“We’re trying to get together and do something on my new album for my new record, so [I'm] definitely in contact with her. I ain’t never hung out with them like that, but you know she’s a sweet girl and I had fun making the record ['California Gurls'] with her… Like I said, I’m looking forward to her being on my record as well. My sound is just fun, good music. My music has always been about me having a good time, people feeling good, that’s what I’m looking for.”

~Snoop Dogg on re-connecting with Katy Record for a new track

Nottz You Need This Music on Raw Koncept set to arrive October 12th.

via HHDX

“You Need This Music” will feature numerous high-profile guests, including Snoop & Royce Da 5’9″ on a cut together.

With singles produced for the likes of Busta Rhymes and Scarface, Virginia’s Nottz has an extensive catalog that’s found the bass-heavy producing working with artists in both the underground and the mainstream. After releasing 2005′s Nottz Presents: DMP hitting shelves, the producer is finally approaching his official solo debut.

To be released on October, 12, Nottz’ You Need This Music finds the producer working with an assortment of respected artists and past collaborators. Guests include Travis Barker, Asher Roth, Little Brother and “Never Caught Slippin’,” which finds Long Beach’s Snoop Dogg sharing the microphone with Detroit’s Royce Da 5’9″.

The tracklisting for You Need This Music is as follows:

01. Intro ft. Travis Barker
02. Fair Warning
03. Blast That ft. Black Milk
04. Shine So Brite
05. You Need This Music ft. Dwele
06. I Do It For Yawl ft. Kardinal Offishall & Little Brother
07. How Long Will It Last? ft. Joy Denalane
08. A Dream Come True
09. I Still Love You ft. Mayer Hawthorne
10. Dontcha Wanna Be (My Neighbor) ft. Asher Roth & Colin Munroe
11. No Money Down ft. Terese Cook
12. The Cycle ft. Joel Ortiz
13. Never Caugh Slippin’ ft. Snoop Dogg & Royce Da 5’9
14. Right Here ft. Bilal

This by far is the longest New Release date list ever published on Hip Hop Update. It may have to do with that most albums during the year come out at end of August and all of September. Kids going back to school, end of Summer are the variety of reasons as to why. Either way, here we go.

August 2010
Bun B – Trill O.G. – August 3
El-P – Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 – August 3
Pastor Troy – King Of All Kings – August 3
Freddie Gibbs – Str8 Killa (EP) – August 3
Bizzy Bone – Crossroads 2010 – August 10
Ayatollah – Live From The MPC 60 (3-CD) – August 10
KRS-One & True Master – Meta-Historical – August 10
Messy Marv & Berner – Thizz City – August 10
Mike Posner – 31 Minutes to Takeoff – August 10
LMNO – Tripping On This Journey – August 10
Ahmad – The Death Of Me – August 10
Trek Life – Everything Changed Nothing – August 10
Lord Infamous – Futuristic Bounty Hunter – August 10
Dondria – Dondria vs. Phatfffat – August 17
Kem – Intimacy – August 17
Teairra Mari – Sincerely Yours (EP) – August 17
Crooked I – Planet C.O.B. v.1 EP – August 17
Camu Tao – King of Hearts – August 17
Katy Perry – Teenage Dream – August 24
DJ Muggs vs Ill Bill – Kill Devil Hills – August 24
Cam’ron Presents The U.N. – Gunz N’ Butta – August 24
Blu – Her Favorite Colo(u)r – August 24
Dorrough – Get Big – August 24
Wino-O – Wine-O – August 24
Fantasia – Back To Me – August 24
The Pack – Wolfpack Party – August 24
Tha Dogg Pound – 100 Wayz – August 24
Usher- Raymond V. Raymond (Deluxe Ed.) – August 24
Usher – Versus (EP) – August 24
Cymarshall Law & The Beatnikz – Freedom Express Line – August 31
Boss Hogg Outlawz Present J Dawg – August 31
Slaughterhouse – The EP – August 31
Lyfe Jennings – I Still Believe – August 31
Exile – AM/FM – August 31
Spraga Benz – Shotta Culture – August 31
Fabolous – There is No Competition 2: The Grieving Music (EP) – August 31
Maximum Ballon – Maximum Ballon – August 31
Godfather Don – Properties Of Steel – August 31

