Black Rob is out with the album cover and track listing for his ‘Game Tested, Streets Approved’ album, which is out July 26th on Duck Down Music. The album is the Harlem rapper’s first since 2005?s ‘The Black Rob Report’. Fans can pre-order for the Deluxe-Edition at iTunes now and contains three exclusive bonus tracks.

Track Listing:
1) Welcome Back
2) Boiling Water
3) Bumpin
4) Can’t Make It In NY
5) Showin Up
6) Celebration
7) Wanna Get Dough
Get Involved
9) Sand to the Beach
10) Made Me a Man
11) F*ck Em
12) This Is What It Is
13) Up North – This Is What It Is
14) No Fear featuring Sean Price
15) Sh*t (iTunes Bonus)
16) Stand Off (iTunes Bonus)
17) Nothin (iTunes Bonus)

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Alicia Keys is on the cover of Essence magazine’s June issue, where the new mom is glowing and talking about her husband Swizz Beatz and their baby boy Egypt Dean. “I was very closed for a long time. But I feel so open now,” the 30-year-old said. “To feel open like this means you’ve found the center in yourself. You’re not hiding; you’re not worried about anything. Everything’s going to be just fine.” Check out the covers at essence.com.

Solange has an unreleased song that has surfaced on the internet called “Left Side Drive” that will surely make her fans happy.

If the beat and title sound and look familiar that is because Miss Knowles decided to cover Boards of Canada’s

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Here is a girl who knows the true meaning of the word hustle.

Teairra Mari who releases mixtape after mixtape in hopes of keeping the media buzz going in order to finally unleash the follow up to her 2005 Roc-A-Fella Presents: Teairra Marí has just unveiled the cover art of her forthcoming mixtape called “Now or Never” that will be hosted by DJ Scream.

The singer strikes a provocative pose in tight leather pants/bra, chains wrap around her neck with a giant ponytail.

Now or Never will be available for free download on May 30th,2011.

What are your thoughts on the cover?

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Curren$y’s upcoming album/short film Muscle Car Chronicles will be in stores on March 15th, via DD172.

Artwork by David Barnett. Back cover/track list after the jump.

Previously: Curren$y – Soundbombing (In-Studio) (Video)

1. Soundbombin
2. N.O. Shit
3. Frosty
4. Razors & Chopsticks
5. Not So Much
6. Fly Out (Part Deux)
7. Bout it 2011
8. The Strangest Life
9. Fly Out (Part Tres) ft. Mikey Rocks & Tabi Bonney

B.o.B talks about the Feb-March VIBE cover with Wiz Khalifa & Bruno Mars.

”I Wish Yall Could See How Hard I’m Smiling”
6:00AM ET October 18th, 2010
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Kanye West revealed his proposed album cover that was, according to him, ‘banned.’ The cover is a caricature of what appears to be Kanye on a sofa with what looks like a mythological phoenix. Kanye tweeted about the cover, but didn’t give any specifics as to who or what entity deemed the cover unusable.

“Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!! Ima tweet it in a few…,” the rapper said via his Twitter account on Sunday, before he actually posted the proposed cover. “Banned in the USA!!! They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!”

“In the 70s album covers had actual nudity… It’s so funny that people forget that… Everything has been so commercialized now. I know that cover just blew yall minds … I wish yall could see how hard I’m smiling right now!!! In all honesty … I really don’t be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers #Kanyeshrug!”

“I wanna sell albums but not at the expense of my true creativity.”

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Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!! Ima tweet it in a few…

Banned in the USA!!! They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix! http://twitpic.com/2ykxjk

In the 70s album covers had actual nudity… It’s so funny that people forget that… Everything has been so commercialized now.

I know that cover just blew yall minds … I wish yall could see how hard I’m smiling right now!!!

In all honesty … I really don’t be thinking about Wal-Mart when I make my music or album covers #Kanyeshrug!

I wanna sell albums but not at the expense of my true creativity.

So Nirvana can have a naked human being on they cover but I can’t have a PAINTING of a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings

With Janelle Monae playing the cut a la Waldo. Hit the jump for the full cover fold out with Dirty Money, Red Cafe and Cassie, as well as a few excerpts from the Puff Q&A.

Dr. Dre said that the last beat that floored him was “All About the Benjamins.” How does that make you feel?
It’s humbling. I was in the studio with Dre the other day. He started working on a record for me. Watching him as a producer is watching greatness. We had a lot of similar traits. It was like looking in the mirror. He would ask questions like, “How you feel about this?” People don’t really understand true producers want to know how you feel about things. We are some of the most observant people on the planet.

What happened during the Martin Bashir interview on Nightline?
There were times in the interview when I had to give him an ultimatum. The questions weren’t being handled the right way. In hindsight, when I saw him I shouldn’t had done the interview because I know the style of interview that he does . . . The whole thing about giving a Maybach to my son, that’s really like a racist question. You don’t ask White people what they buy their kids. And they buy ‘em Porsches and convertible Bentleys and it ain’t no question. It’s really a racist question and put things back in perspective with money and the way that people still look at you. And I’m not saying that consciously he’s a racist. But he probably don’t even realize that he would not ask Steve Jobs that. He would be like Steve Jobs has that money and that’s the gift his kid is supposed to get.

Are the comments from Lil’ Kim about Nicki disheartening?
When I heard her say what she said, it didn’t really affect me. I didn’t get mad at her or anything like that. I knew how she felt. I ain’t agree with it. But also I know the motivation. I know that people say, “Oh, he’s trying to get a new Lil’ Kim.” I guess people will see in time. Yeah, Nicki’s had flavored wigs on, but besides that it ain’t even the same approach to the writing.

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