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The initial advertising campaign for Jay-Z’s (alleged) swansong, 2003’s The Black Album, featured a picture of a tape box with the names of 12 of hip-hop’s greatest producers scribbled on it. Chalk it up to a two-way malfunction, but the name of famed Beatles knob-adjuster George Martin was conspicuously absent.

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First line of Blackberry Belle, Greg Dulli’s latest dose of pimped-out, bipolar catharsis: “Black out the windows /It’s party time.” By Dulli’s standards, this means everything’s peachy. For more than a decade -- first with his band the Afghan Whigs, then with the more-or-less-solo Twilight Singers -- Dulli’s M.O.

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Ifit’s getting tougher to tell the playas from the pontificators in hip-hop today, blame Kanye West. As one of the Roc-A-Fella label’s go-to producers, the Chicago-bred West has given Roc slugger Jay-Z some big, fat pitches to hit--“Girls, Girls, Girls” and the Doors-sampling “Takeover” among them.

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Independent hip-hop’s preeminent label goes Hollywood with this double-disc CD/DVD package centering on a documentary of its 2002 get-in-the-van Revenge of the Robots tour.

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There is no evidence to suggest that Joe Budden can bend spoons with his mind.