[Felt like takin’ you back on the flick.]

Uh oh, here’s another studio recording that my homies at the New Music Cartel shouldn’t have gotten their dirty hands on. This sounds like an unfinished demo of a scrapped effort from the American Gangster recording sessions. Wonder if I should expect a text. Ha!

“Maybe” (NMC Tagged-Up Exclusive)

{mp3}nmc feat jay z – maybe{/mp3}

The price of lettin’ Puffy do your tracks? Them shits leak eventually. 

UPDATE: I reached out and Jay hit me back with some clarity. “Maybe” was a demo of a song he wrote for Puff. It was never his record. Or ever intended to be on American Gangster, the studio sessions from which it was recorded.

You wanna get it poppin’ with your ladyfriend this weekend, YN got cha playboy. Throw this in your stereo. Z100, here we come. This has hit single numero quatro written all over it. You can’t stop the new Nelly!

{mp3}07-flo_rida-be_on_you_ft._ne-yo{/mp3} 

Previous garbage. Hits!

“Right Round”

{mp3}05-flo_rida-right_round{/mp3} 

“Shone”

{mp3}04-flo_rida-shone_ft._pleasure_p{/mp3} 

“Sugar”

{mp3}12-flo_rida-sugar_ft._wynter{/mp3} 

Tramar Dillard runs rap. We’re just in denial.

UPDATE: Someone sent me an old gossip item that ran a year back about Flo Rida allegedly dating Ne-Yo’s baby mama. What the Jay-Z and Nas is this? Ha!

Here’s a new joint from Bow Weezy and his ghostwriter. Let’s hope Tip doesn’t spends his last 60 days of freedom doin’ horrible hand-out collabos like this. Ha!

{mp3}04 been doin this ft. t.i{/mp3} 

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Mo’ goodness from the SXSW days. I played myself and went to the Big Boi show instead that night. I heard Free tore it down. Say it with me: I lost.

“First look at what’s coming from Free and Jake’s album “The Stimulus Package” dropping on Rhymesayers this summer.”

Props: Rain Drop Hustla via djnphared

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I was Music Editor at The Source back when The Firm mania took over hip-hop. Them damn meetings with Dave Mays and his “buddy” Commissioner Steve Stoute. Having to write a painful Sure Shot single of “Firm Biz.” The behind the scenes drama of the infamous split cover with Jay-Z when Dame and them making a lil house call. Ha! Too many stories.

Yeah, the final result from this rap supergroup didn’t live up to the tremendous hype that was created but I can now fondly look back on that time on my life and acknowledge this shit was pretty fun. Watch this and pretend you were part of it.

T.R.O.Y. assistance: Ice

The eternal laughingstock of rap continues to play himself at last night’s MTV Australia Awards. Why does this guy get invited to shit?

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Cam blesses Now Wut with the exclusive. He makes it crystal clear he’s not patchin’ it up with Jimmy and Juelz.

Dre from Nah Right got his transcribe on:

“Look, I hear the DJs, I hear the fans, I hear everybody. I’m not doing a Diplomats album. I’m not rhyming with Jim or Juelz or nothing. I wish them all the best of luck. Accept it people. The people don’t wanna seem to accept it. I don’t have time to do that, it’s not happening, I’m not doing it. That’s why I called you [NowWutTV] here, cuz I know you’ll get it across the world. And hopefully the people will get it in their head. Cam is doing Cam. I’m not doing no Diplomat Immunity 3 album. I hope they’ll do it and I wish them luck. Stop dreaming. Stop hoping. Stop wishing. Stop imagining. I’m not doing it. Official. What’s today’s date? Thursday, March 26th, 2009: Cameron Giles, aka Spacely Sprockets aka Jaffe Joe aka Killa Cam aka KFC, whatever you wanna call me, I am not doing no Diplomat 3 album. That’s it.”

Guess if Jim Jones actually shows up on Angie Martinez’s show today it could get really interesting. Really fast. Maybe Miss Info can stick around the studio just so we can be ensured of some classic radio.

The Dip Set saga continues.

Note: I can’t just embed vids like the rest of you kids. So WSHH gets the look for now.

The New York Times continues their 50 mania coverage. In an article yesterday on big stars who don’t actually do their own tweets. Broadway, the founder of ThisIs50.com gets his shine on:

“My ambition leads me through a tunnel that never ends.”

“He doesn’t actually use Twitter,” Mr. Romero said of 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson III, “but the energy of it is all him.”

Ha! B.Dot captures my energy when I’m too lazy to open up my laptop.

Tomorrow is a big day in the life of one Clifford Harris. A year after pleading guilty on federal weapons charges, T.I. is supposed to get his year and a day sentence. According to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the extra day has great significance.

“The extra day means T.I. can carve 15 percent off of his sentence with good behavior. Under U.S. Bureau of Prison rules, inmates can earn such credit only if they are sentenced to longer than a year in prison. T.I. should serve an estimated 298 days — or a little less than 10 months. He is expected to get credit for the two weeks he sat in jail after his arrest and before posting a $3 million bond.”

10 months? I can hear the haters runnin’ their traps and yappin’ away. Ha!

And of course, the MTV cameras will be rollin’ to capture all the craziness. Shit, get some rest, shawty.

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There’s a lot of hype behind this gathering of pure MC’s. A lot of hype. But if they can consistently come with this type of flavor I’m gonna have to grab my seat on the bandwagon. I like this one. I like this one a lot. And I waited a day to make sure that I was sure. Ha!

Sidebar: Budden. Ortiz. Royce. Crooked. Not to be confused with:

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I like this too.