Men lie. Women lie. Hits don’t. The half-Jewish Toronto hip-hop star who got his start in the teen TV cult hit Degrassi: The Next Generation, goes to the head of the class this week on his Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown debut, Thank Me Later, with first-week sales in the 450-475k range, making it a lock for #1.

Here’s a YouTube tour of the music behind Em’s latest. You can thank me now. Oops, wrong album. Sidebar: Ivan got the files for you.

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Just got home from the craziness at South Street Seaport where a free Drake show turned into a mini-riot before Drizzy could even arrive. While it’s always fun to blame everything on po-po, I really think they had no choice. After a hour and a half of kids standing on top of each other with no action or no music playin’, things were bound to go left. And they really did! Craziest moment: I think I saw someone toss a […]

Truth be told it was just a listening event but Drizzy couldn’t help gettin’ on the mic as last night’s private event at one of the Big Apple’s top sneaker spots. I missed capturing dude rock “Show Me A Good Time” for the first time, but in the above clip he runs through “Ignorant Shit”, “Forever”, and “Fancy”. After the jump, an Internets’ wet dream as Aubrey lays his “9 Am In Dallas” bars over J.Cole’s “Who Dat”. You can […]

In case you didn’t get the memo, Marshall’s in the video game business and last night at an Activision’s E3 event in LA, he performed the big record off Recovery. Yup, that’s Ri-Ri and Travis Barker on drums. Hopefully, the big guy comes through with better footage. But let this hold you over until then. nav UPDATE: Rap-Up got us. After the jump, more performances.

[vodpod id=Video.3836376&w=425&h=350&fv=] Bobby Ray’s finally back with a new visual. Don’t let the bright lights fool ya. hhnm

Last night, 40 posted the official mix of Weezy’s incarcerated bars paired with Thank Me Later‘s track 10. Album in stores today!

You can’t stop good music from reachin’ the general public. Let’s hope this joint actually makes the final cut of Sir Lucious Left Foot but in the meantime, get your groove on. Dopeness!

[vodpod id=Video.3762122&w=425&h=350&fv=] STS’s demand has grown since he dropped his Demand More 2 mixtape so it’s fine time for the first visual of the project to appear. Hey the chick in this vid has nice… kicks.