Early yesterday morning, Drake released his R&B mixtape’s opening track, “I Get Lonely Too”. The track samples TLC’s intro from their 1999 album, Fan Mail. Drizzy explains to Rap-Up, the motivation behind the track. “I was in the car and I had the iPod on shuffle, and I heard T-Boz’s voice come on and I was like, damn, I never noticed the lyrics to this song and how beautiful they were because it was an intro. When I heard it, […]

My buddies, the Rosenthal Brothers along with their annoying host chop it up with Just Blaze for the seventh episode of their Hype Men podcast. This is rap nerdery at its finest as the super producer weighs in on a wide range of topics, past, present and future. Geek up!

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As part of Kodak new ad campaign, Trey Songz and Drake gave a special performance at the Best Buy Theater in NYC. Due to a broken hand, Pitbull wasn’t able to attend. Instead of using a flipcam to record the concert, I got a hold of Kodak’s Easyshare M590 camera. I used the “Easy Share” feature and after connecting it to the Mac, it automatically uploaded to YouTube. Early! Ha! Peep Drake’s performance after the jump. Sidebar: Dope pictures courtesy […]

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We’re down for ours and so is Pimp C. In support of his latest LP, The Naked Soul Of Sweet Jones, here is a new visual from the late Chad Butler. Long live the pimp. dgb

Need some work? Well DJ Suss-One rounds up a bunch of rappers for his new video that’ll probably leave you on the unemployment line. Better find it elsewhere. wshh

This is pretty spooky indeed and we got that remix for y’all. Killa, Vado, and Gotti skate with Capo on his Lex Luger-produced cut. That’s a whole lot of ice. flex UPDATE: Dirty version yk2

Waka didn’t choose the title of his album overnight. Mr. Flame tells MTV, that it was Tupac’s alias Makaveli, which inspired him to hit the books and read up on philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. Philosophy, good. “Tupac introduced me to the [writing] of Machiavelli. That’s why I made that. I can’t just, ‘Oh, Tupac did that, so I’m gonna do that too.’ If people read, they would love that man. That man is a mind-game genius. I read the Machiavelli war-tactic books, his biography, […]

This is one “clap” you need to get familiar with. During Pharoahe’s trip to London, he stopped by Kiss 100′s Hip Hop Show on Sunday and premiered a new track off his upcoming W.A.R. LP. Below he explains the concept behind it. “That song is like a year and some change in the making – not that it took me a year to write it, but I found the beat on tour in Australia. I started writing over it after […]