Coming off the success of last year’s mixtape, There Is No Competition 2, Fabolous told XXL that next month, he will be releasing The S.O.U.L. Tape. Loso says he will be rapping over soul sampled beats with no DJ drops. Niceee. “I’m almost done with it. I did the poll [on Twitter] to get people interactive with it and see what names they would come up with. I’m doing it over all old soul sampled beats, so I wanted to […]

Three days ago, Snoop Dogg sent out a viral APB for Lady Gaga. Tha Doggfather says he wants to collaborate with the pop singer on a “real freaky deaky kind of song.” We’re pretty sure, Snoop could’ve relayed the message to Akon, but hey, whatever works. Let’s see how this pans out.

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[vodpod id=Video.5439390&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Here is a video of the Portland Cello Project covering Mr. West’s track “All Of The Lights” off his latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. This is high end rap music, fam! nymag

[vodpod id=Video.5443367&w=425&h=350&fv=] Three days after performing at Heinz Field, Wiz made his late night television debut by bringing his “Black & Yellow” hit—and hair, to George Lopez’s spot. Sick of it or not, this song isn’t dying down anytime soon.

Cudder returned to Twitter today and announced that he’s releasing a Rock album this summer, a new mixtape, A Man Named Scott. But before then, he begins shooting the second season of the HBO drama, How To Make It In America in March. Whoa, whoa! pushing for a summer release of the wizard album. i produce and play guitar on everything with my main man @dotdagenius. he’s learnin bass. the maniac film will b released later this year. cage, shia […]

DJ Skee was so appreciative of the reception from Game’s recent mixtape Purp & Patron, that emancipated this cut featuring Asher Roth and Tyga. Apparently, it also serves as the first cut for Chuck‘s next project, The Hangover. hhnm

Pac Division’s next mixtape Mania is on ice for now, but here is a new track that will appear on the trio’s GSK. Sounds hot.

Swizzy makes another cameo appearance in the third installment of Aston Martin’s mini-movie ad campaign. Don’t know what’s more expensive: These commercials or the car itself. Previously: Part 1 l Part 2

This can’t be life. During professor Geoffrey D. Nunberg’s Media Studies class at UC Berkeley in California, he bases (no pun intended) part of his lecture around Lil B’s track “Age Of Information”. Listen to his breakdown below. Thank you BasedGod. heads up: complex