Fresh out da pen, Ja Rule was back at Hot 97 with Angie Martinez. In the first part of his interview He spoke on his time in prison. After the jump, he discusses Murder Inc.’s glory days, backlash, falling to 50 Cent and future endeavors.

Nigel Sylvester bunny hopped to 395 Hudson St for a sit down with Angie Martinez. During their interview, they called up Pharrell and talked about their Brooklyn Machine Works partnership.

Featuring several performance clips, Danny Brown’s a hallucinogenic mess in his new video in support of Old. Dip to iTunes and preorder the album here.

Jill Scott is in town this week to promote her new film, Baggage Claim (September 27th). She kicked it with Cipha and Rosenberg for nearly an hour and discussed her career, The Roots, Peedi Crakk, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, and a bunch of stuff in between.

Ca$h Out’s got more than 21 questions to ask on his cew collabo featuring Yo Gotti. Here’s one for ya: Ca$h Out’s new mixtape, Ya Feel Me? is coming soon. lm

While visiting Statik Selektah’s “ShowOff Radio” show a few weeks back, Emilio cracked the mic and displayed a few rhymes for the Shade 45 listeners at home. His No Shame…No Regrets is available here.

The last we saw of 360 was at his sold out affair. But today, he returns to the blogosphere with an alternate take of Ciara’s lead single. All females welcomed.

Waka Flocka is prepping for the release of his mixtape, From Roaches To Rolex. In the meantime, he keeps the momentum going with another video release.

Trina was recently out in Vancouver and was invited to the Fortune Sound Club. During her stay, she ran into Nardwuar who came bearing gifts. Looks like she came with some too. Oh yea.

Two nights ago, Drake made a surprise appearance during The Weeknd’s show in Los Angeles. After performing “Crew Love” Drizzy prematurely announced that his protege’s Kiss Land was the number one album in the country. Close, but no cigar. realtalkny