My man Alex sent me this. Elite, the producer behind J.Cole’s Heartache, Jadakiss and Styles P’s Shootouts, Joe Budden’s Fight Muzik, and many more is now coming with his own mixtape titled The Groundwork, due out early January. The mixtape will feature exclusive music from J.Cole and DMX, as well the instrumentals to his more well known records. Below is a link to the trailer as well as the backcover and tracklisting to the tape.
In a video for SOHH, Raekwon says he is past the Joe Budden drama and he is open to a collaboration between their respective super-groups.
“Would I do a collaboration with Wu-Tang and Slaughterhouse,” Raekwon asked himself. “I would say yeah. I would say yeah only because I’m a fan of them dudes. Would I want to do a Wu-Tang and Slaughterhouse song? Of course, why not? I already been put that in the air, even when all the turmoil was whatever it was. My thing is, this doesn’t have anything to do with the group situation and what y’all dealing with so let’s make it happen. And we already talked about that but I think the most important thing that people gotta understand is that we were here before them cats and they recognize that and they respect that …
With all this rap drama doing on between Joe Budden and Raekwon, I wonder if anyone really listened to KRS-One over a decade ago when he came out with this.
Here we have Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine assess the whole Joe Budden vs. Raekwon beef that escalated this past weekend.
Here’s a new track off Budden’s Escape Route, which is a digital-only album available today on amalgamdigital.com.
In your daily dose of ridiculous Hip-Hop news, a member of Raekwon’s entourage punched rapper Joe Budden in the eye yesterday backstage at Rock the Bells.


























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