♣ Automatic Yay: Chucky (Charles Hamilton Diss) - Marv Won [Tha A Side]

♣ Patient died after having buttock fat injected into her face [Daily Mail]

♣ The Tape Deck ‘09: Volume #24 [MVP Edition] [Hip-Hop Is Read]

Wale’s Back To The Feature Mixtape [Smoking Section]

♣ Heartless (in a Bottle) - Fray (Covering Kanye West), Black Eyed Peas, Police, 2Pac [Entertonement]

♣ Smoking Sessions with Donny Goines [TSS]

♣ Ghostface Killah - Cell Block Z Graphic Novel (aka Comic Book), Coming Soon [Metal Lungies]

♣ The Slaughterhouse Rules [It's The Real]

♣ New Kids On The Block Perform At The Waffle House [Broken Cool]

♣ Ma Dukes: “Charles Hamilton Is Insane!” [Ill Roots]

♣ Hulk Hogan’s Top 5 Matches [The Smoking Section]

♣ Lil Wayne movie Hurricane Season runs out of $$$ [Woooha]

♣ Biggest hiphop battle of 2009: Clipse versus Jay-Z? [Seattle Times]

♣ Hip-Hop Stars (Auto-) Tuning Out Jay-Z’s ‘Death’ Wish [Washington Post]

♣ Fabolous’ album pushed back again [SOHH]

♣ The LOX to reunite with their shiny suits [HipHopDX]

♣ Tyson marries in Vegas 2 weeks after child’s death [Yahoo]

♣ Willie D is going to jail for a long time [About.com]

♣ Jazzy Jeff Booted from Kansas City Club for Playing Hip-Hop [Huffington Post]

♣ Tony Yayo Swine Flu 2 Mixtape [Broken Cool]

♣ Don’t Be Late, It’s 3008, and Rap Is Dancing [NY Times]

♣ Miami Photojournalist Knew Rick Ross Before His Beard MTV]

♣ Hip-hop has become more of a fashion show than a genre of music [Newark Live]

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The 10 Most Ridiculous Rapper Chains [Broken Cool]

Whoever launched this blog is a genius [DeathOfAuto-Tune.com]

XXL Class Of 2009: Midterm Grades [The Smoking Section]

Wyclef and Nick Cannon attempt to make themselves relevant again [Clef's Blog]

Top 10 New Rap Releases for June 2009 [About.com]

Nas and Damian Marley to perform together at Sumfest. Nas will probably be too blazed to remember any of his lyrics. [Jamaica-Gleaner]

The Tape Deck ‘09: Volume #23 (Instrumental Edition) [Hip Hop Is Read]

Those who star in the NBA Finals will do it again the next season, right? Uh, not exactly. [ESPN]

♣ Kanye’s 10 Essentials of Style includes *gasp* black Air Yeezys [Style.com]

♣ Mos Def x Malcolm X [Slang Rap]

♣ Some site calls Smoking Section reviews an album titled Think Green [The Smoking Section]

♣ Need some Wordsmith in your life? Grab his latest, “Twilight Of My Arrival” [Rock the Dub]

♣ In case you missed Obama’s Cairo speech, Ian’s got your back [Different Kitchen]

♣ KRS-One Shares His Philosophy In ‘The Gospel Of Hip Hop’ [MTV Newsroom]

♣ Skateboard P has a few things to get off his chest [Nah Right]

♣ Kings of Leon release video for “Notion,” prepare to undersell Target Center [Culture Bully]

♣ Whoa, hey, Scarface with the quote of the decade: I think Soulja Boy got the potential to be the next Russell Simmons. [VIBE]

♣ Pics from Jay-Z & Eminem DJ Hero concert at the Wiltern, Los Angeles [Nah Right]

♣ Proof that Detox is on its way? [Review Stacks]

♣ 25 Greatest Rap Groups of All-Time [About.com]

♣ The 69 Most Pause-Worthy Lyrics In Hip-Hop History [Complex]

♣ Hip-Hop Official Artist of the Week: 6th Sense [YouTube]

♣ New Music: Bobby Creekwater - “Motion Picture” [Broken Cool]

KFC now comes with an extra side of … CIARA? [The Smoking Section]

Video - Fabolous - “It’s My Time” f/Jeremih + “Throw It In The Bag” f/The Dream [BGDB]

Kanye West — who hates books — has written one? [LA Times' The Dish Rag]

Akon to speak at upstate N.Y. gun-violence forum [Baltimore Sun]

What Jew Know About That? [It's The Real]

Freebie: Amor Jones’ Epic Failure Mixtape [zshare]

Proof that mathematicians make the best basketball players. Provided they’re also extremely talented athletes, of course [College Humor]

♣ On the set of 50 Cent’s New Movie, Caught in the Crossfire [Woooha]

♣ TRU’s own John M. is author of the new non-bestseller Highways and Hierophants [Amazon]

♣ Jay-Z’s “Can’t Cheat Death” is basically a remix of “Pray” [Kanye's Blog]

♣ Tyson Family Responds to Daughter’s Death [Radar Online]

♣ The World According to Twitter [Gawker]

♣ 50 Cent Doesn’t Care About No-Talent Celebutards [Roc 4 Life]

♣ Industry Rule # 4084: “If you’ve been out of the general public’s eye for more than six months, you must reintroduce yourself with a NSFW music video.” [The Smoking Section]

♣ DV One - Happy Memorial Day Mix [The Smoking Section]

♣ Jon Stewart slaps some sense into America [Comedy Central]

♣ Outskirts: The Unofficial Lost Outkast Mixtape [Che Sing]

♣ New Music: Killer Mike - “Man Up” [Nah Right]

♣ Tiye Phoenix: Half Woman Half Amazin’ Album Art [Prohiphop]

♣ DJ Nappy & RTD Present Did I Do That? [rock the dub]

♣ So what about Drake’s lovey Rihanna shoutout last week?? [Miss Info]

♣ But of course, Drake denies the Rihanna rumors [The BoomBox]

♣ Don’t say the “F” word around Mariah or she’ll melt your brain [Str8 NYC]

♣ Tyga - R.I.P. Dolla [Ill Roots]

>>The High Cost of Poverty [Washington Post]

>>Dart Adams Presents A Tale Of Ten Trailers 16 [Poisonous Paragraphs]

>>Drake’s buzz finally caught the attention of the King of Rap & Bullsh-t [Dallas Penn]

>>Apparently, Cool & Dre are still around [OnSmash]

>>Video: GLC feat. Bun B - “Clockin’ Lotsa Dollars” [Fake Shore Drive]

>>Bobby Creekwater & Stat Quo - Say You Will [Live] [Ill Roots]

>>VIDEO: Talib Kweli in latest episode of “BLOKHEDZ” [Woooha]

>>Trina Speaks on Her Relationship with Kenyon Martin [Rap Radar]

>>What If Notorious B.I.G. Were Still Here For His 37th Birthday? [MTV]

>>Get familiar with AKA and his Smile EP [Review Stacks]