In December, when Childish Gambino released a 72-page screenplay based around the music from his album, Because the Internet, he mentioned a secret track. Now, almost a year later, the track is here — thanks to some diligent digging by his fans.

The last track on his KAUAI EP, which dropped over the weekend, was an instrumental called “3005 (Beach Picnic Version).” On Twitter, Donald told his fans — who he knew had been feverishly trying to find the secret track for months — this would help them on their quest.

“[PLAY SECRET TRACK 9 1/2 [CODED] NOW],” the script read. The ninth song on the album was “3005,” — so it’s actually not surprising that track 9 1/2 is a remix.

How it was found was pretty impressive, though.

One Reddit user was able to piece together some coding from the script to find an a capella and then laid the vocals over the KAUAI instrumental.

“People keep asking how I found it, so I’ll try and explain,” user peepsie112 wrote. “new audioObject(“30059″,”12zzQ809″,234) is a line of code used to play 3005 on the because the internet script, “12zzQ809″ is the song id or file name, so instead of using “12zzQ809″, I just replaced it with lemongrab because above the secret track section it says “[LEMONGRAB: UNNACCEPTABLE!]“, nothing too special really.”

If that makes your brain hurt, just listen to the song below.

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Jimmy Fallon has come up with plenty of hilarious bits on “The Tonight Show,” but few rival Brian Williams rapping classic hip-hop hits. Thanks to some impressive editing, the show has given us the “Nightly News” anchor rapping favorites like “Gin and Juice,” “Rapper’s Delight” and “Baby Got Back.” And Williams admits that he loves them just as much as the Internet does (which is a lot).

“They’ve been amazing,” the broadcast veteran said during a recent Q&A on Facebook. “Never before have so many words been re-purposed so outside their original meaning. We have interviewed the profoundly talented video editor and will put it on the web before long.”

Williams also weighed in on one of rap’s great debates: Biggie vs. 2Pac.

“I don’t want to stir up trouble with Big’s existing crew,” he said, “but The Pac has been my guy.”

He likes him so much, he’s even given him his own nickname. And this, from an East Coast guy, no less.

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Back in 2012, Chief Keef burst onto the scene thanks to his mixtape Back from the Dead, and cuts like “I Don’t Like” and “3hunna (Remix)” that were included on the project. Now, the second installment of the mixtape is on the way.

Sosa took to Instagram on Friday (October 3) to announce the release date for the project: October 31. He also revealed the cover art for the release, which will be his first tape of 2014 — and, not surprisingly, it’s Halloween-themed. He also dropped “Cashin,” a self-produced, auto-tune-tinged track that will appear on Back from the Dead 2.

Last week, Keef dropped “Beetlejuice,” featuring Fredo Santana, where it sounded like he took a shot at Bobby Shmurda. “I still’ll come and rob you for your kilo/ And you know you ain’t catch no body ’bout a week ago,” he raps.

No word if the track will be included on BFTD2, but we’ll find out soon enough. Check out the artwork below:

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With reporting by James Lacsina

For a while, it looked like Wu-Tang Clan’s upcoming album, A Better Tomorrow, would be released without Raekwon’s participation, as the Shaolin MC was butting heads with fellow Clansman RZA.

Thankfully, the two were able to put their issues in the past, and now the whole gang is on board for the album, which will be released through Warner Bros. on December 2.

“We did have a hard time seeing eye-to-eye,” RZA admitted to MTV News on Thursday. “And it was more like two strong generals not coming to the table.”

“I got off my high horse and I said, I’m gonna come to your studio. I brought him the outline of the album, with songs done, and some energy of where we at. Him and Ghostface were there. Me, GZA and Masta Killa. And then they started playing some chess while me and Raekwon had a meeting and I played the structure of the album. I think, that day, he understood the vision.”

“From there, it’s been a positive growth. Business was one thing which we had to get over, and settled our business differences, but once our creative differences was understood — I recall playing one of the songs and he was like, ‘OK, I see what you doing. You’re going different, but the difference is something good.’”

The two have had a number of public spats in recent years, with the producer asking Rae to “forget the money,” and ...

This was probably bound to happen.

Kendrick Lamar’s new single, “i,” is so upbeat and so feel good that of course people would dance around, blasting the track, as its chorus of “I love myself!” repeats.

Listen — maybe I’ve done it already. You probably have, too. And we know who else has: Ellen DeGeneres.

On “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Thursday (October 2), the host rocked out to K. Dot’s latest single, which dropped last week. Dancing up and down the aisles with her middle-aged studio audience jamming along, Ellen sure seemed to love Compton rapper’s latest.

Maybe this was her way of paying the good kid, m.A.A.d city rapper back for nominating her for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge last month.

Ellen’s really had her dancing shoes on recently. Earlier this month, she released her own version of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” video.

As for K. Dot, he’s hard at work on his upcoming sophomore album.

“What Kendrick is doing, and what he’s about to do — he’s an artist, he has a vision in mind,” Rahki, who produced “i,” told MTV News this week. “There’s nothing like that record on radio right now.”

“He’s a genius,” he added. “What he’s doing is really gonna change up a lot. The album is incredible.”

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Nas hinted on his remix of Schoolboy Q’s “Studio” that some new music from him was imminent: “Finished up my new album, single ’bout to be dropping/ Last album on Def Jam and I got so many options,” he rapped.

Ok. It’s ’bout to be dropping when, though?

“Real soon,” he told Angie Martinez during a Power 105.1 interview on Wednesday (October 1). “Maybe sooner than next week. Maybe tomorrow.”

Well, then. Alright. I’m certainly ready.

