With Black Friday just days away, Amazon has kicked things off early with their “500 Albums for $5″ sale on Amazon MP3. Some of the albums included in the sale are Jay-z – Blueprint 3, Drake – So Far Gone, David Guetta – One Love, Coldplay – Viva La Vida, Black Eyed Peas – E.N.D, Maxwell – Blacksummers Night, Raekwon – OB4CL2, Jermih – Jerimih, Melanie Fiona – The Bridge and tons tons more. For the full list of 500 albums visit the Black Friday sales page.

Also on special is Rihanna’s newest album “Rated R” which is priced at a one day special of $3.99. Keep reading for information on how to claim a $3 gift code to bring the price of Rihanna’s album to only $0.99 or the other albums to $2.00.

Along with their current 500 albums for 5$ promotion, they are giving away a coupon code to redeem $3 to spend at the Amazon MP3 store. Its simple and theres no purchase required. All you need to is login to your Amazon account, claim the $3 code here and your set! You can use the $3 to purchase anything in the Amazon MP3 store so make use of it while you can.

US residents only.

Instead of releasing Relapse 2, Eminem decided to go back in the studio to record more music for it. Instead he is re-releasing the first Relapse, with 7 bonus tracks. Two of the tracks, “Forever” from the More Than A Game soundtrack and “Taking My Ball” from the DJ Hero: Renegade Edition CD, are already out. It will be in stores December 21st.

01. People Make Me
02. Taking My Ball
03. Insult To Injury
04. Outlet
05. Carrington Pool
06. Forever featuring Drake, Kanye West & Lil Wayne
07. Stainless Ego

Hump Day is here and what a better way to get over it than by getting some new tracks for your music library. Today’s “Daily Downloads” features the remix to Consequence’s “Whatever U Want”, a cut from Birdman with Lil Wayne and Kevin Rudolf called “I Want It All”, and a Ne-Yo song called “That’s Entertainment”. Also included is new music from Wale, Chris Brown, Sheek Louch, Theophilus London, and more.

Whatever U Want (Remix) – Consequence Feat. KiD CuDi, Common, Big Sean, Kanye West, John Legend – Download

I Want It All – Birdman Feat. Lil Wayne, Kevin Rudolf – Download

That’s Entertainment – Ne-Yo – Download

Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) – The Noisettes Feat. Wale, Estelle – Download

I Can Transform Ya (Ted Smooth Remix) – Chris Brown Feat. Swizz Beatz, Lil Wayne – Download

Humdrum Town – Theophilus London – Download

Give It Up – Sheek Louch – Download

The Grizzly Man – Kidz In The Hall – Download

Show You Where It’s At – Q Da Kid Feat. Bertell – Download

Swimming In Money – Smokey Feat. Juelz Santana – Download

Point Prove – Diggy Simmons – Download

Polow Flow – Ca$his – Download

Dead Fool – Trademark Da Skydiver – Download

Now this would be something worth hearing. The three GQ Men of the Year Kid Cudi, Drake and Wale could have possibly been on a track that Wale says would have been one of the biggest songs in the country. Wale was trying to get all 3 on an unreleased track called “Let The Money Fall”.

“I told Cudi, if you tell Kanye to let me get that joint, we could make the biggest record ever—me, you, and Drake,” the D.C. rapper says of the Kanye West production, tentatively titled “Let the Money Fall.” “That would’ve been the record for us three to be on. I was like, this is gonna be bigger than any record ever.”

Wale’s Attention Deficit is in stores and iTunes today so go grab it. Via Rap Up TV

Jay-Z was in attendance at the New York Yankee Championship Parade today in Manhatten. He was on the same float with Alex Rodriguez. Below you can see another video. Francisco Cervelli gets pushed aside for A-Rod to throw up the Roc sign.

Via RapRadar.

After leaving a few people confused by his fall tour dates earlier this summer he later explain it was all meant to allow him to tour through various Universities and cities he would normally not travel through. Now comes the real Blueprint 3 tour (BP3 Tour) with Young Jeezy. A few select dates have been announced for the tour which kicks off Feb. 22, 2010. I would assume at this point more cities are to come. Keep reading for the list of cities and arenas.

Tickets for the second leg of the “Blueprint 3? tour are slated to go on sale November 13 at LiveNation.com. Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning November 10th at 10am local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Citi® cardmembers will also have access to VIP Ticket Packages that include VIP Lounge seats, personal concierge, a private pre-show VIP party and more.

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.

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.

Via MTV News
Kid Cudi went from mixtape phenom to the upper echelons of the Billboard albums chart in little over a year, so it’s no surprise he wants to keep the ball rolling. What is a surprise is who he wants to keep it rolling with.

We already know he’s hard at work on projects with rapper Chip Tha Ripper and Brooklyn electro duo Ratatat, but backstage at this past weekend’s Ulalume Music Festival in Columbia, Maryland, he revealed details of another album, a compilation disc he’s dubbed Cudder. And he’s aiming extra high on this one.

“Cudder is basically an album of me working with artists that have inspired me or artists that have helped me grow and people who I’ve always admired,” Cudi said. “So far, we’ve got Snoop, Travis Barker — trying to get Green Day onboard, hopefully, Kings of Leon, hopefully. I’m really trying to do all the collabs that I couldn’t do for the [Man on the Moon] album, and then some, because the album was so themed that I had to strip a lot of features. We’re going to have the Clipse on this compilation, Robin Thicke, hopefully we’re going to get in the studio, I just did a record for his upcoming album; it’s amazing.”

Cudi said he’s aiming to have Cudder out by “summertime at the latest,” and while the idea of him working with, say, Billie Joe Armstrong might seem a bit odd, he points to Moon tracks like “Pursuit of Happiness” (his collaboration with Ratatat and MGMT) as proof that he can pull it off and as a possible preview of how the song might turn out.

“On the Ratatat song, you can hear Ratatat and you can hear me; we don’t compromise each other. That’s the same thing I want to do with anybody I work with. … I don’t want it to be, like, a Green Day song with me rapping over it,” he said. “What I want to do is, have the triangle effect. Have Green Day involved and have them co-produce with someone like a Ratatat or my producers, do like a joint thing, and then we all create from the ground up. That way, it’s like a fusion of each sound and each inspiration.”

Looks like Rihanna’s next album Rated R due out November 23  is taking a dark look compared to her previous releases. Photography shot by by famed photographer Ellen von Unwerth in a grainy black and white tone.

“Rihanna was looking to create something a bit new for the look of the album,” von Unwerth told PopEater. “[She's] so beautiful, sweet, and tough at the same time—and a pleasure to shoot.”