As one half of hip hop’s defining duos, Big Boi blazed a brave trail in words and music. Now the OutKast rapper is back and shattering critics’ expectations with his new solo effort, ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty.’ Check out an exclusive Soundcheck performance and interview from Big Boi, including the hit single, ‘Shutterbugg.’

Watch the whole performance/interview here.

I’m about a month late but finally, I uploaded this footage. While I was on my blogging/tweeting journey at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards, I sat on the couch in the Virgin Mobile VVIP Lounge with my MMVA partner Andrew Bravener. Matt and Liz interviewed us about what we had done thus and who we blogged about. That night is a night I will never forget. Thanks again MuchMusic & Virgin Mobile!

P.S. I’m still dying ay my facial expressions. My mother had told me to stop but…talk about living for the moment! I was happy and excited! Ha!

Meet (again) Rembrandt aka Remy, my buddy and the “flyest kid” from the Lower East Side (Neewwww Yoooooork). Get a taste of what’s to come in the series III by Swagger New York!

III: 3 Looks, 3 Days -> III is a feature that lets you into the lives of the trendiest NYC’ers in 3 days and 3 different looks.

Diggy Simmons is on the cover of Right On! Magazine‘s July 2010 digital issue. I’m proud of him and can’t wait for his new Airborne mixtape to drop on July 29th. You can read the Right On! issue here or, peep the pages below. Also, while you’re at it, vote for Diggy Simmons as MTV’s Breakthrough MC of the year here. Don’t forget to follow him on twitter: @diggy_simmons.

Ha! This is hilarious. There’s something about British accents that I love.

The Manager meets up with Jay-Z’s protege J Cole for a chat in London UK!

This past Sunday was the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards and while you guys were watching it on TV, Andrew and I were backstage tweeting, twitpic’ing, facebooking, taping and taking pitchas! Anyways, here are a few photos as well some videos I took with my flip cam à la YN. Big thank you to MuchMusic and Virgin Mobile for this amazing experience. Oh and, I’m so happy to finally meet Justin Bieber <3 xo - Katy Perry is super funny – Miley Cyrus is great – Drake is and will always be the greatest – Adam Lambert is super nice – and, the lightskin guy from Down With Webster is very hot. Okay, I’m done.

P.S. I have an Adam Lambert interview that I’ll throw up in a bit. He’s great!

In case you weren’t paying attention, Surf Club’s own Chase N. Cashe spent a few days in New York last week. He even served as one of the judges on BET’s 106 & Park. On his last day in the Big Apple, Karen Civil caught up with the platinum selling producer for the latest entry in her Civilized Talk series. Chase, who is never one to bite his tongue, opened up on a lot of subjects including:

- His relationship with the other members of Surf Club
- The advice Questlove gave Hit Boy when they were in the studio recently
- His reaction to Drake’s shout out in “9 A.M. In Dallas”
- How grateful he is that Surf Club were the producers tapped for the first Lil Wayne and Eminem collaboration, “Drop The World”
- His thoughts on Kanye’s “Power”

Be sure to follow Chase on Twitter and check out Surf Club’s official website.

The new Issue of Source Magazine With Rick Ross/Luda on the cover highlights some of the best hip hop sites/bloggers out. KarenCivil.com was fortunate enough to be picked to take part of the article. Attached is a part of the spread. New source issue on stands now. Shouts to everybody else in this issue!

Click on each photo to enlarge.

This issue hits stands on June 8th. No words need to be said, simply press play.

Chedo caught Melanie Fiona on the Alicia Keys tour in the John Labatt Centre. Melanie and Chedo discussed why it’s so hard for Canadian artists to get recognition in their own country and much more!