It’s been a minute, but the Black Hippy’s have reunited and plan to bring some “setbacks” with them. No, not those kind of delays, but their new project Setbacks on January 1, 2011. Below is the bonus track from the tape. Roll wit it.

The Source’s “Man of the Year” and “Rookie of the Year” hook up once again on this cut that will appear on the former’s Ashes To Ashes mixtape dropping tomorrow. Surely, you can roll to that.

Jermaine stopped by Vegas’ 97.5 KVEG for an interview with Bootleg Kev, in which he mentions wanting to do an entire album with Nasir Jones. Of course, what’s an interview with Fayettenam’s finest without a few set of bars. “Now my money taller than Shaq stacked with two Yao Mings.”

As extensive as my interview this morning was, Puff and his crew still have a statement to get off their chests concerning SoundScan. Hey, don’t ever underestimate a Bad Boy. Ha! Men lie, women lie… you know the rest. “On Monday, the ‘experts’ projected that our ‘Last Train To Paris’ album would move approximately 65k units in its first week. Well, they were wrong. With the help of our fans and the tremendous power of Twitter our debut album skyrocketed […]

Mr. Combs wasn’t the only legendary hip-hop figure to check into the Shade 45 Morning Show today. Mr. 5 Mics talks his favorite albums of 2010 and his Rice University teaching gig. Yup, YN believes in edutainment, my niggas. Ha! My laugh > Wiz’s.

Directed by Derek Pike, Sai bares the cold weather in his latest viral presentation to support his Greatest Story Never Told. Better keep warm, February 15th is not too far behind.

[vodpod id=Video.5177108&w=425&h=350&fv=] Last night, The Roots brought the holiday spirit and Nat King Cole’s on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon by performing their rendition of “The Christmas Song”.

Get your popcorn ready! Reek’s featured presentation features G-Unit’s Lloyd Banks and these two Big Apple MCs bring the pain. My new fave website? www.shitonniggas.com Ha! The Gift is two days away. Sidebar: Now with trailer.  

It’s Christmas time in Harlem this year and HHC comes bearing gifts with a new track produced by Hit-Boy featuring Kanye West and CyHi Da Prynce. Available tomorrow on iTunes, the final version will also include Cam’Ron, Vado, Jim Jones, Pusha T, Big Sean, and Musiq Soulchild. No beef for Xmas. UPDATE: Everybody onboard sans Vado for now. Via Flex UPDATE 2: Now with Vado. Via Flex UPDATE 3: A week later, Kanye releases the final version

A home foreclosure isn’t stopping this diamond’s shine. Today, Diamond drops off her latest mixtape for us to snort. Tracklist and download link after the jump. yk2