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“Bumped into Floyd Mayweather today. We chopped it up like G’s and after a discussion, we shook hands. So that’s squashed. It’s a new year, it’s time to get new money.”

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Part of his plea deal was to not serve it in a state prison system, but in a city jail system like Rikers Island. The reporter said it could eventually be reduced to an 8 month sentence if he’s on good behavior.

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But you’ve had the commercial success—why do you still feel the need to be more lyrical on this album? Soulja Boy: The success that I had with my previous music only shows me that my plan worked! The plan worked, but at the same time, there was so much criticism over nothing. I was like, Man, what’s the big deal? Jay-Z’s a great artist, great lyricist, great hip-hop pioneer. If you’ve got guys like that sending subliminal messages asking rappers to step it up, I say, Why not? I ain’t got no problem with that. Full Interview: Complex

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Check out "International Hov" on the cover of Sweden's Kingsize Magazine! See below images of the editorial coverage:

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“I’m starting on the next album right now with No I.D., who produced some of my earlier stuff, and Twilight Tone who also produced some of the earlier stuff. I’m working with them and Kanye, and I’m going to go to some boom-bap.”

Link:MTV Mixtape Daily

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“It was super easy. I did it in two days. Lasers was almost all done… the super ‘I’m the best MC’ — lyrical — there’s wasn’t really room for that on this album. I was like, ‘Let me give my fans that. Let me let them know that I’m still capable of that. Let me show MTV I’m hot too.’ Kept it short. I felt, if you’re nice, you don’t need an hour. You don’t need one hour and 35 minutes. You don’t need 100 freestyles every week. You need a nice demonstration of what you’re capable of doing very effectively, and you step back. Leave you wanting more. Sometimes the best part of the movie is the trailer.”

There’s some mini-videos for “Turnt Up” & “Say Something” in this segment, during which he mentions that he made both without even hearing the originals.

“I just heard the beat and ‘Say Something,’ the freestyle came out. I could have kept going. I could have rapped over that for 20 minutes.“

Link:MTV Mixtape Daily

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“I wasn’t going to touch it,” Cass told us about getting on Electronica’s instant classic. “I heard so many radio DJs talking about it, and they talking like Jay Electronica was saving hip-hop with that record, so I said, ‘I gotta get up on that joint.’ I’m pretty much jumping on everything that’s hot. I’m saturating the game, really trying to make people suffocate. … I wanted to get the mixtape market in a frenzy, to let them know I’m coming back.”

Link:MixtapeDaily

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Around the time that Kanye directed “Best I Ever Had,” it seemed like there was strife between your camp and Cudi’s camp because Kanye was so enamored of you while Cudi’s project was being worked on. Drake: I wasn’t aware of that. Even so, I could understand. If Wayne were to be enamored—which is a great word—of another young artist, I would be like, “Damn, I’m here too!” But at the same time, it happens in more than one situation. It happens with ‘Ye, and I have a great relationship with Jay, and Jay’s got Wale and J. Cole, who’s one of my favorite dudes rapping right now. I’ve happened to have had more success. I made the most money, I have number-one records, those guys don’t have that shit. And it’s just facts, it’s not even my feelings or that I feel I’m more talented. That’s what the game is about, making great music that earns profit. When it comes to my relationship with the new dudes, I’m just excited for them. I get to sit back in a cool position and be like, “Yo, I’m excited to see you do it now because I know what it’s like, it’s gonna be so much fun for you…” You feel like you’re at the finish line? Drake: I’m at the starting line. Those guys are at home, putting on their tracksuits, getting ready to make their attack. When J. Cole gets it super-right, I think he’s gonna have a place as a Nas-type character who really stands for hip-hop, but still makes ill records that everybody fucks with. If J. Cole is Nas, then who are you? Drake: [Laughs.] I’m the young big homie!

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"No other media outlet reported this but US- 57thAve! Yes, we were on the story on Sunday! Now here is evidence that the superstars collided on Sunday at Diddy’s Vanity party in Vegas. Most outlets were reporting it happened at Pure during G-Units New Year’s Eve bash, but nope! They were wrong! As you can tell from the images, Floyds veins were popping out his skin, meanwhile, Ricky looks collective and calm. According to MY source, Diddy stepped in to assist the champ and the champs security quickly stepped in to protect their cash cow! Footage coming….maybe." Source:57thAve

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“I wasn’t really able to tell my story before but I think I am now…” Gucci Mane says from behind a glass window in a visiting room at Atlanta’s Fulton County Correctional Facility. “Got closure on a lot of things now.” Source:XXL

