According to Ryan Brockington at PopWrap, Janelle Monae is featured on the upcoming debut album from B.o.B., "B.o.B. Presents The Adventures of Bobby Ray." The track is called "The Kids" and you can pre-order the album now.

Janelle Monae is one of the artists currently highlighted on MySpace Music's "Introducing..." feature.

According to their website, "'Introducing...' is a program dedicated to artists on the rise. Every few months, through 'Introducing…' we will be presenting you tomorrow's stars."

Via Axcess News.

Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. Boosted by the power of American Idol, Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" makes a strong debut, appearing on 6 charts, most notably the big one - the Hot 100 - where it checks in at 34.

This is the group's first appearance on the big board, giving Bad Boy it's first Hot 100 charting single since July 11 of last year when Gorilla Zoe's "Echo" last charted.

Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums

19. "Ready to Die" by The Notorious B.I.G. (down from 15).

Singles

The Billboard Hot 100

34. "Hello Good Morning" by Dirty Money (debut).

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Usher is the latest artist to receive some promotional backing from Ciroc. His latest music video, which you can check out below, features the vodka briefly with the video itself being presented by Ciroc. Interestingly, on the track, Minaj raps that she's "plotting on how I can take Cassie away from Diddy."

Care of a marketing company working on behalf of the rapper, here is a free download of "They Don't Want It" by Jody Breeze featuring Big Gee. It's from Breeze's upcoming mixtape, "Welcome to the Future."

Vibe has launched a tournament (of sorts) aimed at selecting the greatest hip-hop producer of all-time based on online polls. Interestingly, while most of the 64 entrants are solo producers, they've lumped Diddy and The Hitmen together.

They have further quantified this as Sean "Diddy" Combs, Chucky Thompson, Steven "Stevie J" Jordan, Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence, Nashiem Myrick, Carlos "6 July" Broady, Jeffery "J-Dub" Walker, Yogi, Sean C & LV, Harve "Joe Hooker" Pierre, Mario "Yellowman" Winans, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Richard "Younglord" Frierson, Steve "Rhythm" Clarke and Daven "Prestige" Vanderpool. (Steve "Rhythm" Clarke? I've never heard that before. Looking into it.)

Honestly, when you lump all of those people together, I find it hard to believe that most of the others have much of a chance. Just match up the pedigree, song by song, of those people while they were under The Hitmen banner. It's weird to pit more than a dozen people against one.

This is mainly a promotion to generate traffic and chatter, as lists are always controversial. But, why not vote, anyway. You can vote for Diddy by going to the Vibe site and clicking on Diddy's image.

Last night, Dirty Money was featured during the opening to CBS' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game last night. Check out the clip below.

Following up on his "Elevated" mixtape, which has been downloaded over 3 million times, Jeremy Greene has re-released the a new version of the tape, which was mixed by DJ Julian Ramirez. You can download it over at Clizbeats.com. Check out the cover below.

Clizbeats.com has an interview with new Bad Boy signee Jeremy Greene.

He talks about how a gut feeling led to a chance meeting with Diddy that led to a quick signing to the label.

Over on the Sean John blog, you can check out the Sean John Boys ad campaign for Spring/Summer 2010. Four photos in all, two of which feature Diddy's son, Christian.