Culture Bully — Footage of 50 Cent performing a pair of songs on the December 14 edition of Lopez Tonight. more info

MTV.com News — Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Gucci Mane and many others brought the hotness on mixtapes this year!By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes 50 Cent Photo: G-Unit On Monday, Mixtape Daily crowned Drake's So Far Gone the best mixtape... more info

VH1 News — Drake's So Far Gone was chosen as our mixtape of the year, but Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Gucci Mane and others also brought the hotness on mixtapes this year. more info

MTV.com News — G-Unit, Clipse, Micki Minaj, others also scored big this year, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes 50 Cent Photo: G-Unit On Monday, Mixtape Daily crowned Drake's So Far Gone the best mixtape of 2009... more info

AllHipHop — Kanye West has expressed humility and gratitude after his seminal debut College Dropout was named Album of the Decade by Entertainment Weekly.   Released in 2004, College Dropout was an immediate success, placing #2 on Billboard’s Top 200 al... more info

AngryApe — He wants to be remembered as a great artist more info

MTV.com News — In 2009, Slim Shady reestablished his hard-earned place in popular culture.By James Montgomery Eminem Photo: Interscope/ MTV News Which stars had the biggest 2009? Over the next week, we'll be unveiling our top nine most newsworthy, contro... more info

Guardian Music — Timbaland is 'done with hip-hop', the record producer mogul announced in an interview this weekend, turning instead to pop music for his livelihood. Truth or just shock value?Timbaland is "done with hip-hop," he said this weekend, explaining that his... more info

Guardian Music — The rapper, 34, in his own wordsQueens and New York are completely responsible for me. You're a product of your environment and your experience.My mom was the most influential person in my life, initially... After my mom died, I went to live with my... more info

411 Mania — This week, 50 Cent thinks Jay-Z is Jesus, Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy squash their beef, details on upcoming releases from Game, Kid Cudi and Common, Drake's album gets pushed back and hip-hop dominates Billboard's biggest One hit wonders of the decad... more info