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”

Wow, what a great story. Kandi talks about that line in Biggie’s “Dreams of F–king an R&B B—h” when he said “I’d rather f–k Rupaul than those ugly-ass Xscape b—hes.” At the time, the line upset her, but then on “the night that he passed, we were out at the party in LA…And he was apologizing to [Tiny] for what he said about us. So she came back to me and she said, ‘oh Kandi, he just saying he’s sorry and he didn’t mean it. And I was like, ‘man, please, f–k him!’ And I just feel so horrible!…that’s why you should never really hold grudges, I guess.”

Thanks to Jerry Barrow/UrbanDaily for sending this over.

And as you already know….Kandi=favorite Real Housewife ever.

R.Kelly devoted time to tribute Michael Jackson onstage at the Los Angeles stop of his “Ladies Make Some Noise” tour. No surprise because Kels wrote “You are not alone” and more for MJ. Along with showing that awesome clip of director Brett Ratner and Michael Jackson rockin’ R.Kelly’s “Ignition” in a car…Kels also shared some kind of new MJ-tribute song…

Thanks to Rap-Up for the R.Kelly concert coverage, more of their video clips after the jump…Also, there’s a hilarious write-up of the R.Kelly NYC show by NYMag’s Vulture Blog (spotted on FakeShoreDrive)…
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Alot of gamers and music fans are gonna be so happy someone took the time to put this together. Even if you don’t play DJ Hero (I haven’t gotten the time to fully perfect any songs….it took a while for me to get that Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps” just right on Rock Band : ), you’ll still appreciate the diverse blends on the game…created by DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ AM (R.I.P), DJ Shadow, and more. We’re talkin’ 88 tracks here…mixing Rihanna into the Killers, Q-Tip into Billy Squier, Bobby Blue Bland into Tupac (!) and more.

DJ Hero soundtrack: Part 1

DJ Hero soundtrack: Part 2

(NOTE: if you’re having trouble downloading, I’m not sure what the issue is, but try going here to download it. Godfree said he was able to download the audio from both his site and from this post too…so it may be an individual issue)

(Previously: Eminem talks about battling DJ Jazzy Jeff)

(PS:….6 More Days Until Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2!)

Thanks to my friend Godfree at GamertagRadio for the link….check out the very extensive tracklisting after the jump…
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(spotted on Mr. X’s XclusivesZone)

UPDATE: here’s more footage from last night’s epic Red Bull Big Tune Battle of the Beats event at Opera in Atlanta. Jadakiss performed, and aspiring producers battled for the chance to collaborate with a major artist (last year’s winner, C-Sick, got his track laced by Nas)….then Alchemist and Just Blaze went beat for beat in a friendly “beat-off” (lol, ok, that didn’t sound right)

Look how happy the whole crowd is! Now this is one of those perfect hip hop moments. I remember how fun Swizz Beats vs. Kanye West was at Summerjam a couple years ago. This is even better.
I can’t wait for more footage of this to come out (hit me if you see any), looked amazing!

(read more about Red Bull Big Tune here, and on one of the finalists here)

UPDATE: More footage from the beat battle after the jump…

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Stretch Gots a Story to Tell from Gasface on Vimeo.

I love that my friends from Gasface TV (Lyons, France) just happened to bump into DJ Stretch Armstrong while walking down Broadway and 116th st….right by Stretch and Bobbito’s old stomping ground (lol, and mine).
Stretch tells them about all the rappers who came through those WKCR Eighty-Nine-Tech-Nine….good times.

These 2 guys are still sounding good. Cormega held a release party at S.O.B.s last night to celebrate his new Born and Raised album. I’ll add more clips as they emerge. (Thanks to Ice)

Jadakiss and Styles P: my favorite part of the show. They killed it!

The ill-fated OJ da Juiceman set…read Eskay’s take on the boo-birds here…and for the record, I heard “Make the Trap Say…” last night in the club, and yup, still liked it.

After the jump….more of the NahRight/Onsmash footage: Raspy Raekwon, Kidz in the Hall,

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Thanks to Matt Fastow and Evan/UpNorthTrips for the audio to last nights much-loved Just Blaze dj-session at Tony Touch’s Toca Tuesday. As previously posted, Just played some treats from his private collection, including Jay Electronica’s “Exhibit C,” an unnamed Nas song, and his Saigon song “Friends and Enemies”….even beyond the snippets and secret stash, the mix was good stuff….

Just Blaze guest-deejays on the Tony Touch Toca Tuesday show, on Shade 45

After the jump, check out Toca Tues’ new music segment, Cormega visit, Sean Price visit, and a phone call from Saigon too….AND, thanks to Roni from Decon, who sent over the flyer for next week’s “secret” Jay Electronica concert in NYC

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Wow, this is fascinating. Rakim tells my friend Jerry Barrow that he had mixed feelings about Nas’ “Unauthorized Biography of Rakim” song (off Streets Disciple, 2004)….and by mixed, it seems like a mix of “you’re overstepping” and “you shoulda asked me first.” (Hence the “unauthorized” I guess)
But Ra also says Nas didn’t respond to his outreach after the song came out. Which seems impolite. It feels like Nas has some social awkwardness and impropriety. I actually sympathize with that, because I’m terrible with simple social rules myself.

(thanks to Jerry at Urban Daily for the link!)