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EPMD drops their first album in almost a decade on December 9. We Mean Business features appearances from Def Squad alums Redman and Keith Murray, plus Raekwon, KRS-One, Teddy Riley, and Havoc of Mobb Deep.

The reunited Eric and Parrish are currently making dollars on the European leg of the Rock The Bells tour, but you can preview their new disc now after the click.

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Here’s a preview of the new documentary about Jam Master Jay that premiered at the Hollywood Black Film Festival in June. Although there’s been some disputes about the film’s accuracy regarding his death, it still looks like it will be a pretty interesting watch.

UTFO may have snagged a hip-hop classic with “Roxanne, Roxanne,” but neither the song nor the countless answer records it spawned would’ve been possible without the creativity of Full Force.

Bowlegged Lou spoke with Milk Magazine for a recent issue and gave us the inside story on hits they wrote for Lisa Lisa, Cheryl “Pepsii” Riley, and even Rihanna and Britney Spears.

But you know I couldn’t let him go without asking about those Jheri Curls. (more…)

VH1’s “100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs” premiered Monday, but I turned away after the first few entries.

Not sure what their criteria was — influence, staying power, catchy-ness — because it looked like they just raided their video archives for all the novelty records.

Wyclef’s “We Tryin to Stay Alive,” LeTigre’s “Cars With The Boom,” PM Dawn’s “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”? These are the greatest hip-hop songs? And how the hell did they beat Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend” in the rankings? Yes, we bow down to “Rapper’s Delight” for taking hip-hop mainstream, but the #2 song of all time? I think not.

Superhead, Nas’ baby mama, Faith Evans, Wendy Williams, Miss Jones, Kim Osorio. The list of hip-hop memoirs/tell-alls just keeps growing and growing…

In the latest, Let’s Talk About Pep, Pepa of Salt ‘N Pepa reveals details about being molested as a child and admits her tendency for picking the wrong men. One of them was Prince Markie D of the Fat Boys (that’s the light-skinned one), but Pep says it’s all good between them now. (more…)