(AllHipHop News) Alabama emcee Yelawolf has already mapped out the next six months with two new albums and a collaboration mixtape with Def Jam’s Big K.R.I.T.Yelawolf, who’s already had a high-profile 2010 with appearances on projects from Bizarre, Paul Wall and Big Boi, will release his first major label album in November.“Trunk Muzik: 0-60 is coming out in November, my first album release for Interscope,” he told AllHipHop.com. “After that, we’re going to be releasing an album in March called Radioactive. So it’s a lot of work.”Even with a formidable promotion machine like Interscope behind him, Yelawolf cites touring as the best form of promotion for any artist. To that end, he’s partnered with fellow breakout emcees Wiz Khalifa and Big. K.R.I.T. for the national Waken Baken tour.“[I’m] on tour with Wiz Khalifa, and after I hop off that it’s straight back in the lab to work on the album release,” Yelawolf explained. “K.R.I.T.’s on the tour too, but we haven’t done any dates together; he’s doing spot dates. That’s another mixtape I’ll be putting out with him, Trunk Muzik Wuz Here: Country Cu$$inz should be dropping soon.”The Alabama rapper is aware that due to major label protocol, he will now have to consider new factors like marketing and radio accessibility when making music. However, Yelawolf is adamant that the integrity of his music won’t be compromised.“I don’t do s**t that I don’t want to do. You can’t make me. It’s impossible, I’m too f**king stubborn,” Yelawolf stated. “I let my team deal with that in-between, creative talk. But I get it. I’m not up there to do music that people don’t understand. I’m up there to do music the world understands. I didn’t join a major label to be an underground artist.”Yelawolf’s Trunk Muzik: 0-60 is scheduled for release on November 23.

(AllHipHop News) U.K. rapper Rowdy-T has already responded to a statement Yung Berg released today (October 4th), over a diamond encrusted necklace with a Batman pendant stolen from Yung Berg. Rowdy-T is a rapper hails from North London and Southern Florida, is associated with the Big Boyz music group. Rowdy-T allegedly stole the chain from Miami sometime over the past few weeks and posted videos of himself posing with the a handgun and the chain, while insulting Yung Berg. Yung Berg downplayed the incident during a radio interview and via a statement, but he claimed the diamond encrusted, oversized pendant had sentimental value.The rapper said he was planning to give it to a 10-year-old for charity. “Where’s it at? This batman chain is not important to me. i got chains,” told Lady T of Power 95.3 in Chicago. “The biggest issue for me was that i’m giving that away to charity, to a kid that loves batman. and now this issue comes up and I might to be able to do that. But at the end of the day, its all about the music and what I do in the studio. Don’t focus on the jewelry.”Today, Rowdy-T dropped another video dissing Yung Berg, while flaunting his chain and once again, verifying that it was Yung Berg’s chain. “I heard your little interview on ther aid station today, which was ridiculous. You said that this chain was going to be given to a 10-year-old for charity case, that’s the only reason you’re p##### off about it. Come on now, come on,” Rowdy-T calmly stated. “You got stuck. You’re going to give this to a 10-year-old boy for what, so he can get robbed and stuck up everyday like you?”Rowdy-T also accused Yung Berg of snitching in regards to the latest loss of expensive jewelry. “I know you been on the phone, I know you told the FBI. They contact my people and start harassing people,” Rowdy-T said. “That’s not how gangsters do business, tell the truth man. Stop being on the b**ch ass level and come see me.”Yung Berg has been the target of various assaults and robberies over the years. In 2008, the rapper lost his infamous oversized Transformers pendant in Detroit, allegedly to Trick Trick. The chain was seen in photographs with various people, including Soulja Boy, who allegedly purchased it.

(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop veteran J-Live is returning with a new six-song EP titled Undivided Attention, which will be released on the rapper’s independent label, Triple Threat Productions (3TP). The album features guest appearances by artists like Homeboy Sandman, Boog Brown, and Oddy Gato, while producers like Nicolay, Korede, S.M.K.A., Locsmif and J-Live himself, contribute tracks to the EP.Undivided Attention is the fourth EP released by J-Live and features the rapper approaching the release as if he were a three-man crew consisting of an emcee, DJ and producer. “While they’ve worked well together for the past couple decades, it’s obvious the three have some unresolved issues,” J-Live said. “Hopefully they will be hashed out and reconciled on or before the release of next year’s full-length album.”The album J-Live is referring to is titled “S.P.T.A.” (pronounced ‘spitta’), which is an acronym for Said Person of That Ability. S.P.T.A. – Said Person of Ability will hit stores in 2011, according to J-Live, who in the past, has worked with artists like DJ Jazzy Jeff, Rob Swift, Pete Rock, DJ Spinna, DJ Premier, El Da Sensei, J Rawls, Pigeon John, R.A. The Rugged Man and others. Undivided Attention by J-Live is slated to land at physical and digital retailers November 2nd, 2010.

(AllHipHop News) Atlanta rap star T.I. is scheduled to stand before a federal judge next week for a probation violation hearing, after his arrest last month in Los Angeles for possessing drugs.T.I. will stand before Judge Charles Pannell Jr. on October 15, to try and answer the drug possession charges, after he and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Cottle were caught with ecstasy on September 1st.The rapper was busted in Los Angeles after he allegedly made an illegal U-turn on the Sunset Strip in a pricey Maybach. In addition to being in possession of ecstasy ,the rapper failed a drug test taken after his arrest. Additionally T.I. was in the company of a convicted felon, which could also violate the terms of his probation.T.I., born Clifford Harris Jr., could be sent back to prison for up to three years for violating his probation, for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in October of 2007, prior to the BET Hip-Hop Awards.

 Lloyd Banks has generated a tremendous buzz for his looming sequel, Hunger For More 2.

The rapper talked to VIBE about the ambitious endeavor and the artists involved.

“Every verse on my album that I got for a feature is crazy. The Kanye West joint ‘Trackstar’ is crazy. The song actually features me, Kanye, Swizz Beatz and Fabolous. I got Pusha T on a song called ‘Home Sweet Home.’ He’s very underrated; Pusha has been doing it for so long that he’s in a similar space as me. Everybody knows the Clipse as legendary rappers. Now he’s beginning a new legacy with his solo career. And I’m doing the same thing.” 

The albums is set to drop on November 23 and is a follow-up to his 2004 double platinum debut Hunger For More.

“I’m excited,” Banks said.

For more, go to Vibe.com.

(AllHipHop News) Hispanic rapper Pitbull has been

tapped as a keynote speaker at the Association of Hispanic Advertising

Agencies (AHAA) Annual Conference.Pitbull will take the stage with Ruben Leyva, who heads up Sony Music’s U.S. Latin division.The pair will discuss the opportunities and challenges they have faced working in the music business and in their normal lives.”Music

and entertainment are at the forefront of the Hispanization of America.

Pitbull epitomizes the success Latino entertainers have had not only in

the music industry but in the Hispanic consumer market as well,” said

Gisela Girard, AHAA chair and president/COO of San-Antonio based

Creative Civilization. “The stories of Pitbull and Leyva are similar to

the challenges we overcome daily in our fight to establish Hispanic

marketing within the advertising industry and within our client

organizations. As entrepreneurs, we can learn a lot from the

experiences, adversity and ultimate achievements of these entertainment

icons.”Pitbull, who also hosts his own Spanish-language show

“Esquina” on Mun2, will also speak about the challenges associated with

“in-culture communication.”The AHAA Conference is slated to take place October 6-8 at the Hyatt Regency in Miami.