E1 Music is thrilled to announce the addition of hip hop icon Fat Joe to its burgeoning roster of artists. Fat Joe will release a new album, titled “The Dark Side,” on June 28th, 2010. The first single, “Slow Down” features Young Jeezy and was just serviced to urban radio. Fat Joe states, “It’s been [cont.]

Looks like Sony Music’s anti “piracy” measures are working a little bit too well, as Beyonce’s YouTube channel currently features the message “This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds” in place of the greatest video of all time! Way to go, music industry.

We’re not sure if Necro still hates us after the whole Sexorcist album review a while back, but as far as we are concerned it’s water under the bridge at this point. Anyway, Necro’s new album is due May 18th and is called Die! The album art is sort of a play on the Nas [cont.]

In a nutshell, the long looming beef between 9th Wonder and Little Brother came to a head today via Twitter of all places, after Phonte leaked the group’s last collaborative track together “Star” – a track originally recorded for The Dream Merchant LP, but later to be used as an Itunes bonus track for Little [cont.]

With Army of The Pharaohs The Unholy Terror LP dropping on tuesday March 30th, Jedi Mind Tricks frontman Vinnie Paz wastes no time announcing his new LP, Season of The Assassin on JMT’s own Enemy Soil Records imprint on June 22nd. In other news, also look out for the new LP from Dutch (produced entirely [cont.]

Manhattan Records presents DJ Premier VS Pete Rock -A Legendary DJ Battle trailer from getfunky on Vimeo. DJ Premier and Pete Rock will take to the stage in Tokyo, Japan on May 2nd, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Manhattan Records.

Yeah, Africa didn’t end up making the album cover for Distant Relatives. Walmart can’t give good shelf placement for Africa. Plus that would imply that this is not an album you could drink Rozay to. The spear stayed, so that’s something. We’ve confirmed with Universal that the official street date is May 18th. UPDATE: Africa [cont.]

Shot last night at Eva Longoria Parker’s new spot in Vegas. Check out those D&G sneaker birthday cakes. [Source: SOV]

T.I. has completed his prison sentence, after serving one year in prison on weapons charges, and the last 30 days on house arrest. TMZ reports that over the next 23 days T.I.P. will now have a nightly curfew of 11PM, unless he is performing, at which he must be home by 1Am. Additionally, he will [cont.]

After two decades in the rap game and 11 records under his belt, Scarface will now add to his legacy by releasing a poorly put together CD-R release with trainwrecking deejays shouting their names all over it. All jokes aside, hopefully it doesn’t come out that way. Face told MTV: “I always wanted to drop [cont.]

Demigodz head / Army Of The Pharoahs member Celph Titled will finally step from the shadows and release his first solo album, a collaborative effort with legendary D.I.T.C. producer Buckwild, called Nineteen Ninety Now. HipHopSite spoke exclusively with Celph who spilled details on the project. While Celph is a producer in his own right, he [cont.]

Murs may have really been serious about that whole 10 albums in 10 months thing. While his collaborative LP with 9th Wonder, Fornever, has been pushed to April 13th, he’s already set his next project in motion. A collaborative project with comic book creator Josh Blaylock, the two have created Merchgirl: The Curse of Yumiko [cont.]

Producer Ayatollah has announced a new digital only release called The Quixotic, which will be available on April 27th on Itunes and other digital music retailers. Crate Scienz reports the following: Quix-ot-ic (adjective). “Caught up in the romance of noble deeds; visionary, impulsive, and often rashly unpredictable.” Ayatollah dug in the crates for the title [cont.]

As we reported last month, 50 Cent will drop over 60 pounds for his role in Things Fall Apart, a sports film that he will co-produce. Now, he will reportedly have tattoos on his back that read “50 Cent” and “Southside” permanently removed for the film. If only other rappers could afford to do the same. [Source: [cont.]

MTV Shows The G-Unit’s most talented member speaks on working on his next LP, and how he has been influenced by the music he’s heard while on tour overseas. “The music overseas, the party atmospheres — it’s incredible,” Banks offered. “Don’t get me wrong, I love the club scenes in New York City and the [cont.]

Army of The Pharoahes / JuJu Mob emcee Reef The Lost Cauze will join with production team Gunz-N-Butter (J-Scrilla, Stu Bangas, Chop-La-Rok) for the release of their collaborative Fight Music LP, dropping June 8th on Enemy Soil Records. With beats handled entirely by the GNB team, the LP will also feature collaborations with Slaine, Vinny Paz, [cont.]

Grammy Award winning DJ/Producer David Guetta will premiere his latest single “Gettin’ Over You” with Chris Willis featuring Fergie and LMFAO live this Friday during his set At Ultra at Winter Music Conference with a special live performance with Chris Willis and LMFAO. The new single is an updated production of the album track “Gettin’ [cont.]

Can the 2010 Census change the perception of African Americans (AA) who traditionally distrust Uncle Sam? A $300 million effort, the largest advertising campaign in U.S. government history, plans to do just that by enlisting the help of Grammy award winning recording artist, actor and entrepreneur, Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges who will explain the importance of [cont.]

Scott “Scooter” Braun – who manages both Asher Roth and Beiber – ended his reign of Twitter terrorism today, by finally turning himself in to authorities, after being on the run, tweeting out of control since November. The charges, reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance, were brought up on Braun after police asked him to cancel-via-Twitter [cont.]

Suge Knight, co-founder of The New and Untouchable Death Row Records, is currently wanted by police for the alleged beating and robbery of rapper Yukmouth, who unbeknown to most has had a solo career, and is also a member of the group Tha Luniz. Sources say that Suge, along with 10 other unknown assailants that [cont.]