The rapper posted this statement on his website today, at IceCube.Com. I AM THE WEST…is the name of my new record. After completing about 65% of my music, this is the perfect title. This shit is cocky, no apologies, West Coast gangsta shit. I can’t help it. That’s what I do. June seems too tight [cont.]

The Associated Press reports this morning that “a Florida woman” by the name of Lastonia Leviston is suing Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, for the unauthorized distribution of a video of her engaged in sexual acts without her permission, causing her “emotional distress”. The video was edited to show clips of 50 narrating the video [cont.]

RZA recently released his ridiculously dope “Victory Or Death” limited edition print via When Art Imitates Life, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his career in music. He will follow up with a second set on March 1st, 2010, which be “four distrinct portraits of the Wu-Tang leader”. Recently James Dunn and Rich Thomas caught [cont.]

Lil Jon will finally release his long-overdue, Crunk Rock LP, on June 8th, which was announced right after the release of his last LP, Crunk Juice, in 2005. At the time, Jon’s vision was to record an actual rock and roll / hip-hop mash-up type of record, but with the ever changing styles of popular [cont.]

Over two-years in the making and 200+ hours of interview footage shot, actor Michael Rappaportis helping spearhead a documentary on A Tribe Called Quest, entitled Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. The film begins at the group’s historical reunion at the 2008 Rock The Bells festival, and picks up from [cont.]

DJ Premier recently stated in an interview with 944 / The Examiner that he will re-team with KRS-One for a new album called Return of The Boom Bip (that’s “BIP”, not “BAP”), as well as his other plans for 2010: Year Round Records is my label for 5 years strong. We have a NYG’z album [cont.]

They dropped Reggie 9 & 1/2, now it’ called Redman Presents Reggie…. First single, “Oh My” is available now at Amazon & ITunes. UPDATE: March 30th is the new release date, as confirmed with Def Jam. Amazon.com Widgets

How long has it been since rumors of the Ghostface & MF Doom album had been announced? Let’s put it this way: we we’re running a flourishing record store at the time. Since it’s announcement in say, 2005, we’ve seen numerous titles thrown around, such as Swift & Changable, Ghostdoom, and Ghoststarks. While the two [cont.]

Poor Ghost, he had to sit there next to Rae and Meth snickering at his interview with Angela Yee and she touches upon his When In Rome “chick-flick” cameo and how he is a very sensitive man. That’s rough….

New Zealand News caught up with Lupe Fiasco on on his Steppin’ Lasers tour, and spoke to the network about a possible retirement looming, Lasers. “I think the Lupe Fiasco show is coming to a…. we’re like in the middle…everything from here on out is going to be the grand closing….” He also spoke about [cont.]

In a recent behind the scenes clip with Big Von (see above), E-40 reveals that his new “Revenue Retrievin’” album includes a sample from international vocalist Bjork, “and she don’t never clear shit,” as Fonzarelli declares in the video. The new album will be a double disc endeavor, titled Revenue Retrievin’: Night Shift and Revenue [cont.]

The legendary Atlanta Spring Break festival Freaknik, will be immortalized on March 7th with “Freaknik: The Musical”, airing on Cartoon Network. Produced by T-Pain, the one-hour special took the rappa-turnt-sanga two years to finish, and includes appearances from Snoop Dogg, Keri Hilson, Kelis, Big Boi, Rick Ross, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader, [cont.]

Now signed with will.i.am’s imprint under Interscope, Kelis will reinvent herself once again with her fourth LP, Flesh Tone, due out this spring. Moving slightly away from the hip-hop styles of production that fueled tracks like “Bossy”, Kelis will instead team with some the biggest producers in house music. Producers for Flesh Tone include will.i.am, [cont.]

Mochilla – the company owned and operated by legendary photographer B+ – will release a three DVD box set on March 30th, chronicling the Timeless concert series. The set will include three concerts that paid homage to important figures that helped shape the sound of hip-hop music, with each J. Dilla, jazz legend Mulatu Astatke [cont.]

Raekwon leaked the artwork for the upcoming Method Man + Raekwon + Ghostface “Wu Massacre” album via Twitter today,  which drops March 30th on Def Jam. Coincidentaly, preorders also began today at Amazon.com. Rae further tweets “I forgot the album won’t be called “Wu Massacre” wit my brothers it will be called “THREE, THE HARD [cont.]

Mos Def was apparently outraged with New York Observer column writer D.M. Levine, based on his coverage of a party hosted by Dame Dash’s new DD172 venture. The January article states that Mos Def was seen drinking a beer at the event, something that Mos is very much against. The passage reads as follows: On [cont.]

50 Cent and Cheetah Vision Films partner Randall Emmett have unveiled plans for their next film, Things Fall Apart, in which 50 will star, based on a script he wrote with Brian Miller. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, the film is about a senior college football player who becomes involved in a personal tragedy and [cont.]

Tracklist: 1. It Ain’t Nothin’ (feat. Young De) (Produced by B-Real) 2. Light It Up (Produced by Pete Rock) 3. Rise Up (feat. Tom Morello) (Produced by Tom Morello & B-Real) 4. Get It Anyway (Produced by Jim Jonsin) 5. Pass The Dutch (feat. Evidence & Alchemist) (Produced by DJ Muggs & DJ Khalil) 6. [cont.]

Confused yet? Yes, Raekwon, Method Man & Ghostface will join together to drop the Wu-Massacre LP on Def Jam next month. However Rae recently revealed details about his next solo album, Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. EW: What’s Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang? Raekwon: Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang is another album that I promised [cont.]

Rhymefest spoke with The Pulse about the recent comments made by Waka Flocka Flame in regards to lyrical rappers being broke. “Man, you sitting up on the most lyrical rapper’s radio station saying that…. For anybody that wants to say lyrical rappers are broke, Immortal Technique got more money than most of ya’ll. Just because [cont.]