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To all the VIBE haters, welcome to heartbreak. Here’s the first look at Kanye West’s first ever solo VIBE cover. This is an issue you don’t want to miss, with an in-depth Kanye West VIBE Q by VIBE Music Editor Sean Fennessey, a piece on the fight for J. Dilla’s legacy by Kelley Louise Carter, and an inside look at the making of hip hop’s first biopic, Notorious, by Dream Hampton.

Also, as promised in yesterday’s preview, scroll down after the image for our list of Kanye West’s 10 worst songs. We’re sorry Kanye, we had to do it.

Sean Daley, aka Atmosphere’s MC, aka Slug, has made a career of exposing himself. Not in a trenchcoat in front of the grammar school kinda way, but on the mic. Fittingly enough for URB’s issue full of firsts, Slug might’ve been the first rapper to make an album about a girl. And even more vulnerably, the heartbreak she caused. Those were the Lucy Ford EPs, and while Lucy may or may not be the source of the sore in the story that follows, one thing is for sure, it could only be Sean. //

Slug speaks on his first (mag)cover x phone masturbation, after the jump!

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OVER THE PAST 2 DAYS NIP HUSSLE HAS BEEN FILMING THE VIDEO FOR “HUSSLE IN THE HOUSE” OFF OF HIS SUMMER ALBUM “SOUTH CENTRAL STATE OF MIND”…I PROMISE YOU THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A VERY LONG RIDE….STAY TUNED!

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Eminem has once again teamed up with Nike’s Jordan Brand, this time to celebrate his new book “The Way I Am.” The new limited edition shoe will be available exclusively on the official Jordan Brand “Fight Club” website starting December 18th at 7pm (eastern). Only 313 (Detroits area code) pairs will be available for purchase.

The new Eminem “Retro 2″ Jordan shoe are currently planned to sell for $110 and will come with limited-edition Air Jordan t-shirt. A donation from the Jordan Brand will be made to Eminem’s Marshall Mathers Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping disadvanted youth.

Watch the interview after the jump!

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Adrien Brody (Leonard Chess in the movie) admitted during the premiere of Cadillac Records on Monday that making out and rolling around on the ground with Beyoncé, Etta James in the movie, wasn’t part of the script, nor was it historically accurate, but no one complained.

“Let’s just say it wasn’t a deal breaker,” Brody said.  “When I met Etta [the real one], she told me, ‘Leonard and I did not do those things!’  So, yes, it was somewhat embellished.  But what’s wonderful is the truth Beyoncé brings to that moment.  That justified it.”

Plies has finally got him self on a cover of a magazine!

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