Audio After The Jump

Ever since Common and Nas collaborated on "Ghetto Dreams" rumors have been floating around that the two would be joining forces for an album.

In an interview with West Michigan’s 1045 SNX's The Morning After Show, Common confirmed that he and Nasty Nas are indeed going to be recording an album together.

"That's true... Nas and I will definitely be doing an album," Common said. "Along with my album coming out The Dreamer, The Believer in December, Nas is coming out with an album. And after that we plan on working on our project."

Common also announced a December 20th release date for his album, The Dreamer, The Believer.

"We just wanted to get all the singles out that we wanted to get out before the album comes and give it the right preparation time," said Common, explaining why the release date of his album changed. "But we're really charged about it. It's looking really good."

Common recently left Kanye West's G.O.O.D Music family, but says that it's still all love between them.

"Really in all truth it's family. It just was a business thing where releasing this album wouldn't have been a beneficial to release it on the G.O.O.D Music label, but I'm still G.O.O.D Music family."

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

T.I. has wasted no time at all getting back to work following his last stint in prison.

In addition to releasing his new book, Power & Beauty, Tip has been recording at a feverish pace. He's hopped on several remixes and just dropped visuals for "I'm Flexin" featuring Big K.R.I.T.

While on the show Tip revealed that he's looking to drop a new album in February. He also talked about his reality show "T.I.'s Family Hustle" that will debut in December on VH1 and more.

Peep the interview below.

T.I. interview part 1

T.I. interview part 2

Video After The Jump


If anyone knows about trials and tribulations it would be DMX. The rapper has been to the top in the music business, only to see drugs lead him to repeated stints in jail.


Now at age 40, Dark Man X is clean and sober. He would like to give back by teaching the youth not to follow in his footsteps.


X will be appearing on an upcoming episode of "Dr. Drew's Lifechangers," where he will give his first in depth interview since being released from an Arizona prison back in July.


In the interview DMX will talk about growing up with an abusive mother, his troubled childhood and his battles with substance abuse.


X will also meet a young man headed down the wrong path and give him the opportunity to change his life by introducing him to a producer, offering him a "life-changing proposition."


And for the first time on television DMX will perform his new single “Keep Ya Head Up.”


You can catch the episode Wednesday November 9, at 3P/2C on The CW Network.

Spotted over at Rap-Up.

Follow Me

The family of Jomo Adoula Zambia aka RoseMo700, is asking for help in finding his killer.


As we previously reported, RoseMo was shot in broad daylight Wednesday while driving his red BMW in Inglewood, California. Wounded in the arm and torso, he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into an unmarked police car after running a red light. The 26-year old died shortly after being rushed to the hospital.


The unsolved murder has his family looking for answers. They say he worked father's janitorial service and was hoping to go to school to become a barber.


RoseMo's sister, Mieshia Zambia, 31, said her brother had just dropped his girlfriend off at work and was driving back to her place when he was shot,


"We don't know what happened. We don't know why this happened," Miesha told the Los Angeles Times. "Any information that anyone has out there would be greatly appreciated. We just hope and pray that they find who did this."


Police are looking at leads, but say rapper The Game is not a suspect in the murder.


"Our investigation is leading us in a different direction," Inglewood Police Detective Gabriel De La Torre told the Los Angeles Times.


RoseMo and The Game reportedly had an altercation at a Culver City mall recently. RoseMo and Brick Squad Monopoly affiliate Ice Burgundy, made a video claiming RoseMo had knocked The Game unconscious.


Another video surfaced on Monday October 31, showing RoseMo beating up local rapper Boskoe1. Both altercations were a result of Twitter beef.

Police are looking into RoseMo's Twitter activity for clues.


RoseMo's family will be holding a vigil for him in Inglewood today.

Crime scene footage

Follow Me

Power couple Jay-Z and Beyonce are expecting a baby girl.

The news came from B's good friend, Kelly Rowland, who let the cat out of the bag Thursday while in London to attend the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Award.

"I'm so happy for my sister and her husband. They're so happy in this moment right now, as they should be. They made a little bundle of love. I'm so excited for them," Rowland told Bang Showbiz. "I have no idea what I'm going to buy Beyonce at the baby shower because Jay is going to buy that little girl every single thing possible. She won't be spoiled, but she will be very well looked-after."

