On shelves this week: Killer Mike's collaborative LP with El-P (Mr. El Producto actually has two albums scheduled this month, with the second, Cancer 4 Cure, arriving in two weeks), Rye Rye's debut, and Krizz Kaliko's latest. Proceed for a rundown of hip-hop albums in stores today.

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Welcome to the first of what I hope to be a sweet and expansive series. Over the next few weeks or so, you'll be learning about new faces from various hip-hop cities, as picked by hip-hop journos in those cities. Oh, you're definitely welcome to weigh in and tell us who we missed, who's overhyped, and allathat. Charity, they say, starts at home, so I'm kicking off the series with a list of Houston's 10 best new rappers, brought to you by H-town's own Brandon Caldwell. Get familiar.

This Mother's Day, surprise Mom with a playlist of these adorable hip-hop songs for moms.

Lil Boosie can breathe a sigh of relief. The jury in his first-degree murder case returned a not-guilty verdict, according to the Rolling Stone.

The Louisiana rapper was facing murder for the death of Terry Boyd on October 20th, 2009. Boosie had been accused of paying Michael "Marlo Mike" Louding $2,800 to kill Boyd.