DrJays.com Live spoke with Dawn Richard about the new HBO show "Treme," which is set in New Orleans, three months after Hurricane Katrina. Richard is from the city.

Via David Duane.

"Last Train to Paris," the long-anticipated sixth album from Diddy, now recording as part of Dirty Money, along with Dawn Richard and Kalenna, has been in development, in at least one form of another, for more than a year and a half. Now that it appears that the album will finally reach our hands on June 22, I thought that this would be a good time to take stock of the project and everything that we know about it.

Concept

"Last Train to Paris" is a conceptual album that centers around a love story. It's about "finding love, losing love and getting love back again," Dawn Richard told MTV News. Diddy shared the back story with MTV's Shaheem Reid. His character in the concept story meets a girl and they grow close. But, they separate after a misunderstanding.

"She just breaks out on a n****," Diddy told Reid. "But an absence makes the heart grow fonder. She's singing to me; I'm performing to her. We're in two different parts of the world. She's remembering all the good times, and I'm thinking about if I had another chance, I wouldn't f*** it up. So, I go on tour and I'm in London. I get a tip that she's in Paris, and it's 9:45 p.m. or something. It's one of the foggiest days in London, so I can't take my plane. I can't drive, the road is shut down. The only way I can get there is the last train to Paris, and it leaves in 20 minutes and I'm 15 minutes away. It's that whole intensity of what happens on the train ride - and will she be there when I get there - is something else you'll hear."

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MuchMusic has a few short clips with Dirty Money from Diddy's house in Los Angeles. They joke about the group's swag and talk about what Dirty Money is.

Chris Osterndorf of The Depaulia, the student newspaper for DePaul University, has a quick interview with Janelle Monae.

A new song from GOOD Music rapper Consequence samples Biggie vocals for the chorus. The song is "Childish Games" and it borrows from "Let Me Get Down," from the "Born Again" album. It features Asher Roth. Check out the video for the song below.

On Twitter, Red Cafe provided a free download link for a remix to "Hello Good Morning" that features an opening verse from him. T.I.'s verse and the rest of the track remains the same as the original.

For an April Fool's Day prank, I reported that Red Cafe, Rick Ross, Pharrell, Nas and Jay-Z would all appear on remixes to "Hello Good Morning." Since Ross threw a verse on it, we're now 2/5 of the way there. Sorta.

Update: This has been confirmed.

In the last few days, Diddy has retweeted a pair of tweets indicating that he will be appearing on "Inside the Actors Studio," the long running entertainment interview show, hosted by James Lipton. From the tweets, it looks like he'll be taping something on April 13 at Pace University in New York City.

I've reached out to Bravo, the channel the program airs on, for confirmation and more details.

Though this was released a couple of months ago, we never shared it here at Bad Boy Blog. So, below, check out the single cover for Red Cafe's "I'm Ill" featuring Fabolous. The music video for the song premiered in March.

In the last few months on Amazon.com, a couple of Red Cafe mixtape albums have been released for purchase They are "The Supplier" and "Hennessy & Haze." Here are the covers and track listings:


1. Intro - Guns Go Off (Explicit)
2. Go Crazy (Explicit)
3. Bling Bloaw (Explicit)
4. Interlude (Explicit)
5. Air It Out (Explicit)
6. Gs and Hustlers (Explicit)
7. I'm a Rider (Explicit) featuring Styles P.
8. No Snitching Allowed (Explicit)
9. Shakedown Freestyle (Explicit)
10. Out of Control (Explicit)
11. Purple Barney (Explicit)
12. Da Union (Explicit)
13. The Supplier (Explicit)
14. Burning Up (Explicit)
15. Interlude (Explicit)
16. Summertime Grind (Explicit)
17. I Don't Give A F*** (Explicit)
18. Interlude (Explicit)
19. Show Respect (Explicit)
20. Beast From The East (Explicit)
21. Cover Boy (Explicit)
22. Blackout (Explicit)
23. Gotta Get Up (Explicit)

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Check out the music video below for "285 Shawty" by Yung Joc featuring T.O. Green and Doeshun. It might actually be by Green and featuring Joc, but the video is labeled as it being a Yung Joc track and it was posted on his Twitter.