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A radio rip for now, but Banks returns the favor to Young Goldie for another duet. Hopefully the CDQ arrives in a few. Lloyd’s King Of Hearts coming soon.

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The Black Eyed Peas just released their first single from their November 30th release, The Beginning. Not a fan of william and the crew, but with a Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes sample, this should get them dirty dancing back to the top of the charts.

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Nothing here to put your hands up to, but for the latest leak off his upcoming album, Twista links up with MTV’s eighth Hottest MC. The forecast calls for The Perfect Storm on November 9th.

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At the beginning of the week, Kanye revealed the album cover which was supposedly “banned” from retail. But now, we have the first of his five new covers. If you recall, this was used as the inital artwork for “Runaway” before it was changed to this. Album drops November 22nd.

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Mary J. Blige’s Music Saved My Life tour made its stop in Universal City, CA last night and the opening act, Jazmine Sullivan gave the Gibson Amphitheatre audience a treat by covering SWV’s “Weak”. She later gets down to a Bell Biv Devoe classic while performing her current single. That girl is poison.

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Happy Birthday Stack! Here’s the latest mixtape from the late Stack Bundles. Hosted by Snatchatape and DJ Superstar Jay, this project is filled with unreleased tracks. Backcover and tracklist when you continue on. RIP.

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Off the recent Lime Light Exclusives mixtape, here are two stand outs from Loso. The first features an unknown female vocalist and the second is a two minute verse with a Rozay sample. It’s time to shine!

“City Lights”

“Whip It”

UPDATE: Splash says “City Lights” is by Nikki & Rich. Here it is with no tags

We’re assuming the meeting with Puff awhile back went well. In an interview with VIBE, Sheek says before things go any further, it’s up to Interscope to let the Lox go. Bad Boy 4 life?

“The Lox want to leave our current label home Interscope. We are trying to move on, but unfortunately, the label doesn’t want to let us go. We talked to Puff about coming back to Bad Boy; we gave him our counter offer and he said, ‘Yes.’ But it’s up to him to convince [Interscope head] Jimmy Iovine and Ruff Ryders to let go of their shares so we can move on.”

We are stuck in that position. As far as Kiss, myself and Styles, we are ready for a new deal. We are good with Diddy…he has agreed with what we are looking for as far as financially and everything. Other labels are also throwing offers at us to make a LOX reunion album happen. But it’s really about our lawyers moving everybody out the way and making a deal happen.”

Sha recently brought Big K.R.I.T. onboard to Antonio’s establishment. In this segment of Def Jam’s new VP of A&R’s interview with Allindstrom, Sha shares the direction he wants to take his artist and compares his first encounter with K.R.I.T. to Fif’s.

In this bonus clip of Nas and Damian Marley’s Next 48 Hours footage series, Esco tells DJ Green Lantern & Rocky Thunda on Sirius XM Radio that the game hasn’t been around long enough to claim a greatest of all time. Um, smarten up kids.