I tried and tried but apparently it’s a slow week and this story is not going away. At least now we have some semblance of video to prove that an altercation happened between Fabolous and Ray-J. Read the rest of this entry »

The Most Pause Worthy Moments From The Ray-J & Fabolous Beef [The Urban Daily]

Peta To Launch A Pron Site [NBC Washington]

Kevin Willis Debuts Fashion Line At New York Fashion Week [Basketball Jones] Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhat lost in the shuffle of Sunday night’s football blockbuster, VH1 aired a program detailing the parallels of crack-cocaine and Hip Hop which turned out to be a pretty damn good show. Planet Rock: The Story Of Hip-Hop And The Crack Generation did not exactly reinvent the wheel, but still managed to grasp the fatal, yet wildly creative era somewhat coherently. Read the rest of this entry »

Before the receipt is being printed for your purchase of Phonte’s Charity Starts At Home next Tuesday, two thirds of Little Brother link up to drop one last leak. Read the rest of this entry »

Mac’s Road To A Million fans is almost done as he’s now eclipsed 900K. How do you celebrate having nearly a million people following your ever online move? Read the rest of this entry »

The Analog Tape is a thirty-minute sampling of J57’s skill behind the boards, a little something to bob your head to. That may sound generic as hell, sure, but The Analog Tape’s quality from the very beginning. Read the rest of this entry »

Backpackers the underground over have had September 27th circled for some time now, the release of Evidence’s Cats & Dogs a cool seven days away. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re two months and change into NBA Lockout limbo and it’s not looking good. The suits can’t see eye to eye with the jerseys and their reps despite giving some hopefuls an obvious up fake. Meanwhile, fans can’t do much but bide their time until things finally get right. Read the rest of this entry »

Mookie Jones’ latest mixtape, P.A.N. (Playa Ass N*gga), passed my five year-old ride assessment. Whenever I run across interesting music, I grab the boy cub, we hop in the truck and turn the subs up to a moderate level so the bass rumbles. Other than that, I give the kid no clues as to whether or not he should or shouldn’t like the songs. We ride and I let him react. Read the rest of this entry »

So Mike Vick’s highly touted (second) return to the ‘A’ didn’t go exactly as planned. He’s still the only person in football history to have mixtape release etched to his long, controversial résumé. Read the rest of this entry »

Freddie adds a dose of gangsterism to Weezy & Wheelchair’s duet, “She Will.” Read the rest of this entry »

Not anyone can just go and hang with YelaWolf. Not without a helmet, at least. As you can clearly see by the raucous new Motion Family-filmed video for Radioactive’s “Hard White (Up In The Club),” there’s a certain limit of insanity you must maintain to hold ground in a situation this sticky. Read the rest of this entry »

Duct Tape and D5M are back with more Trouble. This time around it’s the release of the Atlanta rapper’s Green Light mixtape, hosted by Don Cannon. Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to know why Tech N9ne is the best-selling independent rap artist in Hip-Hop, here’s part of the answer: the guy does not release mixtapes. Read the rest of this entry »

Gotty’s Note: The following article was written pre-album leak. Enjoy.

Internet crossover attempts usually follow a predictable arc. One minute you can’t do anything wrong. You’re under the radar and every song you drop creates genuine fanfare. A few missteps later via inorganic mainstream pandering, album delays or whatever other foolishness you can muster and you got some long time supporters lookin’ at you sideways. Read the rest of this entry »