XXL just posted an excerpt from the November issue, out now.
Photography by Jonathan Mannion.

Simmons: I could talk about Lyor better than he can. He’s so nice, he might not say it. He was so in love with the music and worked so hard for the artists. He made a lot of money with Run-DMC and then lost all his money on Whodini. He came from a wealthy family but stayed in a raggedy hotel room… He worked for no money for a long time. He was Andre [Harrell’s] secretary. Andre shit on him.

Cohen: No, excuse me. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Simmons: I do. Andre had Lyor working hard as hell.
Cohen: I didn’t even know Andre at that time.
Simmons: Andre was the vice president of Rush.
Cohen: Wrong.

Simmons: And Lyor came in.
Cohen: Wrong, wrong. You have a really bad memory… I’m going to tell you how Lyor Cohen was invented… When I came to New York, Run-DMC was at the airport, going to London…and no one had a passport… I went straight to the airport with my passport, and since they saw me from that show before, they were kind of gracious with me. There were some terrible things on that trip that I solved, and after that they asked me to be their road manager. That allowed me to get off the floor at that welfare hotel. It also gave me some sort of credibility, because I was sort of goofy—I didn’t look the part… That’s how that happened.
Are they always like this, Kevin?
Kevin Liles: Always. It’s usually worse.
You guys have this good-cop, bad-cop routine down pat.
Cohen: He is such a puss. He would never fire nobody.

Simmons: I’m a screamer.
Cohen: He has a reputation of never firing anyone and bludgeoning them to death and hoping that they would just understand.
Simmons: I have difficulty firing people. Sometimes Lyor would be the bad guy and I would be the nice guy. People would be like, “That nasty muthafucka Lyor.”
Do you have to be nasty to succeed at this job?
Cohen: Not at all. You don’t have to be nasty. We were never really nasty. We were determined to survive.

Simmons: Kevin Liles can fire people and be their best friend on their way out. “This is what the company has to have. I’m sorry, you’re not performing, and you have to go home.”
That’s not being mean. That’s being honest.

Continue reading @ XXLmag.com

Your boy has two pairs of tickets for Mega’s album release show @ SOB’s tonight. Guests will include Large Professor, Havoc, Pete Rock, Buckwild and others.

I’m gonna make this real simple, so the first two people to email nah.right.contests [at] gmail.com with the following subject line will each win a pair of tickets:

Gimme Those Mega Tickets!

Good luck and please note, you must be 21 or older to attend.

I’m sure by now you’ve seen last weekends antics, with the drunk fan who got out of line and ended up taking an L, so I figured its time to get back to the music…

Here’s the link to the No DJ version of “Sexytime”, a fan favorite from the Donnis: Diary Of An ATL Brave mixtape.

…Just so happens that the homie T-Pain recently sported the limited edition Donnis x 10Deep x Sexytime T-shirt on the red carpet at the Australian premiere of “This Is It.”

Donnis – Sexytime [NoDJ]

Shout to the homie Stadium Dan.

Cy goes in over Drake’s “Fear.” Man, I’m just realizing how fucking tired I am today… sheesh.

DOWNLOAD: Cymarshall Law – No Fear

Its The Cons sits down with one of my benefactors to walk wild random stuff about that jacket. Kidding, of course.

First the album sprang a leak, now here comes something that’s not on it, courtesy of the same guy who supplied the Game one the other day.

DOWNLOAD: 50 Cent – Untitled Track [Snippet] | Mediafire

You already knew Timbaland was gonna be on some wild wacky shit when this album drops, and this track is no execption.

DOWNLOAD: Timbaland – Ease Off The Liquor f. SoShy | Mediafire

Whats going on guys! So, the wonderful people at Yatta Mayjour started a new web-series, entitled, “TheSessions”. This series will capture Chris Faust and Ibe’s(Producer as well as many other things) journey towards the completion of, “The Project”. This web-series, broken up into many webisodes, will feature many guest appearances and focuses, primarily on studio life from an independent lens. The show spotlights real conversations of different sorts, ranging from refreshingly intellectual to very trivial; which is captured all for entertainment purposes. The Show is set in many different places from the studio to the water fountains of the Intrepid. Chris Faust and Ibe will take they’re audience on a roller coaster ride, recording how “TheProject”, takes shape as well as grows into a coherent piece of art. Here is Part 3 of the series featuring, Sunny Jones, Muriel Jenkins, C.J. Browne, and Jason Rice. Check it out and stay tuned in.

Bobby James of TheMashUp.Net spoke to Vast Aire about how he got his name, how he connected with West Coast artists, the best show he’s ever done, if he’s ever had a 9-5, what if he signed to a major label, and his upcoming projects.

Via 2DB

The T-Dot spitter drops his latest mixtape, with Rosa Acosta hosting (I know, right?). Tracklist and link under the cut.

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