KiD CuDi performs the third single from his album Man On The Moon: The End Of Day for the MTV Ulalume Festival. Would have been better if Ratatat was with him but it was a great performance nonetheless.

Before everyone goes out to all the Halloween parties, don’t forget to get for fix of “Daily Downloads”. Today’s features a new track from Wale featuring J. Cole and Melanie Fiona called “Beautiful Bliss”, a collaboration between Timbaland and Justin Timberlake called “Carry Out”, and a track from Game produced by Jim Jonsin called “Better Days”. Also included is new music from Usher, Gucci Mane, Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, and more. (more…)
Soulja Boy talks about working on both Rihanna and Chris Brown’s new albums coming soon.
“My approach to it was, if me and Chris Brown ever did a song together it got to be the best song ever,” he said. “When people hear it, it gotta be automatic, be in all the kids’ heads, all the girls definitely gotta love it, all the females gotta love it. That was my approach to it. I was just thinking, ‘What is the slickest lines I could say to a female to make them fall in love with this record?’ “
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys shot this music video a few weeks ago and we saw pictures and videos, patiently waiting for the finished product. The preview was shown yesterday during the Yankees-Phillies game, but here is the official full video. It’s directed by Hype Williams and features many shots from around New York City.
Jay-Z sits down with Time Magazine about working with Kanye on The Blueprint 3 and about joining Eminem on the Renegade version of the recently released video game DJ Hero. He also compares being a real DJ and to playing the game.
After countless release of pages and various photography from the book, photographer Nabil Elderkin has released this 4 minute trailer for the book. Nabil has previously produced T.I.A for K’naan and Welcome to Heartbreak for Kanye West as well as shooting a majority of the photography for this book.

Today might possibly best one of the best days for “Daily Downloads”. Every single track posted is a great song and something that will continue to play on peoples’ playlists. You get the remix to Gucci Mane’s “Wasted” with Lil Wayne, Jadakiss, and Birdman, a Ludacris track called “How Low”, and a Lupe Fiasco freestyle over Timbaland’s “Say Something”. The other tracks included come from artists such as Game, J. Cole, Timbaland, Alicia Keys, and more. (more…)
The-Dream sits down with MTV to talk about working on Rihanna’s new album Rated R. He says that she has a collaboration with Young Jeezy.
“Me and Rihanna, she just cut the last of the two records we did. It’s a record called ‘Rock Star,’ ” the singer-song writer divulged earlier this week, backstage at the Izod Center in New Jersey. “The first record is a record called ‘Hard,’ which features [Young] Jeezy. Both of those records are pretty insane.”
” ‘Hard,’ I want that song to explain itself,” he said. “Most of the stuff I wrote — still to this day what I write — I try to find out through people — what they’re going through or what they gotta say. Then we put that in.”
“Oh, c’mon, he killed it! You know Young killed it,” Dream smiled. “That’s ATL right there. That’s all we do.”
Talking to MTV at the Ulalume Festival this past week Kid Cudi discuss his next album which will be a collaboration album with various artists. He also mentions he would like to get Green Day and Kings of Leon on board for the album. MTV noted that Cudi would like to have the album out by “summertime at the latest”. Keep reading for the full MTV story. (more…)
After a few weeks with the newest single from Snoop Dogg being out, we get the music video for the track. It features The-Dream and some lovely ladies to help accompany Snoop.