Rowland wasn't quite sure what she would buy for the baby just yet, saying Jay-Z was already way ahead of her in that department.

"I don't know," Rowland told US Weekly "I think her dad [Jay-Z] is gonna give her everything anyways, all I can give her is love."

We wish Hov, Beyonce and their little bundle of joy the best.

Video After The Jump

T.I. makes his triumphant return to the rap game official with the release of visuals for "I'm Flexin" featuring Big K.R.I.T.

Video directed by Motion Family.

Video After The Jump

Slim The Mobster continues showcasing his talent leading up to the release of his new street album, War Music.

On this track the Dr. Dre protege gets an assist from the Lab Ratz on the production. The video was directed by Eif Rivera.

War Music will be available on November 8.

Video After The Jump

DJ Premier made headlines last month when he said he prevented Justin Bieber from entering the 2011 BET Hip Hop cypher because he wanted Ludacris to write his rhyme for him.

Despite that, the legendary producer said he would be open to working with the teen pop star, but only if he can actually see Bieber writing the lyrics himself.

"I'd love to wok with him, just as long as he writes it," Premier told MTV. "He gotta sit there in front of me and write it. I'd love to work with him and it would be dope."

Premier went on to explain that it's important to protect the integrity of the cyphers by only allowing real lyricists to enter. He never had anything against Bieber personally.

"About the cyphers I said 'Yo I'm down for him to spit it, but if somebody writes your rhyme you can't do it.' And that was my only comment," he explained. "I was all for him being in the cypher. Just make sure you write your own verse because the cypher is the most purest, original form of our culture. That's coming with a dope verse, lay it down and walk away."

DJ Premier speaks on being willing to work with Justin Bieber if he write his own lyrics

DJ Premier (October 2011) saying he banned Justin Bieber from BET cypher

Video After The Jump

That boy Drake has good taste in women.

The Toronto rapper has dated Rihanna and had his sights set on an older woman before she shut him down.

Beautiful 41-year old actress Taraji P. Henson revealed that Drake tried to tap that, but she considers the 25-year old rapper to be way too young for her.

"It was cute because I knew he liked me and I kept looking at him like 'If you were ten years older boy woooooooo!' But no I couldn't... he's seven years older than my son," she told Wendy Williams.

It's alright Drizzy. You win some, you lose some.

Video After The Jump


The Roots release the first video from their forthcoming album, undun, due out December 6th.


The full song features Big K.R.I.T., but he doesn't make an appearance, nor do any member of The Roots. Instead in this Clifton Bell directed clip we get what looks like the first part to the story that undun will tell about the life of fictional character, Redford Stephens in reverse.

undun is an existential re-telling of the short life of one Redford Stephens (1974-1999). Through the use of emotives and Redford's internal dialogues the album seeks to illustrate the intersection of free will and prescribed destiny as it plays out 'on the corner'. Utilizing a reverse narrative arc, the album begins as the listener finds Redford disoriented--postmortem--and attempting to make sense of his former life. As he moves through its pivotal moments he begins to deconstruct all that has led to his (and our own) coming undun

Video After The Jump

Rap's "baddest b*tch" is back.

Trina steps out in her "Red Bottoms" for her latest video. This track was produced by Mr. Collipark. It originally appeared on Trina's mixtape Diamonds Are Forever.

Eddie Murphy has been one of Hollywood's most bankable actors for years, but according to Forbes his recent box office failures have landed him in the No. 2 spot in their Most Overpaid Actors list.

Murphy struck box office gold with Dr. Doolittle and The Nutty Professor, both brought in $250 million worldwide. But two of his most recent films, Imagine That and Meet Dave bombed terribly. Leaving the actor in desperate need of a hit.

Drew Barrymore is also searching for a hit flick. According to Forbes the actress only brings 40 cents for every dollar she is paid, placing her at the top of the list.

Will Ferrell (No. 3), Reece Witherspoon (No. 4) and Denzel Washington round out the top five.

Here is the criteria that Forbes uses to compile the list.

