Def Jam Interactive will release of the forthcoming 4mm Games and Terminal Reality video game, Def Jam Rapstar this fall. Def Jam Rapstar blends classic and popular Hip-Hop songs with karaoke, will be available for Playstation 3, Wii, and XBox 360. The karaoke rap video game can be played in three speeds: solo (one player), duet (two players playing together), and battle (two players against each other for points). Additionally, with the selection of each track, the music video plays in the background and a “about” facts column pops up on the side stating a brief biography of the artist(s). Featured artists on the game include Big Pun (“Still Not A Player), The Notorious B.I.G. (“Juicy”), 2Pac (“I Get Around”), A Tribe Called Quest (“Scenario”), 50 Cent (“I Get Money”), Lil Wayne (“A Milli”) and LL Cool J (“Mama Said Knock You Out”), Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige (“All That I Need”), Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, and the list goes on. Def Jam Rapstar is co-published by Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. and Autumn Games, and will retail for $59.99 for the software only version for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 (and $49.99 for Wii); and for $69.99 for a bundled version including the software and one wired microphone for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles ($59.99 for Wii). The game will be available for purchase on October 5th. For more information visit www.defjamrapstar.com.

Legendary DJ’s/producers DJ Premier and Clark Kent host an event today celebrating the life of DJ AM, along with the DJ AM Memorial Fund. DJ Premier will be joined by an all-star lineup of acts at Santos’ Party House, 96 Lafayette st, during the DJ AM fundraiser. Also spinning will be DJ Stretch Armstrong, Mark Ronson, Eli Escobar, Jus Ske, Jesse Marco and DJ Riz. As a producer, AM worked with artists like Dilated Peoples, Jay-Z, Madonna, Beastie Boys, Weezer and Three 6 Mafia. As a DJ, he worked with top artists like Will Smith, Babyface, Lady Sovereign and others. The DJ’s will spin special sets celebrating the life of AM, which ended on August 28th, 2009, when he was found dead of an overdose in his Manhattan apartment.

Via twitter, Kanye West announced Sunday (August 22nd) that every week until Christmas he plans to release new material. “I know y’all need the music so I’m dropping 1 new song every weekend until Xmas. It may be my song, it may be a new Jay song, etc,” He went on to say, “I’m calling it good Fridays. Yall know every Friday yall gone have a new joint from our family. We look at the game completely different now. It’s about the fans. No more holding back. That’s why I dropped see me now… It wasn’t about me it was about the Summer the BBQs etc.” Kanye also expressed how hard he’s been working. “Swizz looked at me the other night and said man are you getting sleep and I told him I can’t sleep… My people need this new music…Yall make all the hard work worth it…. We been up to 5 am every night working on everything Pusha, Rakwon, Mos, Swizz, Skateboard etc.” He is also in the process of creating a movie that will go along with the much anticipated album he has been working on in seclusion. Cant wait to see how all this hard work continues to make our heads nod.

In the new August/September Vibe, Diddy addresses the several year old rumor that he takes advantage of his artists.
“There’s an off perception that needs to be addressed about me that I have ever robbed somebody or mistreated somebody. Or tried to be ruthless or whatever in this game. Like, all this year I’ve heard people say, “Where’s Carl Thomas, where’s Black Rob, where’s G.Dep? Where are these artists?” And for some reason they go ahead and equate that, cause those artists aren’t with me, that I’ve done something wrong or malicious or conniving. It’s something that I do have a problem with because they don’t have no proof that I’ve ever done nothing like that. It’s a misconception. Especially someone who’s been brought up like me. I’ve been brought up to work hard for mine and never take from nobody. And to always try and help people. But people don’t understand this game that were in. You have a short life expectancy. It’s rare to a me, to be a Jay-Z, an LL, a Nas. That shit is a rarity. That’s not even one percent of the rappers. If you look at any artists that were on Ruff Ryders where they at? If you look at any artist that was on Def Jam at the time we started, where they at? If you look at any artist that was on Roc-A-Fella, Jive, where they at? It’s not like anything was wrong with them. It’s just that you have a four, five-year average in this game. That’s just something I wanted to address”
What’s your opinion? Does he have some good points? or is he full of ish?