Guardian Music — Forgotten about N*E*R*D? Here's a reminder of their brilliance...Hailing from Compton, California, rapper Buddy is the latest signing to production duo the Neptunes' label Star Trak, which a few years ago might have been a slightly more exciting pros... more info

Stereogum — In this pretty confusing promo clip for HBO’s How To Make It In America, Duck Sauce’s “Barbara Streisand” gets a rework, where Luis Guzman’s name gets swapped in for Babs’s. The video stars, among others, Luis Guzman (duh), Mark Wahlberg,... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Paul Lester takes a tour through love's darker chambers with ChicChic's third album came out in 1979, the same year as Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Earth Wind & Fire's I Am, those other symp... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — A reluctant Pharrell spoke to Mikey Fresh at VIBE about what he has coming up. The producer did reveal he will be working on future projects for Jay-Z, The Dream and Mary J. Blige. As for his solo project, he couldn’t say much.   more info

Mjsbigblog — Adam Lambert is having a particularly chatty twitter party today. About his album, Adam says there's no exact release yet for the single because it hasn't been picked yet! Plus he reveals a new collaborator, Pharrell Williams (He's also working with... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Nore finally drops the video to Finito with Weezy and Pharrell. You can buy the song here   more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Steve Stoute is preparing to launch a new series called “The Tanning Effect”. For the series, the exec spoke to Jay-Z, Pharrell, Lady Gaga and Jimmy Iovine. Stoute recently wrote a book called ‘The Tanning Of America: How The Culture Of Hip-Hop... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Exclusive in-depth interview with Game. In part 1 Game talks to Nick Huff Barili about the first time Game met his childhood idol Eazy-E, which ironically was on the set of Real Compton City G’s which was a diss to Dr Dre, whom he latter signed to.... more info

ContactMusic — Hip-hop superproducer Pharrell Williams is to backpack through Japan for boot brand Palladium's upcoming advertising campaign. The N. E. R. D. frontman will trek through the Asian country wearing the label's footwear, and shoot a short film called To... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — We caught up with the one and only N.O.R.E. We spoke about his new finito track with lil wayne. We spoke about his relationship with Pharrell Williams. N.O.R.E also elaborated on a current situation with Capone.   more info