Earlier this week, Drake had a sit-down chat with CBS Evening News’ reporter Katie Couric. The Toronto native discussed his mentor Lil Wayne, his Degrassi roots, fame, and more. Peep the nearly 40 minute interview below…

What’s up with Katie Couric and the Young Money clan?

Anyway, in case you missed Drake chopping it up with Angie Martinez on Hot 97 , check it out below courtesy of MissInfo.

In my opinion, Drake is the ultimate cornball, he is so BLAND. Sheesh, I had to voice my frustration.

You can now retire your “Free Gucci” t-shirt ’cause he’s coming home! On Monday, Angie Martinez announced that Gucci Mane will be performing at this year’s Summer Jam and will be walking out of the pen as a free man on Wednesday, May 12th.  The rapper served seven months of a one year bid for violating his probation. Let’s just hope his a$$ doesn’t slip up and get locked up…again!

It’s gon’ be a party y’all! Earlier today, Hot 97 announced the lineup for this year’s Summer Jam set to take place June 6^th at the new Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. This year’s acts include Usher, Young Money’s Drake and Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz, Juelz Santana, Fabolous, Reflection Eternal, DJ Khaled, Ludacris and Gucci Mane since he’ll be out of the pen by then–let’s just hope he doesn’t get his a$$ locked up again!

You already know to expect the unexpected at Summer Jam. Last year, Jay-Z launched a massive assault on Auto-Tune with the debut of “D.O.A”.

The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul may have used Auto-Tune on her new single, “The One”, however she says that she didn’t go Auto-Tune crazy on her upcoming album. She tells Hot 97’s Angie Martinez,

“This whole album I’ve done is Mary. “The One” introduces the world to “Crazy Mary.” “It was for effect,” she said of using Auto-Tune. “I wanted ‘Crazy Mary’ to get her shine on. She couldn’t get her shine with my regular voice. I used the effect. I used it as a telephone effect or reverb.”

After Jay-Z dropped antiAuto-Tune anthem “D.O.A” challenging other rappers to step their game up, rival Jim Jones and Mr. Chicken Noodle Soup aka DJ Webstar personally took offense, crying like lil’ b*tches claiming Jay was taking shots at them. So, what does Mary think about this Auto-Tune drama?! Well, according to Mary, she’s not even concerned because she doesn’t spend her days worrying about what other people are doing. Adding,

“I won’t say that it bothers me, because people do what they have to do. I can’t pass judgment. Everyone else does what they do, and everyone has their own opinion. To each his own. Do what you do, because I do what I do.”

I totally agree with Mary! Jimmy and Webstar need to stop acting like they can’t make a hit without Auto-Tune, on second thought they can’t. But, it kills me that these two fools think Jay is singling them out when damn near every rapper is T-Paining too much!

You never know who’s going to show up at Hot 97’s Summer Jam concert. The King of New York, Jay-Z brought the King of Pop aka Michael Jackson on stage with him back in 2001. Last year, Method Man, Akon, Jim Jones, Fat Joe, LL Cool J and Ghostface Killah took the stage surprising shocked fans. I highly doubt that this year’s concert is going to be any different ‘cause you never know what to expect at Summer Jam! This year’s line up features the Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, The Dream, Young Jeezy, Jadakiss, Elephant Man, reggae newcomers Mavado and Serani and many more.

Jadakiss recently revealed to MTV that he’s coming out on top at this year’s concert and has a few surprises in store for fans. According to Jada, he’s no longer stuck with opening for other artists, this year he’s going on much later in the show. He says,

“I always try to give one or two surprises. I know they wanna see me. I just dropped a new [album, The Last Kiss], so I gotta keep the surprise guests to a minimum. I might give you Jazmine [Sullivan]. I might give you something nice and soft and something nice and hard. It’s gonna be a good look, though. I feel real good about his one this year.”

This year’s show will be hosted by funnyman Tracy Morgan and will take place at Giants Stadium at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Hot 97′s Funkmaster Flex definitely dropped a bomb when he played Jay-Z’s newest track “Death of Auto-Tune” off his highly anticipated upcoming album Blueprint 3. Could this be the beginning of the end for Auto-Tune?! I sure hope it is!

DOWNLOAD/LISTEN->>> JAY-Z- “DEATH OF AUTO-TUNE”

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