“Everything is cool, everything is peace with everybody on the label, but I am announcing that I am no longer on G.O.O.D. Music,” Kid Cudi told Power 106 today. He elaborated that he wanted to concentrate on building his own stable of artists with Wicked Awesome and King Chip. He also mentions that his track [cont.]

Pusha T says that Cruel Winter was intended to come out, with lots of music recorded for it, but “G.O.O.D. Music isn’t one to just piece a project together”. After Common also denied it’s existence, it seems pretty unlikely that we’ll see this album, at least under that title.

In a recent interview with UK’s DJ Semtex, Big Sean confirmed the existence of G.O.O.D. Music’s rumored Cruel Winter album, first mentioned by Q-Tip a few months back. Sean says that he has indeed recorded something for the project, but no further information regarding release date has been given.

Q-Tip speaks on his new album, The Last Zulu, and spills some more details on the rumored Cruel Winter album, confirming it’s existence.

Q-Tip let loose a megaton bomb of a hint this weekend at the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards, when asked about his absence on the G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer LP, suggesting a quick, follow-up sequel to the compilation is in the works. “I’m going to let the cat out of the bag, I’m sorry. Can I [cont.]

Common, Pusha T, Cyhi the Prynce, Teyana Taylor and Big Sean talk about how recording “Cruel Summer” with Kanye was no Hawaiian vacation.

Big Sean, Common, CyHi The Prynce, and Teyana Taylor all sit in with Power 105.1′s The Breakfast Club, to speak on Cruel Summer, and what to expect from them in the future.

With all of the competition in the current rap space, the big dogs of hip-hop are snatching up all of the new talent fast, in order to build Wu-Tang-esque clans, crews, and cliques. It wasn’t quite like this ten or fifteen years ago, as you pretty much had the Wu and the BCC, and then [cont.]

On the eve of the release of Cruel Summer, the G.O.O.D. Music crew steps in the building to freestyle on Funk Flex’s show. Each Big Sean, Common, CyHi The Prynce, and Pusha T make appearances.

Kanye West’s long-awaited G.O.O.D. Music compilation, due September 18th, gets a promo spot. The album has leaked, by the way. HHS review coming soon.

G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer LP drops September 18th (that still qualifies as summertime, right?). Preorders and snippets for the entire thing are up at Amazon right now, along with the tracklist, as you can see below: 01. To The World by Kanye West & R. Kelly 02. Clique by Kanye West, Jay-Z & Big Sean [cont.]

The latest offering from G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer super-group LP, which hits September 18th.

While the album has been pushed back an additional two weeks – now to be released on September 18th – it will now reportedly feature four additional guests, one of them being Mos Def. In the above interview with Vibe, “N***as In Paris” producer, Hit Boy, speaks on the album’s status.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Pusha T spoke briefly on G.O.O.D. Music’s upcoming Cruel Summer compilation, but revealed very little….because he literally has no idea what to expect. “I’ve done about 20 verses, but the album’s still a mystery to me because I don’t know what’s made it and what hasn’t,” he told [cont.]

There’s an old adage of “packaging sells,” meaning the more elaborate the packaging, the more the consumer automatically assumes the product on the inside is as good as it’s outer layer suggests. Case in point. The G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer project will drop September 4th.

This is pretty awesome, seeing all these cats collaborate. In other news, the album, Cruel Summer, has been pushed back from it’s original August release date. As Kanye West himself said earlier this summer, there’s a real healthy sense of competition in hip-hop right now. But with all the crews gunning for that top spot, [cont.]

2 Chainz stopped by DJ MoonDawg’s show on WGCI to talk about going mainstream, how he and Kanye connected and why Kanye tweeted out he was “G.O.O.D.” (implying he has signed to G.O.O.D. Music), and the “element of surprise” factor with his forthcoming album Based on a TRU Story.

Bootleg Kev speaks with 2 Chainz about the possibility of him signing with G.O.O.D Music.

Q-Tip is the latest artist to sign with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint, in a move that seems like a perfect fit. He will release his next solo LP, The Last Zulu, in 2012 via the label. Q-Tip had this to say about the signing: I’m excited to be a part of the great iconic [cont.]

Mannie Fresh explains how he was tapped to work with Kanye on the G.O.O.D Music compilation and what to expect from the project.