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XXLMag.com has learned that T.I. was released from prison this morning (December 22) and will be admitted into a halfway house in his hometown of Atlanta, later today. XXL spoke with Tip’s lead defense attorney in his federal gun case, Steve Sadow, who confirmed the news. “He was released this morning from his place of incarceration in Arkansas,” Sadow said. “As I understand it, he’s on his way back to the Atlanta area. He has to report to a halfway house in Atlanta sometime this evening. And he will then spend somewhere between the next two or three months in a halfway house, ending his Bureau of Prison sentence.“ According to Sadow, T.I. will have a lot more freedom under his new living conditions. “A halfway house is more along the lines of a residential dormitory,” he explained of the rap star’s new stipulations. “You live within this house that is broken into areas for living, and you are permitted to leave during the day for certain reasons of which would be employment, medical reasons, things of that nature, and you return to the halfway house in the evening. So it’s a restriction on your liberty but it’s a way for you to reenter into society and not be confined within a jail type institution 24-hours a day.” T.I. has been serving time in Arkansas’ Forrest City Prison since May 26, for possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers, as well as firearms from a convicted felon. He is expected to be finished with his federal sentence in March of 2010. Source:XXLMag.com

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Category F5 is in stores now.

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Friend of the people is canceled…sorry folks. super busy training right now for SOTS [Summit on the Summit] climb…”

Damn I was looking forward to that but hey we still have the Fabolous mixtape on the way.

Full Story:ALLHipHop

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The official TV commercial for Lil Wayne’s “Rebirth” album.

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The rapper reveals a new album and a Young Jeezy collabo.

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"I wanna thank my mother, she was the originator of the wax figure," he said with a grin. Diddy took a moment to rub the figure's mouth and kept smiling. His mother, sister, nephew and son Justin were also in attendance. "It's hard to explain looking at yourself like this," he continued. "They did an excellent job." Maybe too good — Combs said the statue is so lifelike it was a little "scary — scary in a good way." Link:MTV

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“I’m looking to come next summer,” Fab said of a sequel to Loso’s Way. “I like summer releases. It’s good timing. People are out, a lot of people need good music to ride to. I’m looking towards June or July again and come with Loso’s Way 2.”

As of now, the roll-out for the original Loso’s Way is still underway. Fab wants to release viral visuals for “Lullaby,” “Last Time” and “Makin’ Love,” while a clip “I’mma Do It” hit the ‘net a few weeks ago. Look for Fab to keep heating up cyberspace with a new mixtape on December 25, hosted by DJ Drama.

“The first mixtape with Dram was There Is No Competition,” he explained. “I’m working on part two — it’s called There Is No Competition Part 2: The Funeral Service. We gonna make it available for download on Christmas Day.”

…”Everything on there — it’s what I’ve been working on since the album. Even though [my album] came out in July, I probably finished it in maybe April or May. Everything has been building up musically since then. Sometime I get it out on R&B features or just other little stuff that you put out. I hadn’t put a mixtape out in while, so I had that backed up in me. I got a chance to release. I think people are gonna love it. There Is No Competition is me saying, ‘There is nobody that can compete with me. Death to the competition.’ That’s why it’s called The Funeral Service. Everything is themed around that. That’s why it’s kinda dark. Each song plays into that.”

Link:MTV Mixtape Daily

Say word! stop playing a Fabolous and Lupe Fiasco mixtape dropping on Christmas, that’s my Christmas present right there.

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This took longer than I thought, I thought he would have dropped something after 50 Cent’s first week sales. Of course we all no matter what 50 Cent sells, the Officer can’t talk money with 50 Cent or Maywheather. Of course he didn’t address them in the video but we know who that title is for.

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“Cudder, I already got five tracks locked in,” he told us recently in New York. “We got Snoop, we got Pharrell. I just was in the studio with him. We got Jim Jonsin. I did a record with him. I’m gonna get back in the studio with him. Trying to get the right amount of hit records on this. It’s gonna be the complete opposite of what Man on the Moon was. Man on the Moon was so serious. This one is gonna be more playful and fun. It’s about having a good time.”

Cudi has also been building a wave of guest collaborations from Pharrell to Snoop Dogg.

“People reaching out to me wanting to collab is so bugged out,” Kid admitted. “I remember when nobody wanted to do any song with me, let alone listen to my sh–. It’s been humbling since Kanye reached out. People seek my creativity; that’s dope. I don’t do the normal sh–. I don’t make the normal songs. So when people reach out, that means they’re on the same frequency.”

