XXLMag.com has a new interview up with Yung Berg, where among other things, he discusses his issues with Soulja Boy and Bow Wow.  He also mentions his plans to jump on the already crashing and burning band-wagon that is Auto-Tune. Can we please stop this madness? Oh yeah, he also claims he’s the Black Vincent…

Apparently Kanye wasn’t too pleased with the B+ rating he received from Entertainment Weekly over the opening night of his Glow In The Dark Tour in Seattle. In a piece titled: “Fuck Entertainment Weekly, I’m sick of y’all shit”, Kanye writes: Yo, anybody that’s not a fan; don’t come to my show. For what?! To…

A new joint from the Mobstaz.  From their sophomore album, Mobstability II: Nation Bizness, dropping May 27th. Speedknot Mobstaz feat. Twista & Cap 1 – “Headshot” What do you guys think about this?  A totally different sound and feel than the original Mobstability, huh…

Check out Part 2 here. Thanks to Chelsea for sending over.

A lengthy three-part interview with ‘Fest.  He discusses Obama and the altercation with Lupe Fiasco – did this guy steal his interview questions from me? Part 2 Part 3

6.) Telling the world he’s making an album with Q-Tip, then threatening to retire, only to drop an album this summer. Via Sohh

Spinning Studio from kwest on Vimeo. Yeah, I really don’t get it either.  Thought some of you kids might enjoy…

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Last night GemStones stopped by UIC Radio for a pretty in-depth interview.  Gem discusses his upcoming mixtape, touches on Chilly’s impact in the machine, the reason why the name Gemini is dead and much more.   He mentions that the mixtape could possibly drop tomorrow, but we’ll see about that.  I feel like I heard…

Billboard.com has a preview and a tentative tracklisting up of Common’s summer-slated album, Invincible Summer. Sounds interesting, but very, very tentative.  I see he hosted this special listening session for Invincible Summer in NYC, but when’s he going to play it for the home team? I wish more Chicago artists would bring their music home…