Guardian Music — Legendary New York rapper Rakim and Wretch 32, the rising star from London, meet The Guide to talk all things hip-hopGuide Thanks for joining us today. Let's start with a broad question: what would you call the "Golden Age" of rap?Rakim The golden ag... more info

Guardian Music — Looking beyond summer, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks will be playing Constellations (Leeds University, 12 Nov), where Three Trapped Tigers, Spectrals, Vondelpark and Braids join a bill topped by Wild Beasts …Before that, Broken Records and the Xcerts... more info

ContactMusic — Eminem's boxing film has been dealt a heavyweight blow - his big screen comeback has reportedly been knocked out by DreamWorks studio executives. Southpaw was set to be the rap star's first major role since his acclaimed 2002 debut in 8 Mile, but the... more info

Detroit Free Press — A dozen years ago this summer, Detroit had a white-rap explosion on its hands and the world was intrigued. more info

NME - Festivals — V is almost upon us and the two site bash is promising big sets from Eminem, Rihanna and Arctic Monkeys this year. With Kele, Razorlight, Glasvegas and Stornoway also on the bill for the Chelmsford and Staffordshire festival - it's shaping up to be a... more info

USA Today Music — A Bob Marley song and the social media power of celebrities like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Eminem may help the crisis in East Africa. more info

USA Today Music — The Detroit rapper gets a helping hand from Eminem and others on Success is Certain. more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — DJPremierBlog come through with the CDQ to the Primo Remix of “Writer’s Block”. more info

Stereogum — Lollapalooza celebrated its twentieth anniversary in Chicago over the weekend with headline performances by Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, and Muse. It was the support acts, however, that really excited us. So like he did at Bonnaroo, our tireless p... more info

Chicago Tribune — Lollapalooza stuffed Grant Park over the weekend with a record attendance of 270,000. By the time Foo Fighters brought the festival to a close Sunday, Lollapalooza had marked its 20th anniversary with a mixture of rain, mud, increasingly popular elec... more info