Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal has an interview with Janelle Monae, talking about "The ArchAndroid," he situation with Bad Boy/Atlantic and more.

Sam Sessa of The Baltimore Sun has an interview and feature on Bad Boy songwriter Makeba Riddick.

At the end of April, Diddy confirmed that Nicki Minaj would appear on the remix to Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning." Earlier in the month, I had reported on signs pointing to her being involved, in some way with the music video shoot for "Hello Good Morning."

Well, here it is. Behind the scenes footage of the music video shoot where Minaj is recording to her verse. First, in a parked car and then, on the road with Diddy behind the wheel. Check it out below.

Care of Red Cafe's Twitter, here is a free download of "The Eastside."

NPR and Joseph Patterson of MTV UK's The Wrap Up both have new interviews with Janelle Monae.

"The ArchAndroid," Janelle Monae's new album dropping on May 18, has been uploaded to her MySpace and you can listen to it now.

This follows an apparent leak of the album, acknowledged by her on Twitter on May 10. "Please don't download the leak," she wrote. Some pre-orders of the album arrived early and she discouraged those who received the album from uploading it to the internet.

When Dirty Money appeared on BET's 106 & Park on Thursday, they also brought with them Red Cafe, Aasim and Rick Ross. With Ross on hand, Diddy finally confirmed that the rapper had entered into a management deal with him and James Cruz, as Billboard reported back in April.

"We decided to forge a positive partnership," he told hosts Rocsi and Terrence J. "It's a management situation, but it's not the regular management situation. It's a partnership, it's a brand management situation where I'm able to do my thing as a brand manager. He's able to add in his ideas and we're able to grow together and he also helps me out with my music, so it's like a two way street man and it's a great thing. So, it is official. He is managed by Gucci, myself and James Cruz."

"Everybody we rocking with, they are brands," he continued, when asked what he looks for in an artist when considering this type of relationship. "We gonna keep it boutique. It's not a lot of people we're going to manage. It's more like a brand management agency, then it is just artist management."

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When Dirty Money stopped by BET's 106 & Park on Thursday, Diddy was asked what Biggie record he would choose if he could only have one on his iPod. He said he couldn't choose, but that one of his favorite records was "My Downfall" from Biggie's "Life After Death" album.

Host Terrence J asked him what it was like in the studio when they were recording that song.

"We was hot," he said. "We just saw the 'Hit 'Em Up' video. We was hot. But, we ain't want to heat nothing up. We just wanted to make a record. We just felt like it was too much going on and that's how it was going down that day."

According to her Twitter, a remix to Janelle Monae's "Tightrope" is on the way.

Rico Love spoke to UsMagazine.com about writing Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" and spending Thanksgiving at Diddy's house.