To create our list we looked at the 40 highest-earning actors in Hollywood. To qualify, each had to have starred in at least three movies in the past five years that opened in more than 500 theaters. Movies that opened after May 1 of this year were not counted.

We also didn’t look at animated films because the stars aren’t really the draw. So Murphy doesn’t get credit for the Shrek movies where he voiced Donkey. Those films have brought in a total $3 billion at the global box office.

We used data gathered for our annual Celebrity 100 list to calculate each star’s estimated earnings on each film (including up-front pay and any earnings from the movie’s box-office receipts and first year sales of DVDs). We then looked at each movie’s estimated budget (not including marketing costs, which are susceptible to accounting chicanery) and box-office and DVD earnings to figure out an operating income for each film.

We added up each star’s compensation on his or her last three films and the operating income on those films, and divided total operating income by the star’s total compensation to come up with a return-on-investment number. The final number represents an average of how much a studio earns for every dollar paid.

It's been thirteen years since Talib Kweli and Mos Def released their only collaborative album. It appears the duo is teaming up to reform Black Star and drop a new project.

"Me and Mos are focused on independence and quality of sound," Talib told MTV. "We’re really into a Madlib/Dilla thing right now. Anything you hear from us is probably going to be that type of sound. And it’s about independence, so we are trying to find out the right mediums to get the songs out. When you heard “Fix Up” on Colbert, it wasn’t even mixed; it was something we recorded a week before. Now we’re at the mixing stage of the song and we are going to put that out ourselves. We have a bunch of songs recorded. We are just trying to figure out the best way to release them, whether it’s going to be one by one, EP or album. Right now, the plan is to release “Fix Up” and then Yaasin is working on a Yaasin Bey Presents project and then we’ll see how it goes."

Talib plans releasing the new Black Star project in 2012.

"[Pause, then slowly] I am working to put out a Black Star project for people to buy sometime next year."

Would you like to hear a new Black Star album?

After 13 weeks on the chart, The Throne's "N*ggas In Paris" has ascended to the top spot on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list.

It's the first No. 1 off of Kanye West and Jay-Z's platinum selling Watch The Throne album. Their first single "Otis" rose to the No. 2 spot before cooling off. It's currently No. 10 on the chart.

Catch Yeezy and Hov in concert if you're lucky enough to grab tickets. The duo is currently touring the U.S. in support of their album.

RoseMo

Videos After The Jump

New details have emerged in the murder of RoseMo700.

As we have previously documented, RoseMo had a confrontation with The Game at an L.A. mall a couple of months ago where he allegedly knocked out the Compton rapper. Then, just several days ago he had another fight; this time with a local rapper by name of Boskoe1. That fight was caught on tape by 2Eleven of Young Jeezy's CTE crew. The video has since gone viral.

Both situations stemmed from beefs that started on Twitter involving RoseMo's friend, Ice Burgundy, an L.A. rapper affiliated with Brick Squad Monopoly.

On Wednesday November 2, RoseMo, who police have identified as 26-year old Jomo Adoula Zambia. was shot in broad daylight as he drove his red BMW in Inglewood, Ca.

L.A. Weekly reports that after being shot RoseMo's vehicle sped through a red light and hit an unmarked police car. He died shortly after being rushed to the hospital.

According to the L.A. Times, he was shot in the arm and torso. Police are trying to figure out exactly when and where he was shot.

The police officer whose cruiser was blindsided had to be removed from his mangled vehicle using the "jaws of life" by L.A. County firefighters. He is listed in critical condition.

Lead homicide Detective Gabriel de La Torre says police are looking at RoseMo's Twitter activity for clues.

When contacted by L.A. Weekly, Waka Flocka's publicist said he had no affiliation with RoseMo, but has worked with Ice Burgundy in the past.

RoseMo and Ice Burgundy talking about knocking out The Game

RoseMo beating up Boskoe1 on camera

Boskoe1 speaks on getting beat up by RoseMo, shows broken hand

Boskoe1 "Ice Is Melted" [Ice Burgundy Diss]

Boskoe1 "The Peoples Champ (Who They Want) (Ice Burgundy Diss)

Video After The Jump

Saigon releases another gem off of his highly slept on album, The Greatest Story Never Told.

"Enemies" was produced by Just Blaze.