First Look: Rihanna – “Te Amo” Single Cover Art

check out the new cover art for Rihanna’s new single “Te Amo” which will be released very soon and she recently shot a video for in Paris, France while on her European tour.  Also “Rockstar 101″ [reworked with drummer Travis Barker]will  be released May 18th to U.S. radio andwill  also have a music video.

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Eminem Receives “Artist Of The Decade” Award

Eminem received his plaque officially declaring him “SSK” [Soundscan Killer] (sorry Curtis) of the past decade. With over 32 million copies of his albums sold in the last decade, Eminem was recognized by Nielsen Soundscan as “Artist of the Decade” — Up top he picks up the award honoring his acheivement.

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Video: The-Dream feat. Ludacris – “Love King” Remix

New video from The-Dream featuring Ludacris for the “Love King” remix.

Clipse Duo, Pusha T & Malice, To Release Solo Albums In 2010

“2010 new Clipse music, new Re-Up Gang music, solo projects by myself, Pusha and Malice,”

During their performance last week rap group, Clipse, announce that they will be releasing solo albums later this year. The dropped their their third album Til The Casket Drops last year to critical acclaim. 

Check out footage their performance of “Popular Demand (Popeyes)” and solo albums annoucement (@ the 4:08 mark) after the jump

Lloyd Banks To Release Regional Remixes Of His Hit “Beamer, Benz Or Bentley

Looks like G-Unit rapper Banks is trying to cover all the bases with his current hit “Beamer, Benz Or Bentley” featuring Juelz Santana. Tyring to capitalize on the recent success of his hit Banks spoke to VIBE and revealed plans on doling several remix versions of the song catering to differents regions.  Although plenty of rappers made their own versions of the track Banks kept tight-lipped on who will appear on the official remixes — Slim Thug announced that he’s was tapped for a verse and rumor has it that G-Unit general, 50 Cent, will apear on the East Coast/NYC version — which will drop sooner than you think.

“I’ve got so much love and a good response on this record that it’s actually going to have to be more than one remix because it goes by markets,” Banks told VIBE, careful not to drop names. “You got Down South, you got the West coast, you got the East coast. Different regions take different records.”

Banks’ thoughts on other rappers’ “Beamer” versions:

“I thought the Maino version was cool, I like the Joe Budden verse. Fab is cool too and there’s so many more, but those are the ones that stick out to me,” Banks said. “They’re playing that Joell Ortiz version a lot in NY, too. I still think mine is the tightest, but hey [laughs].” 

Dame Dash Says He’ll Work With Jay-Z Again On Roc-A-Fella

Dame spoke to MTV about resurrecting the ROC, now he’s speaks on the possibility of working with his old homie Jigga:

“If Jay wanna come through and do something, he can come holla at me,” Dash said. “I ain’t got no beefs with Jay.” “Just off the strength that it’s Roc-A-Fella, I could never tell Jay he can’t be a part of something he helped create,” the Harlem born CEO said. “So maybe it felt ridiculous that he said [me and Biggs couldn't be a part of Roc-A-Fella once we sold the company] and a Roc-A-Fella purists didn’t appreciate that. If I walked away from Roc-A-Fella, then that would be different. But the option should always be there. So the option is there for him. He helped build that. And I don’t hold grudges. I think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness. If he did something wrong or if I did something wrong, we’d have to forgive each other, or we’d still be children.”

Music: Young Jeezy feat. Rick Ross – “Just Saying (Remix)”

Rick Ross jumps on Jeezy’s “Just Saying” track of his Trap Or Die 2 mixtape…tags on the song. The song will appear on Ross’ Albert Anastasia EP (hosted by DJ Smallz) dropping Memorial Day weekend.

Young Jeezy feat. Rick Ross – “Just Saying (Remix)”

Video: Young Jeezy – “Trap Or Die 2: The Introduction”

Young Jeezy drops a new video for the intro of his latest mixtape Trap Or Die 2 — “The Introduction” — which is directed by Decatur Dan.

Dame Dash Speaks On The Diplomats Reunion

Dame Dash speaks on and approves of Cam’Ron & Jim Jones’ reconcilition albeit with hindsight from his own conflict with former friend Jay-Z.

I’m more happy than anything that they’re friends — that they were able to salvage their friendship, if that’s the case. I think they’re better than me for that: being smart enough and humble enough to apologize to each other and move forward. I really do hope that where I failed to be the right example, that they can be that. You always want the people ahead of you to do better than you anyway. For that, I gotta give them props for being men above anything.

Dame also speaks on the possibility of The Diplomats releasing an album on his resurrected Roc-A-Fella Records.

Um, under the right circumstances. As long as everyone is happy, as long as the quality of living is never compromised, as long as everyone is on the same sheet of paper — of course. It’d be great. Anything is great under the right circumstances but a dream could become a nightmare when everyone doesn’t have the same agendas. That’s just a general statement.

First Look: Drake – “Thank Me Later” Album Cover

Here’s the first look at Drake’s Thank Me Later album cover art; jumping right ya — album in stores June 15th. If you don’t understand the cover just yet…you will, the cover ties in to the rest of the album packaging. Tracklist coming soon.

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