Shame about the delayed release of Common's new album, Universal Mind Control, because "Make My Day" would've sounded amazing en route to a summer barbecue. Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley man Cee-Lo Green is the opposite of the recently trendy T-Pain/Akon breed of robot hookman, infusing the happy-love chorus with good old-fashioned soul amid bac...

Jay-Z and Santogold put on for their borough with triumphantly brassy production by Kanye West on a track reportedly intended for the soundtrack to upcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious. What "Brooklyn Go Hard" boasts in bloggability, though, it mostly lacks in originality. Jay's "Hello Brooklyn" was one of the weaker songs on American Gang...

Ah, hubris, where would Lil Wayne be without you. The self-proclaimed (though not totally deluded) "best rapper alive," fresh off his recent forays in the worlds of twang and comedy, has filled in the rest of his so-called "I Am Music" tour he shares with T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes, Keri Hilson, Keyshia Cole, and Heather McIntosh of the Instrument...

After several closely monitored weeks of leaks, it's time to take a look at the year's most anticipated album that doesn't feature Buckethead. Given Kanye West's reputation for finding musical inspiration in unlikely places (be they leftfield samples or genre-bending collaborations) it's surprising to see the superstar rapper/producer embrace su...

"AutoTune is on its way out," T-Pain assures at the end of this remix of summer single "Can't Believe It", from Thr33 Ringz. If that's true (right?), then T-Pain is grinningly milking the trend like it's "The Twist", if not the British Invasion. Noted AutoTune and candy-metaphor user Lil Wayne appeared on the original, but he gets outshone this ...