…is back!

After having a successful 2007, Swizz Beatz is showing no signs of slowing down. Among the numerous projects the rapper/producer will be working on, he will be hooking up with longtime collaborator DMX for X’s upcoming double-LP, Walk With Me Now, Fly With Me Later. The LP, as previously reported, will be half gospel songs, half “traditional” DMX.

“I’m helping him out with it,” said Swizz to MTV News in New York. “I just hooked him up with Pharrell for the gospel joint.”

In addition to X, Swizzy has some big plans for the whole Ruff Ryders family. “I‘m in my zone. I’m bringing the Ruff Ryders back real major in ‘08. It’s gonna be a lot of Ruff Ryders shit in ‘08. Not taking away from D-Block, not taking away from Bloodline. It’s stamping the brand that started all this shit. They letting me do whatever I wanna do as the president [of the company]. This is what I wanna do. Do this album, 10 bangers. Trying to get a joint from [Dr.] Dre, Primo [DJ Premier]. We got Dame Grease. All the original producers, everything to make the Ruff Ryder album authentic head-banger hip-hop. I got everybody right now. X just sent me five verses. Trust me. I don’t accept just any X [verses]. You’ll see. This is the real deal. I’m not gonna do it if it’s not the real deal.”

Swizz will be working outside of the Ruff Ryders family as well, doing tracks for Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter III, 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct, G-Unit’s Lock and Load, as well as Fat Joe’s The Elephant in the Room. Swizz has also found an unconventional business partners in Macy Gray. “I just politicked with her. She wants me to set the tone for her album,” said Swizz of the singer.

The producer will also be working with Usher. “I’m still finding out what vibes they wanna mess with,” said Swizz of the R&B singer’s upcoming LP. “It’s very tricky and confusing. So many people come in. The artist’s gotta be in that right frame of mind.”

Finally, Swizz took some time to speak on the follow up to his previous album, One Man Band Man, for which he just leaked a record called Hard Knocks with Drag-On. “Everybody is expecting It’s Me Bitches or Money in the Bank. I just want to use my opportunity to get a little more serious in the artist department, as a performer and lyricist. Not giving a fuck about radio and all that. I just want to give hip-hop something that’s not on the radio. A lot of the songs I got can blend in on the radio, but School of Hard Knocks don’t blend in with nothing on the radio. I’m already in full mode. What they want me to do? Let’s get it. I’m busting shots early — bong, bong!”

“The title is between Life After the Party and Remember Hip-Hop,” he elaborated. “I’m in between them. I don’t even have a date on my joint. I’m just feeling out the scene.”

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Another track from Her Name Is Nicole surfaced and it’s called Physical and features Timbaland

More Audio:
D-12 - We Deep
Craig David - 6 Of 1 Thing Remix Feat. (The One And Only) R-Les
Casely - Don’t Know What To Say Feat. Erin (Check previous post about this guy, he rocks!)
Tyrese - Comin To See You Feat. Ludacris
Talib Kweli - Momma Can You Hear Me

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Pics taken at some NY party some days ago, Amerie was there too.

What the hell is wrong with Fabo’s teeth?

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Hot as usual in the new Got Milk? commercial. What do you think?

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Sean “Diddy” Combs is teaming up with the VH1 network for an upcoming reality show that will chronicle his search for a new personal assistant.

Open calls will be held this Saturday (February 2) in New York and Atlanta, with additional calls in Chicago, Los Angles, Houston, Boston and Miami in coming weeks. Applicants must arrive with an application, which can be downloaded from workforpdiddy.com, along with a current resume.

Alternately, applicants can create and submit a DVD or mini-dv in which they explain who they are and why they are right for the job. As noted on the website, prospective candidates must be over the age of 21, have a “whatever it takes” attitude, and be available and on call 24/7.

The pool will eventually be narrowed to 20 finalists, all of whom will appear on the as of yet untitled show on VH1.

For more info visit workforpdiddy.com.

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Despite allegations by former Roc-A-Fella artist Peedi Crakk, Def Jam has not dropped Beanie Sigel and Freeway from its roster.

According to Peedi, he was called into a Philly studio along with State Property cohorts Beanie Sigel and Freeway and told by a Def Jam A&R that they’d been dropped.

But Beanie Sigel’s manager, Mark Byers, told Billboard that Beanie and Freeway still call Roc-A-Fella home.

“Beans and Freeway didn’t get dropped,” Byers said. “I just got off the phone with L.A. Reid talking about the next video for ‘Rain’ featuring Raheem DeVaughn that we’re about to release. We’re re-launching Beanie’s project and releasing a ‘Rain’ remix with State Property.”

Roc-A-Fella is an imprint on Def Jam that began to dissolve when founders Jay-Z, Damon Dash and Kareem Burke went their separate ways in 2004. Jay-Z later took the position of president of Def Jam, and Roc-A-Fella artists have complained about getting little attention under Jay’s watch.

In related news, the entire State Property camp, including Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Oschino and Sparks, the Young Gunz and Peedi Crakk, are currently preparing a reunion album to be released later this year. According to Billboard it will most likely be released by this summer.

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Composed of Divine, Élan, and Yeyo (DEY) The D.E.Y is a bilingual Latino trio that fuses hip-hop, R&B, pop, and Afro-Latino influences for a unique, singing/rapping fusion-heavy sound that celebrates Latinos’ rich cultural heritage while also inviting non-Latinos to share in the festivities.

Their innovative Epic Records debut which features production by Timbaland, JR Rotem, Stargate, and more promises to unify English-only, Spanish-only, and bilingual Latinos, and to address the interests and concerns of today’s generations of multicultural urbanites.

The D.E.Y. ushers in a new passion into today’s music, as you’ll be able to feel in their single “Give You The World.”

Watch the video

More info at The Dey Official Website

Note: if you are a new artist or you think you are a talent and want your music to be heard or you want to promote your label or your artists, send me an e-mail.

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New Jigga track called Ain’t I. Did you hear that too? Blueprint 3 coming?!

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Featuring Chris Brown And T-Pain

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From the soundtrack of the movie Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

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"Emotional" (viral video)

Look out for Casely in 2008, he is up and coming, check this track, it’s good!

More info on his Myspace

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This is the remix to Natasha’s Love Like This that features Lil Wayne and Sean Kingston

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Rap superstar 50 CENT has banned CIARA from collaborating with BIRDMAN and LIL’ WAYNE following a dispute with their record label.

he In Da Club hitmaker has asked R&B star Ciara not to record with artists at Cash Money Records following a feud between the label and G-Unit - 50 Cent’s hip-hop group.

According to MediaTakeOut.com, the rapper - real name Curtis Jackson - is fuming after G-Unit star Young Buck signed for Cash Money Records.

And as revenge, Jackson has stopped a collaboration between Ciara and Cash Money Records founder Bryan ‘Birdman’ Williams.

A source tells the website, “Nobody affiliated with 50 Cent can be affiliated with his enemy.”

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