One of my former students, Brendan Frederick runs a quality blog called Uggh… Nice Watch. Too bad he has a hard time keepin’ it updated since he’s a lil busy kickin’ ass as the Deputy Editor of Complex Media. Well instead of trick and treatin’ this past weekend, he brought his site back with a few self-made mixtapes. Of most interest to the RR audience, The Salaam Remi Collection highlights the work from one of hip-hop’s most underrated trackmasters. You […]

New music courtesy of DJ Envy’s “New At 2” set on Hot 97. Expect full CDQ before the sunset. Update: Splash produces no DJ.

OK, no matter what you think of “Russian Roulette”, Rihanna still has one of the year’s most anticipated albums. Peep the final tracklist. No jump needed. 1. Mad House 2. Wait Your Turn 3. Hard featuring Jeezy 4. Stupid In Love 5. ROCKSTAR 101 featuring Slash 6. Russian Roulette 7. Fire Bomb 8. Rude Boy 9. Photographs featuring will.i.am 10. G4L 11. Te Amo 12. Cold Case Love 13. The Last Song

Well, there you have it. Days after his interview with Beanie Sigel, Charlamagne Tha God recieved a pink slip from The Beat 100.3 in Philadelphia. Where’s the brotherly love?

One of the things you can do to antagonize your enemy is hop on their single—especially the day they drop a video. Hey, who’s taking Tia out tonight? Props: OS & Papa Smirf

As the Colombian bean gears up for her new album She Wolf, she enlisted the help from the man on the moon. Reportedly, Cudi will appear on a Neptunes produced remix of “Did It Again”. Collabo‘s for days. Props: Rap-Up

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3807977&w=425&h=350&fv=] The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul attended the star-studded screening to Mariah Carey’s Precious film last night and performed at the after party. Oprah was in the house too. Don’t think this was her iPhone though. Can somebody cop her Royal Highness a flip cam? Mary’s Twitter Bonus: Red carpet action.

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3807874&w=425&h=350&fv=] Once upon a time not long ago, Beans and Jay lived life slow—well not really, but here’s a children’s story It’s The Real would like to tell.

Weezy hijacked Lil Twist’s ustream to present his new CD on Halloween night. It was long as fuck so, I highlighted my favorite part. Dwayne got moves! Eat your heart out, Lionel Richie.

Who says radio promo has to be the boring, same ‘ol same ‘ol? Towards the end of this video clip, Curtis spruces up his interview at a Florida station with a lil in-studio energy. I take it he’s enthralled with the aggressive content from his new CD, BISD. Ha! Spotted: Hip Hop N More