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Plies dropped his first single off the long-awaited Purple Heart a few weeks ago, "Faithful," which featured Rico Love, and he revealed in an interview with MTV News that that might not be the only Rico-assisted track that winds up on the album. ...

With Mobb Deep's Prodigy and Havoc finally back in a good spot following their awkward public falling out—which included everything from homophobic slurs to cries of phone hacking—the two are getting back in the studio and working on their first collaborative full-length project in seven years. Prodigy...

Joell Ortiz and his Slaughterhouse crew are 90 percent done with their followup to last year's Welcome To: Our House, but right now he and the whole of Shady Records are focused on the impending release of Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP 2, which officially drops Tuesday. "MMLP...

Mariah Carey is working on her new album, the followup to her 2009 effort, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (though she also recorded a Christmas album in 2010), and she's hit up Nas, Hit-Boy and Mike WiLL Made It to help collaborate. But it's...

Yo Gotti is gearing up to drop his first album for Epic Records, titled I Am (CMG/Epic) on November 19, and while he's out touring the country he took a quick break to swing through New York City's Jungle City Studios to preview the album for friends, the press and Epic staff...

Childish Gambino today announced the title to his first album since his 2011 debut, Camp (Glassnote Records). The sophomore release will be called Because The Internet, and the announcement came along with a trailer that teases a new song, where Gambino addresses the criticism of his acting career and his forays into hip-hop, among other things. "Head...

Stalley hosted a dinner party at a restaurant in New York City last night, celebrating the release of his recent Honest Cowboy EP, which dropped September 17. The EP, his first retail project since signing to Maybach Music Group in 2011, was a 7-track update on his August mixtape of the same name and included three new previously-unreleased tracks that did not appear on his last tape. ... Read Mor

Nicki Minaj has a whole lot on her plate right now, but the biggest thing she's working on is her third album, she told E! Online this week. Speaking while on a promo run for her new Minajesty perfume, the richest woman in hip-hop said that her decision to step back from her American Idol judging gig came from her desire to spend more time on her music. ...

How many different ways can you say it? Pharrell has been everywhere lately, and he's not trying to go anywhere anytime soon. Speaking to the BBC, the hit-maker said he'd be taking his time before dropping new material with his old band N...

Well it's been an adventurous couple of days for Gucci Mane, to say the least. After an epic Twitter tirade that ended with him calling out just about every rapper in Atlanta in addition to Drake, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and a whole host of others, he may have just caught the hip-hop world's attention enough to drop an album...

Cee-Lo Green has known OutKast's Andre 3000 since the two were in the third grade, and the Dungeon Family members have remained close as both of their stars have risen in the music industry over the past two decades. So with rumors abounding of a new Andre solo album and Cee-Lo's Goodie Mob out on a press tour in support of their new album Age Against The Machine, Cee-Lo was asked about his childh

With his last album Prisoner of Conscious still on the shelves and an upcoming tour with Big K.R.I.T. and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on the horizon, Talib Kweli isn't standing still. Yesterday while speaking with XXL, Kweli mentioned he's started working with A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on a new album, tentatively scheduled for next year. "Q-Tip—I'...