L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Drake performed a sold-out show at USC's Galen Center on Monday night. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts was there to review it. more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Meet Julie Kim. She's a teenage girl from Seoul, South Korea who loves food, hoodies, and American hip hop. She records herself rapping cover versions of songs like Drake's "The Motto" (feat. Lil Wanye [sic.]) just about perfectly, and is the Youtube... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Joell Ortiz decides to unleash some bars over Drake’s “The Motto”. Too good, this is a stroll in the park for someone like Joell. more info

Starpulse — Rapper Drake struggled through a show in Texas on Friday night after falling sick with stomach flu. "The Best I Ever Had" star, who is currently on tour in the U.S., began feeling ill this week, b... more info

ContactMusic — Rapper Drake struggled through a show in Texas on Friday night 02Mar12 after falling sick with stomach flu The Best I Ever Had star who is currently on tour in the U S began feeling ill this week ends04Mar12 but refused to cancel a gig at The Univ... more info

411 Mania — News and thoughts on Ja Rule showing Drake some respect from prison, Bizarre leaving D-12, Too Short showing the influence of the industry, Kid Cudi getting mad at Universal over his new album, Birdman signing Limp Bizkit, a look at XXL's Freshmen of... more info

ContactMusic — Project X the new comedy movie written by Michael Bacall and Matt Drake and produced by The Hangover director Todd Phillips has been savaged by critics ahead of its release later this week The movie stars Thomas Mann and OLIVER COOPER as friends who ... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — So turns out MTV only premièred a short version of the video over the weekend. Hit play above to see the more explicit scenes from the video that we all knew would be on there ha! more info

Guardian Music — The MC says there are 'no plans for another OutKast album' or a reunion with Big Boi, despite internet rumoursOutKast may never record another album. Despite years of rumours – and recent talk of an LP in 2012 – Andre 3000 has revealed that he ha... more info

Pop Justice — Nicki Minaj gave typically restrained performances of 'Starships' and 'Super Bass' at the NBA All-Star Game last night. (Billboard) (http://www.billboard.com/news/pitbull-chris-brown-nicki-minaj-rock-nba-1006288952.story) Pitbull and his friends were... more info