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.

The wait is finally over. Without further ado, here’s Pill’s new mixtape, 1140: The Overdose. Download here. Tracklist after the jump. xxl

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

Joell sits down with 1515 and explains the origins of his trademark “Yaowa”, which so happens to be the title of his upcoming mixtape hosted by Green Lantern and Don Cannon. “I’m just thinking about zoning out,” he said. “I’m not thinking about who I’m reaching out to. I’m not thinking about who to bring to the tape. I’m just thinking about making a really, really good tape. Letting people know who Joell Ortiz is one more time. This time with Green […]

The gang’s all here. This past weekend, DJ Khaled’s all-stars performed the remix to “All I Do Is Win” out in Mi-yayo. No time for losers! Sidebar: On The Set Vol.2: “All I Do Is Win” heads up:57th