By it, I'm talking about my first semester of graduate school. Time to party for a month and then blast off to Los Angeles for the summer--but first, a bit of a roundup!

This new track by Maino, "Hi Hater," is exactly what I needed to end the semester. This song has potential: can you imagine a club of people doing the yet-to-be-formulated, synchronized "Hi Hater" dance? Picture a lot of waving and sarcastic smiles.

Kanye's Glow in the Dark tour has been going exceptionally well: between forgetting where he's performing and storming offstage due to crippling technical difficulties, Ye has taken time to lash out at those critics that have suggested the tour was (gasp!) a little bit of a letdown:

Yo, anybody that's not a fan; don't come to my show. For what?! To try and throw ya'll two cents in? Ya'll rated my album shitty and now ya'll come to the show and give it a B+. What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. It's either pass or fail! A+ or F-! You know what, fuck you and the whole fucking staff!!!

That's just the beginning of a poorly punctuated rant directed at Entertainment Weekly's Chris Willman. Apparently, Kanye is upset about this review, written after the opening night, which paints hip-hop's man of the moment as an uncompromising egoist:

For his headlining chunk of the Glow in the Dark Tour, Kanye West also takes fans on a galactic voyage, folding his hits into a wacked-out space opera that's the ultimate ego trip. Normally, that'd be an insult, but with West, who's made an art form out of dramatizing both humility and hubris, it's mission accomplished.

I'll cosign that statement, and if Kanye can't wrap his head around it, well that's his problem. Willman isn't saying anything we don't already know, and certainly nothing Kanye hasn't beat his fans over the head with hundreds of times. In album after self-aggrandizing album, Ye has lifted himself beyond genius to a point where expects all of us to think he is infallible. This cat honestly has a hubris great enough to make Caligula blush.

Eskay, Peter Rosenberg and Shake have all weighed in (generally positively) on Kanye's recent explosion. (And speaking of Kanye, he has a nice new track out with Young Jeezy, "Put On." I'm feelin' this joint, and not just because Jeezy proclaims that he "works for NASA.")

Other news: RZA's cover art for Digi Snax is dope! (Tracklist and tour info at 2dopeboyz.)

Swizz Beats is rapping (again), and it's still mediocre. Within the first few seconds of this song, Swizzy tells listeners that if they want to find him, "all you gotta do is Google 'where the cash at?'" Well, I took him to task on that one, and in fact, the great Google machine led me not to Swizz Beats, but to Lil Wayne. Even your favorite search engine knows what's up, haters!

This photo of Game and Suge Knight is intense. I'd love to hear some more backstory on these two dudes.

Welcome to the Winner's Circle, Curren$y's newest mixtape effort is available for your listening pleasure. I haven't bumped it yet, and if it turns out to suck shit, this is the last post Curren$y is going to see on Whatever's Good. I've liked the kid since hearing him rap with Wayne, but after his last mix, I feel like he's lost a lot of steam.

New Soulja Boy and Collipark, "She Gotta Donk." Is it embarrassing that I really enjoy all of Soulja Boy's videos? Even though a lot of Collipark's beats are derivative, the videos end up being entertaining: witness the HandiCam chase scene about halfway through the video. Soulja Boy is aieet with me.

Lil Wayne's been busy the past few days, too. First, there's "California Love" featuring Tyga, then there's Bun B and Weezy with "Damn I'm Cold." Finally, Wayne dropped a verse on the most recent DJ Khaled/Runners/Akon mega-track, "Out Here Grindin'." These three tracks have seemed to swing the mainsteam blogger's opinion of Wayne back to the positive side. There's also this "Not Guilty" freestyle, and the (rumored) Carter III tracklist. (Update: there's also two other Weezy tracks floating around the net today: "Me and My Drank" and "Haters"; say what you want, Wayne puts in work.)

One of my favorite rappers from ATL, Bohagon, has dropped a new track in preparation for a forthcoming album. I absolutely love this guy, and highly recommend the mixtape he did with Don Cannon a few summers back.

If you don't know about Santogold yet, you best read this Pitchfork review.

El-P remixed Kidz in the Hall's "Drivin' Down The Block" (which is #6 on MTV's TRL right now); DMX got arrested in AZ; Spank Rock is on a new track; Nas and The Roots covered Urb Magazine; David Banner tells the story of "The Fight"; and Sean Price & Buckshot teamed up with Kidz in the Hall for "The Pledge." Shit's poppin' off this week, huh?

Finally, hipster-hop backlash has made it to YouTube: bear witness to Tight Pants Wearin' Ass Nigga. (And if you're still following the whole Mazzi-Cool Kids-Jay Electronica thing, dude says "the experiment" is over. Whatever)