So what if Max B’s serving 75 years in prison, that isn’t stopping Amalgam Digital from releasing his debut album, Vigilante Season. Below is the first leak, “Model Of Entropy” featuring Young Riot.

Hardknock TV recently caught up with Jay Electronica out West. He spoke on not appearing on Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), working with Nas, and his project with Decon. Don’t even ask about a release date for the latter. Related: “Exhibt C” Live At Suny Purchase

Trina flaunts her money maker on the cover of KING‘s summer issue. Sweat it out on newsstands April 28th.

Here’s the “gift” we’ve all been waiting to unwrap. Check out B.o.B.’s collaboration with Eminem off his debut, The Adventures Of Bobby Ray. Sidebar: Eminem’s lyrics Let’s Pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen Let’s pretend things would’ve been no different Pretend people procrastinated had no motivation Pretend he just made excuses that was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind Marshall you never gone make it, makes no sense to play the game it ain’t […]

Back at 93.5’s Krush Groove Concert this past weekend in L.A, Short Dawg performs his hit “Blow The Whistle” while former Playboy playmate Kendra Wilkinson toots that thang. Ludacris was right about that new phenomenon.

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Hot Spitta got it in Ohio last Friday as part of his Where Is Smokey Robinson Tour. Chris Franco was in the spot and caught Curren$y’s performance of “Prioritize (Beeper Bill)” and “Drug Flow”.

[vodpod id=Video.3455784&w=425&h=350&fv=plugins%3Dadotube%26amp%3Bchannel%3D7273%26amp%3Bfile%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestofbothoffices.com%2Fvideos%2Fuploads%2FnWSfSWZQ0nDjqEcmEaWj.flv%26amp%3Blogo%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestofbothoffices.com%2Fvideos%2Ftemplates%2Fimages%2Fplayerlogo%2Flogo.png%26amp%3Bskin%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestofbothoffices.com%2Fvideos%2Fdefault.swf%26amp%3Bbufferlength%3D15%26amp%3Bvolume%3D50%26amp%3Bautostart%3Dfalse%26amp%3Bfullscreen%3Dtrue%26amp%3Bstretching%3Dexactfit%26amp%3Bltas.mediaid%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestofbothoffices.com%2Fvideos%2Fuploads%2FnWSfSWZQ0nDjqEcmEaWj.flv%26amp%3Btitle%3Dround+table%26amp%3Bdescription%3Dround+table%26amp%3Badotube.title%3Dround+table%26amp%3Badotube.description%3Dround+table%26amp%3Badotube.adotubeid%3D8r2EXLA%26amp%3Badotube.omlsource%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.adotube.com%2Fphp%2Fservices%2Fplayer%2FOMLService.php%3Favpid%3D8r2EXLA] On Grind Music Radio last week, Black Milk, Sean C, Riggs Morales, Peter Rosenberg, and Jerry Barrow critiqued VIBE‘s greatest producer of all time bracket. As Jerry indicated, the list was created to spark conversation (which it has). Despite some snubs, the selections overall are on point. But then again, some people are never satisfied.

Apparently this was left on the cutting floor during T.I.’s Paper Trail run. Sounds like the producer flipped Tom Tom Club’s “Genius Of Love” à la Mariah Carey. Splash

LL Cool J mosied on down to the Country Music Awards last night in Las Vegas and at the 4:20 mark, introduced Taylor Swift for her performance of “Change”. But the CMA’s wasn’t LL’s only stop. Prior to the awards he performed “Loungin” at the MGM Grand’s pool party.

Cypress Hill sold out S.O.B.’s last Thursday as part of Hot 97’s Who’s Next Showcase. And in case you forgot, the group’s new album Rise Up drops tomorrow. Above is their performance of “How I Could Just Kill A Man”. More footage down bottom.

Shyne keeps callin’ me, but I don’t wanna pick up. I hate it. Hate that he keeps callin’. Hate what I would have to say him. Hate the way he sounds. Hate what people are saying about the way he sounds. Really hate what people are saying about him. Ask around. Find out, he wants to sound like that. Doesn’t ever want to be viewed as a Big soundalike again. Never again. Won’t accept criticism. Constructive or not. But then, […]

These days, it seems as if there’s more teasers, trailers, and snippets than final product. Ah well, if you can’t beat em, join ’em. Here a sneak peak of LB’s new video “Curtain Call” off Leftback.

Tricky Stewart and The-Dream extend their services to Jamie on the title track for his new album. This might not be the final version, but grab a hand earful for now. HHNM

Justin told Complex a week and a half ago that he planned to work with Drake. And last night at the Juno Awards, they did just that with Drizzy adding some bars to his hit “Baby”. Miss Info

Nicki Minaj recently gave a Question and Answer to Details magazine. Below are some excerpts from the sitdown. Q: As an openly bisexual rapper, do you think hip-hop is getting more gay-friendly? A: I think the world is getting more gay-friendly, so hip-hop is too. But it’s harder to imagine an openly gay male rapper being embraced. People view gay men as having no street credibility. But I think we’ll see one in my lifetime. Q: Have you seen the […]

Here are photos from Breezy’s six page pictorial in the latest issue of FLAUNT magazine. Hey kids, it’s Chris, are you still down? More under the cut. Natasha

Come May 25th, Daz and Kurupt’s 100 Wayz is coming to a retailer near you. Check out the trailer above and ride down with their latest leak below. “Keep On Riding” Previously: “Crazy N The Club” x “Do U Drank”

Not even Vinnie of Naughty By Nature is down with O.P.P. Yesterday Kweli sent out an APB via Twitter for his stolen belongings. His laptop and phone were swiped from his dressing room in Melbourne, Australia. Fortunately, the culprit Amir Bashir was caught on surveillance cameras. Vin Rock told Kweli that he knew the crook came and recovered the stolen items. Must be a small world after all. Now as for that Yankee hat…

[vodpod id=Video.3453639&w=425&h=350&fv=] Last week, we got word that Don Cannon replaced DJ Drama as the host for Young Jeezy’s mixtape, Trap Or Die 2. And now, it seems as if everything’s finally falling into place. No word as to when the tape’s dropping, but here’s a brief clip of what Da Snowman’s sprinkling. Complex