A public service announcement before we begin, anyone who sent me an email in the past two weeks and wasn’t responded to…send it again cause my account is now up and running again and I can receive the mail. On with the news…

Indy hero and producer extraordinaire J-Zone is gearing up for the release of his latest album, “$ick of Being Rich.” The lead single, “5 Star Hooptie b/w Eatadiccup f. Celph-Titled,” is out (and hella dope). The album will drop July 22nd via Zone’s Old Maid Entertainment/Fat Beats and features guest spots from King Tee, J-Ro (Tha Liks), Masta Ace, Copywrite, Celph-Titled and of course, Al-Shid and Dick $tallion. Naturally, Zone will handle all the beats. Speaking of which, his fourth instrumental album (“Gold Plaque Instrumentals”) will be available in early June…

Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Dirt McGirt, whatever the hell you want to call him, already dropped a new single last week, “Welcome Home.” It didn’t take the Dirt Dog long to hook up with hip-hop’s hottest beatmakers, look for ODB’s contributions on the upcoming Star Trak compilation from The Neptunes…

Raekwon’s upcoming “Ice Water” LP has been pegged with a September 9th release date. With only one LP to his credit 8 years ago (I refuse to acknowledge that “Immobilarity” exists), this is do or die time for the chef…

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Word from hiphopsite is that Snoop Dogg and Xzibit have kissed and made up and X will make appearance on Tha Eastsidaz album and the 213 project. The advance for Defari’s new album is out, weird not hearing X on there. Defari gets a nice little subtle dig at him too…