"Kanye is my brother. I love him. I never said that he didn't pay dues. He's from Chicago. I don't know what that man been through before he ran into Jay and got on," Bleek told SOHH.com. "What I'm saying, for them to just consider somebody being the number one dude in the world over everybody else that's been here, it's like...hold on, you can't leave me and Beans out. That's all I was saying."

Whether real or fabricated, beef has definitely followed Bleek since his last effort. In the last year, The Game has targeted him in several freestyles. Despite the constant disses, Memph still hasn't figured out why the Compton rapper took shots at him.

"I don't know fam. I met him and the two times I met him, he told me it wasn't no problems or nothing like that. I don't know what to say. I think he just did it to take a shot at being successful. It's cool. Keep mentioning me until May 17th. 534, keep me in the air," Bleek revealed. "But as far as personally, we don't have no problems. I don't feel it in my heart to where I wanna do something to homie and I know he don't feel that. I ain't never step on his toes and he ain't step on mine. As long as we keep getting money, it's all good."

The rapper, however, quickly denied taking pictures with Game as 50 Cent alleged in a recent Hot 97 interview. "He ain't got no picture with me. That's Joe Buddens. Never M. Greasy. We ain't that cool," Bleek clarified.

While his first three albums went gold, Bleek is confident that 534 will exceed its predecessors. With Jay-Z now serving as Island Def Jam's president, Memph Man feels that he finally has the proper backing to take him to super-stardom.

"It's way different cause Jay usually has an album in stores when my album drops -so everybody is picking up his album. Now that he's behind the scenes and pushing the album instead of being on tour promoting his album and we're on tour over here promoting our albums. We all on the same page about the same thing," Bleek explained. "Once everybody in the building is on that page, it's a beautiful thing. When Jay drops an album, the whole building is on Jay's project. It messed it up for other artists because once his project is dropped, everybody be so exhausted from taking care of what they gotta take care for him, that we get the last little bit. But now, we get all the attention."

With Jay-Z, Dame Dash and Kariem "Biggs" Burke parting ways, Roc-A-Fella's roster has been split down the middle. Bleek, Kanye, Peedi and Freeway opted to stay with Jay while Beanie Sigel and a host of Roc Music acts stayed with Dash. Though there's no hard feelings, Memph keeps it brief when encountering his former boss.

"Just 'what's up?' I ain't got nothing to discuss," Bleek said in regards to bumping into Dame since the split. "I'm loyal to Jay so if anybody got a problem with Hov, it's nothing we gotta talk about. It's cool. Ain't no beef, I just never wanna be in the middle of something. My thing is growing up in the hood, even if it's a little bit of tension, I gotta cut all ties from the other side cause I'm cool with you. I don't play both sides of the fence. Dude that plays both sides of the fence gonna get his head cracked. Everybody in the world knows what side I'm on. I roll with the homie."

Memphis Bleek's 534 featuring M.O.P. and production by Bink, Just Blaze, Swizz Beatz, Irv Gotti and 9th Wonder hits stores May 17.

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McDonald's has recently announced that they hope to boost Big Mac sales by paying rappers to reference the sandwich in their lyrics.

The fast food giant isn't providing advance money, but is willing to pay rappers between $1 to $5 each time a song featuring a Big Mac plug airs on the radio. Sources say McDonald's is hoping to have Mac references in several songs by this summer

"If 50 Cent says so, they're gonna buy so many Big Macs," Kai Davis, 27, a Micky Dee's customer service rep told New York's Daily News. "[Rappers] have a big influence."

Benji Lusena, 16, of Harlem added, "Anything they say, people are going to do."

On the other hand, certain customers believe that celebrity endorsements aren't likely to influence what the youth purchases.

"I usually don't use stuff just because somebody else uses it," said Pedro Rojas, 20, of Jersey City. "If you like the food, then that's about it."

Micky Dee's isn't the first company to fork up money for promotional services. Marketing firm Maven Strategies, who presently handles the Big Mac project, got Seagram's gin to pay up for mentions in five raps last year.
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A judge has just frozen the assets of Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, who inked a deal for his Gangland Records while incarcerated for a 1999 Club New York shooting.

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Garson ordered that any revenue Barrow generates from his new deal with Island Def Jam records and recording material be held in a bond until verdicts have been reached in the civil suits filed by the shooting victims. Garson also cited the state's revised "Son of Sam Law," in his decision to freeze Shyne's funds. The law requires inmates be barred from profiting from their crimes.

Barrow was with P. Diddy and his then girlfriend, actress Jennifer Lopez when the Club New York incident took place. Shots rang out after an argument with Diddy's crew and another patron, Matthew "Scar" Allen. Three people were shot. Natania Reuben, 34, was hit in the face while others were hurt in the stampede that followed. Shyne was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Reuben's attorney, Debra Reiser, stated that she and lawyers of other victims first went to court last fall to have Shyne's assets frozen. Their mission began after the Crime Victims Board told them that Shyne had inked a $3 million deal with Def Jam, received a $500,000 advance and released an album.

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Outkast is at the center of another lawsuit. A Florida woman claims she was the real person that penned their 2001 hit “Ms. Jackson” and has filed a lawsuit to legally address her grievance.

Jacqueline Jackson also claims that she was the person rapped about in the hit song, which addresses the plight of the “baby momma’s momma.” In her suit, Jackson alleges that she wrote “Ms. Jackson” after her daughter Monique was impregnated as a teenager. He maintains that the song was stolen by Antonio Seals, a former business partner of Outkast. Seals also reportedly went to high school with the Andre 3000 and Big Boi.

The suit has been filed in Atlanta, GA. She told television show “Celebrity Justice," “They owe me because that was the fruit of my labor and I don't think they should reap the complete reward.”

Representatives for Outkast were unavailable at press time. The pair remain embroiled in legal wrangling with Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. A settlement is reportedly being negotiated.

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When 50 Cent dropped “Piggy Bank” he created a rift between him and the likes of Fat Joe, Jadakiss and Nas. After the diss, many wondered how the attacked artists would respond to the song. Fat Joe and Jadakiss have already released their responses. Is Nas next up to bat?

Well according to a number of British publications and MTV, Nas has been teasing the idea of retaliation for a minute but has stated that 50 “needs about five to six more albums" in order to become dissworthy. He started off by telling New Nation…

"He's out there posing for cameras like the Incredible Hulk and shit ... It's sad for a lot of real guys."

He was asked during the U.K. tour if he could shed some light to the situation. According to MTV he stated…

"Of course, there are a lot of people waiting for me to make this next record and go after 50. If it's meant to be, it'll happen. I don't think it's really that deep. We all love hip-hop. It drives people crazy, 'Come on, come on! Respond with something! Respond!' You gotta chill and let us do our thing. People are gonna talk, the media is going be like 'Nas do this, do that.' At the end of the day, I'm the one that goes into the studio and lays it down. You gotta wait.”

He continued…

"To sum it all up, 50 is still a new artist. I would say he's got a good five to six more albums before I can really respond to him. With my other battles, it was different. This is not really my thing right here. I would say he would need about five to six more albums."

So does this mean we have to wait a few more years for a Nas response? We’ll just have to wait and see.