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Tip better have a magic trick lying around somewhere because that new single with Wyclef doesn’t promise much.

T.I. Vs. T.I.P. Official Tracklist
1. Act I (Explicit Album Version) 02:21
2. Big Shit Poppin’ (Do It) (Explicit Album Version) 04:47
3. Raw (Explicit Album Version) 03:51
4. You Know What It Is (Explicit Album Version) 04:47
5. Da Dopeman (Explicit Album Version) 05:09
6. Watch What You Say To Me feat. Jay-Z (Explicit Album Version) 04:45
7. Hurt feat. Alpha Mega & Busta Rhymes (Explicit Album Version) 04:50
8. Act II (Explicit Album Version) 01:46
9. Help Is Coming (Explicit Album Version) 04:25
10. My Swag feat. Wyclef Jean (Explicit Album Version) 04:34
11. We Do This (Explicit Album Version)
12. Show It To Me feat. Nelly(Explicit Album Version) 03:18
13. Don’t You Wanna Be High (Explicit Album Version) 03:59
14. Touchdown feat. Eminem (Explicit Album Version) 04:42
15. Act III - The Confrontation (Explicit Album Version) 01:46
16. Tell ‘Em I Said That (Explicit Album Version) 04:54
17. Respect This Hustle (Explicit Album Version) 04:26
18. My Type (Explicit Album Version) 04:50

::Just Blaze’s blog, The Megatrondon, is a doozy.

-You can’t keep a good El-P down. [Gainesville]

-Loud Dobbs’ media-bias plot exposed. [Radar Online]

-Run’s house is going for a mere $5.5 million. Vanessa not included. [Starpulse]

-Kobe Bryant demands a trade. How about one one T-Mac for 2 KBs? [ESPN]

-Em, you ain’t caking like that. Michael Jackson, once parodied by Eminem, now owns rights to two of the worst songs in Em’s catalog. [About.com]

-How much can you afford to lose just to get a piece of Kim K? [Bossip]

-Al Gore’s assault on gossip. [Radar]

-Vanilla Ice is still relevant…in the Bull-riding industry. [Reuters]

-Nephew: “Fat Joe didn’t witness double-homicide.” [HipHopCrunch]

I’ll probably receive a slew of death threats from Warner Bros. publicity department for this, but I couldn’t resist the urge to share.

Ear Drum arrives July 24th, via Blacksmith/WBR.

(Shout out to Jerrell for the tip-off.)

(Spotted via: Sandra Rose)

First you dissed Kanye and Pharrell for their fashion sense. Then you quietly dropped a song titled “Creep Low.” Now, you’re whispering in another man’s ear and kissing him on the neck simultaneously?

What’s going on, Beans? I know you just got outta jail and all, but damn…a coming out party for one of Philly’s finest (no Mark Foley) can’t be that expensive.

Kelly Rowland makes history as the first black female on the cover of King.

-Top 10 best/worst athlete-rappers. [Street Census]

-Speaking of which, that Allen Iverson album has hit the web. [LeakSource]

-Rihanna to help save planet earth. [Yahoo]

-Wreckage from Lindsay Lohan’s accident going for a low $20,500. [eBay]

-Boo Boo, you ain’t really caking like that. [Prohiphop]

-CBS to buy Last.fm. Rizoh to start a social networking site. [Stuff]

I’m still waiting for folks to label me ‘crazy’ for ranking The Teacha so high up on my Top 50 List. Everytime I hear him wreck the mic, I forgive him a little for all that crazy cock-diesel sh*t he’s been talking lately.

Dude is still the illest freestyle freestyle MC alive…well that’s until Nelly un-retires. I keed! I keed!!

See also:
KRS-One - Hip-Hop Lives Freestyle

Above - Common’s music clip for “The Game” featuring an unecessary 2-second cameo by Kayne West; Below - See if you can count how many times Common broke the rules and changed the game.

Cool Common Collected Mixtape
01. Intro
02. Breaker 1/9 (Beatnuts Remix)
03. Soul By The Pound (Thump Mix)
04. Can-I-Bust feat. Ynot
05. Resurrection ‘95 (Extra P Remix)
06. Resurrection ‘95 (Large Pro Remix)
07. The Bitch In Yoo
(Original Demo Mix - Previously Unreleased)
08. I’ve Been Thinking (Latey) feat. Sean Let.
09. Reminding Me (Of Sef) (The Roots Remix)..
10. All Night Long (Brand New Heavies Remix).
11. 1-9-9-9 feat. Sadat X
12. Like They Used To Say
13. Car Horn
14. The Light (Remix For U) feat. Eryka Badu.
15. Tekzilla
16. Geto Heaven (The Sound Of Illadelphia Remix Extended Version)
17. Come Close (Remix) feat. Eryka Badu, Pharrell Williams
18. The Corner (Remix) feat. Scarface & Mos Def

Cool Common Collected: Get it!

(Thanks to D-Cypha for the email)

:Get your wig pushed back by the wig push-backer:

He’s been out of the game for a while, but it seems like Sigel’s starving for beef. Only 10 days after addressing his “internal issues” (’Ye), Sigel gears up for some real lyrical war. Unfortunately, the target(s) isn’t as, shall we say, competent as past rivals the LOX. Nonetheless, the Broad Street Bully is back! Check out this dope new insult-ridden West coast-styled banger. Kurupt must be laughing:

Beanie Sigel - Creep Low

Walk with me on this one: It seems to me like Beans is addressing Jimmy. Agree? Disagree?

(Brought to you by TRU contributing blogger Ivan Rott)

This mixtape is super-official, some recycled spittery notwithstanding.

Enjoy.

Fabolous ft. Jay-Z (and Uncle Murder) - “Brooklyn”
A couple months ago, when I interviewed Fabolous, I asked him if there was a “Brooklyn” collabo with the big homie on his new album From Nothin’ to Somethin’. He said, “I would love that. You oughtta ask him that question too. Of course I would be open to that. I definitely respect Jay’s lyricism and what he’s done for the game, everything that he’s contributed. If the opportunity presents itself, I would love it.”

Well, the rest is between you and Google…