Q-Tip new album will have major star power. Beside getting in the booth with D'Angelo, Raphael Saddiq and others, presidential candidate, Barrack Obama will appear on his album.

I will post some audio soon, so stay tuned.

Here's a treat. Old Skool Tribe Called Quest video:

Who's house? LL Cool J's house! With 12 albums to his name, LL Cool J will release his final album on Def Jam Records. "Exit 13" is the title of his upcoming album July 18, 2008.

While Jay Z was the president of Def Jam, LL expressed is disspleasure with how Jay was running things. His last album "Todd Smith" sold a mere 335,000 copies in the U.S. only. Since there is no more Jay Z, LL is feeling good about his new album. LL is also working on a new movie project.

LL's first single features Lil' Mo called "I Cry".

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The long awaited "Midnight Life" album from DJ Quik & AMG aka "The Fixxers" will be dropping this summer. AMG told Dubcnn "We have the hottest West Coast album to hit the streets in years!!"

Guest appearances include NYC's own Jim Jones, Chi-town legend Twista, Yung Berg, Rich Boy, Frankie J and Cali's own Yo-Yo. They came out last time with the coast to coast club banger "Can U Werk Wit Dat?" and are now returning with the full album.

We have a preview tracks from the album available for ya'll to check out, it's called "Worldwide AM" and Can U Werk Wit Dat

Yung Joc is hustler. The man stays on the grind. He's signed to Bad Boy Records through Block Ent., he has his own line of sunglasses called Claudio St. James, auto shops and his Swagg Team Ent. just signed a distribution deal with Jive Records.

Joc's last album "Hustlenomics" didn't even reached the status of gold. He sold only 197,000 copies in the U.S. alone. But how the industry is now, you need to diversify and he's done that well. He sign a new R&B artist straight outta his back yard in the ATL name Traeyon. Traeyon has been making big noise with his single called "V.I.P."

Take a listen to Swagg Team CEO new artist Traeyon featuring Yung Joc "V.I.P."

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50 Cent is pist off at Rocsi, host of 106 & Park. During the whole little drama with Kanye vs 50, a tape finally came out where she is calling the "Curtis" album "garbage".

As we all know, Kanye won that battle and another battle has been brewing between the two. I'm interested to see exactly how this situation gonna play out. Is 106 & Park gonna step in and dead the beef? Anyway check out what 50 said about Rocsi and Suge. Check out the footage below that set off the whole entire mess.

According to Dayton Daily News

U.S. Marshals in Los Angeles arrested the cousin of Katt Williams', Robert McGhee at the home of Katt in Woodland Hills, CA.

Katts' cousin allegedly shot a man in the chest during a drug deal gone bad last month causing the victim to have permanent paralysis.. The shooting went down on the 43oo block of Riverside Drive.

McGhee is awaiting extradition back to Dayton, OH. Neither Katt or his representative were immediately available for comment.













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Many times when someone makes it big in movies or the music business, they tend to forget about where they came from. Well we won't be saying that about the God Father of the Bay Area.

Too $hort is giving back to his community by opening up a full fledge studio in downtown Oakland, on 19th and Franklin. Coincedentally, the building where the studio is located, is owned by Tony Toni Tone bassist Elijah Baker.

$hort has been volunteering some of his time at East Oakland community center Youth UpRising and that's when he came up with the idea of building a studio for the youth. The studio is decorated with gold and platinum plaques, flat screen TVs, hi-end music equipment, pool table and a bar.

The studio is available to the kid's from Youth UpRising each evening after the center close.

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Civil rights activist REVEREND AL SHARPTON has blasted allegations he demanded money from hip-hop producer DR. DRE to end a disagreement between rival rappers 50 CENT and THE GAME.
Bruce Williams, a confidant of the superproducer and author of a recently-released book about him, claims Sharpton issued an ultimatum to Dre to end the long-running feud between the two stars in early 2005, shortly after The Game had been axed from 50 Cent's G-Unit crew.
Sharpton is alleged to have challenged the Forgot About Dre hitmaker to settle the pair's discrepancies and pay up $500,000 (GBP250,000), or he would lead a National Action Network (NAN) march and call for fans to boycott the stars' music.

But Sharpton and representatives for his NAN organisation have staunchly denied the claims.
In a statement issued to AllHipHop.com, they say: "The National Action Network and Reverend Al Sharpton were not involved with and did not attend a press conference held by Hip-Hop artists The Game and 50 Cent to announce their truce and donation to charities.
"At no point has Reverend Al Sharpton or an authorised representative of National Action Network met with Dr. Dre."
The Game and 50 Cent held a joint press conference in May 2005 to publicly declare a truce. They also made a combined donation of $253,500 (GBP126,750) to the Boys Choir of Harlem, New York.
However, the two rappers have since reignited their feud.
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