Here’s the cover for Kanye West’s new single “Love Lockdown” off his upcoming fourth album. Mr. West performed the song at last night’s VMAs. Watch the performance here.

Kanye sings on the track, which he calls his “favorite song to date.”

MTV UK is reporting that both Jay-Z and Kanye West will release new albums before the end of the year. According to the site, Jay-Z will release “Swagger Like Us” featuring T.I., West, and Lil Wayne as his lead single. It will reportedly be available as a digital download this Saturday, September 6th.

Meanwhile, Kanye West is scheduled to drop his follow-up to Graduation in December. The first single, “Love Lockdown,” is said to debut on Monday. The rapper recently performed the track at the Nike+ Human Race 10K grand finale. Watch the live performance below. West will also close the MTV VMAs on Sunday.

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Kanye West performed a new song at the Nike+ Human Race 10K grand finale in Los Angeles on Sunday. Everything was going well until the band made a mistake. “You f***** it up. There goes the exclusive,” said Kanye.

Click below to watch Lupe Fiasco perform some “New Shit” off his forthcoming and possibly final album LupEND.

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Hip-hop heavy hitters Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and T.I. aka “The Rap Olympic Team” go for the gold on “Swagger Like Us,” a new track reportedly off T.I.’s Paper Trail. The song samples M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”

You can listen to it on Kanye’s blog.

DJ Khaled serves up another banger with help from Kanye West and T-Pain. Their collaboration, “Go Hard,” can be found on Khaled’s forthcoming album We Global. Thanks for B.O.B.O. for breaking us off with the track.

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Kanye West goes Kermit the Frog on us with his Olympics-themed video for “Champion” starring himself as a puppet. Now we’ve seen it all.

T-Pain is set to show everyone that he is the ring leader and he’s bringing a few friends along for the ride on his third studio album Thr33 Ringz, scheduled for release this fall.

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Kanye West brought out Jay-Z to help close his show at NYC’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. Jay performed a new song off The Blueprint 3 called “Jockin’ Jay-Z.”

Jigga addresses the Glastonbury festival incident on the track. “That bloke from Oasis said I couldn’t play guitar / Somebody should of told him I’m a f*****’ rock star,” Hov raps over the Kanye-produced beat.

N.E.R.D’s “Everyone Nose (Remix)” featuring Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Pusha T directed by Hype Warhol a.k.a. Hype Williams. Watch below.

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