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Scarface is remaking some of

. And his mixtape we wrote about a while back will be released next week. And he has a full length in the pipeline as well. And we just creamed our pants. It's starting to look like the

is way more involved and rooted in precedent than anybody had anticipated. Crazy. Speaking of, the main criticism we heard re: Trae's video for "Inkredible" (which is still all over MTV) is that Ricky Ross's verse muddled the ending a bit on account of all the cussing. Here's what it looks like

.

For the first time in seemingly 100 years,

. Speaking of, guess who's getting half of the production for Paul Wall's new album?

. You had to have seen that coming.

Pepa (yep, from Salt-n-Pepa) said that

. That makes sense. Perhaps if Minaj rapped more about pushing it, pushing it real good, she'd gain a bit more respect? Jim Jonsin, who had a pretty strong showing on Slim Thug's

,

because he's yet to be paid for his work on Wayne's "Lollipop." (Tee hee.)

So is Erykah Badu. Double yippee. Kid Cudi says his new album

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, which is like an emo kid saying his poetry is going to be even more emo-y.