MTV.com News — Our hip-hop team speculates what's next for the former Bad Boy artist, in Off the Dome. By Shaheem Reid Shyne Photo: Bad Boy/Arista Records It looks like Shyne is coming home. After many fake dates swirled around over the past few years, a... more info

JamBase — Words by: Ron Hart | Images by: Rod Snyder All Points West :: 07.31.09 - 08.02.09 :: Liberty State Park :: Jersey City, NJ All Points West 2009 If there was anything that the mud, madness and mayhem of this past weekend's All Points West confir... more info

Live Daily — Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys [ tickets ] is recovering from surgery after doctors found a cancerous tumor in his left salivary gland last month. Yauch sent an email to fans today (8/5), thanking them for positive thoughts and explaining th... more info

Rolling Stone — Of all the albums in Jay-Z’s catalog, The Blueprint 3’s cover is the first not to feature a photo of Jay, so naturally people questioned whether the BP3 image — a cluster of white-painted instruments and three red stripes — that first appeare... more info

Kanye's Blog — Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 Cover Art. Click HERE to leave a comment... more info

NME — Plus rapper thanks Jay-Z, Coldplay and Karen O for support more info

MTV.co.uk News — Jay-Z has confirmed that the image leaked earlier this week is the artwork for his Blueprint 3 album.  He told MTV News in the US: “It's the album cover,” before explaining the... more info

Guardian Music — Performed at last weekend's All Points West music festival in New Jersey, these tracks prove the Beastie Boys have become cover starsSo whose Beastie Boys cover is the best? Chris Martin's piano ballad – his mother threw away his best pornogra... more info

MTV.com News — MC thanks fans, artists for tributes and well wishes.By James Montgomery Adam Yauch Photo: Mark Von Holden/ Getty Images Last month, Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch shocked fans by announcing that he has cancer, and that he would begin receiv... more info

Undercover, Australia — Jay-Z has a novel idea, literally. He is writing a novel. more info