With the U.S. Open going down next Monday, Lil Wayne responds to Sports Illustrated letter from Rikers and weighs in on the tournament. A better read after the jump. Your serve. Advantage Carter. tud

Kendrick is far from your average Joe. And we doubt his new street album OD will prove otherwise, so in the meantime, in between time, check out his latest flow.

If you don’t know Pill by now, you’ll never ever know him. But we’ll let the man himself explain it. Allow him to reintroduce himself. Previously: “Blow Up”

Reek took some time off and now he’s back with some new heat featuring Swizz Beatz and Busta Rhymes. It’s already received a few radio looks in NYC, but here’s the compact disc quality. Bring the pain!

Jeremih played this last night during his listening session at Greenhouse night club. And earlier today, DJ Envy let it rock for the entire tri-state area. Good to hear 50 utilizing his double time flow again. thi via musicfiends UPDATE: CDQ uhtn

DJ Envy was first to play the remix today during the New At 2 on Power 105. In the beginning, Mary recycles her verse from “Be Happy” and then, adds some new lyrics towards the end. UPDATE: CDQ via YK2

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Scrappy disturbs the peace with his latest video for the title track off his upcoming mixtape with DJ Scream. Hopefully, he doesn’t pull a move like Fantasia. What, too soon? wshh

This looks like a bad commercial. OJ’s a few months off but he finally drops off the visual to B.I.G.’s favorite sweaters. Ay!

Don’t worry, Left Coast radio personality Devi Dev isn’t going to jail. Instead she’s moving to Houston to take over the midday drive on 97.9 The Box. This past Tuesday, she had a party at Bubblegum LA in Hollywood with performances by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and U-N-I. In the first clip, Rock and K.Dot take a trip through the “Ghetto”. More footage below.