by @RaulyRamirez

It is our pleasure to introduce you to the newest addition to the Juice family, the Seed! Every Saturday, we will kick off your weekend with 10 new R&B/Hip-Hop tracks unleashed on the internet within the past seven days. There is no particular order to the tracks except smooth transitions for your aural enjoyment.

As the name suggests, the Seed will showcase potential contenders for our R&B/Hip-Hop charts by established artists as well as newcomers making big waves. Buzzworthy tracks which made news during the week will also be featured, as well as remixes intended to extend a hits reach.

Notable this week is Brooklyns own Maino, who released World Famous, featuring his Black Flag Mafia (Twigg Martin, PUSH!, Hustle Hard Mouse and Lucky Don). The song samples Malcolm McLarens 1984 hit Worlds Famous and will be featured on The Mafia EP coming soon.

By C-Dub

Ten years ago the mixtape was revived with the success of 50 Cent & G-Unit turning a run of mixtapes into one of the greatest rap albums ever made, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. At the same (damn) time, Cam’ron and The Diplomats were also heavy in the streets with their Diplomats series of tapes that culminated in one of the best double rap albums ever made, Diplomatic Immunity. The formula for the Diplomats was one of a leadership role by Cam’ron, with Jim Jones and Juelz Santana playing front court while a slew of other talented artists known as Dipset came in off the bench to deliver street raps and punchlines over epic production. We look back now and see the classic run that Dipset made and it’s incredible how Killa assembled such a great group of rappers with such chemistry and made such an impact in the game. Fast forward to today and we got one of the best mixtapes out right now consisting of the same formula, only this time instead of Cam and the Dips, it’s Maino and the Mafia, and the comparisons are endless and incredible, while the music is still just as fire.

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(Source: thatclassicmaterial.com)

PUSH!, Lucky Don, Twigg Martin, Hustle Hard Mouse and Maino himself formally introduce themselves to rap fans with their debut mixtape.

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Mixtape: The Mafia

Essential Info: Maino has always carried himself like a boss and now the Brooklyn, New York MC has finally risen to Don status by assembling his hand-picked family of rap assassins.

On Tuesday (October 9), the “Hi Hater” spitter officially introduced The Mafia to rap fans via the group’s self-titled debut mixtape. Comprised of PUSH!, Lucky Don, Twigg Martin, Hustle Hard Mouse and Maino himself, The Mafia aim to make a major splash with this little thing of theirs.

The tape’s “Intro” finds Main introducing his team properly. “Welcome to the mob, you’ve now been invited/ To step into my world where lames get indicted/ Killers get excited, the drama gets ignited/ Through bloodshed and war me and my n—-as stand united,” Maino spits before his team display their murderous wordplay one-by-one.

On Friday, the Brooklyn bar slingers stopped by MTV News and Maino explained

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