Ever since “the incident”, Kanye West has been lying low, observing the music industry from the shadows. His last television appearance was on Jay Leno, to apologize for interrupting Taylor Swift’s MTV VMA acceptance speech, and we haven’t heard him pop up on too many high profile remixes as of late. We all know he’s [cont.]

With producer Cook Classics Recharged hitting iTunes on June 8th (In Stores June 22),Cook also dropped the official album sampler.Recharged features appearances from Freddie Gibbs, Diz Gibran, Sean Price, Aloe Blacc, Emilio Rojas, TiRon and Ayomari, Miguel, Tunji, Sha Stimuli, Amanda Diva, CyMarshall Law, Shawn Jackson, Avriel Epps, Boog Brown, Buff1, Inverse, Sene, and Peter [cont.]

As a followup to their 2009 album, The Spirit Of Apollo,N.A.S.A. plans to drop a full remixed album, entitled The Big Bang. The album will feature remixes from Herve, Mr. Oizo, The Ashton Shuffle and will also feature two new original N.A.S.A tracks.Be on the lookout when it drops on June 29.

In a recent interview with MTV, Styles P discussed the LOX’s many forthcoming projects. “We working on the LOX right now and all the solos at once — Sheek solo, my solo, ‘Kiss solo, mixtapes. That’s our plan for the summer right now,” he said. “Since we all in the lab, we going in. Now [cont.]

The long hot summer kicks off this week with a PACKED release date, overloaded with big releases in both the underground and mainstream. This is your guide to all of the special offers and deluxe editions for each of today’s album releases. Unfortunately, there are no special offers or bonus track editions for Chali 2na [cont.]

With the apparent beef between Queen Bee Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj starting to bubble,  Ferrari F-50 decided to give us his take on the conflict. The beef between the female emcees stems from what Lil Kim describes as Minaj swagger jacking  and not paying homage by giving her the proper credit.  50 commented: “It’s [cont.]

“I plan to work with Wayne for the rest of my career, so I think it’s a smart career move,” he told MTV off camera. “You know, everybody else [on Young Money] will hopefully work out the situations, get the right people on the album. I think it was important for me to show him [cont.]

Legendary turntablist and deejay for Atmosphere, Mr. Dibbs, has released a new album online today, entitled Dead World, which you can purchase digitally at http://fresherthan.com/deadworld, for $6.66. Interesting price. The new album features additional contributions from Jel, Joe Coleman, Grayskul, Jason Michaels, Full Blown Kaos, Ramallah, Fiest, Julliete Lewis, Galt McDermot, Scott Vogal of Terror, [cont.]

Rock The Bells Festival just got more interesting, as not only have they officially confirmed the long-rumored performance from Lauryn Hill, but have also added A Tribe Called Quest and Snoop Dogg to the bill. Hill will perform “a unique set prepared exclusively for Rock the Bells, featuring songs from her critically acclaimed album The [cont.]

GQ interviewed Big Boi today, asking him why Andre 3000 is not listed as a guest artist on the Sir Lucious Leftfoot tracklist that was released earlier today….. Meanwhile, The E.W./P.R. Power Movement got the drop on the album’s deleted collabo, “Lookin’ For Ya”, which you can hear below: LISTEN: Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 [cont.]

Word is Andre 3000 produced three songs on the album….. TRACKLIST: 1. Feel Me (Intro) 2. Daddy Fat Sax 3. Turns Me On feat. Sleepy Brown & Joi 4. Follow Us feat. Vonnegutt 5. Shutterbugg feat. Cutty 6. General Patton 7. Tangerine feat. T.I. & Khujo Goodie 8. You Ain’t No DJ feat. Yelawolf 9. [cont.]

This one defies explanation. Coolio, who seems to be wearing a t-shirt with his own silhouette on it in the above photo, recently got his arm tattooed with the words “Jugalo Cool” on it, suggesting that he is somehow down with the Insane Clown Posse (Juggaloes being the army of brainwashed ICP followers). Whether this [cont.]

In a story broken by Gawker.Com, eagle-eyed, nostalgic YouTube watchers repeatedly viewed the video for Tag Team’s “Whoomp There It Is, upside down and inside out, and have discovered that Barack Obama was allegedly in the video. See the 1:01 minute mark, for the leader of the free world, politickin’ on his celly. Chalk this [cont.]

Peep the cover art and tracklist info for emcee John Robinson and producer Lewis Parker’s forthcoming LP International Summers.The duo’s LP drops July 2010.The album sampler is available below.Be on the lookout for our recent interview with John Robinson, coming soon. Track list: 01.Summer Begins 02.International Summers 03.Planes Trains Automobiles Feat. staHHr – Cymarshall Law [cont.]

New ish from the man himself. Download link is below. Game – “Pushin It” featuring T.I. & Robin Thicke(MP3)

According to the New York Daily News former Rocafella ceo Dame Dash is in the process of being sued by his ex, Linda Williams.According to the article: Linda Williams is suing her ex Damon Dash for $1 million in compensatory damages, claiming that he harassed their son, Damon 2nd, and lied to the NYPD. In [cont.]

As the release date for his fourth LP R.E.D. approaches, Game is taking an unconventional approach to promotion.That is, he’s not doing any. “I’m not into promoting. I give you a date and if you’re a Game fan, then you’ll get the album,” he said. “I don’t sell myself. This is my fourth album. I [cont.]

In an interview with BBC’s Radio1 on June 4th,Eminem admitted that he’s been keeping an eye out for new acts and is working at ‘rebuilding’ the Shady Records label. “We’re kinda trying to start the process of rebuilding our label, Shady Records,” he said. “I’m sure I’ll be looking for younger talent, coming up.There’s a [cont.]

Mr. Maybach Music continues his whirlwind tour of promotion here,discussing the remix of Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat”.Ross stated “We continuing where the first ‘Window Seat’ ended.”The concept itself is somewhat clever as it’s not just a run of the mill remix, but a continuing story.Boss.

BET has announced that T.I. will make his first TV appearance since getting out of jail at the upcoming 2010 BET Awards. The BET Awards are scheduled for June 27th at 8pm.