Cudi is probably most excited about the remix of Consequence’s “Whatever You Want” with Kanye, Common, John Legend and Big Sean, and he wants to include the entire fam when they reunite. “We gotta do it again,” Cudi said. “We gotta get everybody. We gotta have the GLCs, Really Doe, the Bentleys — everyone ripping it and dropping gems.”

Link:MTV

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Damn Tiger if your gonna get some strange on the side you gotta have your joint planned out, most dudes never have a exit strategy when they fux around just trying to nail something, that’s why chicks are better cheaters because they plan the joint out from start to finish. Tiger didn’t stand a chance either way because if shorty was recording him from the jump then she was already planning on a come up sooner or later, and you best believe she’s gonna sell those tapes to NBC, that NBC money don’t take no for an answer..

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What the hell his the guy doing, does this audience care about 50 Cent’s music?

Tyra > Oprah

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When the details of Michael Jackson’s death came to light, did you see any parallels? Eminem: Oh, 100 percent. When you read things about Michael Jackson it’s hard to decipher what the fuck is true, but there’s the story of how he woke up at whatever time and he needed something to go back to sleep because he had this or that and it didn’t work. That’s exactly what used to happen to me: I would take a couple of pills and I would be up an hour later and I’d want more. Then I’d take more and that would be enough to maybe get me back to sleep for two more hours. Then I’d be wide awake again. So I definitely can relate, and it’s a shame if he didn’t have anybody there to just say, “Michael, you’re an addict, you need help.” It’s one of the pitfalls of fame. I could just say, “Yo, I need this and this and this,” and they’re going to give me whatever I want because— —because you’re Eminem. Eminem: Exactly, it’s fucked up. The worst thing that could have happened to me as an addict was having money. Full article here.

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This is Something that Lil Wayne wanted for a long time, Forever doesn’t though Eminem did body him on that beat a long  with everyone else.

1. American Star – Lil Wayne, Shanell aka SNL
2. Prom Queen – Lil Wayne, Shanell aka SNL
3. Ground Zero
4. Da Da Da
5. Paradice
6. Get A Life
7. On Fire
8. Drop The World – Lil Wayne, Eminem
9. Runnin – Lil Wayne, Shanell aka SNL
10. One Way Trip – Lil Wayne, Kevin Rudolf
11. Knockout – Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj
12. The Price Is Wrong

You think Lil Wayne will be able to hang with Eminem on this one?

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50 Cent during an interview with DJ Envy spoke about whether or not Jay-Z was talking about him at the American Music Awards 2009

“If It Was Towards Me Then He Should Say Some More Direct So We Can Get Right To The Sh*t”

“When The Shooting Start He Ain’t Gonna Have Nobody”

Before I Self Destruct – Album available everywhere now!

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Get Rihanna’s new album Rated R on Amazon.com for only 99 cents, this week only!  The good people over at Amazon are having a Black Friday “$3 in MP3s” Sale this week until Black Friday (click here to learn more) and Rihanna’s new album Rated R is on sale for only $3.99 this week only on Amazon as well.

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“The last six months, it’s been like, ‘I gotta really, really go out there and show that I’m nicer than all of them,’ ” Lupe said. “It’s like, ‘All right, so be it. If it takes three more albums to do it, then so be it.’ That’s what I got left with Atlantic. Three more after Lasers. I’m already done with two. The mixtape is coming Thanksgiving. It’ll be another mixtape after that and an album after that. It’s really to get that status and lock it in and [and have people] be like, ‘Look at this positive dude, the underdog. The positive one who came and murdered all these dudes. And he’s there, and he’s good.’ ”

Lupe said he isn’t concerned about what he has to do — he’s going to prove he’s the best.

“I’m finnin’ to house every single mode and arena I can get into,” Fiasco promised. “If y’all had somewhere where it’s live performances, I’m finnin to have the best live performances. If it’s mixtapes, I’m finnin’ to have the best mixtapes. If it’s albums again, it’s gonna be the best verse. If it’s the best dressed, I’m going hard as well.”

Lupe said the yet-untitled mixtape will be him going in over other MCs’ beats. “I got four days to figure it out,” he said about the title. “I’ve been dabbling with some names. I don’t know yet.”

Concerning the production, Lupe said he’s not going to let any original production go.

“Why waste it?” he said. “I still got my plan. I’m not finnin’ to diverge off my plan and my career and how I wanna roll my music out.”

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50 Cent interview with Funkmaster Flex, speaks on Kanye West, Taylor Swift Beyonce. He gives his full perspective on the Beanie Sigel and Jay-Z issue.

