Here’s Kelis’ first “comeback” single, “Acapella.” And by the sounds of this, the new mom is going in the direction of straight dance, no urban. Her voice sounds nice, the track is borderline spin-class, but I like it. A dance in your socks song. You can read Kelis’ message at her IAmKelis site. (thanks to Tracy for the heads up!)

New Music: Kelis “Acapella”

After the jump, that recent Crookers feat. Kelis video, “No Security.”
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Thisis50 posted video of 50 and Eminem (along with Em’s manager Paul Rosenberg and others) sharing downtime at the rehearsals for last night’s American Music Awards. Fif narrates, Em doesn’t address the camera, but its still nice to see the lowkey footage. Now it woulda been really interesting if they had also shot 50’s immediate reaction to Hov’s acceptance speech later on that night…But I’m sure we’ll hear a measured response soon.

“That is until 50 Cent swooped in like the tooth fairy and started sprinkling magic beef dust on everybody….”

“Jay-z is like one of those British dudes with the big hats, that you just can’t get anything out of…”

“He’s just not that into…beefing with you.“

Raekwon recorded his own version of Dirty Money’s “Angels” track…Jimmy teamed up with his boy Maino for “Tryin’ to Win,” which is off his upcoming Ghost of Rich Porter mixtape… and Rihanna and Justin Timberlake did this song “Hole in My Head,” which is a European bonus track on Rihanna’s Rated R.

New Remix: Raekwon’s Dirty Money “Angels” (remix) (A Mr. X/NMC premiere)

New Music: Jim Jones feat. Maino “Tryna Win” (Thx Splash)

New Music: Rihanna feat. Justin Timberlake “Hole in My Head” (spotted on Concrete Loop)

The best performance of the AMAs was Lady Gaga’s flaming piano in a box, in my humble opinion. Worst? That was probably a tie between Shakira’s drumline, Rihanna’s wooden, Jeezy-less “Hard,” and Fergie’s sour notes.

But while the core AMA viewership was probably still giddy about all of Taylor Swift’s wins….hip hop fans were debating Hov’s very deliberate Favorite Rap Artist acceptance speech…

Which ended with: “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t,” and a sardonic laugh.

Now I’m pretty sure Hov has repeated his line at other award shows…but is this a jab at 50’s <200k first week sales projections?

After the jump…the other “big” moment of the AMA’s was when Jennifer Lopez was dancing and slipped and fell for a split second. So friggin’ what.

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50 Cent went on a BISD promotional assault unlike any I’ve seen since…well, since Hov and Blueprint 3. They didn’t make the same stops, but certainly the volume is similar. 1) The 50 Cent x Funkmaster Flex interview was most amusing to me, because Flex knows how to nudge 50 to the edge of appropriateness (or past?). And 50 is a very good sport. (I’ll add some quotes later, the chat about Beanie’s court date got crazy, but add your favorites if you want.) (PS: audio from Adot via NMC)

50 Cent on the Funkmaster Flex show, part 1:

50 Cent on the Funkmaster Flex show, part 2:
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50 Cent on the Funkmaster Flex show, part 3:

50 Cent on the Funkmaster Flex show, part 4:

2) While 50 and Flex serve to instigate each other into full on roast every time…Conan O’Brien brings out 50’s goofy comedic side.

Much more after the jump….50 on Tavis Smiley…50 on Chelsea Lately…on Vibe.com, on Meet the Press, on the Great Space Coaster, on Robot Chicken, on Reba!, on Multimillion Dollar Listing, on the Dog Whisperer….and more…

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1) Slaughterhouse “Microphone”

2) Fabolous feat. Kobe “Imma Do it” video (spotted on Nahright)

3) Young Money’s Lil Twist released his new mixtape feat. Nicki Minaj, Soulja Boy, New Boyz, etc. Truthfully, after seeing The Carter documentary, all I can think of is that cringeworthy studio session when Weezy grills Twist on the state of his virginity, and relates it to his “rape” at age 11. (*shudders*) But the homie Patrick from NewLilWayne asked nicely, so check it out in the new music roundup : ) Download Lil Twist: Class President mixtape. (tracklisting after the jump)

Also, after the jump….Maino’s skin-e-max video, lol, and more…

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Update: Beanie Sigel “How I Can Kill Jigga Man” (CDQ)

(props to Splash)

Update: Beanie Sigel “Think Big”

(props to Nahright)

I’m pretty sure this is the other joint Cosmic Kev played…
 
Mikey: A few hours ago on Philly’s Power 99 radio station, DJ Cosmic Kev broke two more Jay-Z diss tracks by Beanie Sigel, while AHH reported one of the songs only contains one line going at Jay , “Back down Jigga/put my nuts on that n**as neck,” Sigel raps on the first, unnamed track. The other track titled, “How  I Can Kill Jigga Man” is obviously an entire ”freestyle” attacking Shawn Carter, over Cypress Hill’s “How I Could Just Kill a Man”, Sigel raps…

“Take over/n***a the breaks over/fraud emcee/he Jay Hova/Hey little soldier you aint ready for the rude boy/quick to pull the tool boy.”

“You aint gonna say nothing boy?” Sigel says at the end of the song taunting Jay-Z. “Damn, I thought you was the boy, boy. You aint nothing but a boy, boy boy. I aint gonna stop boy.”

(Props to Allhiphop)

Gucci Mane Talks Working With Usher For The 3rd Time from LowKey on Vimeo.

Lowkey posted this latest clip from that my sit-down with Gucci Mane, over at his BET Soundoff blog. In it, Gucci reveals that “Spotlight” is in fact, not his first collabo with Usher, it’s his third. He was the original rapper on “Love in the Club.”
(so what was the 2nd?)

By the way, thank you to a lot of youse.

Previously: Gucci Mane x Miss Info Pt 1 “My Own Worst Enemy”

Bdot/RR went to Best Buy in Union Square to see the Doctor and Jimmy Iovine promote their latest Beats by Dre hardware, and I believe Diplo, David Guetta and the Monster Cable suits were on hand too. Sadly, Bdot reports that Iovine blocked Dre from answering any 50 vs Game questions, but that’s not surprising. They were there to shill, lol.

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