Here's an exclusive video of Aasim introducing his "Off the Shelf" mixtape, which was released on Bad Boy Blog last night. It features production from Grind Music and Amadeus and appearances from Diddy, Jack Knight, Mary Brown and more. You can download it for free. Warning: explicit.

The remix to Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" (featuring Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj) is now available on Amazon.com and iTunes.

This follows the performance of the record on the BET Awards (video) and the release of the music video, which you can watch below.

CONCRETELOOP.COM has photos from Dawn Richard's photo shoot for French magazine Ghubar.

In promotion of Schuman's National Underclassmen Combine, DJ NoPhrillz has put together "NUC Music Series - NUC You Know Know! Volume 2," co-hosted by Red Cafe. Red Cafe is featured on a number of records from the tape, which you can download over at DatPiff. Check out the front and back covers, track listing and an embedded player below.

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Back in January, we learned that Janelle Monae would be featured on the upcoming of Montreal album, titled "False Priest." Some more details have come out.

Spin Magazine reports that she will be featured on "Our Riotous Defects" and "Enemy Gene." Furthermore, also back in January, Pitchfork shared a clip of of Montreal singer Kevin Barnes playing a new song, "Enemy Gene." Check out the clip below.


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We're pleased to officially release Aasim's brand new mixtape, "Off the Shelf," featuring production from Grind Music and Amadeus and appearances from Diddy, Jack Knight, Mary Brown and more. Check out the front and back cover, as well as a full track listing (with production credits), below.

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Diddy is ranked at #68 on this years The Celebrity 100 list, presented by Forbes. As a member of the "Hip-hop impresario" category (seems kind of odd to me that that is an actual category), he was second behind Jay-Z, who ranked #15 overall, and ahead of Lil' Wayne (#74) and Akon (#80). 50 Cent was among the drop-offs.

The rankings and further divided into 5 addition categories, with Diddy's best showing in the "Web Rank" category. It's unclear what exactly that category means.

According to Janelle Monae's official website, the music video for "Tightrope (Wondamix)" featuring B.o.B and Lupe Fiasco will premiere on MySpace on Wednesday. Watch a sneak peak.

The highlight of last night's BET Awards, for me, was the Diddy/Dirty Money performance of "O Let's Do It (Remix)" and "Hello Good Morning (Remix)."

Diddy opened with his verse to Waka Flocka Flame's "O Let's Do It (Remix)." Through the smoke, it looked like Waka might have been backing him, but that is unclear.

After the verse was finished, they went right into "Hello Good Morning" with Rick Ross performing his verse. T.I. came on to perform his and then they reset the record and brought Nicki Minaj up on stage.

The performance was great. The smoke was a problem, unfortunately, as Diddy joked about on the after party later and the only thing that hampered the event.

They finished with Dirty Money, Rick Ross, T.I. and Nicki Minaj front and center on stage. Check it out below.

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At last night's BET Awards, Janelle Monae performed a spirited rendition of Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" in honor of the singer. Check out that performance below.