Speak! Drops Inside Out Boy

Speak! finally let his album loose to wreak mayhem on these internets, and I for one am excited to have the majority of the tracks that impressed me at It's the Common Ground collected in one place for free download. The release party, with Odd Future associate Vince Staples and Inland Empire stalwarts Cashius Green and Pheo, is sure to be a rager. If you're in LA Friday, hit up the Gravel Pit for a good time. Whether you can or you can't, though, download the album [here].

Odd Future > Tyler the Creator

In all the flurry of attention surrounding Best New Artist Tyler the Creator and his horrorcore-for-the-swag-generation, other members of Odd Future have been getting shortchanged. For example, pop/r&b mastermind Frank Ocean has been consistently flooding Vimeo with gems like "Thinking About You" and the heartbreaking "Swim Good". Watch those two videos and download the latest from OF's Domo Genesis [here] to get a sense of all that this crew has going for them before their upcoming Adult Swim show spills the beans:
(via The Fader)

Watch the Throne Drops in August

Kanye and Jay-Z's long-awaited collaboration Watch the Throne is scheduled to drop August 8th. Despite early worries of trend-chasing with disappointments like the Lex Luger showcase "H.A.M.", the latest leak "Otis" shows Kanye back at the peak of his production game, flawlessly sampling Otis Redding and going toe-to-toe with the greatest retired rapper alive thereon. Production on other tracks will come from 88 Keys, Q-Tip, The Neptunes, RZA, Hit-Boy, Swizz Beatz, Southside, No I.D., Mike Dean, Sak Pase, and S1, with guest spots limited to Beyonce, Mr. Hudson, and Odd Future crooner Frank Ocean.

Stream "Otis" at Jay-Z's Life + Times [here].

Pusha T & Tyler the Creator - Trouble On My Mind

Tyler the Creator (of Odd Future) finally holds his own on a mainstream track. Pusha T (of Re-Up Gang), who recently signed to Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music as a solo artist, grabs a feature from the divisive OFWGKTA mastermind on this boom-bap Neptunes number. (via First Up!)