VH1 Blog — Two Tracks From Black and White America Leak The Lenny Kravitz tracks “Boongie Drop” and “Sunflower” likely hit the web early because they feature Jay-Z and Drake, respectively. Black and White America will be released August 30. [Billboard] ... more info

Perez Hilton — Excellent! All the hard work and secrecy paid off. Kanye West and Jay-Z finally unveiled their joint venture Watch The Throne last week and so far, it's done pretty well. In it's first-week sales, it sold 290,000 digital copies on iTunes, beating Col... more info

ContactMusic — Rappers Jay Z and Kanye West have become the kings of the U. S. album charts - their Watch The Throne collaboration has debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 countdown with 436,000 first-week sales. It's the second-largest sales week of the year be... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — In Part 2 of our interview with Lenny S we talk about working with Jay-Z and L.A. Reid as your bosses. We also discuss Watch The Throne, as well as the status of Young Jeezy and Fabolous’ new albums.   more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The economic hard times haven't hit Kanye West and Jay-Z, as the pair's paens to living the upper-class life that is "Watch the Throne" debuted atop the U.S. pop charts, with much of its purchases coming from an iTunes-only exclusive... more info

Altsounds — *Lady Gaga, The Rolling Stones, Eminem, Jay Z, Coldplay, U2, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez, Muse, Elton John, Black Eye Peas, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Robert Plant, Kanye West, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Ricky Martin, Brian May, Sting, Rihann... more info

NME — Producers also reveal that West refused to use phone and email during the LP's making more info

ContactMusic — Eminem has beaten Jay Z and Snoop Dogg to be crowned the world's most successful rapper. The Stan hitmaker has been named as the king of hip-hop by Rolling Stone magazine, with editors tallying up album sales, social media hits and critical acclaim s... more info

White Folks Get Crunk — Mellow dance rendition of the latest track every single rapper wants to rap over. This is dope but wasn’t exactly what I was expecting at first listen from Aylen. Remember his No Sleep remix? Otis (Aylen Remix) by Aylen more info

Gigwise — They have huge opening week... more info