Los Angeles Lakers star Ron Artest appeared on Renada Romain’s Ear Candy Sirius/XM show this morning. During his interview, he debuted a new track featuring Nas from his upcoming mixtape, Ball’n dropping All Star Weekend. UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments, this leaked late last year with tags. No real difference besides Ron’s intro at the beginning. Technical foul.

For the entire month of April, Wiz is embarking on his Green Carpet Tour. The show kicks off on the first in Raleigh, North Carolina and ends on the 17th at Penn State. Remaining dates after the jump. Rolling Papers drops March 29th.

Maurice Garland hosted the Red Cup Party last night at the Smith’s Olde Bar in Atlanta. In the clip above, Playboy Tre introduces K.R.I.T. and performs, “Return of 4Eva”. After the jump, “Moon & Stars” and  “Glass House”. hiptics

Yeezy phones home two verses for the remix to Katy Perry’s latest single. The tandem have already begun shooting a video for the track as well. Drew Barrymore cameo anyone?

By Lil’ Kim’s own accord, her old new mixtape Black Friday has made her the top seller in PayPal history. Instead of giving the tape away for free, she’s sellling it for $10 a pop. Hard to believe in one day, Kimmy moved 113,000 mixtapes. Six years ago, it took a week for her last album, The Naked Truth to sell 109,000 copies. But don’t get it twisted, the Double R can’t knock the hustle. In fact,  YN put his […]

It’s rather audacious to call a song “Platinum” when it sounds like fool’s gold. Nonetheless, for Snoop’s latest installment of #PuffPuffPassTuesday’s, he links up with R.Kelly over Lex Luger’s spaced-out production. The Doggumentary coming March 29th.

Sporting a pair of Cazals, Saigon made his self at home last night on Hip-Hop Nation. During his stay, Goodfella Media captured an in-studio performance of The Greatest Story Never Told‘s title track. Album is (finally) in stores now.

Underground champ Donny Goines is prepping his sophomore set, Success Served Cold and below is the project’s first single. Speaking his language?

Somewhere in Harlem USA, Tity Boi and Vado kick up dust in their Lo Boots for the former’s new video. Hey, it’s the playa way.

[vodpod id=Video.5579299&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D622643%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A622643] The-Dream announced last week that he was releasing his fourth album this summer. On the red carpet of Roc Nation’s pre-Grammy party, he tells MTV the title of the project will be, The Love IV. And on this go-around, he’s calling in the cavalry to assist in the effort. “This album is gonna have more features, which is unique for me, ’cause I usually don’t carry a lot of features. I’m calling it out now. I’m cashing in […]