Along with 2 Chainz, Cap 1 uses a delightful eye candy as a decoy for a stick up. Gets ’em everytime. Off Cap 1’s T.R.U. 2 It mixtape, which is available here.

May be a pretty good idea. Powered by Young Chop, Trinidad James and Travis $cott bring the noise on their new collaboration. Turn up or shut up?

Along with Justin Timberlake, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis lead the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards with a total of six nominations. The nods include “Thrift Shop” for video of the year, “Can’t Hold Us” up for best Hip-Hop video, “Same Love” for best social message and more. Peep the full list of nominees after the jump. The ceremony takes place August 25 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Got enough MCs? In celebration of his The Piece Maker 3: Return Of The 50 MCs release last week, Tony Touch invited a handful of the LPs guests to his Toca Tuesday show for a cypher. Listen up.

Co-written by his father Alan Thicke, Robin keeps the feet moving with Blurred Lines‘ latest release. The label sure has been pretty generous with the releases. Get it in full on July 30. ru

In Jay’s recent interview with Zane Lowe, he explained a brief fallout between him and Timbo after Blueprint 3. In Revolt’s new clip, Tim speaks on the subject and says he’s written an apology verse.

After going head-to-toe with Nick, Mac hit the stage during last night’s episode of Wild N’ Out. He closed out the show with “Matches”. “S.D.S.” after the jump. Watch it with the sound on.

Back again, Jiggaman’s mug takes the front display of London’s New Musical Express magazine. Read the article after the jump. Michael Stipe of REM has told NME that he is “thrilled” that Jay-Z chose to include lyrics by his band on his latest album ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’. Speaking to NME as part of this week’s cover feature on the US rapper, Stipe discussed his relationship with Jay-Z and his reaction to words from his  song ‘Losing My Religion’ appearing on his new song ‘Heaven’. […]

Big Sean also partook in the Wireless Festival in London over the weekend. During his set on Sunday, he performed his new track “Fire”, which he premiered back in March. Hall Of Fame August 27th. jonearl

Thirsty chicks are bad for your health and so is the auto-tune. Anyway, Bow Wow brings ’em both on his latest audio.