He’s so focused on the new music — and, more so, on the present — that he says he won’t even listen to one of his most well-known songs: “Ether.” Of course, that record, from Esco’s 2001 album, Stillmatic, aggressively went after Jay Z during a time when the two New York greats were vying for the city’s crown. But they’ve long since made up, which Nas says is one of the reasons why he hasn’t listened to the track recently.

“I haven’t heard that thing in — I don’t listen to that,” he said. “That, or the other thing [Jay Z's 'Takeover']. He knows that. I told him I can’t listen to that stuff. It’s great times, but that was then.”

“We chilling. We so good right now. That’s my dog. That was a different time. Everything is too good right now. It’s right. History is history. But it’s love.”

He’s not all the way over the past, though. Just this week, “Time Is Illmatic,” a documentary about the Queensbridge rapper and his ...

Warning: Do not watch the following if you’re currently hungry or aren’t prepared to be hungry 24 minutes from now. Because i the latest episode of his Munchies web series, “F–k, That’s Delicious,” Action Bronson heads to one of the food capitals of the country: New Orleans. And, wow, does what he eats look delicious.

First, the Queens native heads to Coquette, in Uptown, where he proclaims, “Fruit and fried things just go well together,” after chomping on some fried chicken with watermelon hot sauce. Yup, that sounds about right. He washes that down with a sandwich packed with 24-hour cooked hanger steak, sliced thin with onion rings, pickles and horseradish, which, understandably, Bam Bam labels as “divine.” He then washes that down with a sandwich filled with 8-hour smoked pastrami, fatty brisket, two year aged cheese, pickles and cole slaw.

Next was Mimi’s in the Marigny, which he proclaims is “the best recommendation I’ve ever been given.” It looks like he orders about half the menu, including escargot, which he renames the “clam of the earth.”

Bronsalino then hits up Willie Mae’s Scotch House, in Treme, for what appeared to be mouth-watering fried chicken: “It’s like big pieces of chicken popcorn — but not popcorn chicken.”

To round out the exquisite, delectable snacking tour, Bronson stops by Toups’ Meatery in Mid-City. He kicks it with the chef in the kitchen to watch his dish — lamb neck with black-eyed pea salad — get prepared.

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It felt a little too good to be true, and maybe it was: It looks like the collaborative EP between Childish Gambino and Chance the Rapper won’t be dropping any time soon.

“We’re both really busy,” Gambino said when asked about the project by Complex. “Chance is kind of doing his own thing with the college tour and everything. Right now, it just doesn’t feel like the time. Plus, we’re in two different spaces.”

That doesn’t mean we won’t be getting new music from Donald Glover soon, though. The Georgia native has a new mixtape with DJ Drama, STN MNTN/ KAUAI, plus an EP on the way.

“It’s a Gangsta Grillz mixtape that goes into an EP,” he explained. “The Gangsta Grillz mixtape is sort of like — it’s a dream. And the dream ends when I wake up in Kauai. And they go into each other — it’s one complete project. You can download the mixtape, and you can go buy the EP. The money from the EP goes to help with keeping Kauai clean, and also helps with getting audio and visual device for cops policy.”

Earlier this month, he released the singing-heavy “Sober (rough),” which appears to be off of the tape.

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Looking at Rittz, there are probably three things you’ll notice immediately: His extremely long, bushy hair; his beard; and his skin color. One of those visual markers in particular — his race — has become especially notable given his chosen profession: Rapper.

“I’m allowed to rap about it, because it’s something I deal with,” Rittz told MTV News, explaining why he wrote the song “White Rapper,” which appears on his album Next to Nothing, which dropped in September. But his major concern when dealing with that issue isn’t critics, fans or others in the industry.

“There are a lot of things I deal with in my personal life,” he explained. “I did the BET Hip-Hop Awards and I had my grandma watch it. My grandma stayed up late to watch these awards; she doesn’t listen to rap. I don’t blame her for not understanding — but I’m on the BET Awards, you can watch me on your TV, I finally made it grandma, look! [The next day], I said, ‘Did you watch it on TV last night grandma?’ She said, ‘Yeah, I watched it. It was good.’ And she said, ‘You always wanted to be black.’”

Of course, that wasn’t the response he was expecting or hoping for, riding high from a career highlight to that point.

“Sh-t like that pisses me off,” the Georgia native admits. “It’s like, Damn, that’s all you got from that? So, a lot of the white rapper stuff comes from other white people. A girlfriend’s ...

Losing a loved one can be a devastating ordeal in its own right. Losing three in a short span of time can be downright debilitating — and its an experience Fat Joe unfortunately knows firsthand.

“When [Big] Pun passed away, I went through depression,” the rapper said in an interview with Music Choice. “And I’m not just saying depression lightly — real depression. It was him, my sister and my grandfather at the same time, so I was going through so much and everybody doubted me.”

The Bronx native recalls overhearing some of his closest friends saying that his musical career was finished around that same time. That motivated him to breathe new life into his work, and he credits Pun with giving him the foundation to be able to do that.

“Even though I discovered Big Pun, the truth is, he taught me how to make hit records,” Joe said. “He literally sat me down and said, ‘Yo, right about here, you gotta talk to the girls, Joe. Right about here we gotta keep it gangsta.’ He literally showed me.”

“Once he passed, I got used to the money, I got used to the fame, so I was like, ‘We gotta hit some home runs.’ So, we did the ‘We Thuggin’’ with R. Kelly, ‘What’s Love,’ we had the ‘My Lifestyle,’ it was a serious run.”

Of course, losing Pun hurt, but it sounds like the lessons Pun left behind sparked the second — and extremely successful — leg ...