Two nights ago, The Unit brought the Invitation Tour to Beantwon. In the above clip, 50 fires a shot at Diddy and a playful one at Yayo before Banks bangs out his new single. No Lloyd. No problem. Splash! Sidebar: Peace, Connecticut

Fuck an industry event, Antwan brought the party at the Island bash. Even the ubiquitous producer behind the lead single off Sir Lucious Left Foot joined in on the fun. Stank them later. 57 Update: A couple of more performances from Boi.

The King’s uncaged and along with the funky drummer he’s gonna deliver his “Yeah Ya Know (Takers)” single at Stephen Hill‘s big show manana. Stay tuned. RapUp

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Eat your heart out, Hov. Now that Tha Dogg’s allowed back across the pond, he got to hold things down on the hip-hop front at this year’s Glastonbury festival. The good folks at Soul Culture got more footage to check out. Let’s pretend we were there.

You can’t stop this guy. Before introducing The-Dream at the big Def Jam party in LA last night, Khaled had to spit a few brief bars from the “All I Do Is Win (Remix)”. Exclusive Access has more of the festivities below which include performances by Big Sean, Jeremih, and Big Boi. Party on, party on, all night, niggas. 57

YN called it early and now, Playboy’s coming for 700%. Apparently, Heff’s former label Playboy Records owns the rights to Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds’ “Fallin’ In Love” which is sampled in the beginning of Drake’s “Best I Ever Had”. As a result, an infringement suit was filed against the rapper and Universal Music Group. According to Playboy: [They] knew or should have reasonably known, that the sound recording was protected by copyright…” and that “each Defendant continues to infringe […]

My new favorite performer got a chance to recite track 16 off The State Vs. Radric Davis for a gang of music industry folks. Nice sweater, La Flare. Brrr! RapUp

“All a nigga want for Christmas is another year”. Mr. Jenkins told ya before and he’ll tell you again. He knows Big Meech—the real Big Meech—and he got him to appear on his new song which incidentally bears a title very similar to Rick Ross’ current banger. Hmm. os UPDATE: Jizzle’s connect weighs in.

Eminem presented Dr.Dre with an ASCAP Founding Fathers Award last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. It’s still a Shady/Aftermath thing, you bastards. ru x rtny