After listening to Tha Bizness-produced “My President” with Nas, here’s what we know about Young Jeezy. His president is black, his Lambo is blue, and he loves himself some spinach dip. Who knew?

View the tracklisting and production credits for Jeezy’s The Recession.

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“R&B is back,” at least according to Joe and Mario. The two R&B crooners have collaborated on “Last Sip,” a new joint off Joe’s upcoming album New Man. Listen to the B. Cox-produced joint below.

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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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Timbaland is executive-producing rocker Chris Cornell’s new album Scream (Oct. 14), which is more R&B than rock. Timbaland gives the one-time Soundgarden and Audioslave singer the OneRepublic treatment on his first single, The Clutch-written “Long Gone.” We’re not sure how Cornell’s diehard fans will react to this, but he’s got our attention.

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Kardinal Offishall brings the heat on the official remix to his hit “Dangerous” featuring Sean Paul and Akon. Kardinal shouts out all his favorite ladies, from Beyoncé to Solange to Nicole Scherzinger to Keri Hilson. View the tracklisting for his new album Not 4 Sale here.

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Brandy and Monica are both making triumphant returns to the musical scene. It’s like the ’90s all over again. Monica is “Still Standing” on her new empowerment anthem featuring Ludacris and produced by Bryan-Michael Cox. The process of recording her fifth studio album Lessons Learned was documented on her Atlanta reality show, “The Single: Monica.”

Listen to Monica’s new song below and let us know who you think has the stronger comeback single, Monica or Brandy.

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Ice Cube will release his eighth studio album Raw Footage next Tuesday, August 19th. One of the more interesting collaborations is called “Why Me?” featuring Musiq Soulchild, which deals with the topic of senseless murders.

“Why you wanna murder me? I could be part of your family tree,” Musiq sings.

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Brandy returns after a four year absence from the music industry with a hot new single called “Right Here (Departed)” produced by Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins. This is the pair’s first collaboration since 2002’s Full Moon. The two “put the egos aside” in order to go back to making great records together, Jerkins told Rap-Up TV in June.

If you’re gonna make a comeback, this is the way to do it. Welcome back, B-Rocka.

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Forget the recession. Young Jeezy just needs a vacation…

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Usher wanted to make love in this club, but the Pussycat Dolls prefer love outside the club on a new mid-tempo jam featuring R. Kelly off their second album Doll Domination (Sept. 16).

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