Director Antoine Fuqua has officially dropped one hip-hop artist movie for another. Fuqua has been one of the main supporters of bringing the Tupac biopic to life but has officially left the film for Eminem’s boxing flick Southpaw. Movie tells the story of a left-handed welterweight (Eminem) whose quick rise to stardom turns into a life of trials and tribulations that he must overcome to reclaim his crown. More details on the movie here.

Now that Yelawolf is part of the Shady Records family, you can see his music video budgets moving up accordingly. Check the new vid for “Daddy’s Lambo.”

In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of her first album Songs in A Minor, Alicia Keys releases this documentary. It’s a good one. Check it out.

Album drops June 14th.

A nice little behind-the-scenes vid of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy during his Supreme clothing line photo shoot.

If he wanted to make some easy money he should have done his weight loss regime with a company like Weight Watchers or some product. Easy money there. Just not the Shake Weight. I guess we just call him Joe now?

We think it’s too good to be true. But in a nice marketing move, T-Pain declares he will never use Auto-tune again but instead will use his own vocal effect called “The T-Pain Effect” which will be unveiled at the E3 trade show here in LA. We can’t even make this stuff up. Mr. Pain recently told AHH:

“I vow right here, right now, to never use Auto-Tune again. I’m onto something that I think is bigger and better called ‘The T-Pain Effect.’ “

It’s a nice business move for T-Pain. Why share the wealth with the creators of Auto-Tune when he can just create his own effect?

Swizz Beatz does a viral for Reebok’s Kamikaze III which will be released on June 10th.