Watch Sean Price of Helter Skelter get Punked! by Bootcamp Click's Buckshot over at Nahright.

Atmosphere was nominated for Woodie of the Year. Voting ends October 20th and can be done at here. Award Show airing November 2nd @ 8pm EST on mtvU and November 4th @ 10pm on MTV/MTV2.

Another Jay-Z track leaks. Kingdom Come is somewhat of a relief and pretty good. Beats by Just Blaze. Listen and read the 'making of' over at XXL. More here.

AboutRap lists their top 50 Hip Hop Producers ever. Top 10 listed below:

01 | DJ PREMIER
02 | Pete Rock
03 | Dr. Dre
04 | RZA
05 | Large Professor
06 | Marley Marl
07 | The Bomb Squad
08 | Kanye West
09 | Timbaland
10 | Rick Rubin

Kanye West is interviewed in EW and claims to be Bigger than Elvis. Particularly funny to myself.

Check out Philadelphia born Ashura on his MySpace page. In his own words, "The music is a fusion of ambient and jagged instrumentals overlayed with gritty lyrics, all of them transcending the typically sampled and predominantly generic productions of most rap units".

Listen to two new contributions to MTV's My Block: Chicago soundtrack. Gemini's "Got What You Need" (stream) and Lupe Fiasco's "I Gotcha" (stream).

Listen to Black Sheep's new song WHODAT here. Watch them perform it live here. Another video here. Check for their great new album 8wm/NOVAKANE later this month (October 24th).

Philadelphia star rapper Cassidy suffered a fractured skull and fractured facial bones in a car accident in Jersey City and remains in critical condition. He is expected to survive.

Jadakiss was arrested for gun possesion.

Xzibit might be going back to where he belongs: making meaningfull Hip Hop. Watch his performance of "Thank You" live on Letterman.

Snoop Dogg gives the most amusing interview by a rapper in a long time.

I couldn't find a review of A Tribe Called Quest's October 1st show at Starland Ballroom in NJ, but here's a short one from their September performance at Berkeley Community Theatre, and here's an interview with Phife Dawg.

Gang Starr, featuring the aforementioned DJ Premier, releases another 'Best Of'. What was wrong with the first one? 'Mass Appeal: The Best Of Gang Starr' is a 21-Track CD featuring seven Top 10 Hits and two Soundtrack recordings; Deluxe Edition CD/DVD Adds 13 Music Videos. In Stores December 26th. Tracklisting below:

MASS APPEAL: THE BEST OF GANG STARR
1. You Know My Steez
2. Manifest
3. Step In The Arena
4. Mass Appeal
5. Ex Girl To The Next Girl
6. Skills
7. The Militia
8. Check The Technique
9. Dwyck
10. Take It Personal
11. Put Up Or Shut Up
12. Above The Clouds
13. Lovesick
14. Now You're Mine
15. Soliloquy Of Chaos
16. Code Of The Streets
17. Just To Get A Rep
18. Royalty
19. B.Y.S.
BONUS TRACKS
20. Tha Squeeze (from Training Day soundtrack and The Owners Japanese import)
21. Natural (from Spin This soundtrack and The Owners Japanese import)

MASS APPEAL: THE BEST OF GANG STARR (Deluxe Edition CD/DVD)
DVD Tracklist
1. Step In The Arena
2. Just To Get A Rep
3. Who's Gonna Take the Weight
4. Ex Girl to the Next Girl
5. Take It Personal
6. Code of the Streets
7. Mass Appeal
8. You Know My Steez
9. The Militia
10. Full Clip
11. Discipline (featuring Total)
12. Nice Girl, Wrong Place
13. Skills

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