Too early to call it a night, but here is the first offering off Lupe’s Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album. Radio rip of all three verses for now. Hopefully the CDQ surfaces before the end of the evening. lupe.n.d UPDATE: CDQ, but clean version splash UPDATE 2: Five days later, the explicit version. lupe.n.d again UPDATE 3: A week later, here’s the extended version for the album hhnm via  lupe.n.d.

[vodpod id=Video.4273568&w=425&h=350&fv=] Picking up where he left off last time, Gucci literally gets his motion picture on here with track number four off his latest mixtape, Jewelry Talk. Don’t get tied up now. wsu

[vodpod id=Video.4273178&w=425&h=350&fv=configParams%3Dvid%3D554253%26amp%3Buri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A554253] Honestly, this is better than most music videos. Drake dons his Sunday best in a promo spot for the MTV VMAs. See if Drizzy wins “Best Male” and “Best Hip-Hop” video September 12th. Before: Nicki Minaj VMA Promo Billboard

Just don’t quit your day job. To help celebrate his newly launched site, Ralph Folarin let go a new tune and holds Ms. Sullivan down as he spits all over her latest single. We’re going in circles. Sidebar: Live audio from our big show on Monday.

Last night, Kay Slay brought the jungle to Hot 97 and premiered a new Banks freestyle off his upcoming mixtape, The God Is Back. Drops Sunday, but until then, go ape shit with this. hhnm via mf UPDATE: CDQ

During Drake’s Ustream session last night, he invited Wiz Khalifa to come onboard his Lightdreams & Nightmares tour. Although Wiz is flattered by the gesture, he respectfully declined the offer since he’s set to embark on his Waken Baken tour. “Just the fact of cuz even extending his hand and me being on his radar is tight, to me. It just lets me know that I’m doin’ what I need to be doin’ as far as stayin’ relevant and stayin’ […]

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 […]