September 2010
J. Cole – Cole World
Birdman – Bigger Than Life
Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0 To 60
New Boyz – Too Cool to Care
Musiq Soulchild – TBA
Travis Barker – TBA
Drag-On – My Life, My Legacy, My Melody
Eric Benet – Lost In Time
Raekwon – Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
Young Buck – The Rehab – September 7
Duke Da God – More Than Music 3 – September 7
N.E.R.D. – Nothing – September 7
Sauce Money – TBA – September 7
Chingy – Success & Failure – September 7
Nate Dogg – G-Funk Mix – September 7
Blue Sky Black Death – Third Party – September 7
Ski Beatz – 24 Hour Karate School – September 14
Krizz Kaliko – Shock Treatment – September 14
Trey Songz – Passion, Pain & Pleasure – September 14
Huey – Redemption – September 14
Marques Houston – Mattress Music – September 14
MF Doom – Expektoration (Live) – September 14
Chromeo – Business Casual – September 14
Bilal – Airtight’s Revenge – September 14
Black Milk – Album of the Year – September 14
Cali Swag District – The Kickback – September 14
Big Sean – Finally Famous – September 14
Kanye West – Dark Twisted Fantasy – Nov.
Consequence – ConsTV – September 14
Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns – September 14
Shontelle – No Gravity – September 14
Chiddy Bang – The Swelly Life – September 14
Wu-Tang Management Presents: The Watchmen – Various – September 14
Boss Hogg Outlawz Presents J Dawg – September 14
Diddy: Dirty Money – Last Train To Paris – September 20
Ne-Yo – Libra Scale – September 21
John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up – September 21
Prospect – First Blood – September 21
8 Ball & MJG – From the Bottom 2 The Top – September 21
Pastor Troy – The Best Of Pastor Troy – September 21
RydazNRtist – Soulful Warfare – September 21
Stevie Joe – 80′s Baby – September 21
Tank – Now or Never – September 21
Michael Franti – The Sound of Sunshine – September 21
N.O.M.E. Nomadd – The Who? – September 21
Rah Digga - Classics – September 21
Roots Manuva Meets Wrong Tom – Duppy Writer – September 21
Lil Wayne – I’m Not A Human Being (EP) – September 27
Jagged Edge – The Remedy – September 28
Ice Cube – I Am The West – September 28
Mark Ronson – Record Collection – September 28
Hell Razah – Heaven Razah – September 28
Jim Jones – Capo – September 28
T.I. – King Uncaged – September 28
Young Jeezy – TM 103 – September 28
Gucci Mane – The Appeal: Georgia’s Most Wanted – September 28
Joe Budden – The Great Escape – September 28
Kane & Abel – Back On Money – September 28
Aloe Blacc – Good Things – September 28
B-Real – The Harvest – Vol. 1 – September 28
Thug Lordz (C-Bo & Yukmouth) – Thug Money – September 28
Donell Jones – Donell Jones – September 28
Skillz – Hip Hop Confessions – September 28
Group Home – Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal – September 28
Black Market Militia – Timbo King – September 28
Jazmine Sullivan – Love Me Back – September 28
Snoop Dogg – Greatest Hits – September 28
Big Pun – Big Pun the Legacy (Special Collector’s Ed.) – September 28
Greg Nice – Popcycle – September 28

