at long last, a new track from detroit’s big sean off his highly anticipated (at least in my mind) finally famous: vol.3 mixtape. download this firey rock right here.

rick ross rocking red wings gear in his “addicted 2 money” video. don’t even bother watching it, this is all you need to know.

ro spit (and monica blaire) remix jay-z’s (and alicia keys’) “empire state of mind”…but for detroit.

this go-getter anthem has been on repeat since yesterday: get it.

finally, rap at its finest: low budget video + materialistic/violent lyrics. why mess with a winning formula? so good you can smell it through the roof.

we all got dreams and we all start reachin’
all start peakin’, all-star weekend…

everyone on the corner has swagger like you.

this verse has been burning a hole in my ears for a couple of years now, and since none of those cutesy little lyrics sites that provide copy for thousands of teenage girls’ myspace pages have stepped up from jack’s mannequin…here is some flow worth reading. weezy f. and juelz santana, from the ‘i can’t feel my face’ mixtape: wayne’s last verse on the intro track.

come equipped with them sizzlers for the blizzard
here’s a sick sickle for you and your lil’ niggas
‘elz, imma get em, they bitches, they just bitches
just bought a new glock, 80 shots and a trigger
pop shots through the driver’s side
that mean the driver died
car crash killed the passenger, double homicide
we in all black like amistad
they call my crew ‘old school’
’cause we walk around with 99s
millimeters, red dot, find the spot
head shot, body drop, two fingers, i’m out
gunslinger, holly grove, fireman, kinda hot
tie ya ass up and leave ya body in the loading dock
new orleans, rolling rock, syrup in the soda pop
i can get rich, all i need is a stove
and i stand over that bitch ’til them things get swolled
and i work that corner in the heat or the cold
i’m good.

not your average saturday night. jay-z, free show at cobo hall in support of barack obama. of course, i am not in town and will never, ever forgive anyone for me missing this.

and the commander-in-chief
just flew by
didn’t stop, no, he had a couple seats
just rude
jet blue he is not
jet blew by the spot
what if he ran out of jet fuel
and just dropped?

y’heard this? the new ‘umbrella.’