Commercial “Special project” for Hennessy Black.

Archival Purposes. At least last time Diddy had beats…

Diddy feat. Yung Joc & Xplicit – Diddy Bop

Link from Splash, pic from 2DBz

Scott Storch isn’t dead. He’s not in jail. The famed producer isn’t even on the run from the police, as you may have heard through the grapevine over the past year. Storch has been focusing on rebuilding his life, because he did, in fact, hit rock bottom.

Lost in a three-year cocaine-abusing haze, he lost more money than most people reading this story will see in five lifetimes: $30 million. Yes, he blew almost his entire fortune on coke, cars, houses, lavish trips, partying and a series of what he calls “poor judgment decisions.”
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But he has come out of his white-powder fog. The producer says he is in recovery, and, as people who love his music will be elated to hear, he’s back making music. On Wednesday night, MTV News caught up with the Grammy winner, who at one time could do no wrong in the studio as he supplied classic beats, not mere hits, for people like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Fat Joe and Beyoncé.

“I’m taking it back to square one,” he said, sitting in a Miami studio. The boards in the factory displayed his name and his publishing company, Tuff Jew. “I found myself slipping a little bit,” he said with a very anxious look on his face. “I got involved in doing drugs. I had to get myself into recovery. Being in the life that I was living — very fast-moving, option to do anything you want, go anywhere you wanna go — it definitely takes its toll on you, and you lose your concept of reality. I had to get it under control. I had to take it back to the beginning and back to the Hit Factory, where I made a lot of my hits.”

Storch is currently living in a three-quarter house, where he is supervised by a live-in counselor but allowed to go to work in the studio as long as he’s back by curfew.

via MTV News

Phil The Agony, Krondon and Talib Kweli take a quick break in the lab to promote Phil’s new eco-friendly release “Think Green.” The digital EP is available now and the physical release (printed on recycled paper) hits stores on 5/19.

If you haven’t seen this in Lite yet:

YOU’VE BEEN RICKROSS’D: What flyers, Hot 97 promos and a huge promotional push’ll get you

Looks like 90% of Deeper Than Rap listeners in NYC downloaded it.

Official remix #2 for that song.

Black Eyed Peas feat. KiD CuDi – Boom Boom Pow (Remix)

Previously: Black Eyed Peas feat. Curtis – Boom Boom Pow (Remix)

Jim Jones feat. NOE – Point Of View (prod. Don Cannon)

Shouts to X.

Foundation Fridays is a new series from UGHH in support of German producer Shuko and Coalmine Records’ upcoming compilation project The Foundation, which is available now.

For the 2nd installment of ‘Foundation Fridays’, Coalmine Records and UGHH.com are pleased to announce the “Strung Out” Remix Challenge. This is an opportunity for producers far and wide to step up, get that MPC fired up and cook up some marvelous ish. The winning producer will be offered an opportunity for a digital distribution deal through Coalmine Records.

Click here to download the original version, acapella and contest guidelines.

Previously: Video: Mr. Met, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Bekay, Skyzoo, XL, Craig G – Foundation Friday Pt. 1

Robert Greene, the author of The 48 Laws of Power, and the upcoming book with Curtis, The 50th Law, talks about how “sweet” Boo Boo is.