MTV.com News — Plus: Chamillionaire drops a new mixtape just two months after his last one.By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Rahman Dukes and Sway Calloway Kanyes West Photo: Jason LaVeris/ FilmMagic/ Getty Images Artists: Notorious B.I.G. fe... more info

MTV.com News — Hipster hip-hop DJs remix West's best-known hits for Sky High mixtape.By Joseph Patel Kanye West's "Sky High" People eagerly awaiting the release of Kanye West's newest album, 808s & Heartbreak, due out in two weeks, are being treated to ... more info

JamBase — Down Under's Big Day Out Traveling Festival - 01/16/09 - 02/01/09 Featuring: Neil Young, My Morning Jacket, TV on the Radio, Arctic Monkeys & More Neil Young Australia and New Zealand's traveling festival, Big Day Out, has announced artist and de... more info

Pitchfork — Big Day Out, the traveling Down Under festival that lives up to its name with a fairly large and impressive lineup, has revealed quite a few of the artists that will play the exact same venues in the exact same cities as last year.But don't worry, th... more info

Paste Magazine — It's a tale all too common in the hip-hop world today: a rapper claiming retirement. We've been there with Jay-Z. We idly sat by while M.I.A. said she was bowing out for good (this before the explosion of "Paper Planes"). Now it might be Lupe ... more info

Chorus.fm — *Lupe Fiasco* (http://www.lupefiasco.com/) might be retiring (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003889106) after the release of his upcoming triple-disc album, LupEND. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Getty Lil Wayne has revealed the track list for his upcoming mixtape with DJ Drama, Dedication 3. The mixtape, which features Tha Carter rapping over songs by T.I., Too $hort and Soulja Boy, is expected out this Thursday. More details about L... more info

The Quietus — Lupe Fiasco set to retire after third album more info

Guardian Music — The Chicago rapper claims he will bow out on his forthcoming final album LupEND. Whatever you say mate ... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Natalie KardosLupe Fiasco has announced his third album, and true to form for the MC, the whole thing sounds unnecessarily complicated. [Via the LupE.N.D. Blog] Here's how it breaks down. As Lupe told us in an interview interview last year, ... more info