Although the mixtape has been delayed until next week, Weezy and company have delivered the artwork for the album, designed by Jesse Diebolt.

While the album has been pushed back an additional two weeks – now to be released on September 18th – it will now reportedly feature four additional guests, one of them being Mos Def. In the above interview with Vibe, “N***as In Paris” producer, Hit Boy, speaks on the album’s status.

Freeway has teamed up with NYC indie imprint Babygrande to release his next LP, Diamond In the Ruff on November 13th. Produced by Jake One, Needlz, Bink!, and others, the album will feature collabos with Wale, Styles P, Marsha Ambrosius, Musiq Soulchild and more. His mixtape, Freedom Of Speech, will be released slightly before the [cont.]

The above image was posted by Dr. Dre via Twitpic yesterday, portraying him and director F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job) on the set of the as-of-yet-untitled N.W.A. biopic. (How about Straight Outta Compton?). More news on this as it develops.

Minneapolis-bred rapper, producer, hardcore musician, punk philosopher and co-founder of the hip hop collective Doomtree, P.O.S. is gearing up to release his upcoming full length We Don’t Even Live Here on Rhymesayers October 23rd. The LP, which comes three years after his well received LP, Never Better, finds the rapper with one foot still firmly [cont.]

That chance meeting of Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga a month or so back wasn’t just a photo op. The two have teamed up for a new song called “PARTYNAUSEOUS”, Lady Gaga revealed last night via her Twitter. The song will appear on Kendrick’s good kid, m.A.A.d city.

DMX will make his triumphant return to the game on September 11th with The Undisputed. We’re going to go out on a limb and suggest that “Time To Get Paid” features a sample from “Juicy”, and that’s it. 1. Intro – Look Without Seein’ 2. I Don’t Dance featuring Machine Gun Kelly 3. Slippin Away [cont.]

The internet broke in half yesterday when longtime hip-hop scribe Dream Hampton suggested that Nas had used both Jay Electronica and Stic.Man as ghostwriters for the his Untitled LP. She tweeted, “I think Jay writes what he believes. Nas “Nigger” album was largely written by Stic of dead prez and Jay Electronica.” Jay Electronica has [cont.]

Due 9/26 on Duck Down Records.

Action Bronson revealed on Twitter today that “Vice/Warner Bros. is the label. I promise to never make candy cane bullshit music as long as I live!!!!!!!”. Vice Records is a division of the ultra cool Vice Magazine.

The producer behind “Ni**as In Paris” speaks with the Femme Fatale mixshow (bitch!). Among other topics, he explains how he “lost” the master for Nas and Frank Ocean’s collaboration meant for Life Is Good. The lost tapes, indeed.

MMG’s youngest-in-charge will deliver his debut LP, Dreams & Nightmares, on October 30th, pushed back from it’s original August 28th date.

Ryan Leslie’s album-in-limbo finally gets a solid release date, as Les Is More will drop on October 23rd, according to an announcement he made today on his Twitter.

Legend announces his new album, Love In The Future, which he is currently in the studio finishing, previewing a new track called “Caught Up”, produced by Hit Boy. An accompanying tour will commence, starting in October. Dates: 10/16 – Clearwater, FL 10/17 – Hollywood, FL 10/19 – Sarasota, FL 10/20 – Atlanta, GA 10/22 – [cont.]

In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Skrillex revealed that he has been working with Kanye West “I did some music with Kanye and from what I know, it’s actually going to be the first song on his new album,” Skrillex revealed. No word on if that means Sonny will be contributing to the [cont.]

Common talks about the G.O.O.D. Music LP, Cruel Summer, and working with Kanye West.

With 2 Chainz and Drake’s “No Lie” hitting the #1 spot on the Billboard R%B/Hip-Hop Singles chart this week, Drake has de-throned Jay-Z as the artist with the most #1 singles on the chart in history. He now holds 10 #1 singles, while Jay-Z has nine.

Mannie Fresh and Lupe Fiasco sat down for an interview on the 2-Cent’s lecture series at Xavier University recently, and spoke openly about the many politics that exist behind the scenes when signing to a major label. Lupe also spoke out about his artistic musical style, and his upcoming albums, which he actually announced that [cont.]

Tyrone aka T-RexXx scores an exclusive interview with Drake backstage at OVO Fest and chats about the festival and his upcoming collaboration with the late Aaliyah.

Rakim and R.A. the Rugged Man at No Mystery studio working on a movie soundtrack; they take time off to kick it and speak on a swipe Rakim took at Kane back in the day.