It’s interesting to see that Kanye’s “Stronger” is the number one Hip Hop single in iTunes, but even more interesting is the top album: Kanye’s Graduation. The album isn’t even out yet - it’s beating everything else in the category on pre-sales alone.

But the strength of “Stronger” goes even further - its success seems to be bleeding over into the Electronic category. There, the original Daft Punk song that Kanye sampled for “Stronger” has pushed up to the number one spot as well.

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Hip Hop is dead, but it’s still apparently to blame for everything wrong in America . Or so you would think if you read any of the current news about it.

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HipHopDX interviews Pete Rock.

PR says about K. West: “He basically opened the doors back up for cats like me. They weren’t playing Pete Rock-ish beats. Like, if you listen to the radio they play a bunch of radio-friendly records that’s wack. He’s bringing that soul back.”

And who gets the Pete Rock stamp of approval? “All the new guys – Kanye, Swizz Beatz, 9th Wonder, Hi-Tek, Madlib, Nicolay, Just Blaze, all those cats. They all get my stamp of approval.”

The Smoking Section has a review of Little Brother’s Get Back.

You can pre-order here.

Pretty much a commercial for Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream, but still a hot song and video. And what’s wrong with a little product placement?

Mark Mac presents “The Soul Arranger (Part three) Jerry Peters“

In this AllHipHop interview, Q-Tip reveals, among other things, that he’s going to be doing some production for the Child Rebel Soldiers album (Kanye, Lupe, and Pharell).

Order Talib Kweli - Ear Drum.

We told you about the new 80s inspired collection from Juicy Jazz a while back.  Well it’s finally out and you can order now.