A$AP Rocky called into Angie Martinez’s show this afternoon and premiered his new record produced by Hit-Boy. Can’t see this one flying on your FM dial, but stranger things have happened. UPDATE: CDQ

Mr. Carter returns to the front cover of XXL for its May 2012 issue. For the cover story, Weezy speaks on touring, favorite show moments, personal rituals before hitting the stage and more. On newsstands on April 24th.

Continuing Supafest 2012, Chris Brown was one of the performers for the evening in the next leg of the tour in Sydney. During his set, he brought out Big Sean to assist him in the first live performance of their new collabo.

Decked in all black like he’s about to pull a heist, Gunplay plots his way on to the small screen with his new clip. Off his latest mixtape, Bogota Rich: The Prequel available here.

E-40 tells Vlad TV that his collaborative project, The History Channel with $hort will now be released in twos, Function Music and Mob Music on the same day. Hopefully they’re a buy one-get one deal. hhnm

ScHoolboy Q returned to Hot 97 this morning with Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg. Above he drops a quick freestyle and performs “Druggys Wit Hoes Again”. Speaking of drugs, Q mentions he is contemplating on saying no and convincing A$AP to do the same below. If I can do it, so can y’all.

2Pac’s back. And thanks to Nick Smith of AV Concepts, he brought him back last night at Coachella. MTV interviewed Smith on how he resurrected Afeni’s baby boy. “We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre’s vision to bring this back to life,” said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the […]

You already knew Dre’s main man from Detriot had to stop by last night at Coachella. Here’s Slim Shady brief performance. Just what the Doctor ordered.

The Doc and The Dogg had many surprises up their sleeves. Last night, they also brought out Fif for “What Up Gangsta”, “In The Club” and “Pimp” with Snoop’s assistance. Sidebar: Arnold and Curtis makin’ a movie.

[vodpod id=Video.16373032&w=540&h=350&fv=] VH1 will take us behind the music of Nasir this Wednesday. In a sneak peek of the short documentary, we get a look at his early childhood in Queens and the beginning of his career. onsmash