Kid Cudi posted the following statement on his blog last week, speaking on a collaboration between himself and Cage. I was hangin’ with the homie Cage in the studio yesterday, tweaking our record for MOTM2, and I remembered he had some ill ass pics he showed me from when he was on the set of [cont.]

In the above Ustream clip, you can spy on Diddy while he works over the phone with Jay Electronica. At about the five minute mark, Diddy suggests that he wants to get the Bomb Squad (Public Enemy, Ice Cube) to produce for Jay Electronica. “….I was telling you from way back when I wanted to [cont.]

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, John Legend and ?uestlove spilled new details on their forthcoming Wake Up Sessions LP, due out this September. Originally starting off as a collaboration to cover Arcade Fire track, the project took on a life of it’s own, maturing into a full length album. “People tend to frown [cont.]

Back when many of you were just a glimmer in your daddy’s eye, Public Enemy and Digital Underground were the hottest groups in hip-hop. But you were just a “littule beh-beh”! [(c) Royce Da 5'9]. Have no fear youngsters, today you can learn about some of the greatest hip-hop ever made, courtesy of Money B’s [cont.]

Just hours ago, Gucci Mane was released from prison, admist a small cadre of press, whom proceeded to elbow each other and snidely remark “excuse me” to one another. In the above statement, he speaks on his new label venture with Warner / Asylum, 1017 Brick Squad Records, as well as announces his new LP, [cont.]

You heard it here first – the official tracklisting for Lil’ Jon’s Crunk Rock. We can confirm this 99.9%, as this is coming from a very reliable source. Unless the album gets pushed back and completely restructured, this is what Crunk Rock will look like on June 8th. Note there will be two versions – [cont.]

Stones Throw offers up Madlib’s Medicine Show #5: History of The Loop Digga, available now on CD or digitally via their webstore, two weeks before the street date of May 25th.

Back for its 7th year, the “2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors” will celebrate the achievements of hip hop with a little southern twist. This year, the showwill celebrate the music, the influence and the artists from The South. Previously announced, Jermaine Dupri, J Prince of Rap-A-Lot Records, Luther “Luke” Campbell and The 2 Live Crew, [cont.]

And the new album is called…wait for it…./ / / Y / . That’s pronounced Maya – her name. Makes sense, after her first two albums, Arular and Kala, were named after her parents. We predict her fourth album will be called Ikhyd, after her baby. Check out the album’s first single, “XXXO”.

Shout-out to the Village Voice on this one. Solar is being exposed on the daily now. An excerpt from the story is as follows: This weekend, someone hacked into Solar’s AOL email account and posted a selection of messages via his also-hacked Twitter account. The anonymous hacker made public emails sent between Solar and various [cont.]

Pretty simply, go directly to StrangeFamousRecords.com to cop Sage’s new album, Li(f)e. While the website lists May 2nd as the “last day” to make pre-orders, we assume that means to get the items in time for street date (today). That being said, the special offers are still available on the site, which are as follows: [cont.]

The King is set to appear  Thursday May 13th to discuss the nine months he spent in prison, in addition to other topics. Tip’s forthcoming LP King Uncaged is due out in August.

Ah, so this is what they meant by Rise Up… We didn’t think Cypress was down with the Tea Party Gang. The band posted the following statement on their website on Monday night, canceling their Tuscon, Arizona performance to protest the state’s new anti-immigration measures. In a show of resistance to the criminalization of immigrant [cont.]

Former Dan The Automator collaborators team with Master of Illusion #2 to form The Foreign Globester, a new collaborative album on DMaft Records, dropping June 1st. Press release reads as follows: The Rondo Brothers have joined creative forces with Motion Man to launch The Foreign Globester on June 1st, 2010, their new album from DMAFT/Oglio [cont.]

Mos Def will join Lenny Kravitz, Ani DiFranco, and a host of other artists for Gulf Aid, a benefit concert in support of those affected by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, reports the Associated Press. The benefit will be hosted by Rehage Entertainment, and will also feature Allen Toussaint, Zachary Richard, [cont.]

RJD2 chimes in to explain his June 22nd Inversions Of The Colossus LP that we told you about here last week. hey hey hey folks, so i got a few questions on twitter today along the lines of “what’s this INVERSIONS record all about?”, so let me give you the official briefing on the NEXT [cont.]

Baje One of Junk Science celebrates the launch of his new label, Modern Shark, with a free 4 song sampler including new music from Junk Science, Cool Calm Pete, Serengeti, Tone Tank & More. The label’s first full release will be the new Junk Science album, A Miraculous Kind Of Machine, which will be out [cont.]

Not to be confused with the title of Kat Stacks’ upcoming memoir, I Hate Fucking Rappers, QN5 emcee Pack FM returns to the game with the humorously titled I Fuckin’ Hate Rappers LP, dropping digitally on May 25th and physically on June 15th. Yes, that’s the same day as Drake, no Pack doesn’t give a [cont.]

Drake is apparently hoping to return to his acting roots. However, the  Oscar winning, emmy winning former actor has not received offers up to his standards. According to Drake, he’s “been getting the typical projects that they’d offer to a new rapper, and it’s like, ‘Ehh, that’s not really what I want to do or [cont.]

Yung Joc has signed a recording deal with Polo Grounds Music/RCA Music Group in addition to a production deal with Battery/Jive Records. The production deal also gives Joc his own imprint, the shockingly named, Swagg Team Entertainment. We totally didn’t see “swag” being included in anything Joc related, ya’ll. Talk about random. Joc is currently [cont.]