Jay-Z’s back in an Empire State of Mind with his new Facebook game, Empire. The app is currently in BETA, but players can sign up here. Below is a description of the game. “EMPIRE” takes you on a journey from the streets of Marcy Housing in Brooklyn to the hotspots of the rich and famous: from hustler, to entrepreneur, to business mogul. But, don’t forget friends and family, or your karma will suffer. Make the right choices and you can […]

Looks like Kiss got more features than a Khaled project. Premiered this morning on Sway In The Morning, Jada rounds up Fab and Banks. Mixtape drops April 27. Tracklist after the jump. UPDATE: CDQ

Wiz and his Taylor Gang crew grace the cover of The Source. In the new issue, we get to go behind the scenes and speak to all members of the crew. Issue hits newsstands on May 8th.

It’s been four years since Nas’ last solo album. But now the drought is over and his 10th studio LP, Life Is Good will be released on July 17th. His next single “Daughters” produced by No I.D. will be out next week (May 1st). And “The Don” video debuts this Friday.

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Happy belated MGK. On Sunday, the wild boy turned 22 and was surprised by friends during their weekend in Sin City. The suite was extraordinary and his reaction to the surprise is priceless.

Jill Scott hops out the bed and turns her swag on from the streets to the stage in her new viral. Off her The Light Of

Mover over Mel and Danny. Reks and Action exchange some of their lethal bars over a Statik Selektah-produced track.

A few days ago, Brian McKnight flirted with the idea of releasing an explicit R&B mixtape. And last night, he previewed one of the songs, “If You’re Ready To Learn”. So far, the response has been enthusiastically mixed to say the least. Ha! As Hambone pointed out via Twitter, Brian ain’t new to this. On Juvenile’s “Addicted” he’s been laying his game down flat. You gon’ learn today.

Thugga, Kirko, and Dough pull up in them candy paints and brought along plenty of eye candy along with them for their new video. Off Slim’s mixtape, Houston.