Kelis made her first television performance in years last night on Jimmy Kimmel. With will.i.am in the cut, she recited her new single, “Acapella”. Ironically, she did it with a band. Go figure. Prefix

This dropped a couple days ago, but it snuck under the radar. Word is this is the first single from Glasses long-delayed album Beach Cruiser. Matter of fact, the video should be dropping any day now.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.933180&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D500910%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A500910] Backstage during last night’s show, Drizzy talks to MTV about the collab he has with Weezy on Thank Me Later, titled “Miss Me”. He explains the song’s concept is pretty much self-explainatory. No Afrika Bambaataa shit.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.933155&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D500938%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A500938] T.I. is onboard for The-Dream’s second single, “Sex Intelligent,” off his album,  Love King The Radio Killah also reveals that he had a chance to hear some material of Clifford’s new material as well. “Every record he played me, I was like, ‘Wow.’ I could just feel it. It wasn’t about judging it. It wasn’t about, ‘Is this a single or is this that?’ It was just, ‘Wow, where have you been? Where’d you go?’ It was just elevated, and […]

From the back blocks of Rosedale, Queens comes footage from CNN’s new video “The Reserves”. The War Report 2 is coming to a Best Buy near you on July 29th. Bonus: Here’s the song, Johnny! 57th Ave

Better late that never. Nip laces up his Chuck T’s over Jigga’s “Run This Town”. Pledge your allegiance, 6-0.

[vodpod id=Video.3378979&w=425&h=350&fv=] Newcomer Miguel speaks to Quddus on the new record featuring him and J.Cole. Apparently, the collaboration was the brainchild of Cole’s manager Mark Pitts. YK2

Alchemist sure has a whole lotta unreleased music. Here’s another leftover from the Mobb’s Amerikaz Nightmare days.

Doubt this will happen so soon, but Billboard got the skinny that Kanye West’s fifth album tentatively titled, Good Ass Job will be released two months from now. Sounds too good to be true, but so far, reported collaborators include RZA, Q-Tip, and Pete Rock.

Uh-oh, here we go again. This year, VIBE‘s putting together the battle of the beats with their Greatest Producer Of All Time tournament. First round of voting begins today. The winner will be announced May 24th. Choose wisely. Got that, Joe Budden. HOMEGROWN SOUND Dr. Dre (1) VS DJ Toomp (16) Mannie Fresh (2) VS David Banner (15) The Bomb Squad (3) VS Mr. Lee (14) Prince Paul (4) VS Shock G (13) Juicy J (5) VS Rick Rock (12) […]