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

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop News) Rapper B.o.B.’s single “Nothing On You” has knocked Rihanna out of the  #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. “Nothing on You,” which features singer Bruno Mars, hit #1 after 12 weeks on the charts, ... more info