It’s a celebration bitches! For Ray’s first single, he calls in the Ludameister to help pop-pop bottles. This joint deserves a round of applause. x

The Commissioner Steve Stoute is featured in the upcoming issue of TIME. The article, which is available to read here, focuses on Stoute’s rise in advertising with his company, Translation. Man, that McDonald’s check must’ve been super sized! It was Stoute who in 2003 helped steer Justin Timberlake to McDonald’s for its “I’m Lovin’ It” campaign with a rather unorthodox approach: instead of McDonald’s simply licensing an existing Timberlake song, Timberlake recorded an original “I’m Lovin’ It” tune. The song […]

The freaks come out at night and during a secret show at Nike Stadium in NY, Gucci brought out Lil’ Kim to perform “Freaky Gurl”. You know, the kind of girl you don’t take home to motherrr. Ha! Get “Wasted” after the jump. pds

With football season right around the corner, Pastor Troy’s hitting the ground running. In an interview with Ozone, PT discusses scoring ESPN’s NFL Live. We ready! I heard your doing the soundtrack for Sportscenter or something like that? I messed around with ESPN for football season for the show “NFL Live.” We got some licensing deals and stuff like that and that shit is stoopid! I’m just getting into all these endorsement deals and stuff, because rap is so big […]

[vodpod id=Video.4271246&w=425&h=350&fv=configUrl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2Fvideo%2Fsfp%2FembedPlayerConfig%26amp%3BconfigId%3D406732%26amp%3BclipId%3D11444307%26amp%3BshowId%3D11444307%26amp%3Bgig_lt%3D1282320397604%26amp%3Bgig_pt%3D1282320401453%26amp%3Bgig_g%3D3%26amp%3Bgig_s%3Drap-up.com] Now that Usher’s Raymond v. Raymond has hit the one million mark, Ush gave somethin’ for the people this morning as part of Good Morning America’s concert series in Central Park. He performed “OMG” and new track, “DJ Got Us Fallin In Love” below.

During Bow Weezy’s promotion for his new flick, Lottery Ticket, he stopped by Houston’s 97.9 The Box Madd Hatta Morning Show and talked about the advice he received from Weezy during a recent visit at Rikers. Lock in. “It was a humbling experience and one thing he told me when I went to visit him was ‘Bow, This aint for us, this aint it.. This aint built for cats like us. They don’t understand us we don’t understand them.. don’t do […]

Lil Wayne’s videographer DJ Scoob Doo is set to release his new DVD inspired by the best show on cable. The film features all access footage from Jadakiss, Gucci Mane, Birdman and a bunch of other niggas. Not sure as to when it will be available, but here’s the trailer.

Russell Simmons recently sat with Forbes to discuss their annual Hip-Hop Cash King List. Obviously, money is a major issue. Better break out that Rush Card.

T.I. continued his promo rounds last night and made a guest appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. As always, he entertained questions about his time in jail and new film, Takers. He also spoke on his album King Uncaged which has been pushed back indefinitely. UPDATE: Magnum T.I.

Seven days late, but it has finally arrived and it was worth the wait. Power has just reached it’s all-time high, times three and Yeezy spazzes on the final verse. They all got the power. illroots Sidebar: Flex had it first at midnight and Rockabye Review got the lyrics. UPDATE: YN no like.