Nah Right

Lloyd Banks freestyle on Rap City.

Fast Company takes an in depth look at the new champagne venture from the man, the myth, Harlem’s own Branson.

Jay says he’s not leaving his post at Def Jam when his contract runs out in December.

?uestlove adds his own touch to Pharrell’s In My Mind.

Meth feels like EPMD would have been more deserving of a tribute on VH1’s Hip Hop Honor’s than Wu. I’m inclined to agree with him.

Rhymefest talks about his recent meeting with David Cameron.  

Crooked I talks to HHG and urges Game and Ras Kass to squash their beef.  

And finally, if you’re a blogger and you jacked the XXL cover from me without so much as a link or shoutout, you should kill yourself.  

That is all.

Diddy scores the number one album in the country, but only moves 170k. I don’t don’t see how that’s possible considering he did everything short of purchasing the damn thing for you to promote the album. Meanwhile, YN takes a look at the pens behind Press Play, and Banks goes from top 10 to not mentioned at all.  

Jermaine Dupri confirms that he has left his position at Virgin Records.  

Kim Osorio considers a tell all book about her time at The Source.

Here’s the official Hip Hop Weekly press release.

Busta opts for a trial rather than accept an offer from the D.A. that would put him in jail for 6 months.

Andre 3000 has joined the cast of The Battle in Seattle, a film about the tumultuous 1999 WTO riots.

Marley Marl, Kane and G Rap on a UGK record? That’s what I’m talking about.  

Em will be on Sirius later today previewing a new Stat Quo joint produced by Dr. Dre.

14 year old stabbed outside a "Hip Hop for God" function.  

Shaq raids the wrong house while playing cops and robbers.  

Game reads off today’s Soundscan numbers then goes into a new G-Unit dis.

The Game - Soundscan 

I’m back for these puppies with the pound boy (rrrrahh)
Here’s a round boy…(rrrrahh rrrrahh)…down boy…

Allegedly the second single off Hustler’s P.O.M.E. but I don’t know, it’s just not Baaaallinnnn!!! like We Fly High was.   

Jim Jones - Pin The Tail On The Donkey ft. Juelz Santana, Cam’ron and Max B (Radio rip)

Courtesy of OnSmit-ash. 

Foxy was sentenced to 3 years probation this morning for slapping around 2 nail salon workers.

A judge throws out a weapons charge in Busta’s assault case.  

Jacob The Jeweler seeks to have his money laundering trial moved from Detroit to New York. 

Ras Kass responds to the Crocodile Hunter’s manager.

Don’t expect anymore jailhouse videos from C-Murder.  

Russell heads to Africa. 

Jay will not be scrapping it out with the riff raff in Def Jam Icon, the 3rd installment in the labels series of fighting games from EA Sports.

The New York Daily News reports that late yesterday a jury found in favor of former Source Editor in Chief Kim Osorio and awarded her 14.5 million in damages, nearly double the 8 million she was asking for. 

Continue reading this post…

Above: Video for Wamp Wamp (What It Do) from the Clipse. Props to OnSmash.com

Snoop tries to board a plane with a 21" collapsible baton packed in his laptop computer case." At this point not much surprises me anymore.

Jay talks about the new Ghost album.

Footage of the cops questioning people in the parking lot after the Fabolous shooting. The narrative alone is priceless.

Def Jam confirms it, Hip Hop Dies on December 19th. Well uh, you know what I mean…

Great Pharoahe Monch interview. Props to Puff for recognizing real and making him an offer. Props to Monch for turning it down.

Dubcnn put up pt. 2 of an exhausting exhaustive interview with Young Buck and 50 Cent today.

Davey D and XXL both talk to Slick Rick about his latest legal woes.

You have to wonder whether this Mobb Deep plane scare thing was a response to Pearly Gates.

Classic Ernie Panicolli shots of D-Nice and a few people you may recognize from back in the day. (via spinemag)

Don’t look now, Andre 3000 is jumping on tracks with the Capo. Watch out Big Boi.

New video from Uncle Murder over Weezy’s Hustler Musik. 

First Sean Price got punk’d, and now he turns the tables on a writer from Vibe. Except Ashton doesn’t come out at the end.

Another case of a video making a song sound better to me. Funny how that works. When it comes to the cd this will still be a skipper though…

I was over at The Fader and I caught this post they did last week on the Myspace page for the cartoon Beanie is developing, The Playpen. The series basically looks like it’s on some Bebe’s kids meets State Property (the movie or the group) only with badder kids and more crack and guns. Ok, I don’t actually know if there will be guns in the cartoon but from the look of the characters, I wouldn’t be surprised. 

Continue reading this post…