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Rick Ross keeps his hustle going and joins Ace Hood on his Lex Luger-produced track. Everyday he’s hustlin’, indeed.

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UPDATE: Official Remix featuring Lil Wayne. Via Flex.

UPDATE 2: Updated with No Tags via uhtn.

Jon Connor, you got the juice now. For Funk Flex, he gets his 90s flow on over Eric B and Rakim’s classic cut. Riverside muthafucker Ha!

Here’s the full eight minute documentary on Nas’ relationship with TDK cassette tapes. Directed by photographer Jonathan Mannion. Death to digital!

Nas goes deep reminiscing about cassettes, mixtapes and musical influences (Tribe Called Quest, MC Shan, Kurtis Blow & Queen, just to name a few) while reflecting on his early life in the Queensbridge housing projects.

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Justin Timberlake brought sexy back, but now, Waka is bringing gangsta to the forefront in his latest video. Listen to the CDQ on his forthcoming mixtape, Salute Me Or Shoot Me 3.

Rick Ross’ latest mixtape, Ashes To Ashes is currently floating around on the ‘net. And in the clip above, he gives MTV a breakdown of his favorite tracks.

“RetroSuperFuture” featuring Wiz Khalifa: Ross and Wiz endorse the Green Party on this slow, looping track. “Now, I stay high, while y’all stay low,” Wiz sings on the hook. “Trying to tell me about the smell, I know/ My eyes stay red from all that smoke.”

“Made Men” featuring Drake: “Two-door Bugatti coupe, I call it Katy Perry,” Ross raps on the boastful number. “Wiz Khalifa papers, my favorite berries/ That ’65, I call it Rihanna/ It got a red top but it’s white like Madonna.”

“Pandemonium” featuring Meek Mill and Wale: The Miami Don and his off-season pickups put it down over the brassy production. “They say I’m special as Devin Hester on fourth down,” Wale spits. “So all that sh– you n—as kicking, we ain’t worried about.”

Juan Epstein returns for their first podcast this year with Talib Kweli. Below is rundown of what was discussed.

Ciph is back and he brought Talib Kweli with him for some good old Juan Ep talk. We talked about Ciph’s return, Dave Chappelle, Kweli’s djing, my hate of commercial music, and lots of other fun crap. Enjoy!

Under the direction of Decatur Dan, the United Street Dopeboyz of America have a showdown with the feds. No hostage is safe. We loaded, we we we loaded.

Gotti’s been quiet as of late, but the Memphis MC is back on his grind and fires one up over the Baby and Weezy record. Flame on Yo.

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Just just uploaded this video of him checking in with the Doc. And although April 20th falls on a Wednesday, Dre hints that Detox will finally arrive for consumption on cannabis day. Oy Vey!

“Yo Britney, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you be #1, but me and Jay-Z’s single is one of the best songs of all time! LOL. On a serious note I’m truly happy for @AvrilLavigne and @BritneySpears…… No hate in 2011! I thought LOL signified a joke… I didn’t get the 2011 LOL doesn’t signify a joke anymore memo… LOL or something else I guess”

After Britney’s new song took the #1 spot on iTunes, Kanye jokingly tweeted the statements above last Friday. After the rapper caught wind of MSNBC and other various sites reporting his tweets as slander, he took to Twitter this evening to unleash on the media. Take it away Ye.

Just saw that MSNBC said I tried to start a twitter war with Brittany. This shit takes the air out my lungs sometimes from blogs to news reports… enough already!!! All I do is focus on my work. There’s a new lie everyday… a new media spin… I never got a watch with my face on it!!! A company tried to give that to me 9 yrs ago! I’m one of the most considerate people in real life. Maybe over considerate. Over caring. Overly real. There is no astronaut training for celebrity… even though this whole life is so outer space! I was actually surprised that a record as raw as H*A*M could make it to #2 on Itunes. How can u “let” someone be number one??!! That was the whole joke!!! I know intelligent people know this so bear with me.

When I said the comment about Brittney I was giving her props for being #1 not dissing her at all! But stop making it seem that my aim is to hurt or down people! That’s just not my style! As pop stars we’re all in this shit together! We on the inside of the TV! If the media wants to make a story … just say I have atrocious spelling and terrible grammar…If you don’t give em a story they just make one up. I’m just trying to focus & stay creative! Keep bringing dope shit to the world!

Once again thank you to all my fans who made MBDTF certified platinum! You all give me the power and I never take it for granted. I am an extension of my listeners. I won’t always say the right thing but my heart is always in the right place. Thinking out loud… Whenever I read press I just need to remind myself that there’s people that care about music and don’t care about press.