Maino shot his new video for “We Keep It Rockin” at club Amnesia in NYC yesterday evening. NigelD’s camera was there and filmed what went down.

With today marking the 11th anniversary of Big Pun’s death, Angie Mar dug in her archives and found an old interview with Big Pun and N.O.R.E. on Hot 97. Pun talks about being nominated for a Grammy and wanting to be the first rapper to release a quadruple album. Ha! Rest In Peace, Punisher. Hearing the two artists trade jokes over a crackling terrestrial broadcast offers a sharp contrast to the highly monetized ways hip-hop figures control their own platforms […]

[vodpod id=Video.5527084&w=425&h=350&fv=] For the entire month of February, FUSE has given Jim Jones his own On Demand channel. Here’s one of the promo clips of him giving out free New York City taxi cab rides. If all goes well, Capo could possibly land his own show on the network.

With No I.D. on the track, here’s the first single from Big Sean’s major label debut, Finally Famous: The Album. According to Def Jam, the project is slated to be released next month. Yeah, boi.

Still haven’t read Decoded? Well, if you got an iPhone or iPad, we’ve got the app for you. First one to email me at [email protected] wins. Good luck. UPDATE: Contest over. Shout to Mark.

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The good folks at Goodfella Media caught up with Big K.R.I.T. at the Shade 45 studios and convinced him to spit a few bars into the camera. Country Cousins coming soon.

T-Pain’s ready to take matters into his own hands and leak his fourth album, RevolveR. He turned to his Twitter account late last night and offered the explanation below. Since nobody wants to respect this form of art that you all say we “love” so much, I’m just gonna go ahead and start leakin the album myself tonight. well maybe I shouldn’t rant but everybody was lookin at me strange when I said I didn’t wanna drop my album, it’s […]

Prior to the Super Bowl yesterday, ESPN aired Chris Paul’s 5th Annual Celebrity Bowling Invitational. Amongst the participants were Lil Wayne and Nelly. When it was all said and done, Chris Paul and partner Jason Belmonte won the tournament. Watch how it went down after the jump.

While Lil Wayne was incarcerated last year, he said he wanted to work with Tech N9ne. And from the looks of it, their plans are finally in motion. Let’s see what they do with it.