What'd I tell you? Blink and you'll miss it—the industry is swiftly tilting around us. Big shout to Rhymesayers Entertainment, the home of Seatown ballers Grayskul, Boom Bap Project, Vitamin D, and Jake One, among many others; looks like RSE has entered into a joint venture with Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group, giving the scrappy indie-hop label major-label distribution. This is good tidings for RSE and perhaps for the whole independent scene—as collectives that have built real fan bases through hard work and not hype manage to thrive in today's drought. The first RSE release to come out under this new arrangement will be Brother Ali's banging new album, The Undisputed Truth. Other labels in the ILG include Asylum Records, East West Records, and Cordless Recordings... maybe we'll get that Jake One–laced, Boom Bap/Jim Jones collabo we been feenin' for now? "BAAALLIN"!

What do you get when you combine Grayskul and Xperience? You get the new tour CD FaceFeeder, available when the 'Skul hits the road this spring with Jedi Mind Tricks and Sean Price (P!!!). Gotta say, this is heavy-duty shit—the Oldominion camp has quietly been making some of their illest material in the last year or two, and this is some of the best yet. Onry and JFK are at the top of their game, while Ol'D newbie XP (also of the Step Cousins with Macklemore—and S.I.X. with Smoke) grounds the Gray's gothic tones with a gritty edge and an opium-smoky delivery. Onry's production almost steals the show, though—I'm not a little shocked at the psychotic textures that pervade this project. If you sleep, that's on you.

Starting March 21, Wednesdays at War Room just got fuckin' ridiculous, y'all. Sooperstar DJs Scene and Fourcolorzack have put their evil minds together and genetically engineered a spectacular new night... behold! 2080s, a stroke-inducing nonstop smash-together of '80s cardigan jams and straight gully-ass hiphop bangers. Frankly, this sounds fun as a barrel of coke-crazed monkeys—particularly because it's brought to you by such official go-stupid turntable techs as these two. If this does not become the official midweek blow off, I'm gonna eat my hat... a limited edition Goods hat. Or something. Anyway, you do not want to miss this newest reason to turn off The Hills, or whatever the fuck you're doing at home.

Biggest possible ups to U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA), who spoke out against the RIAA's arrest of DJ Drama and Don Cannon (technically, it was the police's arrest, but let's keep it real). Doyle praised the work of Drama and Philly's hipster phenom Girl Talk, and suggested that mix tapes are "a powerful tool"(much like Bush), and that mashups are "transformative new art." Even further, Doyle likens mixes and mashups to Paul McCartney admittedly "borrowing" Chuck Berry's bass riffs. A revolutionary idea, perhaps, to those who would sue artists who sample out of existence—but have supported wholesale appropriation of black cultural forms for decades. recommended