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. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
2. B.o.B. - Strange Clouds
3. Rihanna - Talk that Talk
4. Mary Mary - Go Get it (OST)
5. Drake - Take Care
6. Tank - This is How I Feel
7.Krizz Kaliko - Kickin & Screamin
8. Think Like a Man - OST
9. Future - Pluto
10. Tyga - Careless World: Rise of the Last King

NEWS:

M.I.A. signed to Roc Nation.

Odd Future's TV show has been renewed for a second season.

Big Sean, Drake, Nicki Minaj and Ludacris will all be on Justin Bieber's upcoming record.

The cover art and tracklisting for The Alchemist's upcoming album can be seen here.

Young Buck will be serving an 18-month prison sentence beginning in July.

T.I. will be starring in an upcoming comedy.

50 Cent dropped a mixtape this week.

Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are dropping another EP on July 10th.

Up and coming artist Shawn Chrystopher has signed to Timbaland's label.

Currensy and Wiz Khalifa have finished a collaborative mixtape. It'll drop "when the time is right" and will not be titled How Fly 2.

Elzhi is going out on tour everywhere.

Producer Mike Dean has confirmed a second Watch the Throne record.

Chief Keef is talking to three record labels.

Big Boi says his solo record is 80% done and will be followed by a solo Andre 3000 record.

Pete Rock has responded to Lupe Fiasco again. For those wondering, Pete Rock was upset about Lupe using "T.R.O.Y." unbeknownst to him, even though Lupe had the samples cleared. Lupe then went on an anti-Pete rant on Sway, keeping the disagreement going.

No Malice has responded to the Pusha T/Lil Wayne beef.

THIS WEEK'S VIDEOS:

Music Video: Ab-Soul - Terrorist Threats f. Danny Brown [Control System]

Music Video: Wiz Khalifa - Work Hard Play Hard [ONIFC]

Interview: J. Cole with Dj Drama

Studio: Pusha-T and The-Dream in the Studio

Music Video: Nas - Daughters [Life is Good]

THIS WEEK'S DOWNLOADS:

Big K.R.I.T. - Yeah Dat's Me [Live from the Underground]

Stream: Yasiin Bey - Bey over Lil Wayne's "John"

Kendrick Lamar - War is My Love [Unreleased]

Stream: Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way [F&L 2]

Mixtape: David Banner - Sex Drugs and Video Games

House Shoes - Sweet f. Danny Brown

Stream: Fat Joe - Pride and Joy f. Kanye West and Miguel

Childish Gambino - Tell Me f. Heems [Royalty]

Theophilus London - Morning Kisses [Rose Island]

Pusha T - Exodus 23:1 f. The-Dream (Drake/Wayne Diss)

Cocaine 80s (Common, No I.D., James Fauntelroy) dropped 5 new songs this week. First Four / Unchain Me

Lil Wayne - Ghoulish (Pusha T Diss)

Childish Gambino - Black Faces f. Nipsey Hussle [Royalty]

ALBUMS DROPPING THIS WEEK:

Travis Porter - From Day 1

ALBUMS OUT NOW:

50 Cent - The Lost Mixtape (Mixtape)
David Banner - Sex, Drugs & Video Games
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure

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- Man, Lupe can't release anything without some sort of major clusterfuck. Still, I dig the song, but it's very far from promising as far as F&L2 goes.
- Tip + Michael Bluth + Molly Megan from Bridesmaids? Could be cool.
- Goddamit, Wayne.
- I'm No OF fan, but I like most of what I saw of Loiter Squad. I'll check it out.
- I am a fan of the Daughters visual. Consensus appears to be that LIG's poised to be better than Untitled - and by extension, his best in a while.

M.I.A on Roc Nation makes sense now after seeing pictures of her backstage at Watch The Throne in London with Rihanna.

Shawn Chrystopher was tight on the Big Sean/CyHi tour.

Lupe Fiasco has no right to be dissing Pete Rock.

Want an Andre 3000 solo record so badly.

can anyone hook me up with a link for the new Cocaine 80s leak "Unchain Me"? that tweet-for-download thing isn't working for me. thanks in advance

Can't wait for a new Big Boi album.

twittafollowin' weworemasks

exactly what i needed in my twitterfeeds. thanks.

Haven't listened to Elzhi. And that KL track is smooth, as expected.

Yes you are right OKorley its really very smooth i enjoyed it log
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Originally Posted by kevinrocks409

Lupe Fiasco has no right to be dissing Pete Rock.

You obviously didn't even look at the details of the incident. Lupe cleared it with Pete first, and then Pete went back after it was released and bitched about it just cause he didn't like it. So Pete's in the wrong here.

Originally Posted by WhoSaidThat?

- Man, Lupe can't release anything without some sort of major clusterfuck. Still, I dig the song, but it's very far from promising as far as F&L2 goes.
- Tip + Michael Bluth + Molly Megan from Bridesmaids? Could be cool.
- Goddamit, Wayne.
- I'm No OF fan, but I like most of what I saw of Loiter Squad. I'll check it out.
- I am a fan of the Daughters visual. Consensus appears to be that LIG's poised to be better than Untitled - and by extension, his best in a while.

-totally agree with you on the lupe front. it's getting so silly. it's becoming a burden to try and support him.
-all new nas stuff is tickling my fancy on the reg. very excited for LIG. anytime a top 5 of all time list gets mentioned without nas, i cringe a little.

Originally Posted by CTRL+ALT+DANCE

M.I.A on Roc Nation makes sense now after seeing pictures of her backstage at Watch The Throne in London with Rihanna.

i feel like it was bound to happen once MIA left her label. jay's been a huge fan of her for a while, and what better way to eliminate competition than by signing her?

Originally Posted by Dustin Harkins

Shawn Chrystopher was tight on the Big Sean/CyHi tour.

i enjoyed him there too. i enjoyed quite a few jams off this tape too:

http://www.datpiff.com/Shawn-Chrysto...pe.184462.html

Originally Posted by kevinrocks409

Lupe Fiasco has no right to be dissing Pete Rock.

in theory, you're right. but in this case, it's a case of who's the bigger asshole - and for a change, it's not lupe fiasco.

Originally Posted by ThisIsNotDan

can anyone hook me up with a link for the new Cocaine 80s leak "Unchain Me"? that tweet-for-download thing isn't working for me. thanks in advance

http://www.sharebeast.com/ji0dl0pz4xnf

Originally Posted by stereokiller

twittafollowin' weworemasks

exactly what i needed in my twitterfeeds. thanks.

let's be best friends.

Originally Posted by Dre Okorley

Haven't listened to Elzhi. And that KL track is smooth, as expected.

dude is very, very consistent.

Originally Posted by Dre Okorley

Haven't listened to Elzhi. And that KL track is smooth, as expected.