<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-108567" title=" at Blue Note Jazz Club on February 26, 2011 in New York City.” src=”http://rapradar.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/lupe_rapradar_middle_fingers.jpg” alt=”” width=”540″ height=”397″ /> Sometime yesterday, Lupe’s new album Lasers sprung a leak. Within hours, zealous fans panned the project. Lu beamed on Twitter this afternoon and responded to the early reviews. Do support on March 8th, losers. I never thought lasers would inspire so much negativity. Reading the comments and reactions is crushing. To all the Lupe fans who protested […]

Fred The Godson puts his flow to use over EPMD’s classic track. Listen up. They didn’t give this guy the XXL Freshman honor for nothing. flex

Judging by the promo clip above, it appears that Kanye and his G.O.O.D. Music family will be making their return to the South by Southwest music festival on March 19th in Austin, TX. Better get there before midnight.

The individual(s) behind Biggaveli’s Twitter account released the video for the first single off Max B’s upcoming set. Vigilante Season finally arrives March 29th. Oh yea, he’s not in the video. Free Max B!

Mortimer, their back! Six months after Wale and Cud’s fallout, they have finally made peace. Earlier today, the duo broke the ice publicly via Twitter. In the words of B.I.G.: Fuck that beef shit, that shit is played out. UPDATE: Wale confirmed to YN that the two did speak on the phone and they have indeed made amends.

[vodpod id=Video.5667084&w=540&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] And we thought Sai was mad late. Anyways, Nice & Smooth finally shot a video for a track off their 1989 debut LP, Nice & Smooth. Better late than never and it sure looks like they still got it. We see you Big Daddy Kane. nr

[vodpod id=Video.5663801&w=540&h=350&fv=] Along with 2 Chainz, the Cocaine Waitress serves us the clip for her Lex Luger-produced track from her recent mixtape. Diamond’s ass is a guy’s best friend.

Mr. 5 Mics gives us the black and white treatment behind the video for one of the bonus tracks off Trill O.G. Welcome to H-Town.

Cash Money’s in-house producers, Cool & Dre appeared on NBC Nitecap with Peter Bailey to speak on their Interscope deal, their T-Mobile commercial, and wanting to work with D’Angelo. Good luck with that!

Over this Lex Luger beat, the Young Money MC gives the strippers something to grind to with his latest cut. Off  Tyga and DJ Ill Will’s upcoming mix, Black Thoughts 2. x