Damn, a whole truckload of music leaked this week. 

Pharrell ft. Jay-Z – Young Girl 

Ludacris ft. Pharrell – Money Maker

Saigon – Bad Mind 

Fabolous – Mr. Me Too freestyle 

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Papoose – The 1.5 Million Dollar Man (whole mixtape)

Obviously I don’t care about some of these songs, but I figured since I had ‘em, I’d post ‘em. More to come… 

The whole story of Game’s Change of Heart appearance 

Philly neighborhood bans 40′s

Mr. T sheds his gold

Israel is out of damn control

Cheney Sued by Ex-CIA agent 

Some cat is claiming Em gave him like a 4 or 5 piece with a biscuit early this morning in a Detroit strip club. He says that he was in the bathroom taking a leak alongside Em (no R.Kelly) when some Stan (literally) came in and started trying to talk to the rapper.

He says one of Eminem’s bodyguards told the man to be quiet. Miad says he then asked the bodyguard to ease up on the star struck man in the restroom.

"Eminem got done and boom," Miad recounts. "He started swinging."

"I wasn’t even expecting it," Miad said Thursday. "I was just minding my own business, taking a leak."

Something smells pissy about this whole story. For one, I would hope that Em would know better than to do some shit like that at this point in his life. Especially over what this guy is claiming it was over, although it’s probably safe to say dude is lying out of his ass.  If he’s not, then it would’ve made a hell of alot more sense to just let your bodyguards work money over and say he tried to assault you. Smarten up Em. Stop knocking people out and go finish your damn mixtape.

But at least have the decency in you to leave me alone
When you freaks see me out in the streets when I’m eating or feedin’ my daughter
To not come and speak to me
I don’t know you and no I don’t owe you a motherfuckin thing
I’m not Mr. NSYNC and I’m not what your friends think
I’m not Mr. Friendly
I can be a prick, if you tip me my tank is on empty
No patience is in me and if you offend me I’m lifting you ten feet
In the air, I don’t care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
Go call you a lawyer file you a lawsuit
I’ll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe

Oh, and somebody is claiming they saw Trick Trick holding the burner outside the club afterwards.  

(Props to L.P. Crooks for the tip. No, not that L.P. Crooks.)

Kool G Rap went and signed with some indie West Coast label I never heard of in my life:

Hip-Hop pioneer Kool G Rap has signed a recording deal with Stockton, Calif.,-based Back Route Records and is set to release his next album Uncontrolled Substance.

The rapper, who has released classic albums like 1988′s Road to the Riches, 1990′s Wanted: Dead or Alive and 1995′s 456, decided on Back Route after hearing about the independent label’s CEO Jamez "Jamez Bomb" Rosado.

I say good for him. At least it’s not G-Unit. I wonder if my open letter had anything to do with it. (I just reread that, and damn I hated G-Unit back then. It’s really not even that serious anymore.)

Independent is probably the best route for him anyway considering the aversion today’s music consumers seem to have to rap music that is, you know, actually good.

There’s a nice little interview with Ruck and Rock aka The Incredible Rap Team bka Heltah Skeltah over at Ballerstatus. These are my favorite two guys out of the whole Bootcamp hands down. Buckshot is my boy and everything, but these two guys on a track together (or apart for that matter) is what the game’s been missing. Here they explain their definition of the now infamous term backpack rap:

BallerStatus.net: But, Heltah Skeltah is not your typical backpack music…

Rock: Let me put you on to something. Backpack rap, that’s like our retarded son that we gave birth to, but we embarrassed because our son turned into a serial killer, a rapist…like it’s just wrong, it’s not what we meant it to be.

Sean Price: When we had backpacks on, we had stolen goods in there. I don’t know what everybody else had in they backpacks.

Rock: Yeah, yeah. And weapons — hammers and ratchets and all kinds of sh–.

Sean Price: Maybe when 5 and Buck was around, we had black and white compositions. But for the most part, we had stolen goods and weapons in our bags.

Rock: And sh– to change into after you do some dirt.

Sean Price: Like I said on my new song, "peep the knapsack, backpack vibe, used to ride the Amtrak with crack inside." 

Well said. They also get into the highly anticipated (by me at least) BCC group effort The Last Stand, their upcoming solo projects and the next Heltah Skeltah joint which will be named D.I.R.T. (Da Incredible Rap Team). The best part of the whole interview though is where Sean P. has to explain to Rock why he’s calling his album Jesus Price Superstar.    

Lupe Fiasco ft. Jill Scott – Daydream

I might just start doing these individual posts for songs. Or I might not. We’ll see what happens.

Jacob the Jeweler pleads not guilty. 

Fat Joe on Oprah: "Just because she’s black doesn’t mean she has to like hip-hop"

Sony Pulls Dutch PSP Ad  

A freaking tornado touches down just north of NYC. 

‘Strong message’ heading NKorea’s way, US top envoy says – Uh oh, looks like the dick measuring competition is about to get under way.

The Clipse ft. Slim Thug – Wamp Wamp (What It Do)

(Props to KLO)

The Davinci Code: The Vatican Mixtape Vol. 2