Starring Curren$y & McKenzie Eddy, plus her music video for “Earthlings”.

Previously: Curren$y – Frosty | Muscle Car Chronicles Ep. 1 (Video)

Musician and producer Terrace Martin and Kenneth Crouch pay tribute to Nate Dogg on the piano and sax.

Says Terrace:

“I’m am saden by the lost of my friend,brother,and teacher nate dogg we will all miss him .I remember going to nates house in woodland hills (it was the 1st time I have been in a house of that size over looking the whole valley) and I was saying to my self “wow he got all of this off of music.” At that time in my life I didn’t know music could do all that lol. I sat in his studio and played him like 29 beats and he could tell that I was amazed by him-his home-and his studio…so he turned to me and said “would you like a house like this?” Of course I said yes. Then he asked me how much I charge for beats, I told him $2,500 and he said in order to get a crib like this you need to move up to $15,000 a beat. At that time 15k was a lot to me! About a year later through God’s blessings I moved from moms crib to my own house on the same street as him. Around that that time we were working on the 213 album and I played Nate and Warren G the beat to the song that ended up being their “Joy Stick” single. Nate called me and asked how much I was going to charge them for the “Joy Stick” beat, I told him 15k…(why would I ever say that to him lol)…he then told me that the game he gave me to get my prices up to 15k actually costs 400k so let him get that beat and I will only owe him 385k lol. Nate if you hear me I’m siting in my car. On the side of the 118 in tears sending this to dev to post to let the world know that you were more than “nate dogg the hook man”…in my world you were and are a bleesing to and my kids and for that I will always love you and I will see you soon big bro and this small clip is for you Kenneth Crouch and I playing my favorite tune from you…neva leave me alone….Terrace Martin”

Down in Austin, at the VIBE House (what up Mikey), DJ Quik did a nice tribute to Nate which basically consisted of us all singing “Ain’t No Fun” at the top of our lungs, which is always fun, but felt especially ill with his passing so fresh on everybody’s minds. This Terrace clip is a tribute from the other end of the spectrum.

Boo Boo suits up for the cover of VIBE’s International Issue.

Vibe put out a couple of excerpts from the feature interview, one of which is Curtis commenting on Dr. Dre’s claim that he never heard of those headphones 50′s been peddling.

“I have a strong personality, a strong character. And I can be difficult to deal with at certain points because I’m vocal. If you upset Em, he’s just gonna not talk to you. You’re not going to get him in the next room you wanna get him in. With Dre, the same. He’s not comfortable with friction. That [tweet] is, “Hey look, I’m here. Is everybody still paying attention?” So they go, “Why he say that? Why he say we mad?” Then the meeting happens.”

Dead at that being a point of tension though. At some point, when Curt no longer feels he needs Dre, you just know he’s gonna go at his throat to promote some mixtape or his new line of gym socks or some shit. Those beefs are usually the corniest, but that will be interesting to watch in a catastrophic disaster kind of way.

Props: Mikey

A new visual for a joint off Kooley High’s Eastern Standard Time LP with fellow North Carolinian Median.

Previously: Kooley High – All Day (Video)

Wiz and motherfucking Kenny Powers cover the 9th Anniversary edition of Complex.

Check out their joint Q&A here and hit the jump for the behind the scenes footage from the photo shoot.

Update: So I listened to the Wiz album. Look, it has some cool joints, but you can’t tell me a few of those songs don’t sound like they made the rounds on some Atlantic “make-your-own-hit-kit” beat CD. I mean some of that shit is just super lollipop status. That’s disappointing because I feel like with the momentum Wiz has right now he could’ve put out anything and people would have copped it on the strength. The idea is to sell records, but isn’t it also to make an undeniable debut? I don’t feel like this album is a straight through player like some of his mixtapes, so I’ll probably just grab the few joints I fuck with and add ‘em to the end of Cabin Fever and pretend that’s his album. In any event, I’m real happy to see Wiz #Winning right now and I wish him nothing but success. Taylor Gang or tell Schoolboy Q he can’t puff.

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Drag-On ft. Cassidy, AR-AB, Terra Da Dude & Eyez B – Metal Spray

Here’s another one of the new exclusives off the joint Camp Lo & Pete Rock 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s mixtape with the homie Trackstar The DJ. The intro to the tape, it finds Geechi and Cheeba spittting that Luchini over the “For Pete’s Sake” beat off Mecca And The Soul Brother.

80 Blocks From Tiffany’s (Camp Lo & Pete Rock) – 80 Blocks Intro

Spotted: TSS

A.G. goes in over that Drake “Asthma Team” beat.

A.G. – Asthma Freestyle

Props: OnSMASH

Previously: Trinity (Sadat X, A.G. & DJ Jab) – The Bronx