That’s a pretty expensive call-and-response crew. Produced by Bink! Can we “John Blaze Pt. 2″ on the album though?

It has been revealed that Kanye West’s long talked about G.O.O.D. Music compilation will be called Cruel Summer, and will be released alongside a film of the same name. The movie will debut at Cannes on May 23rd, and will be released with the compilation at an officially at an as-of-announced date.

Dope. CDQ needed.

Stack’s team releases this lost cut from 2005, which will appear on his upcoming Rap In Retrospect mixtape.

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

Filmmaker Ruth Hogben collaborates with award-winning musician Kanye West to create a film for his single Lost in the World. The song, which features Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, is taken from West’s fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Hogben’s piece breaks the mould of popular rap aesthetics while still celebrating the extraordinary talent [cont.]

Second single from the forthcoming G.O.O.D Music compilation album, following “Mercy”, released one month ago. Check out both below.

Something To Nothing: Art Of Rap is a feature length performance documentary film about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film’s director and interviewer Ice-T. Ice-T takes us on a deeply personal journey to uncover how this music of the street has grown to dominate [cont.]

Watch as Katy Parry sucks every amount of soul out of Jay and Ye’s club cut of the year.

Last Saturday at BMI’s “How I Wrote That Panel” Event in Hollywood, RZA discussed working with Kanye West on the Grammy award winning album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and gave advice on how to make timeless music.

Bout damn time.

In this episode of Tony Williams’ #Road2KoTF, he recounts his time in the studio during Kanye West’s Graduation LP. In the clip, he shows never-seen-before footage of Kanye playing the track “Big Brother” for Jay-Z, which makes him a bit “emotional”. Surely one of the dopest cuts in Kanye’s catalog.

Big Sean speaks with Whoo Kid up at Shade 45, speaking on what he has planned for the new year, as well as his recent beef with Ludacris, plus touches upon Kanye, Common, Nicki Minaj, and more.

A bit off topic, but this one had us on the floor a couple of times. Enjoy.

“It depends on how this thing finishes up,” Jay said in reference to his and Kanye’s current Watch the Throne Tour. “We — I say ‘we’ because I’m in Throne mode — we’re in a great place creatively. You might see a Jay, then Kanye and a Throne album next year. You know, we’re really [cont.]

Jay-Z and Kanye West do “N***as In Paris”, followed by ‘Ye’s solo performance of “Stronger”.

Exclusive in-depth interview with Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover AKA Troy Barnes from show Community. Part 3 starts with Donald talking to Nick Huff Barili about Kanye West and the lane he created for artists like Gambino. Donald also talks about who he sees as his peers in the Hip Hop world and how he [cont.]

Heavy Hitter Dj Enuff talks with about working with the Notorious B.I.G, breaking 50 cent records on radio, and being one of the first people to put on Kanye West.

Common speaks on “Blue Sky”, the lead single to The Dreamer, The Believer, due November 22nd.