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50: Rumors of G-Unit’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

Lil Jon and his bodyguards allegedly wilding out at Tao in Vegas. 

Def in a Jam: On the endlessly inventive and increasingly mishandled career of Mos Def 

Spike TV is airing a documentary on Snoop and gang violence on the 16th. 

Almost a year after Proof’s death, it’s still popping off in Detroit clubs.

Hip Hop Television looking for VJs to host shows 

It’s a ghetto revival. 

Lupe interview. 

El-P interview. 

Ghostface, tell your blogging crew to be easy. 

On the heels of Lauren Carter of The Boston Herald’s incident with Stat Quo, Rizoh shares his own odd Shady interview story.

Sleep on Nah Right Lite at your own peril.

Sean Price - Crazy

Produced by Ayatollah, and not on the album.

I’m going be having a Sean P related contest coming up in the next day or two so look out for that.

Correction: This song is actually called Jesus Price and it’s from the Sound Chornicles compilation. Peace to Urkel Moe Dee for the correction.

EPMD, Keith Murray and DJ Knowhow record and produce a track live in front of the audience at deHop’s The Main Event in Amsterdam.

More info here.

Above: Q-Tip and D-Nice at this the other night.

NYOIL fuels rappers’ war of words by telling rivals to get lynched 

He was mad cuz he styled on him

Lil Wayne to host internet reality show “Making The Next Hit”

How I survived a major record label deal

Cam riding around Harlem on a mountain bike

Info on Jeff Chang’s new book Total Chaos

Danger zones: The most treacherous cities in sports

Cover and details for SMACK Vol. 12

Rap loses some of its hop in 2006

Beatboxing: an oral history

Houston Hip-Hoppers Are Living Large

Skillz Story pt 1 and 2 

Game’s brother Big Fase airing him out (wmv) 

There seems to be some confusion over whether or not Mos Def’s album was actually released or not. 

Busta leaves booking and goes straight to Jacob.

Jay-Z and General Motors are teaming up to bring a stylish hue to a rugged sport utility vehicle. The music mogul emerged from a concept GMC Yukon Denali SUV on stage Saturday during a celebrity-filled party thrown by General Motors Corp. on the eve of media previews for the North American International Auto Show.

GM, Jay-Z Collaborate on SUV Concept 

Just’s Suicide made me want to kill myself.

Bestselling Author 50 Cent is linking up with Richard Greene, the author of popular titles such as The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, to write 50 Laws of Power, an urban take on Greene’s book The 48 Laws of Power. 50 is also releasing a brand of condoms and donating the proceeds to an as of yet unnamed HIV awareness program.

Shout to Sean from AnRroom.com for the tip. Also, the audio of 50 on Howard Stern is up in the Lite section in the sidebar.

Cipha Sounds interviews Nas on MTV’s Suckerfree. Part 2 here.

Busta’s man pulled his measly $3500 bail out of his pocket. Meanwhile he’s been ordered to pay out 100K in another beating case.

DMX decides to go to trial on traffic violations, and promises the judge he’ll actually show up.

Snoop is being sued over a reality series. 

I’m thinking it was probably Black Ty, not Tyrese, who punched his pregnant girl. 

Ghost tells Spin that The Killers passed on a collaboration.

Article on Boston native Lyrical, who does double duty as a college professor. 

Jamie Foxx Q&A 

Courtesy of Onsmash.