Alicia did her thing in Central Park this morning as part of Good Morning America‘s summer concert series. For the first time, she spoke on her pregnancy and her trip to South Africa. Performances after the jump. hhnm

With today marking the one year anniversary of MJ’s passing, The Evil Genius Green Lantern composed this mix for Atlanta’s V-103. It airs later today at 9 P.M., but you can download here.

For the first time, the Artist of the Decade covers this week’s edition of Billboard. Peep a couple of quotes below. On being the best-selling artist of the last decade “I don’t think I’ve actually stopped to think about it,” Eminem says by phone from his home in Detroit, while on a brief break between trips to promote Recovery. “I never thought that my life would amount to this. But to be able to sit back and digest it is […]

K-Dot replaces Jay Rock with one of his West Coast brethren for the remix to “I Do This”. The original can be found on The Kendrick Lamar EP.

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Step inside the booth with Black Rob as he lays down some lyrics for the Blackstar Line: Close To My Roots project. Lyrically, Black always represents. showyaskills

Here’s an early look at some of Jay-Z and Eminem’s appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman. The full episode and performances air tomorrow at 11:35 PM EST. nr

Tat-tat-tatted up! Snoop Dogg recently commissioned Mr. Cartoon to a tattoo a picture of his wife, Shante a.k.a. Boss Lady on his arm. Meanwhile, Capone got his and Noreaga’s names inked on his forearm. Tat’s all folks. 57ave

The folks at Creative Loafing rounded up 3 Stacks, Big Boi, Organized Noize, and others to reflect on ‘Kast’s 12 year old masterpiece. Read up here and peep an excerpt on “Rosa Parks” below. Andre 3000: I actually submitted that beat to [Diddy’s old group] Total — ’cause I was going with Keisha from Total around that time — but they couldn’t use it, so we ended up using it. By the time Aquemini came, I was stretching out as […]