No record deal. No clothing line. No problem. You can’t keep Eve off a red carpet nowadays as she pushes her token black role in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut. Peep the trailer below— which is as close as I’m gonna get to watchin’ this flick. Roller derby, ma? Never that! Previously: Eve Speaks On Ruff Ryders Reunion

I’m not quite through. Got another funky Ghostface break for you. Hit it! Previously: Poetry Breaks: Sequence Fail

A lil classic material for your morning. Here’s the brothers from Long Island on their European tour grind performing one of my favorite tunes from their second classic album, De La Soul Is Dead. Clever use of the JB‘s original in the mix, but I don’t co-sign the corny car bit at the end. Ha! Full show at Grand Crew.

This album dropped nearly a year ago, but Kamaal won’t stop because he can’t stop. Deluxe Edition, anyone? YouTube? Holla at the Double R. Ha!

Cover your ears! I’m sorry, but this had to be documented. I hope you had your breakfast first. Spotted: Hattie C

Please don’t give Lil Mama the location. Sidebar: Kanye West is bossy.

In the above magazine’s cover story, Puff comes clean on his past sexual conquests. Mama, he’s a changed man. “I guess the things that used to thrill me don’t thrill me so much anymore. Intimacy is more important to me than sleeping with hot chicks. I don’t even know if I really savored every menage a trois I had. I don’t want to do it all over again. Love is something I strongly connect with, but it’s not something I’ve […]

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I heard these two joints that one morning when I was guest co-hosting The Morning After With Angela Yee. I think we posted at least one of these but since we switched to WordPress, I can’t find it. Oh well. Anyway, Leslie’s upcoming mixtape, The Beat Made Me Do It is a problem. I guaran-damn-tee it! Props: NR, yeah I said it, NR.

For his own Shade 45 channel’s five-year anniversary, Marshall Mathers has agreed to do a couple of sitdowns. On Sat Oct. 3 at 3 pm EST, he talks about DJ Hero (Oct. 27), his New Orleans concert (Oct. 30), and his new album with DJ Whoo Kid. On Tues Oct 6 at 9pm EST, he’ll touch on the same topics with DJ Tony Touch. Hopefully “Jason From Miami” doesn’t call in. Heads up: Don’t Hate Be Hated via Hip Hop […]

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3533021&w=425&h=350&fv=] The Chef clarifies that the joint LP deal with Ghost and Meth ain’t done. See, they’re both signed to Def Jam but he’s indy and would love for the treacherous three to own the final product. Still, he recognizes that the fans come first so as long as the paperwork’s right, Shallah’s on board. The only question I’m left with is what the fuck is up with this video’s distracting background music. SMH. I don’t wanna give Gasface, […]

“I was at a point where I felt like I needed a fresh start like A-Rod going to the Yankees.” Combs is still celebrating his latest record company powermove so he rang up AHH and told them how he escaped Lyor Cohen’s clutches. “I had started some previous business relationships with Jimmy Iovine. We had a great chemistry with each other. When I sat down with Julie [Greenwald, Atlantic COO] and told them that I had an interest to go […]

Truthfully: I don’t know much about this Gudda guy. But this two-part freestyle features Young Money boss, Lil Wayne so I say it’s worth a listen. Pardon the autotune, it’s a lyrical exercise. Ha! Props: K Civil

Jay-Z’s BFF phoned in to Peter Rosenberg’s Real Late show and reminisced on the 2003 blackout that prevented him and the rest of Hov’s squad from facing a Rucker b-ball battle with Fat Joe’s Terror Squad team. Later, to please PR, he recalls his favorite childhood wrestlers.

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It’s not as bad as it sounds. Here Starks explains to Hot 97’s Angie Martinez how he had to resolve some family business. Hey, I can relate. YN keeps his lawyer on speed dial. Ha! Previously: GFK: Wizdom Of The Week #6 Related: The Abbott’s got a new book Update: Oh boy. Rakeem will appeal.

In his never-ending quest to be taken seriously as a rock star, Lil Wayne has locked down a Jermaine Dupri-produced collabo with LA rock band Weezer. Lead singer Rivers Cuomo explains this mess to MTV: “I reached out to some friends of mine in different genres: Jermaine Dupri, for example, king of R&B, I wrote a song with him called ‘Can’t Stop Partying.’ It was a real challenge for me, taking his ideas, which are very slick, R&B party [ideas], […]

Lady “Loose Lips” Gaga recently revealed what the “Fame Kills” tour name is all about. “The storyline is that Kanye is on one end of the stage and I’m on the other, and the whole show, we are trying to get to where each other is,” she said. “I want something that he has, which is the fame, and he wants something that I have, which is home, and my humble beginnings. So we battle each other throughout the entire […]

What’s overkill? Ha! Props: RealTalkNY Sidebar: Still don’t got the real scoop on “Empire” video. I’m slippin’.

Looks like Mr. Jean is gettin’ his Asher Roth Rodney D on. Show some respect! “I am enrolling in Berklee College in Boston to get my bachelor’s degree in music! That’s how important education is to me. I plan to work with Rev. Al Sharpton because that’s how important stressing the importance of education to children is to me,” the musician announced during the Congressional Black Caucus Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, DC on Saturday. Props: KC Sidebar: Wait, did […]