Eve fired up her engine at the kickoff for the Gumball 3000 rally in London. Celebrities including Bun B and David Hasselhoff joined the raptress in the 3000-mile race that treks across 10 countries, wrapping in Istanbul, Turkey. This is Eve’s second year participating on behalf of Puma.

Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, whose fourth album Lip Lock is still awaiting a release date, addressed the ongoing feud between Lil’ Kim and Nicki Minaj during a visit to Tim Westwood’s BBC Radio 1Xtra show. “I need [Kim] to stop. If I was Kim’s friend, I’d be like, yo, ’cause she’s Kim, period. So she never has to feed [into the beef]. She shouldn’t. It’s bad. It’s not a good look,” said Eve. “If I was her friend, I’d tell her, yo, just come back bigger and better. The best way to get at people is to do you better than you’ve ever done you.”

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While Eve preps her oft-delayed new album, Timbaland reaches back into the vault and unleashes a previously unheard joint from the rapper for this week’s Timbaland Thursdays. E-V-E spits over the Timbo-produced beat for Fabolous and Ne-Yo’s “Make Me Better,” which she also recorded.

“Ayo this a little story about a chick that’s in love/ She was on cloud nine, thought she had that shit from above/ And it took wild time just to figure out who he was,” raps the Philly MC over the breakup tune.

Whose version do you prefer? Listen below.

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It’s showtime! Swizz Beatz drops off his black-and-white video for “Everyday (Coolin’)” featuring Eve as part of Monster Mondays. The Ruff Ryder affiliates lay down their flashy rhymes in the slick TAJ-directed visuals from Swizz’ Haute Living album. Get down to the Swizzy beat.

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Swizz Beatz and Eve go black and white in the video for “Everyday (Coolin’),” the lead single off Swizz’ Haute Living album, due later this summer. In the trailer for the TAJ-directed clip, the Ruff Ryders show off their moves while a sharp Swizzy switches from upscale attire to studded streetwear. The full video debuts May 3 on “106 & Park.”

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Swizz Beatz had Webster Hall going wild earlier this week during his appearance at Girls Night Out. Professor Beatz performed his Haute Living single “Everyday (Coolin’),” bringing special guest Eve to the stage. “You know that’s my motherfu**in’ sister, right?” Swizz told the crowd, adding, “How many people wanna see Eve back?”

He also debuted his party starter “Dance Like a White Girl” for the ladies. “Everyday is your birthday so hit the floor,” commanded Swizzy. “When this shit come on, this is the excuse for you to go as fu**ing crazy as you want to go.” Watch him kick off his shoes and cut a rug to the bouncy anthem.

Eve and Swizz Beatz are cooking up some more heat. The longtime collaborators, who reunited on the producer’s new single, recently completed another track for E-V-E’s fourth album Lip Lock.

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Jill Scott lets her hair down in the funky video for “Shame” featuring Eve and The A Group, the first offering from her new album Light of the Sun. Shot at Philadelphia’s Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center, the community-oriented clip shows how Philly likes to have a good time, with the songstress holding court over a dance-off while fellow natives Black Thought, Peedi Crakk, Meek Mill, and Ms. Jade watch from the crowd. Take a trip to the City of Brotherly Love.

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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson suited up to co-host a screening for Scream 4 with Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York City on Tuesday (April 12). After watching the scary flick and giving it his approval (“Scream 4 is crazy its real good you all have to go see it”), he joined his famous friends including Floyd Mayweather Jr., Eve, and Estelle at the after-party at Mister H at the Mondrian SoHo.

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