October 2010
LMNO – Box Set
YG – Fresh On Campus
Kardinal Offishall – Mr. International
Scarface – The Habit
Copywrite – The Life and Times of Peter Nelson
Red Café – Red October
DJ Quik – The Book of David
Ciara – Basic Instinct – October 5
Soulja Boy – Dre – October 5
Roscoe Dash – Ready Set Go! – October 5
Canibus – C Of Tranquility – October 5
Pimp C – The Naked Soul of Sweet James Jones – October 5
Rye Rye – Go! Pop! Bang! – October 5
Twista – The Perfect Storm – October 5
Faith Evans – Somethin’ About Faith – October 5
Ninja Tune XX – Box Set – October 5
Skyzoo & Illmind – Live From The Tape Deck – October 5
Mr. Del – Tennman – October 5
Koshir – White Girl Diaries – October 5
Lil Scrappy – Prince Of The South 2 – October 5
The Bone Brothers – Best Of The Bone Brothers – October 5
Bobby Valentino – Fly On the Wall – October 12
9th Wonder & Buckshot – The Solution – October 12
The Foreign Exchange – Authenticity – October 12
¡MAYDAY! – Stuck On An Island – October 12
Big Bad 40 (formerly 40 Glocc) – NWA: New World Agenda – October 12
Smif N Wessun & Pete Rock – Monumental – October 12
Pac Div – Grown Kid Syndrome – October 12
Gangrene (Alchemist & Oh No) – Gutter Water – October 12
Kabosh (Krizz Kaliko & Tech N9ne) – Amafrican Psycho – October 19
Redman – Reggie – October 19
Von Pea – Pea’s Gotta Have It – October 19
Nipsey Hussle – South Central State of Mind – October 19
Shawn Chrystopher – You & Only You – October 19
Natalie Stewart (fr. Floetry) – TBA – October 26
Lyrics Born – As U Were – October 26
Termanology & Statik Seletah – 1982 – October 26
Pharoahe Monch – W.A.R. We Are Renegades – October 26
Outasight – Brand New Sessions – October 26
9th Wonder Presents – 9th’s Opus: It’s A Wonderful World Music Group V.1 – October 26
Kid Cudi – Man On The Moon 2: The Legend Of Mr. Rager – October 26

November / December 2010
Michael Jackson – TBA
Common – The Believer
Mariah Carey – TBA/Christmas Album
Rihanna – TBA
Jadakiss – Top Five, Dead or Alive

Kelly Rowland – Kelly Rowland – November 2

Jay Sean – Freeze Time – November 2
Fabolous – Loso’s Way 2 – November 23
Nicki Minaj – TBA – November 23
2Pac – TBA – December 2010

Summer 2010 – To Be Scheduled
Flo Rida – The Only One
David Banner & 9th Wonder – Death Of A Pop Star
Daz Dillinger Presents: This Is Long Beach – Various
Evidence – Cats & Dogs
Yo Gotti – Live From The Kitchen
Mack 10 & Glasses Malone – Money Muzik
Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 (Deluxe Ed.)

Fall 2010 – To Be Scheduled
Cee-Lo – Lady Killer
Wyclef Jean – Wyclef Jean: The Haitian Experience
GZA – Liquid Swords 2: The Return Of The Shadowboxer
Obie Trice – Bottom’s Up
Mickey Factz – The New Museum
Juelz Santana – Born To Lose, Built to Win
Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels – Origins of Block Music
Ray J – Raydiation 2
Shareefa – The Secret
Keke Palmer – TBA
WC – Revenge of the Barracuda
Slim Thug – Tha Thug Show
Busta Rhymes – Extinction Level Event 2
Jennifer Hudson – TBA
Estelle – All of Me
Nelly – Nelly 5.0
Pleasure P – Pleasure P Principles
Cassidy – C.A.S.H. (Cass A Straight Hustla)
Glasses Malone – Beach Cruiser
Johnta Austin – Love Sex Religion
MC Eiht – Which Way Is West

2010 – To Be Scheduled
Lupe Fiasco – L.A.S.E.R.S.
Ludacris – Ludaversal
Shyne – Guess Who
Jeremih – All About You
Keri Hilson – TBA
Asher Roth – The Spaghetti Tree
Joell Ortiz – Free Agent
Chamillionaire – Venom
Ja Rule – Renaissance Project
R. Kelly – Zodiac
Nottz – You Need This Music
Lloyd Banks – H.F.M. 2: Hunger for More 2
Maino – The Day After
Dres – From The Black Pool Of Genius
Bow Wow – Who Is Shad Moss?
Miquel – State of the Art
7L & Esoteric – 1212
Marsha Ambrosius – Late Nights & Early Mornings

