According to David Harraway, Aasim has put his own take on Ne-Yo's "Champagne Life" featuring Rick Ross. It'll be released on Monday.

On March 9, 2004, Bad Boy released a compilation album, "Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary... The Hits" and that compilation featured one new record: "Victory 2004" by Diddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G., 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks.

It is a remix of the original "Victory" with new rap verses from Diddy, 50 and Banks. The main cut was around 6:23 long, but they also released an extended version with additional bars from Banks that finished at around 7:48.

Banks spoke to Rap Radar about the track, which apparently began as a freestyle before making it onto "Victory 2004."

On the Block Entertainment website, you can listen to "Money on Me" by Block featuring Gorilla Zoe. It's in the audio player in the upper right portion of the site.

Below, you can listen to "Free Falling" a new record by former Day26 member Que and Dawn Richard.

In August, I confirmed that Gorilla Zoe had signed to E1 Music, adding a new label to the mix alongside Block Entertainment, Bad Boy and Atlantic Records. At the time, it was unclear if the deal was part of something larger with Block.

According to Russell "Block" Spencer, Block Entertainment, Atlantic and E1 have "formed a big deal." He didn't go into further details. He says this in the video below at the 2:06 mark. He mentions Koch, but Koch is actually E1.

I mention this here because it may have some effect on Boyz N Da Hood, the only remaining Bad Boy/Block Entertainment artist, besides Gorilla Zoe, who is already with E1. Zoe mentioned back in February that a third Boyz N Da Hood album would be released around the time of his third album, "King Kong." Now that "King Kong" is set for an October 26 release, it is unclear if that is still the plan.

Dawn Richard recently paid a visit to Haiti and she recorded a video blog, as well as some clips of the support efforts and a local dance troupe. She also posted some photos. Check out the video blog below.

Care of Dawn Richard's blog, here is the cover for the second Danity Kane comics issue. When it is released, you'll be able to pick it up at IndyPlanet.

Yesterday, I reported that Diddy would executive produce the upcoming debut album from Pentagon/Interscope group i SQUARE. Today, I confirmed with someone at Interscope that their lead single, "Hey Sexy Lady" was also executive produced by him. Listen and download below.

Red Cafe has launched a new website at redcafe.tv. At this stage, it's a pretty typical artist site.

According to a post on their official website, linked on the Interscope Twitter feed, Diddy will serve as executive producer on i SQUARE's debut album, alongside The Pentagon.

The message on the Interscope feed gave the impression that Diddy had produced their debut single, "Hey Sexy Lady," which you can listen to below. But, the post itself makes this a little unclear and a message sent to the Interscope Twitter account, asking for clarification, was not immediately returned.


One very interesting detail: the group is signed to Pentagon/Interscope Records. Almost a year ago, I reported that, according to Damon Thomas and Diddy, the two were working together with Interscope on a new label called The Pentagon. The video where they mentioned this was deleted shortly thereafter and the partnership was not mentioned again.