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Just a photo nerd remark regarding the pic of Gnarls Barkley below: the kickass promos were shot by East-turned-West Coast photo-pals Jeremy and Claire Weiss. They killed it on this one… wait ’til the rest come out.

Following on the success of their chart-topping blockbuster “St. Elsewhere,” the power duo of Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green are finally releasing some information about their forthcoming studio album, “The Odd Couple,” due out April 8. While the first single, “Run,” has already leaked and they’re rushing a video through production, a video for […]

Looks like this has been floating around for a few months but it’s mad cute, so I’ll link you anyway. Those sweet babes in Ratatat dropped a second remix mixtape for free right here.

Tracks to peep the most are…shit, I don’t know. They included three (count, ‘em! 3!) tracks featuring B.I.G, threw in some […]

 
Dizzee is back!(?) He dropped some killer tracks last year, and this new one with Calvin Harris feels like at least a half a banger to me. Synth hooks, yo.
Download: Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris - Dance for Me

No, not the title of the former Terror Squadian’s forthcoming children’s book. You might’ve heard but over the weekend police arrested the rapper in connection with an alleged shooting of a friend in the meatpacking district.
The flaxen-banged artist got a lot of shine on Fat Joe’s ‘04 anthem “Lean Back.” Last year she Storched […]

SIT DOWN MOTHERFUCKS. Did you think I was snoozing on the job? Steady sawing logs at the mothergrabbing switch? Son, I have fresh new things for you. Tight shit. Shiny. Smells like fresh basil. Cop a roast beef and pull up some astroturf, this shit is hot off the internets.

 
Foxy showed up at the “horrid” Urban Music Awards, performed, and ate everything in the place.
source: MissInfo
earlier:  Foxy Done Got Robbed

Drop the chicken noodle soup and soda and mount that elliptical. Another one to add to that homemade “Workout Plan” mixtape: “Exercise.”
And Aunt Jackie wit it. Is Aunt Jackie fat? I don’t care, she makes me dance. And where’s the Harlem tag when you need it?

Jay from Ill Doctrine has some words for Russell Simmons, who officially looks as old now as he did in his cameo in Krush Groove. He calls out Russy for validating misogynistic lyrics as “poetry,” when these rappers are merely perpetuating stereotypes to make cash. Above please find a picture of my favorite Russell Simmons. […]

at the end you’re supposed to scream TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ooh she fiiiiine but she crazy.
Troubled rapstress Foxy Brown was accosted early Monday morning by some of her ex’s streetwalkers and got her purse, weave, and hearing aid lifted. Foxy and her former boo were at a party at Pink Houses that night, reports the Daily News, via the illustrious and delicious Missinfo.
After learning […]

The infamous “splasher” may have showed up at Shephard Fairey’s Brooklyn opening. No news yet on whether he has been strangled or forced to ingest Krylon. (woostercollective)
Ebony Bones, Britain’s newest vocal talent is blowing up Glastonbury this weekend. Peep her Myspace, lady got pipes. Video ass-well. Oh yeah, her hot track is “Don’t Fart […]

TIP and HOV together with some crispy organ samples!! Happy Friday, you’re welcome.
T.I. featuring Jay Z - Watch What You Say
source: Nah Right

The Cut drops this extremely apropos shirt as part of their Summer collection. Rock this if you find your crew wiling out above and beyond the call of good taste. More of the line at in4mants.
via highsnobiety.

Oh Word hates most rap that you like
Usher is uh…maybe…having a baby?
Undftd released a Big Brother / Little Brother tee with Manute Bol and Spud Webb on it
Kobe is pissed, maybe.
Seriously, DRAFT KEVIN DURANT! My boy Kirk Krack told me that Greg Oden is older than Old Man River. Dude was born in 1988.
America Rules. […]

Bandwagoner Baron Davis freestyles in a sneaker store about shooting guns and busting what he refers to as, “a nut.” The shoot-first PG (is there any other kind these days?) is ready for his close-up.
source: Free Darko

 
The debut Justice album, †, drops today - or it dropped yesterday, who cares? You already downloaded it last month. Either way, wheels of steel warriors will want to pick this up. You know the deal: French dudes, Ed Banger, Uffie, a song about Michael Jackson that I have quoted as a headline at least […]

I wasn’t sure if this was just a rumor until today, but Dipset/ByrdGang member Stack Bundles was shot dead outside his home in Queens.
from official sources:
Stack Bundles, 24 years old, born Rayquon Elliot (I’ve also seen it spelled Requan Elliot), was shot and killed around 5am in the lobby of his building at the Redfern […]

Beyonceitis is “the destruction of your career by the overall power of Beyonce Knowles”
Do you or a loved once suffer from Beyonceitis? Find out here. It’s a pretty well-constructed and funny website.

So I just heard the whole new Dizzee Rascal album “Maths and English” and I have to say I can hear them sirens coming (= this CD is gonna be played to smithereens in a certain ho’s vehicle). So nevermind the fact you might’ve heard “Sirens” and “Pussyole” already, there’s more. Yes, more.
He brings out […]