Murs and Fashawn touch on how far they’ve come, from the block to the top, and say that they have so much more to cover as well.

Fashawn snaps on a track talking about religion, the troubles of life and the possible joy to come, on his mixtape, Champagne & Styrofoam Cups

Royce’s thoughts over the beat originally used by The Game and Lil Wayne, titled “My Life”

Samples B.T. Express’s “If It Don’t Turn You On (You Outta Leave It Alone)” and Company Flow’s “End to End Burners”.

On this track, Murs talks about some hood adventures he had with a boy named Trevor, and some unknown friends of his, and the illegal things Trevar did just to get by, that eventually gets everyone else in some trouble as well.

A story of a girl that chooses to believe that Murs is the worst, only when she brings the worst out of him.

Murs has gone to say this is his favorite track he has recorded along with 9th Wonder.

This samples The Mighty Diamonds’s [“Illiteracy”](

Official video

The causes and effects of a painting regarded as one of the greatest of all time. The canvas it was painted on and the canvas it paints on now.

Common and No I.D. share the mic over No I.D.’s jazzy beat, which mixes a break from The Modern Jazz Quartet’s “But Not For Me” with hard-hitting drums from Clyde McPhatter’s “The Mixed Up Cup.” Common spoke about his inspiration for “In My Own World”:

No I.D. rhymed on the first album and all my boys was like, ‘Man, Dion ate you up. His voice is so good.’ I was like, ‘Man, I gotta be able to say something on this because on ‘Two Scoops of Raisins,’ he won that battle.’ No matter what, when you rapping on a song with somebody, somebody always say, ‘Man, such-and-such killed him.’ So, you better kill it.

I like the whole ‘Yeah, now check the method!’ That was one of my favorite lines on that Midnight Marauders album. That and Buhloone Mindstate, those two specific albums really had a big influence on me. Illmatic came later on in the process of me making the album, but hearing Nas influenced me.

Schoolboy & company telling you that you don’t really know anything about hip-hop, whether you’re rapping or critiquing.

Schoolboy’s Rock featured song off of his critically acclaimed album, Habits & Contradictions. TDE represent!