I peep’d the new Vibe with Jay-Z on the cover and the interview they did with Old Man is actually pretty good. Here’s some interesting excerpts for your reading pleasure. Read more »

Joel Ortiz gives us a walk through of his stomping ground in Brooklyn. If you not on your Joel Ortiz, I suggest you get “The Brick”. I guarantee you will be a convert. Read more »

Fresh of the press, I just had Joe Budden’s Padded Room album cover delivered. After peeping out that online chat Joe did last night and this album cover, I think we may have another classic on our hands.

Joe Budden Padded Room Tracklist
1.) Now I Lay
2.) Touch N Go
3.) If I Gotta Go
4.) Blood On The Wall
5.) Don’t Make Me
6.) In My Sleep
7.) Outcast
8.) I Couldn’t Help It
9.) Do Tell
10.) My Life
11.) Better Me
12.) Just to Be Different
13.) Angel In My Life
14.) Pray For Me

T.I.’s little homie is hungry.

Chris Le, who recently directed Game’s Superman video and is within Game’s circle posted a message on The Real BWS forums saying:

Haven’t been on here in a minute! Wuss good with yall? Superman is at it’s completion and we about to go full blast. but heres the latest BWS 5 and guess what, Game is hosting it with Haze. AND NOT TO MENTION, Look out for a JAYZ Diss track from game produced by my lil brother, Tommy Gunnz.

So apparently there’s a Jay-Z diss courtesy of Game on a DJ Haze “BWS Radio Part 5″ mixtape. I’ll post it as soon as it hits the net.

Forbes has released their list for the rap games best earners for 2008. Topping the list and overcoming Jay-Z is none other than 50 Cent. Hey remember when he went at Jay on “Be A Gentlemen” and he was broke as a joke, now he’s surpassed Hov. Whoa. I’m not sure who has more money Jay-Z or 50 Cent, I assume they are pretty close. Read more »

Internet solgiers mount up! This site is heading into its one year anniversary in September and already claiming that it is the #1 Hip Hop Blog, but it would be a good look if we could win actually win some awards to prove this. Luckily, there’s some Black Weblog Awards going down and you know YoRapper trying to get put on. I need your assistance to nominate this site. The categories I think we could qualify are:

Hip Hop Blog
Blog of the Year
Blog to Watch
Best New Blog

Take a moment to nominate YoRapper now.
Click here to nominate YoRapper.com for The Black Webblog Awards

Young Jeezy’s The Recession will be dropping September 2, 2008. Here is the album cover and official tracklist. Read more »

In an interview with Chino on 104.7 FM in LA, The Game borrowed from 50 Cent’s playbook by throwing some choice words at Jay-Z right before his album comes out. Read more »

So now apparently Kanye West (and not Timbaland) will be producing the bulk of Jay-Z’s last album on Def Jam entitled The Blueprint 3. A title I happened to predict would be the name of Jay’s next album, by the way. And since I’m touting my own horn, I just realized I predicted that Kardinal Offishall got next in 2008. Oh yeah and I can’t forget my Lil Wayne selling a milli in one week prediction either. I’m sorry but I’m fronten’ though. Read more »

Comedian Bernie Mac died today, Saturday August 9th, 2008, from complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital, his publicist, Danica Smith, said in a statement from Los Angeles. She said no other details were available. Read more »

Kardinal Offishall’s single Dangerous has already gone GOLD in the US and his album won’t be released until September 9th, 2008. Nothing but props to Kardi, he’s worked hard to get where he is. From the looks of the tracklisting, the album, Not 4 Sale is going to chart. Damn he’s got tracks with Akon, T-Pain, The Dream and Rihanna!?

Kardinal Offishall - Not 4 Sale Tracklisting
01 Burnt featuring Lindo P
02 Set It Of featuring Clipse
03 Dangerous featuring Akon
04 Digital Motown featuring Jack Davey
05 Gimme Some featuring The Dream
06 Bad Like We Bad
07 Numba 1 (Tide Is High) featuring Rihanna
08 I’ll Eagle Alien
09 Nina
10 Go Home With You featuring T-Pain
11 I’m Goin In
12 Graveyard Shift featuring Akon
13 Family Tree featuring Glenn Lewis
14 Due Me A Favour featuring Estelle
15 Lighter!

R Kelly hasn’t only ruined little girl’s lives but he has also been known to baller block fellow R&B singers as well (See: Ne-Yo). Now singer Joe, probably best known for his song, “Don’t Wanna Be a Player”, is claiming the Pied Piper did him dirty too. Read more »

Hip hop heads will remember Rosie Perez (who we all know from the movie White Men Can’t Jump) criticizing Jay-Z for bringing Nas’ baby momma into their feud saying it was “disrespectful”. Read more »

After nine weeks on the Billboard charts, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter 3 has surpassed the 2 million units sold mark. Having sold 78,000 albums this week alone, Tha Carter 3 has totally sold 2,075,900 albums to date. Astounding, have people forgot how to download? Read more »

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So apparently Dr. Dre has done a deal with a company by the name of Drinks America to create a Dr. Dre endorsed alcoholic beverage likely a cognac. The company has released a statement saying that it will release the Dr.Dre co-branded drink called “Aftermath Cognac” within the next 60 days.

