VH1 News — RZA addressed his comments about the South that offended Jay Electronica. "Hip-hop, to me, is more a unifying force than a separating force," the Wu-Tang Clan mastermind told Mixtape Daily. more info

Pitchfork — "They said I was the abomination of Obama's nation / Well, that's a pretty bad way to start the conversation." That's Kanye West, in the brand new five-minute sneer session "Power", which Stereogum says is the first single from Kanye's forthcoming... more info

MTV.com News — Symbolyc One got a text saying, 'Kanye is loving your stuff, he said he's about to change your life.'By Jayson Rodriguez Kanye West Photo: MTV News Kanye West has aligned a murderer's row of producers for his forthcoming album, including Pe... more info

AllHipHop — Legendary Hip-Hop collective Wu-Tang Clan have announced the release of  Pollen: The Swarm Part 3, the third installment of the group’s “swarm” franchise. The new album will feature appearances from Method Man, Ghostface Killah, RZA, Trife, So... 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

Guardian Music — For a band that sound as though they're barely working up a sweat, this slowcore group are causing quite a stirHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Jenny Lee Lindberg (vocals, bass), Emily Kokal (vocals, guitar), Theresa Wayman (vocals, guitar), Stella ... more info

Jam! Showbiz Music, Canada — Drummer Pat Carney never would have guessed it, but the best thing to happen to the Black Keys' gritty blues-rock sound came from a one-off rap-rock experiment alongside rappers Q-Tip and RZA. more info

AllHipHop — Yesterday and early this morning, DJ Kay Slay and Jay Electronica became embroiled in a heated debate over the latter’s outspoken statements on New York’s bias against Hip-Hop from the South. The issue began when Electronica conducted a London in... more info

Guardian Music — (V2)The prolific Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney's sixth studio album's artwork is tremendous – nothing but text on a black background, which reads: "This is an album by the Black Keys. The name of the album is Brothers." It looks like a special ed... more info

MTV.com News — 'I basically changed into a tennis outfit, and I got down,' he tells MTV News of 'Giving Up the Gun' cameo.By James Montgomery, with reporting by Vanessa White Wolf Jake Gyllenhaal Photo: MTV News Vampire Weekend's "Giving Up the Gun" video... more info