Rapper Jay-Z is among the top name artist who will perform during next years Isle of Wight Festival in June of 2010.

Jay-Z joins an eclectic group of artist that will perform at the festival, including Blondie, The Strokes, Pink, Blondie, Orbital and Squeeze.

Over 55,000 people are expected to attend the concert, which takes place from June 11th to June 13th. Jay-Z will headline the event on Friday, June 11th.

“Ever since I heard the first Strokes album, I’ve wanted them for the Isle of Wight. Jay-Z and Pink are two of the best live acts I have ever seen and the Blondie hits speak for themselves. I can’t wait,” Isle of Wigth festival promoter John Giddings said.

Notable acts that have performed at the Isle of Wight Festival throughout the years include The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, The Police, Coldplay and others.

Tickets for the Isle of Wight Festival go on sale this Friday (December 4), the same date that Jay-Z turns 40 years old.

Check out this new track by Epademik and Supreme. It’s called “Stutter.”

Download: Epademik & Supreme – Stutter

Now that 50 Cent’s disappointing first week numbers are official, rival Rick Ross is now claiming victory in their 2009 feud.

In a recent concert for DJ Khaled’s birthday, Ross proclaimed full credit for 50 Cent’s lowest debut week (161,000) of his previously multi-platinum career.

“So we celebrating my n***a birthday, but we’re also celebrating the demise of a p***y. R.I.P. to the donkey, we buried him,” Ross stated on stage with Khaled. “It feel good, n***a. Don’t look surprised, you knew we was gonna do it. There’s only one record that can describe the feeling.”

Concluding his victory speech, Ross went into “This Is the Life,” the fourth single from his 2008 gold sophomore LP Trilla.

Los Angeles based rapper 40 Glocc has been riding hard with his Infamous family (including Prodigy and Havoc) and his extended G-Unit brethren for years now. But, with his profile rising as a certified solo act, 40 is ready introduce his own movement called Zoo Life.

With an indie distribution deal in place, his first order of business will be the release of Concrete Jungle, a compilation introducing himself and the artists connected to his Zoo Life movement.

Some of those artists include Village Boo, Lil Boo, Tip-Toe, Yac, Notes and Gail Gotti, among others.

“Zoo Life is my crew, at the same time, an extension of what everybody is going through. It’s more of a movement, which is why I don’t call it a crew,” 40 Glocc explains. “We pushing that new reality movement, that street movement that everybody’s been missing.”

The track list and cover for Lil Wayne‘s upcoming Rebirth album have leaked online, showing that the Young Money leader will give fans a dozen songs with the new project. The album cover is here to the right.

Tracklist
1. American Star
2. Prom Queen
3. Ground Zero
4. Da Da Da
5. Paradise
6. Get A Life
7. On Fire
8. Drop The World feat. Eminem
9. Runnin
10. One Way Trip
11. Knockout
12. The Price Is Wrong

Royce Da 5’9 recently talked about the future of his supergroup Slaughterhouse, explaining why he thinks it is important to release their second album through a major label. From Royce‘s view, a record label like Eminem‘s Shady Records, which is backed by music giant Interscope Records, could give great support and help expand Slaughterhouse‘s presence.

“Right now, the focus is the group,” Royce explained. “I’m focused on the group in terms of the next move, like with signing. Yeah, Shady is an option, there’s a lot of great conversations being had and hopefully something like that could happen. Our goal is to put the group album on a major and get the real machine behind it so we can get that balance back in hip-hop.”

A controversial new documentary about superstar rapper Lil Wayne has shot to the top of the iTunes movie charts.

QD3 Entertainment’s film The Carter is currently the No. 1 selling documentary on iTunes in the U.S.

In addition to landing the top slot on Apple’s iTunes U.S.’ music store, The Carter is also in the Top 10 on the Canadian iTunes music store alongside such blockbusters as Bruno and GI Joe.

“Having our Lil Wayne The Carter documentary place in the Top 10 on both U.S. and Canadian iTunes store within the first 48 hours, competing neck and neck with multi-million dollar studio films such as Bruno and GI Joe during Christmas season is quite a feat for a self distributed indie doc and beyond our expectations,” QD3 Entertainment CEO Quincy Jones III told AllHipHop.com. “We are very excited about continuing to innovate within the digital space.”

The Carter was released on November 17th and is an in depth look at the personal and professional life of rapper Lil Wayne.

Game took to his twitter yesterday to update his fans on his upcoming The R.E.D. Album, letting everyone know that it will be executive produced by Dr. Dre and Pharrell.

“The R.E.D. album is gone be a classic ……… that’s a promise !!! executive produced by Dr. Dre & Pharrell .. the music is phenominal,” Game wrote.

After a Twitter friend of the rapper confessed that he downloads Game‘s albums, Game responded “its all good homie, if u aint got the $ when the R.E.D. album drop, bootleg it. I ENCOURAGE IT… #itsarecession.”

Another new freestyle by Chamillionaire. It’s called “Send Me An Angel.”

Download: Chamillionaire – Send Me An Angel (Freestyle)

Here’s a new freestyle from Chamillionaire, called “Award Show Speech.”

Download: Chamillionaire – Award Show Speech (Freestyle)