“Suffocating y’all muthafuckas. Y’all won’t get a chance to breathe.” Killa’s back! Give him and his buddies 20 dollars each. Dramatic comes through again! Here’s the first offering off the Boss of All Bosses Vol. 2. That’s right, the re-up was quicker than you thought. They’ll holla!

Mobb Deep already explained the meaning of shook, but Nasir admits that he’s pet to make a new disc. “This is a record that, right now, I’m scared of making,” Nas said of the album. “I don’t know what’s gonna happen, as far as I don’t know what I’m gonna say. I feel like I’ve put so much of my personal life out there, and I feel like I’m one of the sort of guys you don’t really hear about […]

What, me worry? Here’s Swizzie’s snuggle buddy gettin’ her hair did and her make-up just right for the visual to her first single. Yup, there’s your appetizer. Main course manana.

I just ripped the packaging off my new deluxe edition of Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel. You know, the one with the Elle magazine-sponsored booklet that contains the liner notes. Shit, Mrs. Cannon even got to write an editorial for this bad boy. I say nice try girl, but…we can all admit it: YN’s XXL Editorials >>> (Insert Your Name) Ha!

Here’s somethin’ new from one of the game’s most underrated. Slow and mellow, just the way we like it. Grab ya ol’ lady and exchange some fuck faces. Props: Maurice Garland

Kells breaks his no-cameras-in-the-house policy and recorded himself working on the remix to “Number One.” Apparently, the track features T-Pain and Keyshia Cole. Excited, yet? HHNM

Here’s the alternate cover to this. Bend over girl, show ’em what ya working with. Props: RealTalkNY

Proactiv approved. In related news, Newsweek speculates Ebony is up for sale: It’s been a year of excruciating decisions for publishing companies—layoffs, pullbacks, closures. Now it appears Johnson Publishing’s chairman and CEO, Linda Johnson Rice, has reached what must have been an agonizing decision: Johnson Publishing is seeking a buyer or investor for its flagship publication, Ebony, in an effort aimed at securing the survival of the nation’s oldest magazine devoted to African-American life. It’s unclear whether the company’s other […]

These guys may not lip lock in public anymore, but that don’t mean Birdman ain’t got love for his psueodo-biological son. Mo’ tats! Sidebar: ’82? eskay says no way, Jose. Props: DGBlog

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3518514&w=425&h=350&fv=] “The life span of a rapper is three years.” Sheeeit, even less than that these days. In his first webisode, Joey Crack says that more LP’s are sounding like street releases. He also quips that if hip-hop’s rookies don’t step it up, the game’s going to look like the soup kitchen. OS Secret Weapon: DarkNyte