So around 9pm tonight EST, Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex will play the world premiere of Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 single, “D.O.A.” That stands for Death of Autotune as Kanye teased on MTV awhile back. The song was produced by No ID and Mr. West. On Sunday, it will be sent to the masses. Unless LowKey or Mr. X hit the jackpot. Ha!

Sidebar: Despite various reports, as far as I know Hov will not be at Hot 97 Summer Jam on Sunday. But you never know.

Also on their reporting grind: Herfection who noticed Skee runnin’ his jibs.

Update: Skee’s still snitchin’.

That’s enough for time Mr. Carter to come to his senses. Ha! But then again…

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Who can take a rainbow? It’s Tony Yayo!

I got a soft spot for the Talk of New York. Pause. The only member of G Unit I ever met with and listened to their entire album. Ha! Oh yeah, I want a white driver too.

In today’s V60, Mr. Dorsey cosigns that Baby is puttin’ the band back together:

And you’re also working on a Hot Boys reunion, correct?
Yeah, yeah, you can look forward to that coming real soon. Real, real, real soon. We tying up the loose ends of the paperwork right now, and hopefully we’ll have that out this year.

What can you tell me about that?
It’s going to be bigger than The Beatles. It’s going to be bigger than The Beatles. [laughs]

So you’re excited about it?
Most definitely! Because you know, at one point in time, you couldn’t get me to talk about it. I wasn’t open for it, you know what I am saying? But as I grew and then I got older and as I started just understanding life in general, things happen, and things happen for a reason. You know, people go through things, family go through things, but they sit down, talk it over, be real about it, acknowledge their mistakes and move on.

Call me Sam cuz I’m still skeptical.

Spotted: SOHH

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After a pretty blah interview with The Ruler, in which he bigs up the Rotten Apple, we get a lil’ “La Di Da Di” with some light-skinned dude on the beatbox.

Props: ACT: LIVE x Okayplayer

Hey, not everyone’s goin’ through a bitter divorce. The reason why Ms. Cole lets Boobie palm her ass? They’re a couple, damnit! No ring for the Cavs but it looks like duke got the prize.

What’s Poppin’ caught them canoodling. S2S got the scoop. And Necole Bitchie put me on.

 It don’t take a genius to figure out who Miss Rogers is referring to:

 

 
And I call bullshit on those who think she was callin’ Esco a Homo Thug earlier. He’s not the only person she knows.

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Um, apparently not. I didn’t even ask for the shit. Don’t put me out there publicly and not deliver. What the fuck is wrong with these kids? 

Don’t be the next contestant on YN’s Blackout screen.

How’s that for a headline? Ha!

Seriously though, Robbie just shared the following jewels from his recent sit-down with GFK for HHC:

Can you tell me about this R & B album? Are there a lot of collaborations?
Ghostface: Like when I did ‘Ice Cream’ and all the stuff like that. Remember ‘Ice Cream’? An album like that. A mixture of things, like you know how I did that Ne-Yo joint and ‘All That I Got Is You’ and stuff like that. It’s my last album [for Def Jam] so I wanted to do the album I always wanted to do, man. You gotta tell the fans that you not gettin’ no younger here – we gettin’ older! And everybody don’t sell crack no more, man. I don’t sell crack, yo. I ain’t movin’ no bricks or none of that other shit. I ain’t shoot nobody in like…since the early 90’s, man. How long you gonna be 40 years old and actin’ like you still sellin’ cracks and you on the block and you doin’ this and you doin’ that when times is more serious, man. We in a fuckin’ recession, B! Ain’t nobody gettin’ no money, man! We gotta stop lyin’ to ourselves and lyin’ to the fans. And the fans gotta stop bein’ so dumb and ignorant, and know it’s time to talk about grown-man situations. Shit that happen in the real life, inside your household, your love life, your personal life, that’s just like, ‘Damn, it’s hard for a nigga to get some money!’ It might be so hard to get some money that your girl might wanna leave you someday because you ain’t get no money like you like you used to be getting’ money! Those are real situations, so I think it should start goin’ back to songs that mean shit. All that other shit outside is just gonna keep us dumb, deaf and blind, yo, and we ain’t never gonna get nowhere.

