Rick Ross talks “Mastermind,” his favorite record on the album, working with Puff Daddy and his future. via SkeeLive [Real Talk NY]

Elliott’s back for the fifth season of the The Truth and while in Los Angeles, he caught up with Def Jam rising star, YG. He discussed his fantastic debut My Krazy Life, West Coast resurgence, DJ Mustard, and difficulty in choosing singles. [Rap Radar]

Just over a month after launching Milk Music, an ad-free radio service distributed exclusively on Galaxy devices in the U.S., Samsung has entered the international streaming market by signing a partnership with Deezer for Galaxy S5 smartphones, MusicWeek reports. According to the terms of the deal — which has possibly been in the works since…

According to US Weekly, Big Sean and Naya Rivera have called off their plans to marry. This news comes seven months after the 26-year-old rapper and the 27-year-old Glee star got engaged last October. Tabloid magazine Star claims the split happened after Big Sean was caught cheating on Rivera, though he denies the report. In a statement issued…

Knowing the proper etiquette while recording is almost as important as doing your gig. If you make people uncomfortable or do something that’s considered out of place and chances are that you won’t be asked back. Let’s look at the way everyone expects you to act during the session with these 14 points taken from The…

Like all great record labels, Peanut Butter Wolf’s Stones Throw has never courted the limelight it has helped attract for its artists. However, having quietly gone about its business with consistent and exacting standards for nigh on 18 years now, it was only a matter of time before someone would turn their camera on the…

Imagine Dragons, Lorde, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Miley Cyrus lead the nominations for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. Leading the pack of nominees, which were unveiled Wednesday morning, are Las Vegas rockers Imagine Dragons and 17-year-old New Zealand pop prodigy Lorde, who both scored 12 nods. Imagine Dragons and Lorde…

Big Hutch, who worked with Tupac in 1992 on Above The Law’s Black Mafia Life album, was the co-music supervisor of the late rapper’s 2001 double album, Until The End Of Time. “I’m the reason why the record even came out, put together,” Big Hutch, who is also known as Cold 187um, says during an…

A copy of Aphex Twin‘s test pressing-only Caustic Window album is currently available on Discogs. The price? $13,500. As the story goes, the album reached the test-pressing phase in 1994, but was aborted as a full release. This release claims to be one of five TPs (the other four are reportedly owned by Mike Paradinas,…

The Kickstarter fundraiser for Imitone – a ‘mind to MIDI’ app for Mac & Windows is down to its last 24 hours. It’s already fully funded, at close to 4 times the original funding goal. The above video is a demo of Imitone in action. In the video, alpha tester Robin Lomax Bjerke explores using…