Though he officially signed with Bad Boy last year,it was just recently announced that he will also be part of Diddy’s new new Bad Boy/Interscope Records partnership. Bad Boy was previously linked with Atlantic Records and moves forward now in linking up with Interscope. Red’s debut album Red October hits the streets later this year [cont.]

Don Mega is making moves in Hollywood nowadays.Cube’s documentary “Straight Outta L.A.,” will appear on ESPN as part of the networks “30 For 30″ documentary series.The documentary describes the Raiders move from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982. It further describes how the team, as it gathered Black and Hispanic fans in Los Angeles, became [cont.]

Currently Universal and RZA are in process of making a deal for Universal to finance and distribute the RZA and Eli Roth written screenplay The Man With The Iron Fists. Below is more information about the movie and the soundtrack. RZA will play the title character, a blacksmith who forges weapons for the inhabitants of [cont.]

We saw that one coming…. Above is a screen shot from Universal Music’s distribution catalog (click for larger view), which notes The Game’s The R.E.D. Album is dropping June 29th, pushed back from June 16th. Hate it or love it…..

For his fourth LP, Wake Up Sessions, John Legend will team with The Roots to back him on the entire LP. He says they are about 99% done with it and they expect a September release date. UPDATE: John tweets today that the first single will feature Common and Melanie Fiona.

The saga continues on June 22nd, 2010, courtesy of Wu Music Group. Check out the tracklist and snippets below. TRACKLIST: 1. Roll With Killer Bees [Explicit] Yellow Jackets 3:12 2. Headline [Explicit] 12 O’Clock 3:05 3. Assed Out [Explicit] Wu-Tang Clan 2:31 4. Dirts The Boogie [Explicit] O.D.B. 3:31 5. You Must Be Dreaming [Explicit] [cont.]

?uestlove revealed today in a live chat interview with Billboard that the Run DMC reunion will not happen at this year’s Roots Picnic, but a Wu-Massacre performance will. While the festival will be headlined by Vampire Weekend, the trio of Method Man, Raekwon, and Ghostface will take the place of Run DMC, with The Roots [cont.]

In a recent report by AllHipHop, it was revealed that KRS-One is working on a new six-track EP called Back To The L.A.B. (Lyrical Ass Beating). The EP will focus on calling out emcees that have attacked him or that he has had beef with over the last several years, and will feature production from [cont.]

While originally slated for release on May 18, Grammy Award winner, Rhymefest, will unleash his highly anticipated El Che album on June 8, 2010 via dN|Be Entertainment. Distributed by EMI, the full length LP features production from beatsmiths Scram Jones, S1, BKS, and Terry Hunter. The 16 track opus also boasts guest appearances from Little [cont.]

This has to be a joke, right? Waka Flocka Flame apparently now has his own cologne named “Eau Le Doet” (roughly translated as meaning WTF). Looks like Diddy has some competition in the burgeoning rapper cologne market. Maybe this is what he meant by “leave you stankin’” on “Go Hard In Da Paint”?

Neilson Soundscan awarded Eminem the “Artist of the Decade” award in December of last year, with a total of 32 million albums sold throughout the course of his career. According to BallerStatus.Net, Em picked up his award this week, as seen above, alongside Paul Rosenberg, Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Nielson’s Eric Weinberg and Chris [cont.]

First DJ Premier vs. Pete Rock in Japan, now Just Blaze vs. Alchemist in Europe? Preem jumps on the Paris, France date as well….. May 6 London, United Kingdom / East Village May 7 Bordeaux, France / BT59 May 8 Nantes, France / Jongl’Hop May 9 Amsterdam, Netherlands / Bitterzoet May 11 London, United Kingdom [cont.]

TMZ reports that Nas has told the judge he cannot afford to pay Kelis’s child and spousal (?) support ordered by the court, after the couple’s recent divorce. According to legal documents acquired by TMZ, Nas was ordered to pay an upwards of $87000 in back payments, plus $10k per month, based on Nas making [cont.]

The former Golden Girl will team with the original Roc Boy to host this weekend on Saturday Night Live. This should yield some interesting results – check all three promo clips above.

El-Producto will return on August 3rd, 2010 with “WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMegaMixxx3″ on August 3rd, via Gold Dust Media. The collection includes mostly instrumental selections, as well as remixes he has done for tracks from Young Jeezy and Kidz In The Hall. “I wanted to do little mini-movements that had a real beginning, middle and end and then [cont.]

Dame spoke with MTV on the reinvention of Roc-A-Fella Records under the eye of Dame Dash. “If Jay wanna come through and do something, he can come holla at me,” Dash told MTV. “I ain’t got no beefs with Jay. Just off the strength that it’s Roc-A-Fella, I could never tell Jay he can’t be [cont.]

The indie hip-hop movement was defined by a handful of key players in the late 90′s / early 2000′s, DJ Spinna being one of them. This essential mix collects many of the classic tracks that defined an era of underground hip-hop, with a mouth watering tracklist that showcases forgotten yet definitive tracks of the time. [cont.]

Radio hostess Angie Martinez recently revealed in Hot 97 that Gucci Mane will be released from Georgia’s Fulton County Jail, after serving seven months of a one year charge of parole violation, after his initial 2005 assault charge. Gooch will appear at this year’s Hot 97 Summer Jam. He announced on Tuesday that he has [cont.]

Emcee/Producer/DJ and artist extraordinaire J-Live  is giving fans an online venue to purchase product. For all things J-Live visit the newly opened J-Live online store.

Well kids, it was bound to happen. A new biopic about the legendary group N.W.A. is currently in the works. Straight Outta Compton will follow N.W.A from their early days in the mid/late ’80s through their peak in the early 90′s and onto their eventual breakup. The film will be released by New Line Cinema [cont.]