Game's new "Beef" tattoo. Beef: The Series premieres on BET this Wednesday (October 4, 3006)

-Mixtape Monday: info on Nas' collaboration with Game titled "Hate the Game," Nas says 50 Cent is in agreeance with him by jacking that Hip-Hop is Dead title, Game supposedly has a "One Blood" remix featuring Fat Joe, Lil' Wayne, Nas, and others.

-Busta Rhymes pisses off the Aussies by canceling another tour.

-When I brought this OJ Simpson website to your attention 2 months ago, little did I know that they were offering the so-called explicit tapes for sale.

-According to 1,600 hip-hop fans this well-known L.A. rapper is the "King of the West."

-Blender magazine is up for sale again.

-Video: Lil Scrappy - Gangsta Gangsta

-Loon shoots new video in Tanzania. Rumor has it that he got locked up and the shoot fell through following an altercation between Loon and his video director.

-Download: Nas on Tim Westwood after the Wembley show. Says the Jay-Z collaboration is on Hip-Hop Is Dead. He also touches on an oft-ignored fact: it was L.A. Reid (not Mark Pitts) that set of the meeting that squashed his beef with Jigga.