My love for hip-hop knows no bounds, and part of that love is maintained and nourished via the free mixtapes the genre has churned out over the years. With a bit of diligence and research one can find free songs from incredible artists, some mainstream and some underground, some conscious intelligent rhymes, some loud bangers and lyrical mazes.

So with this invaluable resource at my fingertips I decided to start creating mixtapes of my favorite free tracks for my favorite and most anticipated games. Rabbit Robot’s Button Mashin’ Mixtapes is meant to be impromptu soundtracks for you to download for free and listen to while playing specific games. Almost always the tracks will maintain a loose theme with the game its supposed to be providing beats for. This week its a mix made specifically for Super Street Fighter IV. After the jump check out the tracklist and cover art for the very first Button Mashin’ Mixtape: I Spit Hot Fire. Read more »

“I haven’t played Street Fighter in years,” Mike said as he awkwardly picked up the controller. Mike, a friend I’ve known since junior high school, but I hadn’t seen in years, had never really played much of the Xbox at all either. He was used to the Playstation controller. But he shrugged as he looked at the screen of characters in Street Fighter IV. A vague smile came over him after he passed each one. Read more »