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Kanye West feat. Pusha T – “Runaway”

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Here’s the CDQ audio version of Kanye West’s “Runaway” featuring Pusha T of the Clipse… this is the song they performed on the MTV VMA’s on Sunday. PURCHASE: iTunes | Amazon

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T.I. x Kanye West (Video)

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“I just left Hawaii with Kanye,” Tip said last night in Hollywood on the red carpet for the world premiere of “Takers.” “We did six records.”

The King of the South recently told MTV News how excited he was about going in the lab with some other track emperors. “We got a few big, big, big sessions coming up next week: Timbaland, Swizz Beatz,” T.I. revealed. “I’m trying to show up and show out every time.” – MTV

Video: Drake on the Evolution of Mixtapes

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via MTV. Drake sits down with Sway from MTV to discuss the evolution of the mixtape game.

Excerpt: “I think that when creating a mixtape, you have to approach it with a selfless mind-set,” Drake told us. “A mixtape can’t be the songs that don’t make your album, or songs that aren’t good enough to make your album make your mixtape — unless you’re that good. There aren’t that many people that are that good. I’m not that good. That mixtape [So Far Gone] is me working my hardest. It wasn’t ‘Oh, here are the songs I’m gonna give away to you ’cause I have better songs coming.’ A mixtape has become an album.