by one following Questlove, The Roots crew came onstage to their rightful positions. As the group found their groove, Black Thought took the mic and was soon joined by special guest Mos Def. With his red mic in hand, Mos played the crowd and ripped “Umi Says” before disappearing backstage. Before I had to call it night Brother Ali came outta nowhere and wow’ed the place with his razor sharp bars (see the video above). These weren’t even half the guests I’m sure, so expect way more footage to be floating around the blogs.

(Check out Blitz The Ambassador after the jump)

Related: Roots Holiday Jam ‘08 with Estelle, 88 Keys, Qtip, Pharoahe Monch and more

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