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Last night, Drakemania hit the Windy City and despite another cool, “Say You Will” freestyle in which Drake insisted he’s still unsigned and bigged up Nah Right’s Nation, a fuckin’ fight broke out that ended the show prematurely. Look at Lupe hold back Drizzy after the jump. So cute.

The future Bad Boy brings the second of three versions of his New York banger. This time around, you got Juelz Santana, Lloyd Banks, Diddy and Busta Rhymes passin’ the mic. And oh yeah, the woman on here (Lore’l) ain’t helpin’ the sad state of female rap.

Shout: Splash, who has all the versions currently available including instrumental. Make your own version! Ha.

{mp3}nmc hottest in the hood pt. 2{/mp3}

Confession: I like the first remix best with Ross’ “Dyn-o-mite” line. I’m a sucker for a Good Times reference. Peace Aqua.

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Janet’s boo is still jockin’ Jay-Z and has created the most bizarre supergroup in music history. I blame the man below for making me lose 5 minutes out of my precious life. Time to resurrect the memo: No more JD posts. No more music by the suckers.

B.Dot Edit: YN’s yellow bellied. This is dope!

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Look who’s really been gettin’ his social networkin’ on lately. Wyclef did a live concert from his studio for his 100k Facebook fans. Let’s see who’s gonna try to top this on Twitter. Ha!

From The Man Himself: Wyclef Jean’s Blog 

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Here’s a preview. More can be found here. I’ll be watching if the wife doesn’t make me take her to see Star Trek. 

Reminder: Icedotcom

I don’t know about you, but I miss mixtapes. The real mixtapes, that were really CDs! Ah. Life before Drama. Ha! No shots. Shout-out to my solider O and the Canal Street and LES connects. We put that work in. And I got the 66 CD binders to prove it.

Gotty woke up this morning and got his digitize on. Here’s all of the DJ Clue Grand Theft Audio mixtape series.

Props Again: The Smoking Section

Hey, hit me if you got a mixtape request I might have to get my fingernails dirty again. Piracy Forever! For Promotional Use Only! Ha!

The oldest rap mag continues its rebirth. Read all about it. Keep print computers alive!

You Remind Me: Gotty

Take Heed: Robbie sat down with Wu Gambinos Rae and Ghost.

So apparently there are four samples cleared on Relapse and Amajanese got ’em for you.

Here’s a live version of the joint behind “We Made You.”

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A lotta speculation was out that Cassie and/or someone from the Bad Boy camp allegedly leaked those naked flicks in order to create a buzz for the pretty girl who can’t seem to get her second album out. Well, if that’s the case, it ain’t working. According to Billboard, she’s moving a steady 2,000 downloads a week. Not good. Maybe once the video up top (get it?) is complete and released, things will improve. But this joint looks far from the classic Puffy promised us. (Looks like they took video down but Diddy said it. I can prove it. Ha!)

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I was lookin’ for one thing and found this. Don’t know when and where this happened, but here’s Mos doin’ the big single from the Rawkus days. The Aretha Franklin sample is still one of my favorite breaks. Great job, Ayatollah.

Bonus: This looks like it’s from the same show. If so, it was six months ago, in Oaktown.

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Think the very beginning of Eminem’s Shade 45 Prelapse special is missing here. But what is here is pretty interesting. Peace to the Daddy Reef gettin’ his O.G. Source Music Editor on. Listen up.

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“Not Fruity Loops, bitch”

Moog and SP-1200 machines, mic pre-amp talk, yup this is some true producer geek shit as DJ Quik gives up some good tips. Hey young trackmasters, you’re all welcome!

A lot more revealing than this shit.

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While promoting his upcoming Crips and Bloods documentary with the homie DJ Skee, Baron Davis reveals that your boy Jayceon Taylor is a butcher on that basketball court. No wonder he doesn”t get no burn in them NBA celebrity games. Ha!

Spotted: Sermon’s Domain

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“All them dudes that talk about retirement and shit—God bless ’em. I’m not one of them dudes. When you’re in this business as long as me, you’re gonna retire to do what? I love what I do so much, I don’t foresee retirement ever. I’m probably gonna be one of the first muthafuckas on some Quincy Jones shit. I want to be able to put out a Q’s Jook Joint when I’m 65 years old.”

I hear you Bussa-Bus. No beach chair for YN either. Ha!

Props: HHO

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“You’re lucky Kimmel only rhymes with nimble, symbol and thimble… I was nimble, stuck a symbol up his ass and a thimble… You might get it, buddy.”

Last night, Em and 200 of his laid-off autoworker pals visited Jimmy Kimmel for a sitdown. Topped off with another performance of “We Made You” after the jump.

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This is pretty surreal. I hope it wasn’t Aries Spears pullin’ a gag. Ha!

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During his UK media blitz, Slim Shady sat down with one of the biggest shows out there, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross. He also performs “We Made You” with Kon Artis as his hype man.

From what I’m told, this is La Flare’s first official mixtape since his release from the clinker last March. I wonder if that collabo with Spencer Pratt‘s ever going to come into fruition. Ah well, wishful thinking. Tracklist after the jump.

In my humble opinion, this is the only listenable song off this legendary group’s latest project with Nike. It’s not always about postin’ music—just because it’s new. At Rap Radar, we occasionally put up new music we personally co-sign. You might wanna try that sometime.

{mp3}10 forever{/mp3} 

New York interviews Nasir’s ol’ man, Olu Dara. Father always knows best.

He also raps about you, most notably on “Poppa Was a Player.”

Oh, I heard that in the street one day. Years ago, I was walking down

like, ‘get the hell out of here.’

{mp3}11 poppa was a player{/mp3} 

Spotted: Clovito