Listen to Run This Town by Jay-Z featuring Kanye West, Rihanna
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Collaborations, Hip-Hop & Rap, New Releases

Here’s your opportunity to take a listen to Jay-Z’s new track, “Run This Town” featuring Kanye West and Rihanna. We think it has a great vibe, but go ahead and give it a listen. Run This Town will be featured on The Blueprint 3, which hits stores on September 11.
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50 Cent bored with hip-hop
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Collaborations, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap
50 Cent‘s interest in hip-hop is “dwindling away”. Fiddy - real name Curtis Jackson - says people’s quest for money is starting to undermine the genre and he can barely recognize the reasons why he got involved anymore. He said: “I think people are so conscious of the numbers they’re not being creative anymore.” Despite his disillusionment with the genre, the rapper - who has other ventures away from music, including fashion and movies - is looking forward to releasing his Before I Self Destruct album later this year, which boasts a number of collaborations.
He added to Billboard magazine: “When Wisin and Yandel sent the actual concept, I listened to it and the melodies completely fit me. It could be a song that I could do apart from them. So we’re meeting on a ground that is completely comfortable for both of us. My duet with Justin Timberlake, for example - there is more compromise for me there. The content is similar to what you can see from 50 Cent, but the actual rap, style and cadence is different. But when I go into the song with Wisin and Yandel I didn’t even have to make those cadence changes.
“When these guys finish mixing I’ll finish making the decisions. People look at my projects as if it’s only 50, but it’s really 50 Cent up to Dr Dre and Eminem standards.”
Kelis Files For Divorce From Nas
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Artist News, Hip-Hop & Rap

Hip hop couple Nas and Kelis are calling a wrap to their marriage after she filed to divorce the hip hop legend. The filing comes at an unfortunate time since Kelis is seven months pregnant, but as she claims in her divorce papers, Nas has been verbally abusive and cheats on her. Hopefully, the couple can keep the proceedings civil since there is a child involved and things go smoothly, both in the divorce of the couple’s almost six-year marriage and Kelis’ delivery.
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Eminem’s 3 A.M. from Relapse leaks
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Leaks, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap, Free Music Downloads
Hot off the heels of We Made You, we’ve got the next track off of Eminem‘s Relapse album, titled 3 A.M. You can take a listen to the track by hitting play above, or if you want to download it, hit the link below. While we aren’t big fans of what he is doing with his voice, the lyrics are tight and on point. Take a listen.
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Eminem’s Relapse Album Art is kinda hot
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Release Dates, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap

We are looking forward to Eminem‘s Relapse album as much as the next guy, and May 15 is just over three weeks away, so the wait is almost over. In the meantime, though, we figured we’d give you a look at the Relapse album art, which you can find above. See what they did there? The album is called Relapse. So they made his face out of a bunch of pills! And the tag on the left says that it was “Prescribed by Dr. Dre.” Yeah, that is kinda hot.
MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice On Stage Together
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Concerts / Tours, Hip-Hop & Rap

Forget about Eminem and Dre. What’s the hottest pairing this month? Hammer and Ice.
Later this month, two of the biggest acts from the early 90’s will be teaming up for a one-night only concert. The event, titled “Hammer Pants and Ice” (I kid you not), will be the first time rappers Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer have shared the same stage since their glory days.
Needing a reason to break out your Hammer Pants? In the mood to “stop, collaborate and listen”? Well, then book your tickets to Orem, Utah. Tickets for the February 27th package deal start at just $32.50. (Those with a few extra bucks in their baggy pants can also purchase a Meet and Greet as well.)
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Dre and Slim Shady Together for a Relapse
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Collaborations, Reunions, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap
Eminem and Dr. Dre will be reunited again on Relapse, the album which will mark Eminem’s return to the rap scene.
The real Slim Shady recently spilled to Billboard magazine. “Me and Dre are back in the lab like the old days,” he explained. “Just him banging away on tracks and me getting that little spark that makes me write to it.”
The Dre-Shady partnership has worked very successfully on past albums. According to reports, Dre even suspended work on his own album, Detox, to work on Relapse.
“I don’t have chemistry like that with anyone else as far as producers go - not even close,” Eminem said of the partnership. “Dre will end up producing the majority of the tracks on Relapse. We are up to our old mischievous ways…let’s just leave it at that.”
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Free Download: Mos Def single: Life in Marvelous Times
Posted by Seth Combs Categories: Hip-Hop & Rap, Free Music Downloads

GIFTED - that’s the word that comes to mind when talking about Mos Def. You may be thinking host of Def Poetry, or star of Be Kind Rewind - or maybe you’ve just come across him as #69 in the Stuff White People Like blog. No matter how you came to know Mos Def, you should know his skills are grounded in music.
Listen for yourself, with this free download of “Life in Marvelous Times” off his upcoming album The Ecstatic, hitting stores in December.
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Ludacris featuring Jay-Z and Nas: I Do it for Hip Hop download
Posted by Seth Combs Categories: Collaborations, Leaks, Hip-Hop & Rap, Free Music Downloads

Theater of the Mind, the upcoming album from Ludacris hits stores on November 24th, and after hearing several tracks, we feel pretty confident in saying that it’s going to blow up. Don’t believe me? Download I Do It for Hip Hop” featuring Jay-Z and Nas and tell me if I’m wrong.
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Kanye West’s “Amazing” featuring Young Jeezy
Posted by Seth Combs Categories: Collaborations, Leaks, Hip-Hop & Rap, R&B / Soul, Free Music Downloads

Okay, I am now beginning to believe all tracks from Kanye West‘s upcoming album 808s and Heartbreak will be leaked prior to the November 24 drop date. Case in point, the latest released track “Amazing” featuring Young Jeezy, which showed up today. True to the rest of the album, Kanye uses Auto-Tune technology and tears it up once again. Download “Amazing” here, and be sure to check back tomorrow for the next track.
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| The Fader
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