More than a year in the making, the seventh studio album “Battle of the Sexes” from Ludacris is here. On this album Ludacris tackles the timeless paradox in history, the differences between men & women. Armed with the first hit single “HOW LOW”, the album features guests including Ne-Yo, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Ciara, Trey Songz, Lil’Kim, Eve, Trina, and Plies. Retail release date of March 9, 2010. Links and track listing after the click.

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Here’s the new album from Gorillaz entitled “Plastic Beach?. The album will be released on March 9, 2010.

Description: Five years on from the release of Demon Days, Murdoc Niccals and co. return with Plastic Beach. The band have taken up residence, recording on a secret floating island deep in the South Pacific, a Plastic Beach HQ, made up of the detritus, debris and washed up remnants of humanity. This Plastic Beach is the furthest point from any landmass on Earth; the most deserted spot on the planet.
The world s biggest animated band, Gorillaz formed in 1998, and have since sold 12 million copies over two albums Gorillaz (2000) and Demon Days (2005). They have hit number 1 in more than a dozen countries and picked up awards including Grammys, Novellos, VMAs and EMAs.

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An upcoming album from DJ Khaled, titled “Victory” which has a retail release date of March 2, 2010. The fourth album from DJ Khaled. Victory features a star-studded line up of amazing collaborations and songs guaranteed to set radio on fire! The album follows We Global which yielded the hits ‘Out Here Grindin” and ‘Go Harder’. Includes the single ‘Fed Up’ featuring Usher, Drake, Young Jeezy and Rick Ross. Links and tracklisting after the click.

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Philadelphia rapper Freeway has announced his plans to release a new album produced entirely by frequent G-Unit producer Jake One.

On a short video clip posted on YouTube, Free took time out from a studio session to speak on the upcoming collaboration, entitled The Stimulus Package. “It’s official, I got the album coming this summer,” he said. “Freeway, Jake One, The Stimulus Package. It’s gonna be crazy, y’all gonna love it. We calling it The Stimulus Package cause we stimulating hip-hop, we taking it back to the real hip-hop. One producer, one MC…we’re putting it together right now.”

This is not the first time the State Property rhyme spitter has worked with Jake. The two linked for Free’s online “Month Of Madness” campaign and for several tracks on the Seattle-bred beatmaker’s White Van Music LP. Please support the artists and purchase their work. It even has a cool album case. Links and track listing after the click.

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Description: DJ KAYSLAY aka THE DRAMA KING aska DEZZY DEZ aka SLAP YOUR FAVORITE DJ, is the ringmaster of some of hip hop’s most legendary rivalries, played out on his mixtapes. The New York Times called him “Hip Hop’s One Man Ministry of Insults”. Over the course of 3 official albums , Kayslay continues to do what he does best. Besides being a legendary DJ, magazine owner, Slay also works like no other to bring together some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop and pairing them with today’s hottest producers. Album goes on sale on February 9, 2010. Support the artist and purchase the album. Links & track listing after the click.

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Kurupt is set to release his new album ‘Down And Dirty’ on February 9th via Death Row Records / Wide Awake Entertainment. The compilation features 17 rare recordings from the Dogg Pound artist and 4 unreleased tracks from ‘The Row Era’. The legendary Tupac Shakur makes an appearance on the compilation disc amongst some of Death Row’s underground favorites KoKane, Young Tone, Danny Boy, and Petey Pablo.
In 1992, Kurupt debuted his hard-core rap style which combined east coast lyricism over signature west coast beats on Dr. Dre’s album ‘The Chronic’. The Dogg Pound member then went on to release his first studio LP ‘Dogg Food’ with counterpart Daz Dillinger, in which 4,000,000 copies have been sold to date. Please support the artist and purchase their material.

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Description:The Sugababes are back with their seventh studio album, Sweet 7. Featuring production credits from RedOne, The Smeezingtons, Ne-Yo and a guest vocal from Sean Kingston, this is a record that has set expectations high and won’t disappoint. This is also the first album to feature new member Jade Ewan, a former Eurovision entrant. The album will be released on March 8, 2010. Please support all artist by purchasing their material.

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With his smooth, sonorous tone, Jaheim is the forerunner and torch-carrier of today’s soul-originated R&B. A vocalist in the tradition of such greats as Teddy Pendergrass and Luther Vandross, he signed with former Naughty By Nature beat man Kay Gee’s Divine Mill record label in 2000. After taking time off following the release of Ghetto Classics, Jaheim returned with a renewed focus on the direction in which he wants to take his career. This album has a retail release date of February 9, 2010. Links and track listing after the click. Please purchase the artist work.

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Description:2010 release from NY rapper and founding member of The Lox and D-Block on DJ Green Lantern’s label. Features guest appearances from fellow D-Block emcees Jadakiss, and Sheek Louch, plus M.O.P, N.O.R.E, Uncle Murda, Junior Reid. Production duties are handled by from DJ Green Lantern, Alchemist, Scram Jones, Statik Selektah. Styles P’s last studio album Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) reached #52 on the Billboard 200, #7 Top Independent Albums and sold 99k in its first week of release.

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For Sade herself, as the lynchpin of the group’s songwriting effort, it’s a simple matter of integrity and authenticity. “I only make records when I feel I have something to say.

“I’m not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.”

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