In light of the announcement that Jay-Z would serve as executive producer for 2K Sports’s NBA 2K13, Kotaku spoke with the game company about what exactly that would entail. “I don’t want to get too into detail right now, because we’ve got a lot of stuff coming down the road,” Jason Argent, the vice president [cont.]

That’s great and all, but the last time Dre was on the cover of XXL, it said “Yes, Detox is coming.” Wonder if they’ll address that with the good doctor in the new issue. Available August 14th.

As far as we understand, Jay-Z codes without writing it down.

While little information has been released, El-P and Killer Mike will reunite after the success of their respective albums Cancer 4 Cure and R.A.P. Music with a collaborative project, which will find them sharing mic duties. El tweeted last night “me and (Killer Mike) bout to do a side project where we both rap. why? [cont.]

50 Cent has announced that his next album, Street King Immortal, the official fifth Interscope LP, will be released on November 13th, 2012. The first single, “New Day”, featuring Dr. Dre and Alicia Keys, co-produced by Eminem, has been released.

Witness Snoop Dogg transform into Snoop Lion via this press conference with Diplo, hosted by Sway.

International loverman and Roc Nation artist Jay Electronica teases his upcoming LP by releasing a screenshot of the proposed tracklist via Twitter. Guests include Kanye West, Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jay-Z, The-Dream, Latonya Givens, Diddy, The Bullitts, Erykah Badu, and of course, Ronald Reagan.

In a recent, in depth interview with The O.C. Weekly, Slaine spoke about the new La Coka Nostra album, Masters Of The Dark Arts, as well as what he’s got lined up for the future. You’re film experience includes “Gone Baby Gone”, “The Town”, and you’ve got “Killing Them Softly” with Brad Pitt coming out [cont.]

Despite an attempted cover-up of Mobb Deep’s live-via-Twitter-fallout a few months back, Havoc set the record straight, admitting the inflammatory Tweets sent towards Prodigy were indeed from him. He closes out this interview revealing that Mobb Deep are on indefinite hiatus….

Beanie Sigel may be headed to prison, but Scarface insists the Mac & Brad album is still on the way. Talking with Vibe, Face speaks on the project, and previews one of it’s tracks.

In part 1 of Al Lindstrom’s interview with Producer/Entrepreneur Swizz Beatz, we talk about his various business. The most interesting of which is Megaupload. While he doesn’t speak on his full business relationship with the company, you get an idea of why he teamed up with the company. They also briefly discuss why he think [cont.]

Life Is Good for Nas indeed, beating out industry projections for the Queens’ emcee’s 10th album, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, with 139,000 copies sold.

In the wake of the Aurora, CO shooting at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises this past weekend, the most hot-button political topic of the moment is gun control. Ice-T sat in at London’s channel 4 to speak on his new film, The Art Of Rap. While in house, he spoke on gun laws [cont.]

Joe Budden popped up on BlogTV yesterday, previewing new tracks from the upcoming Slaughterhouse LP, welcome to: OUR HOUSE, due next month. He also is seen eating an unknown substance with a spoon, which could be cereal or soup. Discuss.

As seen above, in a short, concise Tweet, Lil Wayne revealed that the fourth volume in his Dedication mixtape series will be coming next month. Also, it is clear that Wayne does not use autocorrect on his phone.

In a cover story with The Guardian, Frank Ocean finally opens up about his letter addressing his sexuality, which he hasn’t spoken on since it’s release a few weeks back. “I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear. Me [cont.]

The X-Man has released the tracklist for his as-of-yet unreleased album, Napalm. No date has been announced, but perhaps this release will speed up the process. 1. State Of Hip-Hop Vs. Xzibit (Prod. By Beat Butcher) 2. Everything (Prod. By Rick Rock) 3. Dos Equise Feat. RBX 4. Something More Feat. Prodigy 5. Gangsta Gangsta [cont.]

Regardless of how you may feel about 2 Chainz, that single artwork fucking kills. Due on Itunes July 24th.

In a recent interview with Billboard, CyHi The Prynce revealed some details about his upcoming G.O.O.D. Music debut, The Hardway Musical. In a month, you’ll have been with G.O.O.D Music for two years. What are your thoughts on your own position within the label? A lot of people don’t know my role. A lot of [cont.]