I Heart Ignorance: UnKut

That’s a good look. Better yet, a hood look Mrs. Carter. Congrats.

Article here.

Spotted: Smarten Up Nas

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The part of Regis was replaced by Will Ferrell and he along with the W.W.Y.L.F. of the TV world, Kelly Ripa, chopped it up with the homie from the Westside. Hey I’m married to the ‘Town, I gots to represent. 

Is there no accounting for taste nowadays? SMH. Last time I saw this nigga, he was on a go cart at the VMA’s.

Read all about it: Los Angeles Times © X-to-tha-Z

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I only meant to do one today but this blues legend just passed. Sad.

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OK, let’s balance B.Dot’s Gay Fish bashin’ (Hey the kid’s from Southside Jamaica, Queens—he ain’t got no boss) and post what appears to be the final version of the “Paranoid” video. Again, I think this joint had summer hit potential, but the video goes in a whole other direction. Nice try but…

Props: Nah Right

Sidebar: SeanTheRobot got good ears. It does sound re-mastered. That I like and appreciate.

Ma, you got a sticker on your head.

{mp3}05 – mary wells – two lovers history{/mp3}

It’s not good when your album leaks the same day it gets pushed back two months. This guy stays losing. SMH.

{mp3}15 history ft. talib kweli{/mp3}

Previously: Black Star Reunion Show: “History” x “The Panties”

Sidebar: That Slick Rick collab is kinda hot.

Who says Nawlins hustlin’ big bosess can’t get along? In today’s V60, Weezy’s poppa gives it up to Mr. Miller.

Baby: I mean, shit, to me, Master P was one of the best hustlers to ever do this shit. He did it big—35 albums in one year, bruh. Ain’t nobody ever did that. I think he did it one of the best. I think Master P accomplished something nobody ever did and probably nobody will ever do, too. To where today that seems damn impossible. I just stayed focused on what we was doing. I ain’t never wanted to be what the next man was doing. I respect what they accomplished.

Cosign: I was workin’ at The Source during No Limit mania and it really was insane. Barbara P had an advance CD like every other week for the kid. I still got my custom leather jacket somewhere. Yeah, YN witnessed a movement or two. Or ten. Or fifteen. Or 20. Ha!

I got an email today from Def Jam about their latest signing from South Carolina. Apparently dude has a really big record called “Nasty Song” and is no longer on good terms with a certain controversial radio personality.

 *Speechless*

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I know you’ve heard this on the radio. The guys behind this soft rock classic just got crazy paid. 100% Publishing—here we come!

Great Find: Writer’s Block Media

I thought I saw something like this floatin’ around the Internets earlier this year, but Rolling Stone got the brothers from Long Island to give a track by track account on the 20th Anniversary of their classic debut. Yup, you could say YN knows a thing or two about the makin’ of stories.

Acknowledge Your Own History © Jungle Brothers

Bonus: The following is a cool idea that’s never gonna happen.

To mark 3 Feet’s two-decade anniversary, De La are putting together a tour, a book and a album including remasters and remixes of the original tracks, along with some “re-interpretations”: In 1989, when the LP was released, samples were a new frontier and many on the album were used without clearances, which would prevent the tracks from being re-released. But De La has an electrifying idea about how they can release those songs.

“We’ve been in conversations with Warner Bros. to explore re-recording some of the songs with some of the people we sampled from,” says Mase, a.k.a. Vincent Mason. The discussions are still in early stages, but the trio is hoping to cut “Say No Go” with Hall and Oates and “I Know” with Steely Dan, among other tracks. “It’s real cool to know that we have lasted this long, people appreciate what we do,” adds Posdnous, a.k.a. Kelvin Mercer.

3 Stacks continues to annoy me with his humility.

VIBE: Are you concerned about the future of your career?

Yup. Always.

I was influenced by somebody and, hopefully, I influenced somebody else. And then somebody get influenced by them—it’s steps. You almost got to make a way for what’s to come.

No you don’t. You gotta make dope shit and keep influencing them. Get in the studio and make the solo album we’ve all been waitin’ for. I’m gonna make some new T-Shirts: Veteran Rappers Need Teaching Too.

Props: V60