This was an odd combo: Common, country rocker Zac Brown (his eponymous band won Best New Artist tonite) and Colbie Caillat (a Starbucks singer like Michael Buble, lol) perform “The Light” at the BMI “How I Wrote that Song” showcase on Saturday. (Thanks to Daylan/Hiphopofficial for sending over)

Mikey: While performing at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA, Timbaland brought out Grammy nominated Drizzy Drake to perform their record “Say Something”, Drizzy also spit his verse from “Forever”. Drake will be performing at this year’s Grammy Awards along with Lil Wayne, Travis Barker, and Eminem which airs this Sunday at 8pm (local) on CBS. (props Rap-Up)

Related: New Video: Timbaland feat. Drake “Say Something”

Kanye left this message on his blog Friday afternoon…

Related: Kanye and Amber are fuzzy wuzzy at Paris Men’s Fashion Week

Mikey: On Thursday night, Tila Tequila jumped on her twitter account and started hinting that West Cost rapper Game had impregnated her.  Responding to Tila’s outrageous claims, Game tweeted that he wanted 30 mins with TMZ so he could set the record straight. According to Game, he has only met Tila in passing a few times and has never even shared a conversation with her, let alone slept with her (which took Game about 5 mins to explain). He then got another 45 mins or so to talk about everything from Gilbert Arenas’ gun scandal, The Grammys, the Kardashians, etc etc haha.

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Mikey: Info caught up with RiRi in LA for a lil pre-Grammy radio session. Rihanna talks about her chances of “Run This Town” (with Jay-Z and Kanye West) winning Best Rap Collaboration and future plans to work with Lady Gaga. More to come.

New Music: Erykah Badu feat. Lil Wayne “Jump Up In The Air (Stay There)”
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Mikey: There was a low quality rip floating around last month, but now we have the CDQ collabo from Erykah Badu and Weezy. This is just the first of 10 different versions of this song that will be released, so there’s bound to be some surprises in the near future. Erykah Badu’s Amerykah pt.2: Return of the Ankh is scheduled to be released Mar. 30th.

Mikey: Some footage of Kelis performing last night at the Black Eyed Peas & David Guetta Grammy Party in Los Angeles. Is that a tail extension? (spotted Tracy Nguyen/iprmktg)

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(had to bring back the Stimulus Package CD-packaging)

New Music: Freeway & Jake One feat. Raekwon “One Thing”  (Download Link)
Seriously, everything off this Stimulus Package album has been fire so far. (Feb 16th) (via NMC)

New Music: Kelis “Scream & Shout” (Download Link)

Some new Kelis, sounds like she wants back on radio. But people are talking more about this. (via Splash)

New Music: Big Boi feat. T.I. “Tangerine” (snippet) (Download Link)

Still missing some verses, but sounds good so far…(via Splash)

New Music: Joe Budden “My Downfall” (prod. by J. Cardim) (Download Link)

This one won’t make The Great Escape due to sample clearances, still dope tho. (via Dre)

New Music: Joell Ortiz feat. Novel “Ghetto pt.1″ (Download Link)

Onsmash got another leak from Joell & Novel’s Defying The Predictable (Feb. 6th) (via Legend)

(music videos from Tony Yayo, Sean Price, and Twista feat. Lil Boosie after the jump)

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Mikey: 50 briefly explains what went wrong with former G-Unit artist, Olivia. But really, isn’t it common sense that you can’t spend mills without producing hit records… (props Allhiphop)

Mikey: Derick G was behind the scenes at Cash Money’s latest video shoot for “I Made It (Cash Money Heroes)” feat. Kevin Rudolf , Jay Sean, Lil Wayne & Birdman. Also a trailer for Lil Wayne’s Rebirth album after the jump (via NewLilWayne).

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