Jay Electronica has revealed via Twitter, that his Roc Nation debut is complete: “Sometimes im Jay Electronica. sometimes im Jay Electron**ga. i wanna let yall hear this one record from Act II: Patents Of Nobility (the turn) called “Road To Perdition” feat. Mr. Carter so bad.” “Album soon come. Ask Bun B, he heard the [cont.]

Black Milk – Brain by Third Man Records Black Milk was recently contacted by Jack White to collaborate on a couple of tracks, for a single release on Jack’s Third Man Records. Black Milk is extremely proud of the collabo’s “Brain” and “Royal Mega”, recorded with a 9 piece band, available now on Itunes and [cont.]

We spoke with Statik Selektah exclusively last night about a wealth of new projects that he has in the works. He and Reks are working on a three part EP called Straight No Chaser, with part one dropping in the next few weeks. He is also working on a project with Slaine called State of [cont.]

Kid Cudi updated folks on his Tumblr page this weekend about his upcoming projects. He first tweeted that his WIZARD rock project is almost finished, with three songs recently completed. He also added that Man On The Moon 3 will be due in the fall of 2012. Meanwhile, Kid Cudi has reunited with producer Steve [cont.]

This is definitely good news. While in our recent review of Big Sean’s Finally Famous, we posed the question, “what if these (No I.D.) beats were given to Common?” As it turns out, Common will reunite with his longtime collaborator for The Dreamer, The Believer, as No I.D. will produce the entire thing, MTV reports: [cont.]

Looks like the Game’s long overdue The R.E.D. Album will be finally, finally dropping August 23rd. Here’s the cover art.

Amazingly, Eminem has surpassed over 1 million legal digital downloads of his Recovery LP, with last week’s $4.99 sale helping push it past the milli mark. Having a ringtone single go digitally platinum is one thing, but a full-length LP is almost unheard of. Nice job, Em. Says Paul: “We are thrilled to congratulate Eminem [cont.]

Evidence’s new album “Cats & Dogs” will be released on already packed release date, September 27th, on Rhymesayers featuring the likes of Raekwon, Prodigy, Aesop Rock, Slug, Aloe Blacc and Krondon. Tracklist below: 1. The Liner Notes feat. Aloe Blacc 2. Strangers 3. The Red Carpet feat. Raekwon & Ras Kass 4. It Wasn’t Me [cont.]

Big K.R.I.T. is the latest artist to announce his Def Jam debut LP, Live From The Underground, for a September 27th release, joining 9th Wonder, Phonte Coleman, and J. Cole, who each share the date. Somebody’s gonna change their street date…

While we still haven’t seen a reuniting of the holy Little Brother trinity, each of the group’s members will release album’s by the end of 2011. Starting in July, Rapper Big Pooh will team with Stones Throw alum, Roc C, to form the Young Americans, and will release an as-of-yet untitled EP. Following that will [cont.]

While there was innanet speculation suggesting the release of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne LP on July 4th, instead, we get some news, a street date, and a spot to pre-order from. The album to be released on August 2nd, with pre-orders taking place now via Island Def Jam’s webshop. The album is [cont.]

Album out July 26th on Duck Down Music. Pre-Order the Deluxe-Edition at iTunes today. The album contains three exclusive bonus tracks: Track Listing: 1) Welcome Back 2) Boiling Water 3) Bumpin 4) Can’t Make It In NY 5) Showin Up 6) Celebration 7) Wanna Get Dough 8) Get Involved 9) Sand to the Beach 10) [cont.]

Calling all producers!! Diamond Music Group has paired up with b.l.a.p. frontman !llmind & the NY based boutique tee-shirt brand Classic Material NY for The “Destiny” Remix Challenge. The remix is for the Illmind produced single, “Destiny” off Moke & Tone’s recently release Shot Heard Round The World LP, which is now available. The producer [cont.]

In a recent interview with Billboard, French super-producer and house music auteur David Guetta revealed a very high-profile guest list for his August 29th release, Nothing But The Beat. A double album, the record will consist of one disc of vocal tracks, the second disc of instrumental tracks. The vocal disc will include the previously [cont.]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, RZA has been tapped to appear in the second G.I. Joe film. RZA will play a character called The Blind Master, a martial arts trainer responsible for training Joe ninjas Snake Eyes and Jinx.

J-Zone has recently launched his new website, www.govillaingo.com, which is the launching spot for his upcoming book, Root For The Villain: Rap, Bullshit, And A Celebration Of Failure. J-Zone writes: I miss MySpace. It was a free website for people who didn’t want to build websites, and if you really knew how to cyber-pimp, it [cont.]

Someone is getting fired. To think that Atlantic almost didn’t put Lupe’s LASERS LP out. Poetic justice has been served, as the album’s lead single, The Show Goes On, which samples Modest Mouse’s “Float On”, has sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. Congrats, Lupe.

Statik Selektah and Freddie Gibbs teamed to produce this new EP, live via UStream last night, and have released the EP one day early via Statik’s own ShowoffRecords.Com website. Although the EP will be available on Itunes tomorrow, grabbing it direct from Showoff nets you two exclusive bonus tracks. 1. Intro f. Slaine 2. Lord [cont.]

Royce will follow-up with the sequel to his best solo LP of his career, Death Is Certain, with Success Is Certain, on July 26th. 01. Second Place (feat. Method Man & Raekwon)[Prod. by DJ Premier] 02. I Ain’t Coming Down 03. Legendary (feat. Travis Barker) [Prod. by Eminem] 04. Security 05. On the Blvd. (feat. [cont.]

Young Money manager Mack Maine tweeted that Weezy will release a new mixtape to hold fans over until Tha Carter IV drops.