Now I know what you’re thinking who cares? We’ll they also say that the drink’s release will coincide with Dr.Dre’s next album, “Detox”, and will be part of the marketing of the album. This pretty much falls inline with what Dre told USA Today saying that “it would drop in November or December”.

Now if Dre has signed on to drop this cheesy cash grab brandy and release it at the same time as “Detox” then he has no choice but to drop the damn album this year. Right?

*Crosses fingers*

Joe Budden’s second official album entitled “Padded Room” will finally get a release date of October 28th, 2008. Today Joey made public the tracklisting for the highly anticipated album. No word on the producers for the album but I would expect him to go for unknown cats with the gems like he did on Mood Musik series.

Joe Budden - Padded Room Tracklisting
1.) Now I Lay
2.) Touch N Go
3.) If I Gotta Go
4.) Blood On The Wall
5.) Don’t Make Me
6.) In My Sleep
7.) Outcast
8.) I Couldn’t Help It
9.) Do Tell
10.) My Life
11.) Better Me
12.) Just to Be Different
13.) Angel In My Life
14.) Pray For Me

New Heltah Skeltah album in stores September 30th. Need I say more? Tracklist inside. Read more »

Anticipation for The Game’s third and possibly last album is mounting as the August 26th release date nears. Game has released the track listing for his album and it looks to be very interesting, especially the fact he’s got DMX doing his intro and outro. He also will have features from Raekwon to Lil Wayne to Nas which should leave us with something to look forward to.

The Game - LAX Track List

1. Intro (Feat. DMX)
2. LAX Files
3. State of Emergency (Feat. Ice Cube)
4. Bulletproof Diaries (Feat. Raekwon)
5. My Life (Feat. Lil Wayne)
6. Money
7. Cali Sunshine (Feat. Bilal)
8. Ya Heard (Feat. Ludacris)
9. Hard Liquor (Interlude)
10. House Of Pain
11. Gentleman’s Affair (Feat. Ne-Yo)
12. Let Us Live (Feat. Chrisette Michelle)
13. Touchdown (Feat. Raheem DaVaughn)
14. Angel (Feat. Common)
15. Never Can Say Goodbye (Feat. Latoiya Williams)
16. Dope Boys (Feat. Travis Barker)
17. Game’s Pain (Feat. Keyshia Cole)
18. Letter to the King (Feat. Nas)
19. Outro (Feat. DMX)

It was all good just a few years ago.

No Juelz is not Cam’s slave. But according to Miss Info, Killa has sold Juelz Santana from Dip Set Records to parent company Def Jam for $2 million dollars. Basically, Juelz no longer has to wait on lazy ass Cam to approve things and he can now deal directly with Def Jam to get his languishing career re-started. Read more »

Props to Nelly for getting diesel but is this what it’s come to? Do you really need crazy muscles to sell albums? I know it’s a crazy idea, but how about some hits?

Ludacris’ freestyle “Obama is Here”, which dropped a few days back, has been denounced by the Obama camp after Hilary Clinton supporter, Yashar Hedayat, made a big stink about the line “Hillary hated on you, so that bitch is irrelevant”. Read more »

You already know. Your boy Yorapper is going mobile by partnering up with the good folks at 310.tv. You can now check out YoRapper as well as some other hip hop and entertainment blogs while on your mobile. Read more »

A strong earthquake shook Southern California on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway and triggering some precautionary evacuations. No immediate damage was reported.

The jolt was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas.

Preliminary information from the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles near Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Ten aftershocks occurred in the next dozen minutes, including three estimated at 3.8, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the quake was about 8 miles below the earth’s surface. Source

To all my cali heads this is your earthquake roll call. Was that shit really crazy or just a regular day in the neighborhood?

Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Chink Santana and Noe give us the video for Splash.

Ri-dic-u-lous. He should just say he has amnesia and I’ll go back to bumpin’ Ross.

The Smoking Gun website has really gone in on Ross and have managed to get even more juice on Mr. Officer. Read more »

Bill O’Reilly takes another few jabs at Nas, specifically pointing out his record sales or lack thereof.

Our response, ahhh isn’t Nas #1 on Billboard?

Literally… Today (July 23) Nas stood up to give arousing speech for protesters from ColorOfChange.org/MoveOn.org and to present Fox News at their headquarters in Manhattan a petition to end the station’s biased reporting.

Lil’ homie, whose latest album, Untitled, has just made it to #1 on Billboard with 187K argues that Fox News needs to end its racist reporting of Black people in America and particularly of Barack Obama and his family. Nas heads’ will also know that Nas recently released a new song entitled “Sly Fox” which goes straight for the News conglomerate’s jugular.

Fox News has released the following statement about Nasir Jones.

Fox News believes in all protesters exercising their right to free speech, including Nas, who has an album to promote.

I’m not sure if this is a publicity stunt or if Nas is really rolling with this left-wingers or if he’s just fighting back against Bill O’s comments about him last year. What say yall?