Video: Raekwon – “Walk Wit Me” (Teaser)

Here’s a teaser (I guess the music video teaser/preview clip in now protocol…boo!) to the upcoming music video for Raekwon’ “Walk Wit Me.” OB4CL II drops 9/8.

Video: Drake & Trey Songz – Successful (30 Sec. Preview)

30 second preview to the music video for Drake and Trey Songz “Successful” it was directed by Jake Davis. The song will be featured on Trey Songz new album “READY”, due in stores August 31st, 2009. The song is also featured on Drake’s “So Far Gone” mixtape available now for free download, the EP version will be sold in stores Sept. 15th 2009.

Props: OnSmash

Raekwon’s “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II” Tracklist & Production Credits

 

After an album listening event Rae’s ‘Cuban Linx II’ album is described by MTV’s Shaheem Reid:

We heard the album last night, son. Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II is a certified gem. That very last song on the LP, “Kiss the Ring,” is amazing. He’s has those mafia war stories, the sharp wordplay, Wu-Bangers and even some Dr. Dre G-Funk.

OB4CL II in stores 9/8.

Props: MTV

The offcial track listing of OB4CL II after the jump

Raekwon Speaks On Nas Missing His Guest Feature For Cuban Linx II

“He committed to it,” Rae told Mixtape Daily. “I knew dude be busy. However it goes down, it’s cool with me. My thing is, I sacrificed to even ask because of the fans. But if dudes be too busy in their own minds, they don’t have to do it. Because Rae continues to do Rae anyway. Y’all came to see me. It’s the Rae show anyway.”

The Chef does have a couple of non-Wu-Tang castmembers — Beanie Sigel and The Lox’s Jadakiss and Styles P — participating on the CD.   “I had to go back and deal with brothers I felt was really next to me, like a Sigel,” Chef said. “The way he came across, y’all gonna know he’s nothing to play with. He’s a vicious MC. When me and him get on a track, everybody gotta sit down. I got Kiss on the album. He’s like another one of me. I’m like him. We seen the same things. We share the same stories. I’m just a little older than Kiss, but we’re compatible. I wanted to keep it real Cuban, where people be like, ‘That’s how they talk.’ Jeezy would have been a good dude for the album, but maybe I’ll get him for [Cuban Linx III]. I wanted to keep it light on the features. I didn’t want everybody to [feel] like I’m looking too hard and leaning on features. I put Wu all over the joints because that’s how we made the first one.”

Props: MTV

Jay-Z Recalls How Record Labels Thought He Was ‘Terrible’

“I went to every single record label, and they was like, ‘This guy is terrible. He’s nothing,’ ” Jay told MTV News prior to the release of The Blueprint in 2001. “I had to put [Reasonable Doubt] out myself, because nobody would sign me.”

That was back in 1996, when Roc-A-Fella records was born, not out of entrepreneurial expansion but, as Hova made clear, out of necessity. “I would press up singles and go to the record stores myself, collect $100, $200, come back, give them some more records,” he recalled. “It started like that.”

Jay wasn’t embittered by his struggle, though. If anything, it gave him a sharper perspective on the music business. “It made me appreciate it so much more,” he said. “No one gave me anything. They didn’t give me a record deal. I really just took my time and grew it step by step by step by step. I could have easily been like, ‘Maybe what I’m talking about ain’t right! Nobody wants to sign me!’ That would have stopped the suffering. But I didn’t.”

Props: MTV

First Look: Ghostface Killah’s “Ghostdini: The Wizard Of Poetry In Emerald City” Album Cover Art

GFK’s album cover art…the LP drops September 29.

Props: NR

Audio: Raekwon feat. Lyfe Jennings – “Catalina” (prod. Dr. Dre) [Dirty]

The clean version leaked just days ago…not the dirty version is unleashed…check it out.

Raekwon feat. Lyfe Jennings – Catalina (prod. Dr. Dre) [Dirty]

First Look: NBA 2K10 Trailer Features Kanye West’s “Amazin’”

First look at the first official trailer for the NBA 2K10 video game which sports Kobe Bryant at the cover boy and pitchman this year. The trailer also uses Kanye West’s “Amazin’” which was also used as the official theme music of the NBA Playoffs this past season…(translates to Cha-Ching!!) Yeezy FTW!! Check it out.

 Drops October 6.

Props: WoooHa

Audio: Jay-Z Feat. Lil’ Wayne – “Run This Town” (Green Lantern Mix)

DJ Green Lantern mixes up Jigga’s 2nd single and mashes it with Weezy from Weezy & Baby’s joint “I Run This.”

Jay-Z feat. Lil’ Wayne – “Run This Town” (Green Lantern Mix) | Clean

Audio: Nipsey Hussle Feat. Snoop Dogg – “Gangsta’s Life”

Nipsey Hussle drops a track with the OG, Snoop Dogg.

Nipsey Hussle feat. Snoop Dogg – Gangsta’s Life

South Central State Of Mind will be in stores December 22nd.