Combine two of the most superstylish icons in urban music today with synthesizers and a Michael Jackson backdrop, and what do you get? Pure popcorn with possibly one of the summer’s biggest smashes for the grown and sexy. Pop your pastel Lacoste collars to that…

These gangstas are religious? Hav, Prodigy, and the crooning 50 Cent combine their commentaries on Heaven and Hell, backed by the soulful Rhodes of DJ Exile. Looks like the Mobb has been infected by D’Evils, and we’re not talking “Kirk” Franklins. See you on Judgment Day…

On the first single from his upcoming mixtape-album, Run the Streets, Vol. 1, Street murders the Donny Hathaway sample with a bevy of percussion rolls and chops, while Smitty spits that M.I.Yayo slang and Jae Millz counters with his Lenox Avenue swagger…

With all the reissues and edits of classic Afro-Latin and funk gems, one of the only bands to keep hitting you consistently with new flava is this one here, Brooklyn’s brilliant Antibalas. From the slept-on soundtrack to the basketball documentary 25 Strong, “K-Leg” — complete with dizzying horn arrangements and…

Continuing to create a buzz for its debut release, the 305’s own Mayday drops this neck-snapping single, riding a skittering keyboard pattern, along with the soul-powered Cee-lo on the hook and Craze delivering those funky, cuchillo-like cuts. In an ode to Bill Murray and Office Space rhetoric, the duo shows…