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John Singleton Sues Paramount For $20 Million [AP]

Bryant Gumbel: Exposing Himself or David Stern? [The Root]

#NBArank: The 10 Players You’d Never Want On Your Team [ETSF] Read the rest of this entry »

The Internuts got their hands on Drake’s “The Real Her,” which may irk listeners who aren’t fans of R&B Drizzy. The mellowed tune sounds like a successor to “Houstonalantavegas” or maybe the sequel to the more recent track, “She Will,” if you want to view it at as a shift from the dancefloor of the party to closer, quieter quarters. Read the rest of this entry »

Cooler redux moment with Carol Seleme. Photos swiped from her Tumblr, Carol’s Room. She’s a model and an artist. She rocks. Visit her. Read the rest of this entry »

Wale resurrects Jay’s 2004 Black Album anthem and does quite well for himself. He’s no Jay but he does a damn good Wale, which includes tossing out a few funny one-liners (“y’all a buncha d*cks but I can still see the vagina in’em”), allude to the fact that part of his ambition is for his mom to be able to kick her feet up, kick a raunchy line, just for the ladies (“all up in her back space like a delete button”) and still wave the flag for D.C. And he accomplishes it all in a little over two minutes. Not bad at all. Read the rest of this entry »

There are very few people in the world better at rapping about being better than everyone else than Royce 5’9″. If it wasn’t obvious from the title, Success Is Certain finds Royce in a much better state of mind than on his 2004 opus, the dark, brooding Death Is Certain. Eschewing the anger and self-loathing that permeated the latter, Success Is Certain is a decent balance of the unbridled confidence the Detroit native unleashed on the Slaughterhouse project and the solemn self-reflection that was a trademark of his career prior to his reunion with his Shady, Detroit compatriot. Read the rest of this entry »

The YMCMB machine cranks out its next big seller with Drake’s Take Care on November 15th. Read the rest of this entry »

One day after delivering the first look at TM103′s official album artwork and release date, Young Jeezy provides the first listen to what’s said to be a single, the Lil Lody-produced track “.38,” Read the rest of this entry »

Throughout the summer and the little bit of fall we’ve experienced, NBA superstars have done their part to keep the exiled sport in the hearts and minds of the public. And for better than worse, it’s worked damn near to a tee. Still, other than when Billy Hunter and David Stern will cure the NBA’s nagging STD, one question sits firmly at half court. Where the hell has Derrick Rose been? Read the rest of this entry »

Lupe’s Friend Of The People is set to drop on Thanksgiving and today we get “Lightwork,” a track featuring English singer Ellie Goulding and electro/dubstep head Bassnectar. Lyrically? Fresh cool young Lu is fine here even though he says we’ll “argue with your friends over what really the record means.” Read the rest of this entry »

Late week lethargy has set in and Audible Treats presented an accurate, descriptive press release to accompany an early peek at Big Pooh’s upcoming album, so let’s just roll with that for now, shall we? Read the rest of this entry »

If Stalley’s Lincoln Way Nights mixtape were a term paper, it’s thesis would be something along the lines of “Do or die. Put everything you have into what you love.” The mixtape’s final chapter, “Lincoln Way Nights (Shop)” encompasses this ethos perfectly, likening Stalley’s journey to a high-stakes dice roll. Read the rest of this entry »

We rap nerds spend so much time and energy complaining about music stateside we forget the game’s truly a worldwide affair. Brazillian rapper Emicida’s got the raw delivery keyboard champions have been feenin’ for from their compatriots. There’s more here than a guy who looks like Blu’s long lost South American brother from another. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve happened to have glanced at the tracklist to Statik Selektah’s upcoming Population Control release, you’re well aware the line-up is nothing short of a budgeted all-star team. But, there’s something to be said about picking Sean P and Termanology to rock the compilation’s namesake. Read the rest of this entry »

Revisiting Drake’s “Club Paradise,” there’s an interesting note: Read the rest of this entry »

A lot of people see money as validation. In reality, coincidentally, it’s often used as a facade to hide deficiencies that were there since birth. See, I’m calm when addressing the subject of money and people’s personalities. Trouble, however, is far from it. Read the rest of this entry »