T.I. recently revealed to Billboard the title of his next LP will be Trouble Man. “I’m embracing it,” T.I. tells me of the persona that is the title of his eighth studio album, “Trouble Man”. “A lot of times I’m taking myself out of my element” Tip continued to say of “Trouble Man”. “This is [cont.]

Lots of familiar faces came out for Heavy D’s funeral service at Grace Baptist Church on November 18, 2011 in Mount Vernon, New York. Among them were Jay-Z, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, John Legend, Queen Latifah, Russell Simmons, Flava Fla, Chris Rock, and others. President Obama sent a letter to Heavy’s family, stating “We [cont.]

Asher Roth answered some inquiring minds via Twitter this weekend about the rumors of him going to Def Jam with “Yessir”. He followed up with “Mixtape on Itunes 12/21; Pabst & Jazz album next year 1st quarter”.

Kid Cudi has announced via Twitter, that he and Dot Da Genius will revert back to the name “wizard”, now spelled “W Z R D”. News update! Me and @DotDaGenius are no longer called 2 Be Continuum. The world will call us W Z R D, which is short for WIZARD. The title of the [cont.]

Pioneering video show, Yo! MTV Raps, will return for one night only, December 4th at midnight on MTV, in the form of “Yo! MTV Raps Classic Cuts”. The 30 minute episode will be hosted by the classic crew of Ed Lover, Dr. Dre, and Fab 5 Freddy, while each Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, ?uestlove, Wiz [cont.]

Drake speaks with Angie Martinez about his success so far, his critics, Rihanna, future projects, and more. Meanwhile, Take Care is on track to sell between 675-725k copies during it’s first week, and it’s good. Download  

Update: Cover art added. No I.D. has revealed the tracklist to Com’s The Dreamer, The Believer, of which he produced in it’s entirety. The new release date for the record is December 20th. ID revealed a photo of the final mastered version of the album, as seen above. 1. The Dreamer (Feat. Maya Angelou) 2. [cont.]

Erick Sermon called into Sway’s Shade45 show to speak on heart attack incident and about his health in general. Download  

In stores December 13th.

Wiz Khalifa spent a part of the weekend on UStream, announcing the title of his next album, as well as his next mixtape. The album is called O.N.I.F.C., which may or may not stand for Only N**** In F***ing Charge, while the mixtape is titled Taylor Allderdice, named after his Pittsburgh high school. Meanwhile, he [cont.]

Curren$y announced a new project via Twitter this weekend, The Stoned Immaculate, due March 2012. This joins a series of as-of-yet-unreleased projects, including Re-Conversionalize w/ Alchemist, Pilot Talk 3 w/ Ski Beatz, and the long-delayed Muscle Car Chronicles for DD172. It has not been confirmed yet, but given the nature of the announcement, this sounds [cont.]

DJ Scratch let the world know via Twitter that EPMD frontman and legendary producer Erick Sermon suffered a heart attack on November 12th, but is “okay”. Erick released a statement to Global Grind suggesting “I’m good! I got two more tests on Monday and Tuesday then I’m home hopefully on Wednesday.” Erick Sermon is pictured [cont.]

This event, happening November 26th at Subterranean in Chicago is special because, not only is it the birthday of legendary Chicago DJ Risky Bizness, but it also unites several of the city’s classic indie hip-hop acts under one roof for possibly the last time. Let’s face it, we’re all getting old. Anyway, appearing will be [cont.]

In a recent interview w/ The Village Voice, Drake speaks on a missed opportunity to work with Phonte of Little Brother. “With me and Tay, I kinda dropped the ball on a feature he needed me to do, just being 100% honest. I really wanted to do a record with him, and we actually did [cont.]

Yelawolf’s Radioactive hits November 21st on Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment/Shady Records/DGC/Interscope. 1. Radioactive (Intro) 2. Get Away (Feat. Shawty Fatt & Mystikal) 3. Let’s Roll (Feat. Kid Rock) 4. Hard White (Up In The Club) (Feat. Lil Jon) 5. Growin’ Up In The Gutter (Feat. Rittz) 6. Throw It Up (Feat. Gangsta Boo & Eminem) 7. Good [cont.]

1. The Un 2. Sleep 3. Make My (Feat. Big K.R.I.T.) 4. One Time (Feat. Phonte and Dice Raw) 5. Kool On (Feat. P.O.R.N.) 6. The Other Side 7. Stomp (Feat. P.O.R.N.) 8. Lighthouse 9. I Remember 10. Tip The Scale (Feat. Dice Raw) 11. Redford (For Yia Yia & Pappou) 12. Possibility 13. Will [cont.]

TMZ has revealed that pioneering hip-hop icon Heavy D, aka Dwight Arrington Myers, has passed away at age 44, suffering from respiratory issues. The website reports: Heavy D had just returned from shopping and walked up some stairs when he began having trouble breathing. Adam Mills, a designer who was in the building and knew [cont.]

Decon announced today on their site the release of Gangrene’s newest effort, Vodka & Ayahuasca. Sauced on exotic inebriates, the West Coast producer/emcees The Alchemist and Oh No will release their second grimy Gangrene collaboration on January 24th. The new dose, Vodka & Ayahausca, is a follow-up to last year’s gritty debut Gutter Water. Both [cont.]

Drake’s had a tough week leading up to the release of his sophomore LP, Take Care. First, Future, creator of “Tony Montana” and fashion expert, was upset that Drake did not appear in the video for his track, as he explains to DJ Smirnoff Ice (?) in the clip above. A “slap in his face”, [cont.]

Here’s the part where I ask the inevitable “Black Star update” question. Me and Mos are focused on independence and quality of sound. We’re really into a Madlib/Dilla thing right now. Anything you hear from us is probably going to be that type of sound. And it’s about independence, so we are trying to find [cont.]