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Twitter, more often than not, can be a silly place. #lotion vs. #nolo­tion.

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I've been wait­ing for this track to hit the net ever since Mos played it at his show at Ruby Skye. 24 Hour Karate School is the nick­name Mos gave to DD172 in case you weren't aware. Now, Curren$y just need to let loose that "King Kong" joint Mos also played. [via]

I'm excited to see Corinne com­ing back with new music.  More artists should take their time with their music and release it when they feel it's ready instead of flood­ing us with con­tent year after year. Take a look as Sade. She def­i­nitely makes her own rules. One of the keys of longevity in this ever-so fickle music busi­ness is retain­ing your value, not cheap­en­ing your stock and mak­ing your fan­base wait for you. [via]

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Collectively, the DMV has been respon­si­ble for this year's best hip-hop. The group known as Diamond District (yU, Oddisee & X.O.) are largely respon­si­ble for that. Who's gonna carry the weight in 2010? My money's on NC. Don't sleep. [via]

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For El Michels Affair and Wu Tang Clan fans, the release of the Enter the 38th Chamber project is a dream come true. And the next sin­gle "Can It All Be So Simple", fea­tur­ing the lyri­cal stylings of Portland natives, Sandpeople, is guar­an­teed to sat­isfy fans world­wide. Often described as "a beau­ti­ful fusion of tal­ent and depen­den­cies" this ten mem­ber gath­er­ing of hip-hop artists take the clas­sic urban track and add their own fla­vor. Emcee Gold, one of the Sandpeople mem­bers, had this to say on the cre­ation of the track "I pic­tured the record as being one part "an ode to" and one part "our take on the con­cept". I fig­ured we should embell­ish on the lines that made the song so time­less and with sapi­ent singing the hook it brought every­thing full cir­cle." Mission accomplished.