Alleged cover art for Nas' 2nd Lost Tapes installment

-I finally put down the PS2 to give y'all a 10-song [p]review of Snoop's forthcoming album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.

-Diddy debuts at No. 1 with 176,000. The Game has the rest of this week's SoundScan.

-Eminem to announce a new Dr. Dre-produced track from The Re-Up. Apparently, "Produced by Dr. Dre" means a lot more these days.

-Jay-Z responds to Cam'ron in the December issue of XXL. Or so says the grapevine.

-Despite all those platinum-selling posthumous releases, Pac is nowhere to be found on Forbes' Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list.

-Pitbull says Cocaine Cowboys is better than Scarface. Check out the interesting promo videos featuring Trick Daddy.

-Jay-Z is No.2 "Man of the Year" for 2006, if you're into that sort of thing.

-New interview with AZ who I'm also rooting for this quarter, even though he'll probably sell below 500 copies the first week.