Beanie Sigel feat. R. Kelly - All The Above (VIDEO)

Clipse Sign With Columbia

They wasn't playing fair at Jive, so now they've got (what sounds like) one of those 50/50 joint venture deals @ Columbia.

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Ghostface Killah - Celebrate

First single off new album, The Big Doe Rehab, in stores this December.

Props to the mighty eskay.

Ghostface Killah - Celebrate

Fat Joe feat. Lil' Wayne - The Crack House

Off the forthcoming album The Elephant In The Room, due out next year.

Fat Joe feat. Lil' Wayne - The Crack House

Q-Tip, Common & Skillz Freestyle @ The Norva

From the Tip & Common show at the Norva in Norfolk two weeks ago.

Rick Ross feat. R. Kelly - Speedin'

Don't worry, the man next to him is nowhere to be found on this record. It's actually the first single from Ross' next album, Trilla, due out later this year.

Rick Ross feat. R. Kelly - Speedin'

Ludacris feat. Rick Ross & Bun B - Down In The Durty

Off the Disturbing The Peace compilation.

Ludacris feat. Rick Ross & Bun B - Down In The Durty

Shout to CL on the pic.

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Dame and Biggs are planning a tribute to Hov's debut album. [MTV News]

Here's a few joints off the tribute album:

Kanye West - A Million And One Questions
Juelz Santana - You Must Love Me
Freeway - Politics As Usual

New Weezy

Since there was the first Lil' Wayne MP3 leak in quite a while (two weeks), here's most of the good stuff that came out of it. Because there was quite a lot of trash.

Lil' Wayne - Rider
Lil' Wayne - I Took Her
Lil' Wayne - Smoking Session
Lil' Wayne - Do What We Do
Lil' Wayne feat. Twista - Burn This City
Lil' Wayne - Trouble

BONUS JOINTS:
Lil' Wayne feat. Babyface - Comfortable (better quality on the way)
Lil' Wayne - Gossip (Live)

Nas Speaks The Truth

So the talk has already heated up over the title of Nas' ninth studio album, Nigga (now changed to Nigger). FOX News, never slow to report on these types of stories, reported that the next Nas album would not bear the controversial N-word. In a MTV News interview, God's Son clears up a few things:

"I don't know where that [report] came from and neither does Def Jam," Nas said early Thursday morning (October 18) in a Manhattan recording studio when asked about a Fox News article published earlier this week. The story quoted a "source close to" label head L.A. Reid, who scoffed at the thought of the company supporting an album with such a title, and also claimed the album was not on the label's release schedule. "None of us knows where that came from."

More importantly, he takes out time to address our "black leaders":

"I'm a street disciple," Nas responded, quoting one of his earlier album titles. "I'm talking to the streets. Stay out of our business. You ain't got no business worrying about what the word 'nigger' is or acting like you know what my album is about without talking to me. Whether you in the NAACP or you Jesse Jackson. I respect all of them ... I just want them to know: Never fall victim to Fox. Never fall victim to the sh-- they do. What they do is try to hurry up and get you on the phone and try to get you to talk about something you might not know about yet.

"If Cornell West was making an album called Nigger, they would know he's got something intellectual to say," Nas continued. "To think I'm gonna say something that's not intellectual is calling me a nigger, and to be called a nigger by Jesse Jackson and the NAACP is counterproductive, counter-revolutionary."

Wow. Couldn't have said it better myself.

2007 BET Hip Hop Awards Performances

Ye performing "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" + "Good Life"



Weezy performing "Gossip"



BONUS: Lil' Wayne - Gossip (Live) MP3

Common performing "Drivin' Me Wild"

BREAKING NEWS: Cam'ron Found!

Someone call the Missing Persons hotline, case closed.

T.I. Arrested On Federal Gun Charges

Damn homie.

CNN has the full story, while TMZ has the press release from the Department of Justice and the Feds' affadavit and search warrant.

It was all good just a week ago...

Fiascogate

I did dodge this subject for a reason. One, because I knew by the time I got around to it, everybody else would've said everything there was to say.

So if you have no clue what I'm talking about, check out okayplayer and LOL 'til you get sore.

Jay-Z - Blue Magic (VIDEO)

BONUS: Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is Hov...)

Loose Ends

The Capo has made his move, and it's not with G-Unit: it's with Sony. [Miss Info]

Lil' Wayne has no problem with being a whore, along with other statements clearly made under the influence of some drug. [Vibe]

The K-I-double can be easy now that those charges were dropped. [SOHH]

Skillz On The Hip Hop Honors Tour

MAAAAAAAAAAD late on this one. Skillz told me weeks ago about the blog, and now I'm just getting around to linking it. That's a you-know-what for you. Check it out tho:

2007 Vh1 Hip Hop Honors Tour Blog by the kid with the backpack

American Gangster Preview

XXL head YN-in-charge Elliott Wilson got the first official preview of Hov's new album over at XXLMag.com.

YN's American Gangster Preview: Uncontrollable Hustler's Ambition

Gucci Mane - Freaky Gurl (UNCUT VIDEO)

OK, I'm not tryna turn TSS.com into something it shouldn't be (lol), but I thought the people would enjoy this as well.

Once again, NSFW.

50 Cent - So Serious (VIDEO)

Off the 25th (and final) installment of G-Unit Radio, entitled Sandra's Baby Boy.

Holla @ Eskay for the link.

T.I. - Hurt (VIDEO)

My favorite joint off the album. Featuring Busta Rhymes & Alfamega.

DJ Khaled & Everybody Else - I'm So Hood (Remix)

Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Lil' Wayne, Fat Joe, Rick Ross & Baby on the 1,000th posse cut from Khaled this year.

He must have 30 verses each from Wayne, Jeezy, and Ross locked away somewhere. Not to mention he gets about 200 verses a day via e-mail from Fat Joe.

DJ Khaled featuring, um, Various Artists - I'm So Hood (Remix)

Ja Rule - Body (UNCUT VIDEO)

NSFW folks.