In Hip-Hop folklore, much speculation has been made over a supposed beef between Fat Joe and Jay-Z in the past few years. The pair briefly sparred after Jay apparently took issue with a Joe lyric that referred the Terror Squad victory over Team S.Carter at last year’s Rucker basketball tourney.

Jay followed suit in “The Game Is Mine, where he said, “I'm the proud new owner of the Nets/ No diploma, no regrets, don't even talk about Rucker/ Muthaf****s I am set.” In a pair of songs “Victim” and Lil’ Scrappy’s “No Problems [remix],” Joe seems to points the finger at unnamed rappers, making some deduce he’s talking to his Roc-A-Fella Records peer.

Elusively, Joe told AllHipHop.com, “I’m going at everybody. Everybody's a victim. I'm the realest in the game. It's hard to be the realest man, I'm going at everybody.”

As far as the Rucker comment in “Lean Back,” Joe said he was merely stating the facts of last year’s incident.

“You know I was talking the truth. We won the Rucker. I wasn't looking for no problems with Jay Z. I was like, ya know we won the Rucker. And we ain't have to play. (chuckling) I ain't inventing it. He's a bigger dude, nigga's owning basketball teams and shit like that. He's doing what he gotta do. I don't see no problems, not that I know of.”

As Things of that Nature, his new album prepares to drop, Joe said he’s finally feeling respected by the industry as an artist.

“I just feel like all the years, all the work I done put in, it always felt like I was under-appreciated, niggas was sleeping on me. So I finally got them where I want them with the TS album,” he explained. “I don't know why after all these years, so it's like now I just want to just strike right now and just let n****s know. This [is] some of the best work I ever did in my life. [I'm] just trying to run the game to be honest. I'm trying to dominate the game for real.”

The album features the production of Cool & Dre, DJ Kahled, Timbaland, R.Kelly, Scott Storch, Swizz Beatz and others.

Things of that Nature hits stores on November

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Pioneering Hip-Hop artist Afrika Bambaataa is preparing to release Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light, in collaboration with original Tommy Boy Records founder, Tom Silverman.

The album sticks to Bambaataa’s long term mission of promoting peace through his work.

Silverman, who signed Bambaataa in 1982, said that he still believes in the genre defying music Bambaataa creates.

"His music has helped build cross-cultural awareness and understanding by exposing different groups of people to music they might not otherwise be exposed to," Silverman said.

In addition to uniting gangs in New York through the Universal Zulu Nation, Bambaataa, who derived his name from a 19th century Zulu chief, helped establish chapters worldwide with members of all colors and nationalities and hit big with 1982’s “Planet Rock.”

More recently, the Bronx bred pioneer established the Universal Federation for the Preservation of Hip Hop Culture.

"Twenty years later, I still believe in Bambaataa,” Silverman said. “He is more than the spiritual heart of Hip Hop -- he embraces rhythmic music and celebrates its diversity as the core of his message. Paul Daley, Gary Numan, Sharaz, Uberzone, Fort Knox Five, Ronald "Dukeyman" Hall, DJ Hektek, Simply Jeff, Steven "Boogie" Brown are just some the contributors to his new album. On this album, Afrika Bambaataa pledges allegiance to the Funk and brings back that sound that has been missing for too long."

Emcees TC Izlam, King Kamonzi, B-Boy Alien Ness, MC Chatterbox, Mustafa Akbar and Aghi Spirits are all featured as well.

Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light hits stores on double vinyl on September 28th, while the CD lands in stores on October 24th