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So what it’s on Atlantic.     

The new Roots video for Don’t Feel Right. It also features parts of In The Music and Here I Come. Nicely done.

Bill Cosby is at it again. The people at this conservative site think it’s pretty funny how AHH posted the story alongside about 10 articles on rappers in trouble with the law.

Congratulations to Papoose for signing to Jive Records for 1.5 million. 

It’s looking like the 200k realm for Idlewild. I don’t know what kind of numbers ‘Kast has put up in their previous debut weeks, but they had to be better than that.

Fat Joe to make a guest appearance on the Sopranos? 

Gnarls Barley goes platinum 

ABC’s ‘Out of Control: AIDS in Black America’ airs tonight @ 10.

It’s been a minute since I posted a mixtape.

1.Jadakiss - Summer’s Over
2.Jadakiss - Reminisce
3.Styles P - Off Wit Ya Head
4.Styles P feat. Akon - All My Life
5.Sheek Louch, Bucky & Bully - Where Dem Gangstas?
6.Sheek Louch - Bump This
7.J-Hood - New York
8.Cassidy - It Is What It Is
9.The Game - Its My Turn (Dissin’ G-Unit)
10.50 Cent - Entourage
11.Lloyd Banks - Mr. Me Too
12.Mobb Deep - Gun Play
13.Jim Jones - U Don’t Want It
14.Juelz Santana - High Definition
15.Hell Rell - One Blood
16.Hell Rell - Rugers In The Trunk
17.40 Cal - Don’t Fuck Wit 40
18.Kay Slay & Greg Street Feat The Diplomats - Drama Gang
19.Kay Slay & Greg Street, Cassidy, Fat Joe, Shaq, Sheek & Jim Jones - The Ghetto
20.Cassidy & Billy The Kid - Give It To Em
21.50 Cent & Hot Rod - I Want You
22.Lloyd Banks & Hot Rod - Work It Out
23.Fabolous - Street Fam
24.Stack Bundles - Stick Wit It
25.DJ Absolut feat. Beanie Sigel, Raekwon & Nucci Reyo - If I Shoot
26.Red Cafe - Surrounded By Criminals
27.F.A.M. - Real Boys
28.Raw Doggs & Verbal Kent - Hunger
29.Johnta Austin Feat Jadakiss - Turn It Up (remix)

Big Mike - This Is Why I’m Hot Vol. 1 

…is up on Youtube. I’d post it or put up a link, but you know how that goes. Good luck finding it, since it was just posted today and doesn’t seem to be showing up in searches yet.

Honestly, I’m not really even feeling this song, but I would’ve posted the video anyway on GP. But since his label is feeling themselves so hard, I’m going to go ahead and pass.

For the record, Daydreamin’ (which by the way is STILL ON YOUTUBE?!) is a way better song and video. Too bad we’re not allowed to watch it on our own terms.

Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC, hammers on the frame on a Habitat for Humanity house in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. 

The family of the man shot by Proof files another lawsuit against his estate. 

Russell Simmons backs Republican for Senate 

Some positive news about DMX for a change. 

Obie lands way down at number 8 after moving about 74,000 units of Second Rounds On Me. 

on the new season of ‘Survivor’ contestants will be seprated by race.

Rumor Control: Rumor has it, Beanie recently dissed Jay-Z on stage at a Philly club after being dropped from Rocafella. As soon as I find some audio or a credible source, I will holla. 

Bonus: New Cassidy - It Is What It Is 

Access Granted: The Making of Pts 1 and 2

The story of the kid allegedly beat up by Busta on Aug 12th.

Irv Gotti brings Murder Inc. back to Universal. 

Now this is more like it.

J Dilla’s The Shining drops today.

Osama hearts Whitney 

Earlier today I got an email from an attorney representing Atlantic Records threatening me with legal action if I didn’t immediately remove the Lupe Fiasco video I posted a couple of days ago. Nevermind that the video is hosted on Youtube, and that all I’m doing is posting a link to it, Atlantic Records is seriously ready to sue me for what amounts to free promotion for their artist.

Now I know Lupe stays on the internet, and I know he understands and reads blogs, because he writes one. My message to him is: you better tell somebody at Atlantic something. I’m over here providing you with free promotion and exposure and this is the thanks I get? Legal action?! Get the fuck outta here. Do you have any idea how many emails I get everyday from publicists asking me to post about music I wouldn’t listen to even if it was the last available entertainment on the planet?

Now consider the countless people who’ve contacted me thanking me for putting them on to this kid with the wicked flow from Chi-town who they NEVER WOULD’VE EVEN HEARD OF if it wasn’t for my site. You see where I’m going with this? I don’t care if the video isn’t supposed to be out yet, or if it wasn’t meant to be aired in the States, this is 2006 and you clueless idiots better get with the program real quick if you think you’re gonna be able to maintain in the Myspace/Youtube/Google Video age. 

The saddest thing (for Atlantic) about all this that I was all ready to tell people to run out and cop Food & Liquor even if it ends up leaking (gee do you think it will?) early and they can find it online. I figured that if this type of music does strong numbers, it will send a message to the majors that there is a market out there for hip hop that isn’t defined by fake drug dealers and imitation gangsters.

Who the fuck was I kidding? The majors are just as clueless as ever. Lupe could go diamond his first week and they’ll probably miss the whole point and run off to sign the first kid with a skateboard and anything resembling a hot 16. I’m going to stop short of telling people not to buy the album, because I really do want Lupe to win, but I would also suggest that if they do, it be the last Atlantic record they buy. Ever. 

The first two hours of Spike Lee’s Katrina Documentary "When the Levees Broke" A Requiem in Four Acts debuts tonight on HBO.