Jay-Z kicks off today’s game with this “Run This Town” commercial.

Here is Common’s Gatorade SuperBowl commercial, although he doesn’t appear in the ad himself. And after the jump a bootleg of Drake’s Sprite commercial, he is in it, and it’s really cool too.

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Take Vienna is a rock/blues/rap hybrid project from producer/guitarist AS Is and rapper Rukas (original founder of StreetHop.com, so if the fact it’s dope isn’t reason enough to check it out, then that should be).

“What’s Peace?” is a flip of Biggie’s “What’s Beef?” If you like it make sure to check out their other songs on http://www.myspace.com/takevienna.

No not really, but he does make some chicken burritos for some X-Gamers to promote his vitamin water.

Tight jeans, guitars, Birdman and Lil Wayne.

VH1 is premiering a new series called Famous Crime Scenes. The first episode will debut on February 12th about 2Pac. Here’s the official trailer for it.

Later episodes will cover The Notorious BIG and Jam Master Jay.

The original Brooklyn don diva Foxy Brown is back and this time she brought some of her people to this diss. It features Easy Moe Dee and BAM on this track “Let Em Know” and they straight up blaze  Lil Kim and Jay-Z. She even spits a small verse on the rumor of Foxy having Rick Ross‘ baby. She even spits on Nas and AZ.

I’m excited over this new track “Ten Toes Down” by 8Ball & MJG. I’ve followed both of these dudes since I bought 8Balls triple disc album Lost back in 1998.  Well, it was a double album with a third bonus disc featuring Canibus, A+, Psycho Drama, Crucial Conflict, McGruff etc. Check it out sometime.

Check out Freddie Foxx living up to his Bumpy Knuckles alias last night at Statik Selktah’s 100 Proof album release party at S.O.B.’s in New York. That’s Freddie in the brown FCUK beanie, and apparently he layed the dude in purple out. It’s 2010 and no FlipCam video?

Common told the BMI “How I Wrote That Song” panel that”It’s Your World” off of his Be album (my favorite Common album) was inspired by a conversation he had with a prostitute.

Jay-Z’s “Forever Young” bares a striking resemblance to German rapper Bushido’s song “Für immer jung,” which was released in 2008 through Universal. Both songs sample Alphaville’s original, but the question remains, did Jay-Z get the idea from Bushido?

Bushido’s record label, Universal, previously sued EMI for copyright violation when MIMS album cover for Music Is My Savior copied the artwork for Bushido’s Deutschland Gib Mir Ein Mic.

Here’s the video for Bushido’s version, with Jay-Z’s after the jump.

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Here’s another street video from Tony Yayo off of his street album Gun Powder Guru out now.

Here is some footage of Ludacris, Nas and Big Boi from Big Boi’s birthday celebration at the Velvet Room in Atlanta.

Tech N9ne talks about getting the respect he is due, doing what he does so his kids can have a good life, touring, getting offered sex at church, and more.

If you’re a west coast rapper, Ras Kass suggests you go out and help yourself instead of waiting for Dr. Dre to do something.