When Kanye West stopped by Rolling Stone’s office three weeks ago, he informed the staff that Justin Vernon of the indie-band Bon Iver, will appear on the track “Lost In The World”. “I called [Vernon] and we ended up becoming like really good friends, playing basketball together everyday, and going into the back studio and just record his parts,” West told RS. He’s similar to me, like where he just does shit just so people would be like, ‘Oh shit […]

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Drake was in the City of Angels last night as the musical talent at the launch party for the Blackberry Torch. He performed a bunch of his chart toppers and tested the device out with his eyes closed. Think anyone ever found his Blackberry with the side scroll? More footage below. atf

[vodpod id=Video.4217648&w=425&h=350&fv=] Yaowa! It’s Joell’s turn to get interrogated by Dee Vazquez in her latest edition of PROFILE. This time around she incorporates a couple of new questions to throw Joell off course. Keep ’em coming! yk2

This one’s for the haters. Here’s a new tune produced by the man himself. Ain’t no tellin’ if it’ll appear on Cole’s debut this fall. In the meantime, get familiar bitch. He’s about to blow up! karencivil

Rick Ross fires a couple shots in the dark over Lil Lody’s production. This might require some investigating, but which rapper fuck boy is throwing up sets and really from Cleveland? Oy vey, it’s going to be a long summer. yk2 x hhnm

Da Snowman’s TM 103 is really on the way. In fact, here’s footage of him on the set of the album’s photo shoot. Yesterday he shot his video for “Jizzle” in Atlanta’s 4th Ward. Looks like everything’s falling into place.

[sparkart-clique site=”rap_radar” video=”ja_rule__bb_king”] Ja Rule was also on the bill last night at B.B. King and believe it or not, he got a positive reception. With a career shrouded in beef, you tend to forget the amount of hits Ja has under his belt. Anyway, toward the end of his set, Loki tested out some new material from his Renaissance Project.

A kilo is a thousand grams and so is Jeezy’s new mixtape hosted by DJ Scream. Dope cover. Ha! Download link and tracklist after the jump. karen civil

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