While Talib preps his new album Prisoner Of Conscious, he recently caught flack for his collaboration with Gucci Mane. In particular, an article from TheLoop21’s Mychal Smith took him to task. Well Kweli fires back. “Now I don’t know Mychal Smith, but what I do know is he is a blogger that follows me on Twitter, and I guess my decision to record with Gucci Mane bothered him enough to blog about it, declaring my move a part of the […]

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Miami was poppin’ last weekend, as former basketball star Alonzo Mourning held his annual soiree. Of course, the 400 Club was on hand and caught Pharrell at Lux and Common at Cameo. Just like LeBron, I’m heading down to South Beach this weekend, so maybe I’ll catch Miss Keri Baby. I’ll keep ya posted.

[sparkart-clique site=”rap_radar” video=”big_boi_freestyle”] Big Boi started off slow, but eventually found his footing over Jay-Z’s “Renegade”. Pay attention boys and girls, this is what a real “freestyle” sounds like.

In two days, Chris and Neef are back in business with their new mixtape hosted by Don Cannon. Until then, fire one up and cool out with their latest featuring Spitta. Uh, it’s the Roc? nr

Foxy’s bringing along some friends for her performance this Sunday at B.B. King Bar & Grill. If you want to go, I got two pairs of tickets to the first ones to email me with your full name and phone number to [email protected]. UPDATE: Contest over! Congrats to the winners Steven and Jennifer.

Em has been reigning at the top of the Albums charts for four weeks straight and now he faces a challenge from the Teflon Don. HDD says it’s gonna be close. Stay tuned. Eminem’s four-play may well be about to end. The hip-hop superstar’s four straight weeks at #1 with his Shady/Aftermath/ Interscope album Recovery is being threatened this week by Def Jam/IDJ Miami rapper Rick Ross, whose Teflon Don is on target to do between 170-180k in sales. With […]

Cudi partied with the hipsters last night in Williamsburg as part of Converse’s 3 artists 1 song promotional concert. Up top, FADER caught the performance debut of “All Summer” with Bethany Cosentino and Rostam Batmanglij. Beneath that, Cudi introduced “Erase Me” albeit without Kanye. As for as the song’s reception, he was quoted by Vulture: Read some mixed reviews on my single, which is really funny to me because most of the people that talk shit couldn’t make a song […]

Bobby Ray is hitting the road for his first North American headlining tour. Billed as The Shootin’ For Stars Tour, the concert series kicks off on August 3rd in St. Louis and will continue on through October. See where the adventure begins in your city after the jump.

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