Idolator — On his official site yesterday, Kid Cudi wrote, “I try to make music that connects with the spirit so that the people who get it, pray for me and bless my soul in return for strength.”And it seems KC recently found some divinity in rapping atop L... more info

Pitchfork — While listening to "Dance Yrself Clean", the opening track from LCD Soundsystem's BNM'd This Is Happening, have you found yourself thinking, "What this song really needs is some rapping and a Christian Bale vocal sample?" Well apparently, th... more info

MTV.com News — 'Kanye leaned over and said, 'Play track three.' They all went nuts,' DJ Scram Jones says of partiers at CV.By Jayson Rodriguez Kanye West Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage Kanye West has largely shunned the spotlight since his stage-crashing r... more info

MTV.com News — 'I used to tell people that I used to ride to high school listening to Kanye,' the MC says of being signed to West's G.O.O.D Music.By Steven Roberts Big Sean and Kanye West Photo: MTV News Kanye West's G.O.O.D Music label is gearing up for ... more info

Altsounds — It's been a long time coming but now, finally after a several years of Auto-Tune based stagnation and beats so glossy you could virtually see your face in them, hip-hop is finally, and thankfully, broadening its palette. You must have noticed; Kid... more info

MTV.co.uk News — Kid Cudi and Kanye West have apparently reunited for a rock/pop track from Cudi’s forthcoming album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager. The producer of the track Jim Jonsin, has... more info

Stereogum — Last time we checked in with Ratatat, they were performing “Pursuit Of Happiness” with Kid Cudi on Letterman (for another great collaboration, check out Ratatat/Despot’s “Look Alive“). Now they’ve prepped the follow up to 2008’s LP3, LP... more info

Pitchfork — Ratatat: "Party With Children" Party With Children Front page photo by Neil Krug The Brooklyn-based instrumental electro-rock duo Ratatat is back. On June 8, XL will release the group's follow-up to 2008's LP3, the appropriately titled LP4. (That'... more info

411 Mania — For this final week, discussing why hip-hop should be more open to artists like Kid Cudi and B.o.B., justifying lists, fallout from the last two weeks and why hip-hop can be a good and bad thing for the fans more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Amid all the attention lavished upon Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West and new media-darlings Drake, B.O.B. and Kid Cudi, it’s easy to forget that Eminem remains arguably the world's most commercially viable rapper. Until Susan Boyle budged him fro... more info