Next Monday will finally see the release of Cole’s first major music video. The clip was shot by BB Gun in his hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. If that wasn’t reason enough to celebrate, peep the outside of the 40/40 nightclub in NYC. Sssh, secret show tonight, don’t tell anyone.

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.

While Drake caused a raucous at the Seaport, across town, The-Dream held a mini listening session for his final album Love King at the penthouse of Ink 48. The event was presented by Moët & Chandon. Security was at a minimum this time around, but the open bar of Rosé certainly wasn’t. With actor Idris Elba on the 1’s and 2’s, Dream played several cuts including standouts “Turnt Out” and “Take Care Of Me”.  The tracks are anchored by loud […]

[vodpod id=Video.3843514&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%253D528367%2526uri%253Dmgid%253Auma%253Avideo%253Amtv.com%253A528367] Sway and Naughty By Nature’s Treach take a minute—well, 2 minutes and 42 seconds really, to reminisce on 2Pac for  his 39th birthday. Ultimately, he wanted to get the thugs all behind him — his thug nation, his thug life — and take them to the next level … unified, building up the community, reinvesting in the community, in the people.”

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.

Mr. Birthday Sex is back with some new material featuring labelmate, Ludacris. iLike this too.

Ab-Soul pumps up the volume over a familiar Redman sample in his new video. Long Term 2: Lifestyles of The Broke and Almost Famous drops on the 28th. Previously: “House Party 5”

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If you haven’t heard, Carlos popped the big question last weekend in Atlanta. Now, here’s footage of him down on bended knee. We want pre-nup?

Guess we can blame Chuck’s various push-backs on Black Mamba’s jersey numbers. It’s all mathemetics. The R.E.D. Album makes its arrival on 8-24.