It feels crazy and ridiculous to be typing the news that MC Hammer has a new song and video out dissing Jay-Z. Even though we got word that it was coming in September, after Jay made reference to Hammer's famous early-'90s bankruptcy on a verse from the Kanye West posse cut, "So Appalled." (This year had already been a big year for Hammer, what with a Rick Ross hit named after him and everything.) Hammer took to calling Jay "Hell Boy" on his Twitter account (a reference to the entertaining notion that the world's biggest rap star is in league with the occult—Hammer is an ordained [...]

If you told me last year that I would be purchasing a new album by the veritably ancient Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D in 2010, I would have said something about eating my Kangol. But today, after being so very pleasantly surprised by the single "I Just Can't Help Myself" a couple months ago, and then being reminded by Gucci Mane's new Swizz-Beatz-produced track, "It's Gucci Time!" (which is not a cover of Schoolly's 1985 jam) and then being again surprised by another great new Schoolly song, above, (which is not a cover of Sly and the Family Stone, nor Mary J. Blige), well, I [...]