Q-Tip plans to release his long-awaited album "Kamaal the Abstract" this fall

After an eight-year delay, Q-Tip is finally releasing his long-awaited album "Kamaal the Abstract" this fall, reports Billboard.

Due Sept. 15 from Battery Records, the set features nine tracks that the former A Tribe Called Quest member produced entirely on his own.

"Q-Tip is a true visionary and ahead of his time," Neil Levine, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Battery Records, said in a prepared statement. "These songs are more contemporary now than when they were first recorded."

The forthcoming album, which never received an official release due to disagreements between the artist and then-label Arista Records, includes special guests Kenny Garrett and Gary Thomas, who play saxophone on the songs "Abstractionisms" and "Do U Dig U," respectively.

Michael Jackson has endless unreleased songs....

Michael Jackson is said to have a treasure trove of unreleased recordings in the vault when he died — music that is almost certain to be packaged and repackaged for his fans in the years to come, notes the Associated Press.

The material includes unused tracks from studio sessions of some of Jackson's best albums, as well as more recently recorded songs made with R&B singer/producer Akon and Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am.

"There are dozens and dozens of songs that did not end up on his albums," said Tommy Mottola, who from 1998 to 2003 was chairman and CEO of Sony Music, which owns the distribution rights to Jackson's music. "People will be hearing a lot of that unreleased material for the first time ever. There's just some genius and brilliance in there."

The releases, Mottola said, "could go on for years and years — even more than Elvis."

As previously reported, Nielsen SoundScan said Wednesday that three of his records — "Number Ones," "Essential Michael Jackson" and "Thriller — were the best-selling albums of the week, and 2.3 million tracks of his have been downloaded in the U.S. alone.

Mottola, who has described himself as the "shepherd and gatekeeper" of Jackson's catalog and is familiar with it better than anyone, said that for every album Jackson made — including classics like 1979's "Off the Wall" and 1982's "Thriller" — he recorded several tracks that didn't make it onto the records.

Major street corner in Hollis Queens named after Run-DMC

The New York City Council approved a new bill that renames a major street corner in Hollis Queens after its famous native sons Run-DMC.

The corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue will from now on be called "Run-DMC JMJ Way," according to the New York Times.

JMJ refers to the group's DJ Jam Master Jay (born Jason Mizell), who was gunned down in a Jamaica, Queens recording studio in October 2002. His killing has not been solved.

The group's other rap pioneers are Joseph Simmons, known as Run, and Darryl McDaniels, known as DMC. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.

McDaniels also has donated memorabilia for a proposed Hollis Hip Hop Museum in the Queens neighborhood.

Queens Councilman Leroy G. Comrie represents the area and said he hopes the renaming of the street and talk of the museum would help "economically revitalize this particular neighborhood as a potential tourism attraction," according to the Times.

Usher wants a paternity test...

The National Enquirer is reporting that Usher wants a paternity test done on his youngest child – 6-month-old Naviyd – because he and his soon-to-be ex-wife Tameka were having little to no sexual relations at the time she conceived.

“The first thing Usher said was, ‘How did this happen?’ - because he was gone a lot, and their sex life was very, very limited,” a friend of Usher told the tabloid. “People have been telling him that around the time the little boy was conceived, Tameka got together with another man.”

Tameka, however, claims Naviyd is Usher's child and says it was the singer who was being unfaithful at the time.

“She says that although they weren’t spending much time together, they did get together for one night of passion. And that’s when she got pregnant," the source said.

Meanwhile, E! is reporting that Tameka's new court filing states she and Ursh have not been separated since July 2008 and, in fact, were "intimately together" less than a week before he started divorce proceedings.

She had "every reason to believe her marriage was intact," her attorney stated in documents filed Monday in Atlanta.

Tameka's filing seeks to ensure that her estranged husband takes care of all of her legal fees pertaining to the split and continues to support his family financially, according to E! Online.

Usher filed for divorce June 12, checking off "irretrievably broken" as his reason to end the marriage and requesting joint custody of the couple's two sons.