Thanks to Roshan for putting this together:

Hip-Hop Music Round-Up

This week's top 10 albums in Hip-Hop and R&B, according to Billboard.com:

1. Melanie Fiona - The MF Life
2. Drake - Take Care
3. Rihanna - Talk that Talk
4. Tyga - Careless World: Rise of the Last King
5. Odd Future - The OF Tape, Vol. 2
6. Diggy - Unexpected Arrival
7.Young Jeezy - TM103
8. E-40 - The Block Brochure
9. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
10. The Throne - Watch the Throne

NEWS:

I saw Childish Gambino and Danny Brown the other night and reviewed the show. Check it out here.

Relish in the fact that there's a June release date for a new DMX album.

Diggy explains why he dissed J. Cole.

Scott Storch is being sued for being "too high" to produce.

Dr. Dre and Jay-Z will both be on Rick Ross' next record.

Currensy will release the Stoned Immaculate on June 5th and hit the road as well.

Kendrick Lamar offers us an update on the Black Hippy collective.

Were you wondering why the ASAP Rocky and Lana Del Rey song never got released? Here's why.

J. Cole's new Dreamville Foundation is hosting a writing contest for kids.

Nas will be premiering a new song...at the NFL Draft.

2 Chainz' official release date for his debut LP is August 14th.

Mos Def has recorded a Trayvon Martin tribute track with dead prez.

There was a shooting at Jeezy's show in London, Ontario.

Theraflu (the company) doesn't like the new Kanye West song. PETA hated it too.

Big Sean may have a collaboration with Justin Bieber in the works.

Snoop Dogg now has a "rollable" song book. He's also dropping an EP soon.


THIS WEEK'S VIDEOS:

Music Video: Mark Foster, A-Trak and Kimbra - Warrior

Music Video: Mickey Factz - Dreams of Money [Mickey Mau5e]

Interview: Kendrick Lamar and Dr. Dre on Big Boy's Neighborhood

Music Video: Drake - HYFR f. Lil Wayne [Take Care]

Music Video: Drake - Take Care f. Rihanna [Take Care]


THIS WEEK'S DOWNLOADS:

Currensy - What It Look Like f. Wale [Stoned Immaculate]

Cyhi the Prynce - A-Town f. Travis Porter and B.o.B

Mixtape: The Kickdrums - Follow the Leaders

Mixtape: Quest - Fear Not Failure

Gotye - Somebody... (Skruncha-Roo Remix)

Kanye West - Theraflu [CDQ]

Mixtape: Game - California Republic

G.O.O.D. Music - Mercy f. Kanye West, Pusha T, Big Sean & 2 Chainz

Mixtape: Sir Michael Rocks - Premier Politics 1.5

Jay Electronica - Dear Moleskine [Act II: Patients of Nobility]


ALBUMS DROPPING THIS WEEK:
Monica - New Life


ALBUMS OUT NOW:
Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
Obie Trice - Bottom's Up


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I showed my parents and my brother the HYFR video. Couldn't put a price on my dad's reaction.

Still listening to Mickey MauSe at least once a day. Everyone should check it out.

Cool to see Childish performs Twistclip Loop live! If I went to the show and he randomly busted out in that i'd go nuts.

Very stoked about that new DMX actually. Hope he gon give it to us.

And that Wale/Currensy video just dropped this morning.

Hell Yeah Fuckin' Right.

LOVE the write up on the Danny Brown/Dong Lover show. Not a huge Gambino fan, but I'd love to see that live band in action, and it seems like dude's pouring a lot of his creativity into the live show. Wish it would show in his music. Dying to see Danny live.

Skipped right to the Twitter quote and thought that DMX had stolen the identity of a man named Jason Fowler and tweeted the news whilst forgetting to switch accounts. RUFF RUFF RUFF

New Drake videos are both incredible. Fucking great. Just creative and awesome and beautiful.

Theraflu is a banger. Been on constant rotation this week. Have yet to listen to Roman Reloaded yet for some reason. I was anticipating it so much but when it was pushed back I couldn't even remember when the date was. Bottoms Up is so bland. So boring. I was very disappointed.

I am half asleep as I type this so my apologies if any of it is blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

How has Donald not fallen into a drug fueled depression? Headlining after Danny Brown? Get real.

I'm excited for DMX's Undisputed and Nas' new song.

I'm disappointed with Dr. Dre working with Rick Ross. First Khaled now this?

Diggy Simmons is clearly trying to get some publicity after his album flopped. He's also posting a bunch of "Like if you remember" type of pictures on Facebook. People on my friend list keep liking them and it shows up on my newsfeed. It's really annoying.

The video for "HYFY" was alright. I didn't expect Lil Wayne to be the dude with the panda mask; didn't even think he was going to be in the video, haha.

Still don't understand Drake's appeal.

Really wish Jay Elect would drop his album.

Originally Posted by perceptrons

Still don't understand Drake's appeal.

Really wish Jay Elect would drop his album.

With you man. Shit gon be dope.

Childish Gambino is too good.

Originally Posted by WhoSaidThat?

I showed my parents and my brother the HYFR video. Couldn't put a price on my dad's reaction.

what's funny is my dad watched it with me, and said "this is the stupid shit you listen to all day?"

Originally Posted by bobby runs

Still listening to Mickey MauSe at least once a day. Everyone should check it out.

i've gotten through like half. very good. need to tackle the whole thing.

Originally Posted by feedingthefoxes

Cool to see Childish performs Twistclip Loop live! If I went to the show and he randomly busted out in that i'd go nuts.

other than LTO, i thought the encore was kinda wasted. two freestyles? should've thrown on "that power" or "not going back."

Originally Posted by incognitojones

Very stoked about that new DMX actually. Hope he gon give it to us.

And that Wale/Currensy video just dropped this morning.

didn't get to it. but that song is sooooooooooooooo good. my favorite song either of them have been a part of in a while.

Originally Posted by DickfaceChillah

LOVE the write up on the Danny Brown/Dong Lover show. Not a huge Gambino fan, but I'd love to see that live band in action, and it seems like dude's pouring a lot of his creativity into the live show. Wish it would show in his music. Dying to see Danny live.

New Drake videos are both incredible. Fucking great. Just creative and awesome and beautiful.

Theraflu is a banger. Been on constant rotation this week. Have yet to listen to Roman Reloaded yet for some reason. I was anticipating it so much but when it was pushed back I couldn't even remember when the date was. Bottoms Up is so bland. So boring. I was very disappointed.

-the show's great. definitely hit the tour up if it hits your town.
-agreed on the videos. i thought both of them were EXCELLENT.
-love theraflu, and love the fact kanye's not exactly trying to push boundaries. he's just making fun shit to cook to.
-roman reloaded is fucking terrible. like seriously --- TERRIBLE.

Originally Posted by Holly HoX!

How has Donald not fallen into a drug fueled depression? Headlining after Danny Brown? Get real.

danny was good, but as far as live shows are concerned, he isn't holding a candle to the shit donald's doing on stage. donald's sleeping just fine at night.

Originally Posted by perceptrons

Still don't understand Drake's appeal.

Really wish Jay Elect would drop his album.

don't really care what the consensus is, but drake is an incredible artist. he's very relatable and raps about earnest shit that everyone pisses on him for, calls him soft for, etc. it's the hip-hop version of half the shit you see on this site.

album seems like it's coming man. "dear moleskine" is great.

Originally Posted by bobby runs

Still listening to Mickey MauSe at least once a day. Everyone should check it out.

Yeah, it's great stuff. Just fantastic.