2010 – To Be Rescheduled
Jamie Foxx – TBA – was July 20
Spose – The Audacity! – was July 27
St. Lunatics – City Free – was July 27
Game – The R.E.D. Album – was August 24
Q-Unique – Between Heaven & Hell – was September 7

All dates and time frames on all titles are subject to change.

I’ve had it up on the new release schedule for awhile, but now it’s really official. With that, let the Christmas selling season begin.

via Rolling Stone

An all-new Michael Jackson collection featuring 10 unreleased songs will be released this November, a rep for the Jackson estate exclusively tells Rolling Stone. At the time of his death Jackson reportedly left hard drives filled with unheard music, much of it recorded during the King of Pop’s ’80s peak. Jackson’s manager Frank DiLeo told RS that he estimates that Jackson’s vaults contain more than 100 completed and unreleased songs, including collaborations with Akon, Will.i.am and Ne-Yo. “There are a couple of songs we recorded for the Bad album that we had to cut that are just sensational,” DiLeo said.

Linkin Park “A Thousand Suns” on Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros arrives Sept. 14th.

Besides being a rock band, Linkin Park have always embraced the hip hop, recording albums and projects with the likes of Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Evidence, Pharoahe Monch, etc. The album is co-produced by music master Rick Rubin and key band member Mike Shinoda. Linkin Park also goes up against Kanye West’s ‘Good A** Job’ in a battle royal for most album sales on Tuesday, September 14th.

“A Thousand Suns” track listing:

01. The Requiem
02. The Radiance
03. Burning In The Skies
04. Empty Spaces
05. When They Come For Me
06. Robot Boy
07. Jornada Del Muerto
08. Waiting For The End
09. Blackout
10. Wretches And Kings
11. Wisdom, Justice, And Love
12. Iridescent
13. Fallout
14. The Catalyst
15. The Messenger

(source)

- C.A.

via the press release

October 12 marks the latest release from Miami-based hip-hop collective ¡MAYDAY! entitled Stuck on an Island (¡MAYDAY! Music). Stuck on an Island is the follow-up to 2009’s teaser EP Technology, both of which blaze with an upbeat, tightly wound energy that keeps the listener grooving with its slick production and singing along with its ultra-catchy hooks. The album’s title pays homage to the trials and tribulations the band has faced trying to “escape” Miami. Producer/guitarist Plex Luthor explains: “Miami is paradise, but at the same time the geography has always made us feel like outsiders in the larger pond. We want to get our music to the masses, but sometimes the walls around the port of Miami make it difficult to break out. We want to make sure the world knows musicians from this city can compete culturally with the best of them.”

While Stuck on an Island is only ¡MAYDAY!’s second full-length album, the band has consistently turned out addictive urban alternative tracks that have permeated the local Miami music scene and beyond, grabbing the ear of hip-hip impresario Lil’ Wayne who used the group as his personal band in the videos “Get a Life,” “Da Da Da” and “On Fire.” ¡MAYDAY! also collaborated with Cee-Lo on the hit song “Groundhog Day” from their self-titled debut of which mtvU said, “Like Gorillaz covering Gnarls Barkley, the gospel funk-hop assault of the¡MAYDAY! single “Groundhog Day” would be enough for most to base a career on.” The music video logged over 2 million hits on YouTube in its first two days and made the band a breakout success story, garnering attention from the New York Times, MTV and URB Magazine. They went on to share stages with Daft Punk, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Method Man, winning over audiences around the country with their high-octane live show.

