Joell Ortiz is in the land of the rising sun on tour with his Shady boss. And while everyone was preoccupied, he played Slaughterhouse and Eminem’s collaboration, “Throw That“. Although it’s off the laptop, the track sounds promising. You can hear the full thing when Welcome to: OUR HOUSE drops August 28th.

Twista embarks on a 2012 space Odyssey in his new video. The viral also serves as his first single off his mixtape with Don Cannon dropping September 4th.

Lil Wayne was supposed to drop the Dedication 4 last night but said he didn’t want to take attention away from

[cnnvideo url=’http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/08/15/ac-anderson-cooper-beyonce-united-nations.cnn’ inline=’true’] Before Bey shot the video for “I Was Here” last week at the United Nations in NYC, she explains to Anderson Cooper the song’s contribution which is in support of World Humanitarian Day. Video debuts August 19.

Picking up where Jay Rock left off, Ab-Soul continues #TDEFamAppreciationWeek by taking us to planet X for his contribution. Produced by JMSN.

Nasir’s got another dope video coming soon and it appears his album’s final track is getting the next treatment. Who knows if the former misses will get a cameo though.

In case you needed a reminder, DJ Khaled’s new album is dropping next week. And today, he sent

2 Chainz’s album has been out for 24 hours now and yesterday in his native Atlanta, he held a release party for the project at club

The title isn’t supposed to be taken literally, but Wax redefines the definition of a man in his new music video. The clip is straightforward and so is his message, so listen up. Download the song here.

For better or worse, it’s been a year since Weezy decided to hop on the skateboard. For the second episode of his Mountain Dew series, he speaks on his “new love”. A year ago Wayne decides to start skating. We hear his reasoning as we see his first days on the board.