Before BET cancelled Rap City, unbearable goofball host Q45 spent an entire episode wandering around Harlem asking random passers-by if they'd seen Cam'ron anywhere. This was more than a year ago, and other than a few brief glimpses (including the better-than-anyone-realized 2007 mixtape Public Enemy #1), the absurdist drug-rap prince has rema...

The long, strange life of M.I.A.'s Kala crime spree "Paper Planes" continues. More than a year after Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit's "Tengazako"-- and a few months after the Pineapple Express trailer and T.I.'s star-studded hip-hop recasting, "Swagga Like Us"-- comes Jim Jones' claim that they're "Jackin' Swagga From Us". It's a darker-sounding tr...

Jim Jones and Skull Gang Present a Tribute to Bad Santa Starring Mike Epps is, um, ah, well... it's a holiday album featuring Dipset's Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Freekey Zekey, and many other affiliates, joined by funnyman Mike Epps, tearing through 15 "new Christmas bangers " and four "hilarious new skits," according to a press release.The disc ...