Short summer. Long song. About nine minutes to be exact. The Great Escape and Mood Muzik 4 coming soon, doggone it. Previously: Joe Budden Talks Book & Album Date Sidebar: JBTV

Last week, Lupe turned to Twitter and blamed Atlantic Records for the delay of his third album, Lasers. In turn, his fans created an online petition demanding the release of the project. Fight the power and sign your life away here. Dear Atlantic Records, The fans have been waiting for the release for Lupe Fiasco’s album “Lasers” for over a good year now. Since when it was originally announced finished last summer, there has still yet to be a release […]

In this portion of DJ Scratch’s interview with Grind Music Radio, Scratch reflects on the break up of EPMD, meeting Busta and producing his very first solo track, “Do My Thing”.

[vodpod id=Video.4069013&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D540105%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A540105] Although Rozay’s album is barely a day old, he tells 1515 that he’s already working on more music. He also confirms that Hype Williams will direct the visuals for “Live Fast, Die Young”. “Yeah, the homie Yeezy, we decided on Hype Williams. Hype Williams will direct ‘Live Fast, Die Young”. “Hit me up on Twitter @rickyrozay, and the reason I say that, I tweeted a picture of me and the homie Spike Lee. He came to my birthday […]

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!