Azealia Banks sinks her claws into the cover of “Nathan,” her collaboration with Styles P. The illustrated artwork features a black cat licking his paw with red stars over his head. The song will premiere tomorrow and can be found on the “212” rapper’s mixtape Fantasea, due July 11.

“It’s so New York and it’s so raw and it’s so just…everything that needs to be said,” Azealia told MTV News of the record.

Keyshia Cole is bold and blonde on the cover of “Enough of No Love,” the first single off her upcoming fifth album Woman to Woman. The tatted songstress dons blonde locks and gold Chanel earrings on the artwork. The heartbreak song, which features Lil Wayne, will be available July 10 on iTunes. A video was recently shot with director Benny Boom.

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Lil Wayne may have beef with Pusha T, but that hasn’t hurt his relationship with Big Sean. Weezy enlists the G.O.O.D. Music rapper for “My Homies Still,” the first single off his 10th studio album I Am Not a Human Being II, the sequel to his 2010 release. The song is expected to debut tomorrow. Rap-Up.com has your first look at the cover artwork.

Bobby V is starting with the man in the “Mirror.” Fresh off the release of his mixtapes Vitamin V and V Day, the R&B crooner is reuniting with Lil Wayne on the first single off his upcoming fifth album Dusk Till Dawn. The track will premiere tomorrow on Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club,” while the follow-up to 2011’s Fly on the Wall is due October 2.

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Lupe Fiasco shows his stars and stripes on the black-and-white cover of “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free),” the first single off his album Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album. The song drops May 22, while the long-awaited sequel to his 2006 album is due later this year.

“With this record, I just wanted to go back to the essence of what made that record so special,” the Chicago rhymer told Fuse. “The musicality that was on Food & Liquor that the original hardcore Lupe fans appreciated, we put it on this record, but to the tenth power.”

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2 Chainz gets comical on the illustrated cover of “No Lie,” the first single off his Def Jam debut Based on a T.R.U. Story, due August 14. The song will debut tomorrow and go to iTunes on May 8.

“MAY 1st ,,,ur ears will change,” tweeted the former Playaz Circle member.

He and Drake plan to perform the track when they hit the road on the “Club Paradise” tour on May 7.

Rihanna covers up on the mysterious cover for “Where Have You Been,” the third single off her sixth album Talk That Talk. The Barbadian singer remains shrouded by a tiger-print cloth with one eye peeking out. In March, RiRi shot a video for the dance song, which was produced by Dr. Luke and Calvin Harris (“We Found Love”) and written by Ester Dean.

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Frank Ocean is carving out his own lane. A Frankie look-alike gets behind the wheel of a race car in an arcade on the cover art for the Odd Future affiliate’s new single “Thinkin Bout You.”

The tender ballad, which he originally penned for Roc Nation songstress Bridget Kelly, will be released to digital retailers on April 17, while Frank’s Def Jam debut is due later this year.

“It succinctly defines me as an artist for where I am right now and that was the aim,” he said of the follow-up to the acclaimed Nostalgia, Ultra. “It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.”