The dynamic songs Stuck on an Island call to mind a who’s who of alt-hip-hop’s most cutting edge and creative stars like Gnarls Barkley, N*E*R*D or Lupe Fiasco. Tracks like “I’ll Be Gone,” “Picture Perfect,” “No 1’s Looking,” “Worse Case Scenario,” and “Make a Living” form the backbone of an album of diverse styles that always manages to surprise and never ceases to get your head bobbing and your body moving.

Track listing for Stuck on an Island:

01. I’ll Be Gone
02. Stuck on an Island feat. 7King
03. No 1’s Lookin
04. Lost Highway
05. Broads & Freqs
06. Transparent feat. Snave Nair
07. Freak Show
08. Smoke & Mirrors
09. On 2 Somethn feat. Jovi Rockwell
10. Worst Case Scenario feat. The Money Making Jam Boys

1. Compared to What
2. Hard Times
3. Little Ghetto Boy
4. Wake Up Everybody feat. Common and Melanie Fiona
5. Our Generation
6. Love the Way It Should Be
7. Hang On in There
8. I Can’t Write Left Handed
9. Wholy Holy
10. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
11. Shine

Mark your calendars, September 28 is now the new street date for T.I.’s ‘King Uncaged.’

On July 27th, XXL will have the Freddie Gibbs ‘Str8 Killa’ EP available for free download and a week later Decon gets the physical version to sell in-stores August 3rd. Looking at the tracklist on Amazon, it doesn’t appear to include the track ‘The Coldest’ ft. B.J. The Chicago Kid as previously reported. I’m guessing, either it will be on the XXL version as an exclusive or it was held back to be seen at a later time.

1. Str8 Killa No Filla (feat. Big Kill)
2. Live By The Game
3. National Anthem (FTW)
4. Rep 2 Tha Fullest (feat. Jay Rock)
5. Rock Bottom (feat Bun B)
6. Personal O.G.
7. Oil Money (feat. Chuck Inglish, Chip The Ripper & Bun B)

-C.A.

After rumblings of a ‘resurrected’ Roc-A-Fella were heard earlier last month, there has been much speculation as to when the first artist Curren$y would drop his new album.

Expect to see Curren$y ‘Pilot Talk’ set to arrive July 13 on Dame Dash’s imprint DD172 thru Roc-A-Fella/ Island/Def Jam.

-C.A.

Just heard several tracks from the forth-coming J Cole album, as well as the single ‘Who Dat’ that is about to drop next week.

All i’m saying is that No ID did his thing…..expeditiously. I’m not snitching out any of the track titles or anything, but if you liked ‘Blueprint 1′ by Hov, this is probably going to kill your ipod.

There is no doubt that J Cole is going to drop one of the hottest albums of 2010.

Are you excited for Cole World to pop off? I definitely am. We’ve got some great music on the horizon, people!

WHY?

i started making this project like a collab album, filled with fun and upbeat records that for the most part left you with jack shit when you were finished listening. i took a step back, went on tour, and realized im where im at because of the type of songs i write. every time i read a comment from someone saying ive touched their lives in some way is what made me want to stop fucking around and continue pouring my life into my music. MOTM2 is dark by nature and instead of bringing you into my dreams like my first album, im bringing you into my reality. good and bad. it will explain more of who iam aswell as pushing the envelope musically. this project will focus on many dark, fun, and ignorant moments in my life since ive been kid cudi in a exciting and cinematic nature continuing the MOTM theme. this is my darkest work so far with a hint of fun and grooviness for those who like the classic chill cudi sound but elevated to another level. the things i cant speak will be the things i write. before anything else, you’d come to the conclusion i need a shrink, a stronger drug or a mentor. not a hug. a lot of you have read the news and think they know cudi, got some slick shit to say amongst your peers or just flat out hate me but you havnt the slightest clue of who iam. i will tell the story of Mr. Rager….

the sound: wouldnt you like to know

release: aiming for august

completed? almost, got upcoming sessions with RATATAT and Dot Da Genius on the production side. as far as features ill keep you posted but I DEF got Chip on 2 joints so far. cleveland maneeee

cudder fact: me and dot are a production duo, our first creation is on the new album.

im excited to see what you guys think and i hope you love the new direction. dream on

The much-anticipated new album from Eminem, Recovery (Aftermath/Interscope), will be released June 22, 2010, it was announced today by Interscope Records. On Recovery, his seventh major label studio album, Eminem has reached out to an exciting list of first-time collaborators, including DJ Khalil, Just Blaze, Jim Jonsin and Boi-1da, among others.

