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Rapper 50 Cent recently revealed that his highly anticipated album Before I Self Destruct has officially been pushed back again, this time until November. 50 Cent made the announcement during an interview backstage at the Coke Live Festival, in Cracow, Poland last night (August 22). The last confirmed release date for the album had been September 29 and prior to that, September 11. 50, who has recorded and the re-recorded BISD, also revealed that a companion movie will come with the rapper’s fourth major studio album. “I was limited [with] time on my other projects, And this one, just because the system was in a state of confusion with things changing - the music business itself changed,” 50 Cent said. “And it was definitely a time where I felt like I was ready and it wasn’t a possibility for me to release the record at that point. And then the Eminem train came running down the track and I had to get out the way to let Eminem’s record [Relapse] go out. Because he had been off for two years, it made good sense for to let him go out first.”

Most music videos might not have the promotional impact they used to. But what about videos that make fans the star, allow them to sing with an artist and seem to pop out of the screen? The CD booklet that comes with reggae fusion singer Sean Kingston's upcoming album, "Tomorrow" (due September 22 on Epic), contains a special image that fans can hold up to their computers' webcams to launch an "augmented reality" karaoke session on Kingston's website. That enables fans to use their computer's video camera to record themselves singing "Fire Burning," along with an animated version of Kingston called lil Sean. Lil Sean gets superimposed on existing video so that he seems to pop out of the screen, as if it's in 3-D, and ambitious fans can even choreograph his dance moves.

MC Hammer doesn't want to hurt 'em. Again. The veteran rapper (real name Stanley Burrell) is planning a 20th anniversary "companion" album to his 1990 breakthrough, "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em," which spent 21 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, was certified 10-times-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America; and launched the hits "U Can't Touch This," "Have You Seen Her" and "Pray." Hammer calls the new set, "Don't Hurt 'Em," a "follow-up" that will "capture again the very essence and vibes of 'Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em,' but updated with the sonic quality of today ... There'll be a lot of parallels between the two, but certainly it'll be very 2010."

Mixed blessings for rapper Fabolous, more bad news for the music industry. The New York rapper topped the latest Billboard 200 album chart after selling a less-than-fabulous 99,000 copies of his new release "Loso's Way" during the week ended August 2. His previous release, 2007's "From Nothin' to Somethin,'" debuted at No. 2 with 159,000 copies. More ominously, the latest sales period marked just the second July week when not one current album sold at least 100,000 copies since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. This last happened in 2006, when Johnny Cash's "American V: A Hundred Highways" was released July 4 and sold 88,000 copies, also enough to debut at No. 1.

Ludacris has cleared up the rumor suggesting that his new album will be called "Cineplex". Along with the denial, the rapper confirms that the follow up to his 2006 set "Theater of the Mind" will be titled "Ludaversal". "It must be the biggest rumor in the world because you're like the fifth person who asked me about that," Ludacris says regarding the speculation. "I never remotely said anything about something called Cineplex. Dead that s***. It's 'Ludaversal'." On when the new album will come out, Ludacris said, "That's what comes after 'Battle of the Sexes'." It means that he will drop the record in 2010 as "Battle of Sexes", a joint record with Shawnna, is expected to arrive in stores by the end of this year.

The world sees plenty of Queen Latifah (real name Dana Owens) these days -- at movie theaters, on magazine covers, in CoverGirl ads -- but it rarely hears new music from her. Latifah's last two albums consisted entirely of jazz and soul standards. "Trav'lin Light," released in 2007, sold 263,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and "The Dana Owens Album," which came out three years earlier, sold 730,000. Recently, Latifah went back to rapping (and yes, singing) on everything from a Lady Gaga remix to a Rhymefest mixtape. "Persona," her first album of new material since 1997, is due August 22 on Flavor Unit Entertainment.

Officially, 50 Cent just told us that Before I Self Destruct is now slated for a September 29 release, the last Tuesday of that month. But as we've become accustomed to, Fif can drop an album anytime he wants. A street album. 50 does what no other artist who has sold the amount of records or gained the mainstream fame he has will do: consistently give free product back to the core who launched his career. In just the last couple of weeks, he hit with two dope bodies of work, War Angel LP and Forever King, and is probably going to drop two more joints before the album comes out. Fif explained to us that he just can't contain himself.

After attending the NBA Draft in June, Jay-Z threw a party at his 40/40 Club in midtown Manhattan, carousing into the wee hours of the morning with the likes of LeBron James and Spike Lee. Not bad for a guy who took a 57% pay cut this year. The Brooklyn-born rapper pulled in an estimated $35 million over the past 12 months, topping our annual list of Hip-Hop Cash Kings. It's far from the $82 million he made last year, but more than enough to reclaim the crown from 2008's monarch, 50 Cent. The Queens native drops to fourth place with $20 million, down from $150 million a year ago. Both rappers had a hard time living up to prior yearly totals fattened by one-time mega-deals. For 50, it was a $100 million windfall from the sale of his stake in VitaminWater parent Glacéau to Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people ); for Jay-Z, a front-loaded $150 million deal with concert promoter Live Nation ( LYV - news - people ).

R. Kelly isn't having girl trouble. Literally. A rep for the R&B star has vehemently denied a National Enquirer report that Kelly's home had been searched by Chicago-area police as part of their hunt for a missing 17-year-old girl. "A wildly exaggerated and inaccurate report has been circulating on the Internet that Olympia Fields police showed up at R. Kelly's house with a search warrant just before the singer left for his three-week concert tour in Africa last month and then searched the place looking for a missing 17-year-old girl," rep Allan Mayer said in a statement. "This is completely false. No police ever showed up at Kelly's house with a search warrant nor was his house ever searched. It is also not true, as the unsubstantiated report claimed, that any such girl ever stayed overnight in Kelly's house or that she had been there but left shortly before some mythical police search."

Drake stayed down and stayed loyal: No more is he the hottest free agent in music, Drizzy's recording contract is done! He has artistic freedom and big backing. "To go independent is — like I said in a prior interview — it's a funny term," Drake told MTV News on Tuesday, addressing the deal that finds his albums being released on Wayne's independent Young Money label (which is affiliated with Cash Money Records) and being distributed by the major Universal Republic. "Because it's almost impossible to go fully independent. This was basically like the closest thing I could get to my own independence, to sort of continuing to be that guy to the fans that, you know, is trying to prove something — trying to prove that it can be done. So with that being said, I signed directly to Cortez Bryant and Gee Roberson, my two managers, and their company Inspire. It's a joint venture with Young Money, so that's the deal. I know there's been a lot of stuff on the Internet about different entities, but that's the people involved in the main record deal. And then it's distributed through Universal, so it's great, man. You know, if we can sell some records I think it could be a pretty legendary situation."