VH1 News — Kid Cudi, the All-American Rejects and Solange raved about working with VMA house-band MC Wale, whom they'll all perform with at Sunday's show. more info

The Newsroom — On this week's HipHollywood.com Weekly Wrap: We send out a congrats to Whitney Houston and Raekwon on their new albums, check in on the Vegas marriage of The Dream and Christina Milian with Electrik Red, sit down exclusively with Kid Cudi about his n... more info

MTV.com News — Solange also had nothing but praise for the 'phenomenal artist' she's collaborating with at Sunday's show.By Jocelyn Vena Kid Cudi inside Radio City Music Hall in New York City Photo: MTV Along with UCB, Wale is brining along a whole bunch... more info

MTV.com News — 'DJ AM was a good homie of mine, so we're going to do a little something for him,' rapper says.By Jocelyn Vena Photo: Chris Polk When Kid Cudi performs with Wale and the go-go group UCB, the VMA house band, at Sunday's awards show, he will ... more info

AllHipHop — Alicia Keys and Jay-Z will perform during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards it was announced today (September 10). The pair will perform the single “Empire State of Mind” from Jay-Z’s new album The Blueprint 3. Eminem will also make ... more info

MTV.com News — Ne-Yo is featured on song from long-delayed Before I Self Destruct LP.By Shaheem Reid 50 Cent Photo: Jonathan Fickies/Getty Images Is 50 Cent trying to engage in a baby boom or is he just gassing the girls? Listen and make your own choice.... more info

MTV.com News — Megan Fox, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, 50 Cent join list of presenters for Sunday's show.By Gil Kaufman Alicia Keys Photo: Dave M. Benett/ Getty Images Sunday night's 2009 MTV Video Music Awards just got much bigger. For starters, for the fir... more info

Get Weird — You’re probably more than familiar with the Crookers remix of Kid Cudi’s track ‘Day N Night’ since it went overground and you might have seen the cheesy accompanying video that the emcee wasn’t very happy about. Anyway here’s the origi... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — I am getting through Kid Cudi’s hotly anticipated debut album Man On The Moon: The End Of Day right now, but don’t quite have a solid opinion yet. I am enjoying it, but I am not sure exactly how much. It is quite diverse for a hip hop record. Cud... more info

MTV.com News — 'She's been killing it for however long now, so she can go ahead and have it. I'm not gonna put up a big fight,' MC says of going up against the arty pop starlet.By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Tim Kash Asher Roth and Tim Kash In 2008, r... more info