While we were all enjoying seconds and thirds of our Thanksgiving feasts, Lupe Fiasco and Vado dropped some new music for their fans. As two artists on the complete opposite of the spectrum, the ever perspective rapping Lupe gave some sight into the more political and religion aspects of music while Vado kept it all Harlem and New York with features from Fabolous, Raekwon, Jae Millz, and others.  Download links below and then view the tracklists for the mixtapes after the jump.

• Lupe Fiasco – Friend of The People (Mixtape)
• Vado – Slime Flu 2 (Mixtape)

1. What’s Poppin’
2. Tales from The Cotton Club
3. SLime Anthem
4. Louis V Bag
5. OK Y’all feat. Fabolous
6. NY Ride
7. I See You (Black People)
8. Keep It Goin’ feat. Young Chris
9. U Know What It Is
10. Bed Piss feat. Raekwon
11. All The Drama
12. I Got That (Frankie Lymon) feat. Jae Millz
13. Somebody Gotta Die feat. Paul Cain & Freck Billionaire
14. Paid In Full
15. Ms. SLime Booty (freestyle)
16. All I Know
17. I Need U feat. Remo The Hitmaker

I’ve never been to a Rock The Bells but hopefully 2011 changes that.  This year’s line up has a nice mix of old school legends with young and up and coming talent. From Lauryn Hill, Nas, Raekwon, Black Star, Mobb Deep, Ghostface, Slaughterhouse, Mac Miller, Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T., Freddie Gibbs, Childish Gambino – there’s an artist for everyone. Also, with these big festivals you can always expect a big surprise or two. Get your tickets while they last!

08.20 San Bernardino, CA – San Manuel Amphitheater
08.27 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
09.03 New York, NY – Governor’s Island
09.10 Boston, MA

Source – RTB

This weeks throwback is a compilation track with some of the best rappers. Its off Don Cartegena, which was released by Fat Joe in 1998. Album peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 and was Fat Joe’s 3rd album. Enjoy.

Shouts to them 2dopeboyz for putting together (properly tagged and zipped into one file) this collection of Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Fridays songs together.  They did it earlier this week but I just came across it now.  If you’ve slacked on your weekly Friday Yeezy and friends fix, then get the complete collection here.  The only song that’s missing from this project is Christmas In Harlem, as it was released after this compilation was made.  Download link and tracklist is below:

• Kanye West – G.O.O.D. Fridays (Collection) (Compiled by 2dopeboyz)

01 Power Remix f. Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
02 Runaway Love (rmx) f. Justin Bieber & Raekwon
03 Devil In a New Dress
04 Good Friday f. Common, Pusha T, KiD CuDi, Big Sean & Charlie Wilson
05 Lord Lord Lord f. Mos Def, Swizz Beatz, Raekwon & Charlie Wilson
06 So Appalled f. Jay-Z, RZA, Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce & Swizz Beatz
07 Christian Dior Denim Flow f. KiD CuDi, Pusha T, John Legend, Lloyd Banks & Ryan Leslie
08 Don’t Stop f. Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell
09 Take One for the Team f. Keri Hilson, Pusha T & CyHi Da Prynce
10 Don’t Look Down f. Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco & Big Sean
11 The Joy f. Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Curtis Mayfield & KiD CuDi
12 Looking For Trouble f. Pusha T, CyHi Da Prynce, Big Sean & J. Cole
13 Chain Heavy f. Talib Kweli & Consequence

The Sneaker Pimps crew hits Miami, Florida tomorrow at the Mekka on 950 NE 2nd Ave.  Along with the NBA Jam action and exclusive sneakers all over the spot – Raekwon, Phil Ade’, Thee Tom Hardy, and DJ Keen One will be keeping the crowd entertained with live performances.  Buy your tickets now!

I didn’t watch last night’s BET Hip Hop Awards but I heard the highlight of the night was the above G.O.O.D. Music cypher that included Kanye West, Common, Big Sean, Pusha T, and CyHi Da Prynce.  The rest of the night’s cyphers included “freestyles” from Wiz Khalifa, YelaWolf, Raekwon, Tyga, Royce Da 5’9″, Ice Cube, Rev Run, Diggy, Busta Rhymes, Mickey Factz, and otehrs.  The night’s performances came from Rick Ross, Diddy, DJ Khaled, MC Hammer, Gucci Mane, Swizz Beatz, J. Cole, Dipset (Cam’Ron x Jim Jones x Juelz Santana), Big Boi, B.o.B., and more.  Hit the jump to view the videos of all the cyphers and performance videos courtesy of MWP.

Cypher: Wiz Khalifa, Bones Brigante, YelaWolf & Raekwon

Cypher: Tyga, Kuniva, Diamond & Royce Da 5’9″

Cypher: OMG, Doughboy, Ice Cube, Diggy, JoJo & Rev Run

Cypher: Busta Rhymes, Reek Da Villian, Zawcain & Mickey Factz

Rick Ross, Diddy, DJ Khaled & MC Hammer – Medley

Gucci Mane ft. Swizz Beatz – Gucci Time

J. Cole – Who Dat

Dipset – Salute

Big Boi Ft. Yelawolf – You Ain’t No DJ

B.o.B. – Don’t Let Me Fall

Thoughts on this kid?  Diggy rocks out with his new Airborne mixtape hosted by DJ Spinking with production by Boi-1da, Kane Beatz, Black The Beast, and others along with features from Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell Williams, Chris Brown, Colin Munroe, Raekwon, and more.  Download link and tracklist is below:

• Diggy – Airborne (Mixtape) (Hosted by DJ Spinking) | (alternative download link)

1. AirBorne feat. Wynter Gordon (Intro) (prod. Black The Beast)
2. Thinkin’ Bout U feat. Bei Maejor (prod. T- Minus)
3. Big Bad World feat. Colin Munroe (prod. Black The Beast)
4. As I am feat. Shianne Phillips (prod. Black The Beast)
5. Put You On feat. Chris Brown (prod. Black The Beast)
6. Super Hero Music feat. Raekwon (prod. Boi-1da)
7. Oh Yeah feat. Lupe Fiasco & Pharrell (prod. Omen & Black The Beast)
8. AirPlane Skit
9. No Gravity feat. K2 (prod. Black The Beast)
10. You Got Me Now feat. Jacob Latimore (prod. Kane Beatz)
11. The Vision feat. Ghostwridah & Eric B (prod. Neako)
12. This Feelin’ (Outro) (prod. Deputy)
13. Great Expectations feat. Bei Maejor (Bonus) (prod. Black The Beast)

Raekwon talks about his upcoming collaboration with Kanye West…and Justin fuckin’ Bieber. Just the thought of The Chef and Yeezy working with this little boy makes me (and I’m assuming you) mad. Whatever, I’m still curious as to how this is gonna turn out, so look out for it!

Travis Barker was on the set filming Carry It off his solo album “Give The Drummer Some.”

“The song started with RZA and I in my studio, with him playing guitars and me playing drums, just jamming out,” Barker explained. “Then I got Raekwon on it, and I showed it to Tom Morello, who was stoked on it, so he played on it. And that’s how I wanted the video to be.There was never any corny ideas [for the video],” Barker smiled. “[It's] just us rocking out. That’s what’s good about it. The track’s raw; it’s not candy-coated. … This is like ‘punch you in the face,’ real hype music. Barker (MTV)”

Here’s the first single and music video from the Method Man, Ghostface Killah, & Raekwon collaboration project, Wu-Massacre album that’s dropping in stores and digitally next Tuesday.