A wrap up of last week’s news, yo:
- Google music search goes official (mtv.com)
- Madlib announces 12-months of “The Madlib Medicine Show” (stonesthrow.com)
- Preview of Jeff Chang’s 2010 book Who We Be in The Believer (cantstopwontstop.com)
- Georgia Anne Muldrow releases Early, album of demos (cdbaby.com)
- Fans complain over unavailability of Wale’s Attention Deficit in retail stores (mtv.com)
- History Channel documentary “The People Speak” features Lupe Fiasco, other celebrities (history.com)
- Doomtree rapper/poet Dessa announces forthcoming album (myspace.com)
- Freeway signs with Rhymesayers??!!! (myspace.com)
- Vinyl sales on precipitous rise in 2009 (billboard.com)
- RIP Derek B, one of the first wave of UK rappers (allhiphop.com)
Random DLs: DJ Jazzy Jeff’s He’s The King, I’m the DJ (xxlmag.com), J. Period & Talib Kweli’s Noisemakers EP (jperiod.com), Idle Warship’s Party Robot (yearoftheblacksmith.com), J. Cole’s The Warm Up (mediafire.com), Jack Splash’s Heir to the Throne (smokingsection.uproxx.com)