At a recent Ecstatic tour stop in New York, the mystery man of rap got his favorite producer to come out from behind the scenes. This amuses me: Maybe ’cause I know both these guys personally. Sorry I missed the show, Mr. Electronica. Stop threatening talk shows hosts. Jay on Jay crime. Ha! Prop Yourself: Megatron Don

So the Internets are abuzz with claims that Kia Shine ghostwrote Drake’s “Best I Ever Had.” Although he does own a portion of one of rap’s biggest hits, it appears to be because he produced the original Young Money joint that inspired it. Take a listen: As you can hear in the opening verse, Drake lifted the melody and a few words from Weezy. So Mr. Carter and Kia get a piece of the pie—BMI Awards and all. That’s how […]

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“With the same sword they knight you, they’re gonna good night you with.” Hov and his homie Chris Martin’s band did their 1-2 thing last night in Glasgow. Footage is a lil jumpy but this was just a warm-up to the big Roundhouse show tonight. I’m sure someone’s gonna shoot that shit in HD. Ha! Props: Mick Boogie

If you thought Def Jam’s latest signee’s work with MCs was done, you’re sadly mistaken. In a quick chat on the VMA red carpet, Amerie mentions Loso made the album and the video to her Lil Wayne collabo, “Heard Em All,” was shot by Jay-Z’s main man, Anthony Mandler. Incidentally, Boombox reported Weezy pushed the shoot to Cali so he could check on baby mama numero tres, the lovely Lauren London who delivered this past Saturday. Ah so sweet. Props: […]

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3433912&w=425&h=350&fv=videoId%3D40439548001%26playerID%3D10172910001%26domain%3Dembed%26] Took long enough. Here’s the visual to the Alicia Keys-written, Swizz Beatz-produced joint from the comeback queen. Like the song and the make it rain scene towards the end, but other than that, this is pretty much an anti-climatic yawnfest. Oh well. You keep your nose clean, lady. Props: Life Files

Now with video. And I love it © Jay Jenkins Previously: Chris Brown’s The Clean Up Man

The God Shallah leaves an autographed lesson on his classic cassette. Wow, the Purple Tape. I possessed a copy or two… back in the day. *Sniff.  Sniff. Hold back tears.*

Now with visual. Still *dead* Props: Big Homie Previously: Barack Obama Calls Kanye West A Jackass (Audio)

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This looks and feels right. The homie Maurice Garland kicked it with Cee-Lo and his reunited buddies to hype up the big show which goes down this Saturday. Here’s a pull quote for that ass: “Cee-Lo has always been the leader,” Gipp acknowledges. “But this time it will be more recognized that he is the leader because of the things that he’s done. We were the big brothers at first because he was the youngest. When we didn’t know [it], […]

Listening to my Hot 9-7 and Envy just let a lil’ something go. Dexter and William? An odd pairing, but I think it works. Sounds like G.O.O.D. music to me. Whatchu think? Update: Now with CDQ Props:Splash Sidebar: Why is the Officer and his pals dissin’ Pretty Boy Floyd? And why doesn’t anyone give a fuck?

Ms. Cook popped up on  TODAY and got hit with the Lil Mama questions. At first, she danced: “I rather not speak about it ’cause the performance was so phenomenal that it really doesn’t matter about anything else.” Kathie Lee & The Other Broad: “But we love, Lil Mama.” Keys: “That’s nice!” Fast forward: She finally addressed it. “We can appreciate her being overwhelmed and inspired but we would’ve preferred she did it from her seat.” Ouch! Instead, she’d rather […]

Her album’s coming in 2010 too. (Sure!) She also cuts her hair once a week to maintain the new look. Yup, it’s a slow news day. Do something, Kanye! Props: Rap-Up

So yesterday, Fuck Boy Brown was feelin’ a lil’ lonely so he tweeted this: The link was to this video: Then Maurice got even more sappy: Then when the folks online reminded him that maybe he shouldn’t have beat Ri-Ri’s ass if he wanted to be with her, Brown removed those two tweets and put this up: Ha! Can’t stand the heat then stay off Twitter. “Too bad you fucked up dummy.” © Tony Starks Props: The other Radar

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Oh, I think she like me. They’re back! Marriage, FTW! Props: YBF

Who can keep track of all these unreleased Death Row tracks? No not I. But this knocks and is off the upcoming album, The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 due Oct 13th. I might cop the actual CD even though the artwork below is so awful. Is this Suge’s fault? Who’s in charge now? Props: K. Nottingham

Before heading out West for a month and after a long day of morning show promo, Diddy spent the night with the DJ’s playing his new unfinished tunes. He now says the train is on a 2010 schedule and they’ll be a video for every song on the album. Got it? Ok. Choo choo!

OK, so all day rumors were spreading that Nas and Kelis were back together ’cause both were seen at New York’s Marquee club celebrating God’s Son born day last night. I was waiting to get some visual proof, so I held off on posting about it. Well, leave it up to the OG Russell Rush to come through with the goods. He caught the two at a charity event today and they look like they’re starting to like each other […]