Kiss The Ring, in stores August 21st.

Self Made Vol 2 in stores June 26th. Pre-Order here.

Swizz Beatz chopped it up with KarmaloopTV about the importance of art for the youth at his high profile art auction for BronxArt.net. A few big names including Rick Ross, Big Sean and Swizz’s wife, Alicia Keys came out to support the good cause.
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This is not surprising that the super tatted Barker gets another tattoo, and this time on his dome(pause). The tat was done by Chuey Quintanar.

Kanye has been in the studio with more than a few new collaborators lately including A$AP Rocky, Fat Joe, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, and DJ Khaled. Lats night the G.O.O.D. Music boss decided is was time to get back in the lab with teen heartthrob Justin Bieber. If you go back to your G.O.O.D. Friday playlist you’ll recall that the two previously worked together on the song “Runaway Love” with Raekwon also in the mix. The picture above is from a recent studio session in NYC where Bieber and Kanye were working on the pop star’s upcoming album, Believe, which drops on June 19th.

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Nas took to Twitter earlier today to announce the official release date of his forthcoming LP, Life Is Good. The Queens rap vet says the album is slated to drop on July 17th. He also dropped the cover art for his new NO I.D.-produced single, “Daughters,” (seen above) which will be available on iTunes May 1st. A music video for his already released single “The Don” drops this Friday.
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Skateboard P unveils the cover of his upcoming book, Pharrell: Places And I’ve Been. The book chronicles the super-producer’s travels around the globe and features contributions from notable names such as Jay-Z, Ambra Medda, Nigo and Takashi Murakam. The book will be available on October 16th but you can pre-order it HERE.

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Meek Mill was in the lab with Kendrick Lamar and threw up a flick on Instagram to let the Internets know that the two were cookin’ up a record. The anticipated collab will appear on Meek’s Dreamchasers 2 mixtape which drops May 7th.
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We decided to take a break from the music and give you guys a look at some rappers as kids. Lil Wayne looks the same; Kanye before the car accident; 50 Cent before 9 shots; Kid Cudi before drugs; TI before guns(he probably still had guns); Ne-Yo with hair; Usher looked like Webster; and Eminem looks like he liked to start fires, and hates his mother.

Ok back to the music…

Meek Mill unveils the cover of his anticipated Dreamchasers 2 mixtape which will will drop on April 24th May 5th via DatPiff. The project should be a good indication of what to expect from the MMG rapper’s debut album which is slated for a Fall release. The artwork is pretty clean.

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