Last night J.Cole hit the stage sans Miguel to perform his hit single “Power Trip“. It’s about time for that second single, Cole. “Born Sinner” in stores June 18th.

What exactly is the root of all evil? Well in Ace Hood and a lot of other peoples cases, it’s money. In his latest visual, Ace Hood gives us a few reasons as to why money is the root of all evil. Trials & Tribulations is set to drop July 16th.

Hit-Boy is gaining more fans each and every day. A lot of people are still not familiar with his rapping ability but they’ll come around sooner than later. Today, Hit-Boy let go of the brand new visual to the remix to one of the standout songs off of his “HITstory” project that dropped last year. Look out for his debut album later this year.

June is stacked up to be a good month for Hip-Hop fans, but today we receive some bad news for one of the most anticipated albums of the summer. Fabolous recently spoke with Rap-Up and gave some details about his upcoming album “Loso’s Way 2” as far as what we can expect, who is featured on the album and why the album has been pushed back. He’s aiming at the end of July for the official release. Stay tuned for more details.

Model and Bad Boy leading lady Cassie has made her highly anticipated return back to the music game with her newly released mixtape “RockaByeBaby” last month. The mixtape is loaded with a ton of heavy-hitting features including the track “I Love It” featuring Fabolous. Don’t forget to check out Fab (and Pusha-T) right now on the Life Is So Exciting Tour, and an upcoming sophomore album from Cassie real soon. To peep the behind the scenes video for an exclusive look at what we can expect from the full visual, click above.

B.o.B releases his brand new single “Through My Head” accompanied by the official video. This track will be appearing on his third solo album “Underground Luxury” dropping later this summer. Video directed by Ricardo de Montreuil & Eliz Eskeranli.

It’s Graduation season and every once in a while a Hip-Hop representative serves as the keynote speaker for the future leader’s of tomorrow. At the University of Southern California, the graduating Trojans were graced by the presence of Interscope head Jimmy Iovine who brought along a good friend in Dr. Dre. Check out the video after the jump.

After premiering “Black Slaves” in impressive fashion, Kanye West took his talents to SNL to perform live on stage. His first set he premiered yet another brand new track that is entitled “Black Skinhead” which has more of a pop/rock sound to it. I’ve been seeing mixed reviews about it, but I’m sure opinions will shift once full CDQ audio is available. Performance can be seen above and if you didn’t know, “Yeezus” hits stores June 18th (Hopefully those all red Yeezy 2′s drop then as well).