While Talib preps his new album Prisoner Of Conscious, he recently caught flack for his collaboration with Gucci Mane. In particular, an article from TheLoop21’s Mychal Smith took him to task. Well Kweli fires back. “Now I don’t know Mychal Smith, but what I do know is he is a blogger that follows me on Twitter, and I guess my decision to record with Gucci Mane bothered him enough to blog about it, declaring my move a part of the […]

In two days, Chris and Neef are back in business with their new mixtape hosted by Don Cannon. Until then, fire one up and cool out with their latest featuring Spitta. Uh, it’s the Roc? nr

Bobby Ray is hitting the road for his first North American headlining tour. Billed as The Shootin’ For Stars Tour, the concert series kicks off on August 3rd in St. Louis and will continue on through October. See where the adventure begins in your city after the jump.

Apparently Dwyane Wade’s got game and rhymes. Last night, he appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and at the 2:40 mark recited one of his childhood rhymes. Um, let’s just stick to b-ball Flash. Ha!

[vodpod id=Video.4066632&w=425&h=350&fv=] Grab your bandanas for the latest video from hip-hop’s Free Agent, Joe Budden and Novel. Directed by Rik Cordero. Believe it or not, but Joell’s YAOWA mixtape is coming this October. os Sidebar: “Money Makes The World Go Round”

Glasses Malone takes us on a high speed chase with the boys in blue in his video for the first single off his delayed,  Beach Cruiser. Spoiler alert: He gets caught. Ha!

Trill O.G. drops August 3rd and earlier today, Decatur Dan was on hand to capture images of Bun and T-Pain as they shot the album’s next video. More flicks after the jump.

The reason for Khujo’s incarceration was on the hush, but Big Boi did confirm last week he was doing time. As you can see his Dungeon Family was in full support during his release today and took to Twitter to celebrate. Maybe now we can get that Goodie Mob reunion on and poppin’. Sidebar: The lawyer speaks

Like we said before, we hate snippets. But we’ll make an exception here. We heard “Mr. Rager” live, but a preview of the studio version with Kanye on the beat has emerged and it’s nice. “Mojo” isn’t bad neither. How long until the full versions appear? Hopefully Mr. Rager is on his mojo and let’s it loose. “Mr. Rager” “Mojo” thi

After a preview last week, Big Boi’s Walmart Soundcheck aired in full earlier this evening. Antwan speaks on the origins of his Sir Lucious album, how Scott Storch’s beat was provided for him and his interaction with his fans. Big Boi’s medley of hits after the jump. Fo’ sure. mwp Sidebar: Big Boi Checks His Wikipedia Page