Eminem releases Recovery just over a year after his last album, 2009’s Relapse. Relapse put the cap on an impressive ten years of recorded output, and contributed to Eminem being the biggest selling artist of 2000-2009. In recognition of this, Neilsen SoundScan named him their Artist of the Decade. Relapse entered the charts at #1 and, at nearly double platinum, was the best selling rap album of last year. It also earned Eminem his 11th Grammy award, winning in the Best Rap Album category. Relapse’s first single, “Crack A Bottle” from Eminem, Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, soared to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Eminem’s second #1 after 2002’s “Lose Yourself”) and set a SoundScan record at the time of its release for opening week download sales (418,000). The album also spun off two other hits; the Top 10 “We Made You” and Top 20 “Beautiful.”

“I had originally planned for Relapse 2 to come out last year,” remarked Eminem. “But as I kept recording and working with new producers, the idea of a sequel to Relapse started to make less and less sense to me, and I wanted to make a completely new album. The music on Recovery came out very different from Relapse, and I think it deserves its own title.”

Eminem has sold more than 78,000,000 albums worldwide. After 1999’s quadruple platinum The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) and The Eminem Show (2002) became two of the Top 5 best selling albums of the 2000s, with approximately 10,000,000 copies of each sold in the U.S. alone. 2004’s Grammy-nominated Encore reached #1 and was certified quadruple platinum. The #1, double platinum, 2005 greatest hits collection Curtain Call: The Hits and #2, platinum, 2006 various artists compilation Eminem Presents: The Re-Up followed.

these last couple weeks have been nothin but work work work for me and its dope to see some positive feedback about the new joint.   Seems when some negative shit goes down people tend to forget what got niggaz here n the first place, my art. fuck all that other shit. its always good to see the love and at the end of the day yall kno im 1 of very few artist who actually create for the art of it before anything else.  jus some words before i pass out.  made progress on 2 joints today production wise, Dot Da Genius puttin in WORK!  its like 2007 again, but WAAAAYY ILLUH!

Looking forward to some new material and collabo’s from the Kid.

Rhymefest’s sophomore LP, El Che, (in stores May 18th, 2010) delivers raw lyrics over epic production and Hip Hop lovers should expect to hear an unfiltered Rhymefest, liberated from the corporate suits and oppressive major label ideals of the prevailing record industry as evidenced by the hard-hitting “Talk My Shit,” “One Arm Push Up” and the frenetic Scram Jones produced “Give It To Me” f/Saigon & Adad. Always one to deliver a cohesive and diverse project, Fest and Phonte of Little Brother drop playful barbs on “Say Whassup” and gets celebratory on odes such as “Prosperity” and “How High” f/Little Brother and Darien Brockington.

On the heels of releasing El Che, Rhymefest will be releasing his last pre-album mixtape, DANGEROUS: 5-18 on ElCheTheMovement.com this April; Rhymefest’s tour dates (including Austin’s SXSW) can also be found there. Tracklist:

1.) Intro: The Agent
2.) Talk My Shit
3.) Say Whassup f/Phonte of Little Brother
4.) How High f/Little Brother & Darien Brockington
5.) Chocolates
6.) One Arm Push Up
7.) Prosperity
8.) Truth On You f/Twone Gabz
9.) Intermisson: Juan Carlos
10.) Chicago
11.) Agony f/Glenn Lewis
12.) Last Night
13.) Give It To Me f/Saigon & Adad
14.) Intermission: No Help
15.) City Is Fallen f/Slique
16.) Celebration