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> No I.D. joins Kanye behind the boards for Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3.

> Speaking of Blueprint 3 via TSS:

+ Kanye will indeed be producing most, if not all, of the album. Remember back in the day when an artist would do a whole album with one producer for cohesiveness? Think classic Snoop or Jeru with Primo… and fast forward it to 2008.

+ Jay will be leaking the finished version of “Jockin” as soon as he adds a new 3rd verse to the song.

+ Tracks to look for include the aforementioned “Jockin’ Jay-Z” and a new track entitled “Victory” that the rumor mill says is simply amazing.

> Jay-Z takes the opportunity to shoot a little line or two at Oasis‘ Noel Gallagher over this Kanye West producing first track off of Blueprint 3.

That bloke from Oasis said I can’t play guitar/Somebody should’ve told him I’m a f*cking Roc star/Today is gonna be the day I’m gonna throw it back to you.

WATCH video of the MSG debut here.

Noel for his part recently said: I wasn’t saying I was better than Jay-Z as a person or rock was greater than hip-hop as a thing or whatever it is.“I said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong, and now all this. For my own part I can sit here and say I never dissed that guy. I never would. But there’s no point in going on about it, because you end up sounding like Heather Mills: ‘I said this! I meant that!’ I’ll have a beer with him one day and it’ll all be fine. (Source: XXL and SDSU)

> Weezer tickets for the Sept 24 MSG show go on sale this Friday.

> Rolling Stones is shrinking: The U.S. pop culture magazine will end the oversized look that for more than 30 years has distinguished it from rival publications starting with an issue set to hit newsstands on October 17.

> Rick Rubin finally goes digital and joins MOG’s Board of Directors.

> AtEase is reporting that Radiohead will contribute a new song as well as ambient music for the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s book Choke. Palahniuk said that he wrote Choke while listening to Pablo Honey (especially “Creep”) on repeat.

> Pharaohe Monch discusses THREE upcoming projects at Urban Daily:

In addition to preparing a Making of Internal Affairs (the ten year anniversary of the classic disc is next year) Monch will be releasing “The Hidden Years” which is the music he recorded between Internal Affairs and Desire.
His first project, Let My People Go, should be out later this year and hopes to bridge the gap between some of today’s artists and fans of his peers.
“Music should be a little more free. We shouldn’t be criticizing as much as we do,” he told The Urban Daily. “The artist and the radio are just as much at fault. But here is a piece of music that you can like. There’s a lot of collaborations. Where as Desire was more just me holding it down, this is going to have some special appearances.”
His second project is a double EP called Rock Vs. Disco. The concept CD is a period piece that takes place in the late 70s and early 80s when Disco emerged and challenged Rock.
“ I grew up on both so this project is like a double EP with a rock influenced side and a disco influenced side. I’m gonna have t-shirts that say Rock vs Disco: Which Do you love?
“Then I have a concept record called the Verses Project with producers I’ve never worked with before. It’ll come out like a comic book and be distributed digitally. It’ll be like Pharoahe vs. Premier and Pharoahe vs RZA. Then you can purchase the whole [series] for . “