“Kidnap the President’s wife without a plan”—Nasir Jones There’s another Jay in my life. Electronica. I call him Jay Elect. Don’t know how it started. Don’t know how it will end. Wait, I know the origin. Twitter. Dude was a beast on that thing. He entertained me with his antics. Even had a baby on that muthafucka. True story. The social networking Gods would often banish him for tweetin’ too much. And he would email me to relay his messages […]

[vodpod id=Video.3510446&w=425&h=350&fv=] Jadakiss’ Champ Is Here 3 mixtape arrives this Saturday. So to prepare for his lyrical exercise, Jada laces up the gloves and steps in to the ring. Butterbean ain’t go nuffin on Kiss. A-Ha!

For years, Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex has been called every name under the sun for championing certain artists. Promoting his new show Full Throttle on Angie Martinez’s afternoon drive today, The Kingpin admitted to favoring New York artists.

[vodpod id=Video.3510108&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%3D510654%26amp%3Buri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A510654] During Rick Ross’ conference call two weeks ago, he revealed that Jay-Z was featured on his upcoming album, Teflon Don. Speaking to MTV, Ricky says the song isn’t “Maybach Music 3” but somethin’ more special. Oh baby.

Under IllusiveMedia’s direction, comes Lupe’s new video, “I’m Beaming”. Wasualu luhs the kids too!

It’s Ten Toes Down on May 4th, but today it’s two thumbs up for this new leak featuring Slugga and Drumma Boy on the beat. NR

[vodpod id=Video.3510063&w=425&h=350&fv=] Lupe presented B.o.B. with this cake on stage last night in Dallas to commemorate his debut, The Adventures of Bobby Ray. Just for the record, B.o.B.’s birthday is in November. LE

How’s this for a collector’s item? The original purple tape is currently up for grabs on eBay for $5,000.  That’s a lot of C.R.E.A.M. According to the description: VERY RARE CASSETTE TAPE RAEKWON ONLY BUILT 4 CUBAN LINX PURPLE CASSETTE TAPE FACTORY SEALED ONLY 10.000 EVERY MADE WORLD WIDE DONT MISS OUT YOU WILL PROBLY NEVER SEE THIS CASSETTE TAPE AGAIN FACTORY SEALED THE CASSETTE TAPE ONLY HAS 17 TRACKS THE NORTH STAR BONUS TRACK IS ONLY ON THE CD. […]

Malik Yusef, the pen behind Kanye West’s “Heartless”, tells HHW that Ye’s new album is 80% complete and goes on to describes it as real “raw”, “emotional”, and “reflective”. How bout them adjectives? Ha! Previously: DJ Premier Says Kanye’s LP’s Hard

You can always lean on your friends. And today our amigo Nav comes through with track #11 off Distant Relatives. Thanks, pal. Previously: New Music: Nas x Damian Marley Ft. Knaan “Africa Must Wake Up”

One of my favorite movies is the original Friday. Say what you want, but those two sequels were ass. Anyway, Cube spoke to moviefone about wanting to reunite with Chris Tucker for the film’s fourth installment. Do you think you’ll ever do another ‘Friday’ movie? What would those guys be up to today? I want to. But I don’t want to do it without Chris Tucker. That’s what people want. I really want to give people what they want, especially […]

Khaled makes his rap debut on the remix to “All I Do Is Win”. Hey, stop laughing! Other than that, nearly the entire game is on this. You’re all winners in our eyes. UHTN

The Water blesses WSHH with another video off his Revenue Retrievin’ album. Still don’t understand 40? Then maybe his slang book can be of some assistance. That is, if it ever comes out of course. 57thave

Vado complied to Green Lantern’s request for barz this past Monday on Invasion Radio. Jadakiss seems to approve too. YK2 via Info

[vodpod id=Video.3508715&w=425&h=350&fv=autoplay%3Dfalse%26amp%3Blocale%3Den_US] Game brought Pharrell and Raekwon to the CPT to shoot his new video “It Must Be Me”. Below is a pic of the trio with the ice cream man. No Master P. HHNM

[vodpod id=Video.3482347&w=425&h=350&fv=] Dee Vazquez gets all up in Donnis’ business in the latest ep of her PROFILE series. Fashionably Late coming May 4th.

As far as song titles go, this is probably one of the best ever. Trill Ent.’s Lil Phat recruits labelmate Webbie and Bun B for this new public service announcement. Better not go out like Willie Lump Lump. Splash

The Gorillaz were across the pond on Later…With Jools Holland last night and brought along Mos Def and Bobby Womack for a performance of “Stylo”. SC

[vodpod id=Video.3507942&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dinstance%3Dnews%26amp%3Bvid%3D510229] Plies talks to 1515 on working with Jeezy on his latest record as well as Da Snowman’s current single. Has anyone else noticed the difference between Plies’ speaking and rapping voice? “He hit me the other day, and I told him he has a song that I consider to be a street antique,” Plies added. “To pick and choose the records we do is the most important thing. I always told myself from day one: I’ll never be a […]

At DJ Prostyle’s fiesta on Monday, Styles P took to the stage and kicked a 30 second freebie. This is that red bubble rap.