“Hip Hop music knows no race, no color, no age, no gender, no sexual orientation, remember that…” Wale made an appearance Sunday at the Black Pride Festival in the Washington DC and responded to homophobic criticism. Afterward, he performs “Chillin’” down below. Pause. Carlos

[vodpod id=Video.3749642&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D522689%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A522689] After two years of writing on his Blackberry, Styles has finally completed his book, Invincible. Here, he tells 1515 the plot of the novel. The project’s in stores today. “The main character, he’s a dude, he’s been through the street life before,” Styles explained of protagonist Jake Billings. “But he turned his life around. He owns a little store, basically trying to get some money. Live the legit way. Basically, he puts his past behind him.”Unfortunately, when two kids try to […]

The Roots sample track eight of John Legend’s Once Again for this cut on How I Got Over. Tit for tat. okp

This flick of Lyor Cohen was snapped last year during Drake’s gig at S.O.B’s . Today though, Complex posted their interview with the Warner Music CEO. In a excerpt below, he speaks on not securing Drizzy to the label. Speaking of new artists, many people were expecting Drake to sign with you at Warner Music. Did it disappoint you that he ended up going with Universal Motown? Lyor Cohen: A very disappointing thing. But I’m a lover of rap music. […]

Get the Eiffel Tower in the back! Looks who’s on his international promo tour. Recovery June 22.

Man, great minds think alike. After hearing the chorus of Kanye’s new single this past weekend, I immediately thought of the hospital scene from Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. But for some reason, I couldn’t find the clip on YouTube. Coincidentally, it jolted Sean’s memory too and he drew the comparison first. Now, that’s powerful. Sidebar: 1515 Speaks To YN & Info On “Power”

Over the weekend, actor Tom Cruise joined the Black Eyed Peas at the O2 arena in London during their performance of, “I Got A Feeling”. They later premiered the theme song “Someday”, for Cruise’s new film Knight and Day which hits theaters June 25th.

Guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. Two months ago in New Jersey, magician David Blaine performed a couple of illusions for the D-O-Double-G. Do you believe in magic?

50 tells Rap-Up that he’s drawing inspiration from Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield for his new album, Black Magic. Mercy, mercy me. How would you describe your latest direction? It’s still got a soulful vibe to it and that’s why I called it Black Magic. I had some Marvin Gaye-inspired stuff, some things that content-wise would feel like something Curtis Mayfield would do from my perspective, and just the choices of how the cadences on the records were like performance […]

Spitta’s seeing green for his new album cover, Pilot Talk. The artwork’s designed by David Barnett and is due out this summer. Jets! pmf via dd172