Previously: Curt@!n$ – G.O.D Part III

““I ain’t loyal to Dame… my lawyer found about 11 million that Damon Dash stole from me.”

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Wale mentioned it on Twitter last Friday, and Ross confirms it in the Source issue that went on sale today.

“I look for next year to be an even bigger year,” Ross said a couple of weeks back in New York, fresh from his source cover shoot. “We just brought Jah Cure to the team. That’s one of the biggest reggae superstars in the game. We just did a deal with that. Look for that first quarter. I’m talking to artist out of Philly that I think is the future of Philly. Meek Millz, I’m talking to him right now about Maybach Music. As well as I’m talking to Wale.”

The Miami Mayor says Wale impresses him with not just his music acumen, but with his grind as well.

“Wale is a hustler. I feel he’s one record away from being the next nigga,” The Husky Don forecasted. “He’s just a naturally fly nigga. Slick talking nigga. That’s right up my alley. I just think that comradery, riding with Rozay, it’ll mean that much more. I feel he’s one record away. As well as Meek Millz.”

Should the signings go through, Ross says he’s definitely going to be helping both MCs with the musical direction on their upcoming LPs. He “most definitely” wants to be hands on.

Off the Southern Smoke, Northern Lights tape he’s dropping next week.

Talib Kweli – Back It Up (Start It Up Freestyle)

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Previously: Talib Kweli & Year Of The Blacksmith – The Community Mixtape

Wale ft. Roscoe Dash – Talk2Me

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CyHi spits an acapella for GlobalGrind and recalls being a Jay-Z fanatic as a youth, listening with a dictionary & an encyclopedia (pre-internet era) to fully absorb every line.

He then talks about the surreal experience of Jay & Talib telling him they’re fans of him.

Previously: Laws ft. CyHi Da Prynce – Honor

Here’s a visual for a joint that Chace (of Self Scientific) recorded for an upcoming mixtape from Frank The Butcher and Statik Selektah called: Frank The Butcher & Statik Selektah Present Concepts: Selektions.

Hit the jump for some additional info on the project.

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Funny story about this video. Like 10 hours ago somebody from Puff’s Blue Flame Agency sent me a link to the video file and let me know it was cool to post it if we were interested. This is common practice and it happens pretty much every single day with music and videos from all sorts of artists, major and independent. For the most part, when it comes to videos, labels and promo people tend to upload them to some generic artist Youtube account or something. Some folks send the raw file, but not most. By sending the file, you give the blogger (or video site like OnSMASH, etc.) the opportunity to “premier” or “leak” the video in their own customized player, or on their own Youtube account or whatever.

Except that, in reality, you can’t just upload it to your Youtube account and post it. It’s not that easy. See with this particular Diddy-Dirty Money video, when you try to upload it to Youtube, the robots that monitor uploads for copyrighted material immediately detect that the audio on the clip is a song that belongs to a copyright holder, and the sound is completely stripped out of the video. So then you’re left with a useless video clip with images but no sound. So at that point my other option would be to upload it to my personal Vimeo account. But wait, can’t do that, because under Vimeo’s terms of service, I’m liable to get my entire account deleted for uploading content I didn’t create and hold no copyright to.

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The Below The Heavens duo drops a random video out of nowhere, but towards the end of the clip they promise new music on the way soon. We all know hip-hop fans have been yearning for more Blu & Exile music for a minute. 2011 might be the year.