Concrete Minds Official Launch Party: Sunday May 30th

Sunday May 30th: Come out and support Concrete Minds at their official Launch Party! Marisa Lander and KASH are a song writing duo by the name of “Concrete Minds”. The party is a coming out party for the CM company, a musical showcase of KASH and Marisa and other local talent in LA, and a debut of their clothing line “Concrete Rose” Come out and enjoy the fun! Attendees and performers are the party include Small Change, The New Boys, Bobb’e J Thompson, Scooter Smiff, Caitlyn Taylor Love, The Ranger$, Alyxx Dione, Amber Lily, Audio Push, LT3, The Cast of Cartoon Network’s “Dude What Would Happen” and MORE! Dont miss it!
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Drake Covers Billboard Magazine

Shouts to ATF. Hit the shelves on May 29th.

Gucci Mane On The Set Of “911 Emergency” (Pictures)

Gucci is about to flood the streets with all these videos he’s doing recently.
Spotted at RTNY.

Diddy Covers XXL Magazine’s June Issue

The hip-hop mogul appears in XXL magazine’s upcoming June issue and it’s his very first time being featured on the publications cover.

In the comprehensive interview written by Thomas Golianopoulos, Puff gives insight into his ubersuccessful business mind, his new album, Last Train to Paris and he reflects on his grind to the top to become hip-hop’s number one mogul.

He also looks back at his overall impact on the industry and culture. “I am the champion of hip-hop” Diddy says in the story. “Hands down, undisputed, I’m the undisputed heavyweight champion of hip-hop. We are going to have to deal with those facts. There is nobody that can fuck with me with what I do, which is getting busy. We are going across the board, as an entrepreneur, innovator, motivator. Who was there first? Who traveled to Europe first? The first. The first. The first. The first. I was the first.”

The-Dream Jokes About The FBI Sting

TheeeEffffff! … This dude lied to everyone about this b.s. lol #smh
Anyways… LoveKing drops in June!

Spotted at RapRadar.

New 2Pac Album Coming This Christmas

Awwwdaaamn… this dude still got music out there. (Spotted at RR)

VIBE:

This is unreleased 2Pac…no remastering or remixing,” Payne says of the set. “The songs are from a collection of tracks that were recorded during his Death Row days around All Eyez On Me. I believe that these songs could have been 2Pac’s next record if he were still alive.

The-Dream’s Working With The FBI Due To Leaking His Music

Wow…. well it happens to every artist in the game right now though. #smh

Cory Gunz Talks Signing With Young Money Entertainment

Didn’t we all thought he was going to end up being on Wayne’s label long time ago.

MTV:

“Shout out to Wayne,” he added. “Shout out to the whole Young Money family. Shout out to Mack Maine. Everybody. It’s definitely official. Young Money/ Cash Money. Shout out to Wayne for giving me a shot. He kept it real. All I’mma say, that this is it. This is what it is. Everybody just better get ready.”

Cory has been recording a bunch of material for an album that he had planned to title God Forgives, I Don’t. That LP is now going to be an EP and will be preceded by a gaggle of mixtapes. Cory’s Young Money debut LP still has no title, but Weezy will steer the ship once he gets home from prison later this year.

“Definitely. Wayne is gonna executive-produce the album,” he explained. “I trust his insight. He’s going to be overseeing everything. I’m gonna keep doing the things I been doing. I think that’s what’s gotten me noticed. I’mma just keep my grind moving. Whatever ventures I can do, I’m bringing my family through. My whole team is gonna eat. I’m just telling everybody to get ready.”

Cory will have no problem getting acclimated into his new family. He has relationships with quite of few of his teammates already.

“I haven’t met Nicki [Minaj] yet,” Gunz said. “Me and Drizzy met a while back when they was doing the I Am Music Tour in Arizona. I went over there with Shaquille, and Drake shouted me out [onstage]. It was something he didn’t have to do. The fact he did that way before [I was on Young Money], I was humbled by that. As far as Jae Millz, me and Millz — Pause — had a relationship before all of this. I went on my first road tour with Millz. I talk to Chuckee and Twist a lot. Mack, of course, I talk to. Gudda is family, Short [Dawg]. Shout out to T-Streets too.”

Free Agent Friday: Jon Doe

Since this is the first edition of “Free Agent Friday” i’ll just give everyone a brief explanation of what it is. Basically we pick a new Un signed/ Up coming artist to write a brief summary about to familiarize everyone with and this week’s artist is singer Jon Doe. Unlike other submissions we have received Jon Doe doesn’t actually make music you would expect him to make, which is why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. I expected some rap songs, a few R&B hooks possibly and that’ll be it, but i was wrong. Jon Doe actually has a couple songs that i think would do well on radio. Its like Pop Hip-Hop in my opinion, his songs cover topics familiar to the Hip-Hop world but with a sound that appeals to the pop side of the industry as well. Since i am a pretty picky listener being a artist myself i often find reasons not to like a song but i can honestly say these are songs i wouldn’t mind having on my ipod but luckily for him he knows that (lol) so everyone is gonna have to purchase his music HERE instead of getting a free download. If you would like to hear more of his music you can go to his Myspace Page and follow him on Twitter.  I also uploaded two of his songs below.

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Drake’s Official Thank Me Later Album Cover

This is official unfortunately.. confirmed by Karla (@hustlegrl)

I just spoke to Oliver and yes, this is the one. Wait until you see the whole album’s packaging, it’ll make sense. Also, the tracklisting will be published very soon. How soon? Don’t ask – but I must say that it is looking very promising though. Thank Me Later drops on Tuesday June 15th 2010.