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“Kidd Kidd, my face on every wanted poster” — you might not have recognized the voice, but Kidd was on one of the biggest singles of 2008: Lil Wayne’s “Mrs. Officer.” The downtown New Orleans native linked up with the uptown N.O. legend (Kidd says downtown cats are known for being grimy, while uptown fellas are famous for stuntin’) more than six years ago as part of Wayne’s side clique Sqad Up. The collective — which also included Gudda Gudda and T-Streets, who are now down with Wayne’s Young Money label — released a slew of mixtapes and underground, independent albums on Wayne’s now-defunct Money Yung’N Records.

“Wayne, he works hard,” said Kidd, who is known primarily by the nicknames “Peanut” or “Nutt” in his hometown. “You’ve got to give it up to him. He’s a hard worker, so I feel like if I’m around you, I have to work just as hard as you. When he’s in the studio, I’m in there. I have to make sure I’m on top of mine too. It was just about being at the right place at the right time.”

Since last year, Kidd has ventured out to do his own thing and has linked up with music-industry vet Sha Money XL, who played an integral part in 50 Cent and the G-Unit’s rise to fame.

“I want to see the best for him,” XL told Mixtape Daily. “I got the label deal too. We’re gonna put out records regardless, but it’s more for me to get him out there as big as he can be, ’cause he’s a star. I want to see him rise to the top. If another major comes in and got the right money, we can do it. L.A. Reid, all y’all know we get to it. We can get to it.”

Kidd’s first stop to making sure everyone knows his face and his music is the mixtape New Kidd on the Block, hosted by DJ Whoo Kid and DJ Scream. The CD has a mixture of freestyles and new songs, as well as old records he recorded with Drake and Wayne. “I wanted to put those songs out there, because somebody else was already trying to,” Kidd explained. “It wasn’t out there how it was supposed to be, so we put those on there.”

Some of the records Kidd dug in the crates for was “My N—a,” which lent some melodic inspiration to Drake’s “Best I Ever Had’ and the original version of “Forever” — sans Eminem and Kanye West (Drake and Wayne’s verses are totally different form the version you hear on the radio).

“What a lot of people don’t know, ['Forever'], it was a me, Drake and Wayne song, the original before they did the remix to it.”

He also flipped his own version of Drake’s “Fear,” which is about Kidd’s introduction to the rap game. “It’s letting people know, ‘Don’t be scared of me. Just give me your ear and let me do me,’ ” Kidd explained.

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you in the hall already, on the wall already, youse a work of art, man this boy all petty, type to not feed no workers, cuz he grubbed already, noodle, I had the sauce, we coulda made spaghetti, but i’m a shine on my own, i’m a star already, lost the best of both worlds, he coulda called R Kelly -Beanie Sigel.

Thoughts?

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Beanie Sigel touches on allot of different and how he’s been explaining everything that has been going on for years through his music, even breaks down some of the lyrics.

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Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in prison on Thursday (November 12) for probation violation and taken away to prison in handcuffs, according to a rep from his label. The sentence is a blow to Gucci’s career. The ATL rapper has a album coming out — The State Vs. Radrick Davis — on December 8 and is arguably at the height of his career; in terms of his sentence, he may be out of prison in six months. Source: MTV

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As I’ve written before, hip-hop had become only a fraction of 50 Cent’s empire. The epitome of hip-hop hyper masculinity, 50 Cent had morphed from a hungry street emcee into a media personality, a corporate CEO, an actor and a Vitamin Water spokesman, but he was only nominally a rapper, and not surprisingly, his music suffered. Sure, he could still crush any rapper who dared offend him, but he did so with the weight of his media empire, not his rhymes. Perhaps sensing his microphone credibility slipping, 50 has returned to the basics for his new, fatalistically titled album Before I Self Destruct, a work that puts aside previous attempts to pander to radio (oh, hi Amusement Park, I didn’t see you there) and focuses instead on something so simple 50 Cent had seemingly forgotten it; making dope music. Before I Self Destruct was originally supposed to drop in 2007, but apparently Fiddy wasn’t feeling self destructive enough at the time and instead released Curtis (a.k.a. the album Kanye crushed him on), saying he would hold Self Destruct until the time was right. The time still isn’t quite right - security isn’t tight enough around the G-Unit fortress and the album leaked on the internet several weeks early - but one way or another, Self Destruct has been unleashed upon the world. He won’t want me to put it this way, but this is a comeback album for 50, an album that’s his best since Get Rich or Die Trying, and possibly his best ever. For most fans Crime Wave was the first “oh s**t, is 50 back?” moment. From the moment the track’s concrete heavy bass line dropped 50’s bad intentions were clear, and more importantly, he did the track’s devastating beat justice, dropping intentionally blunt and blistering lines that are more declarations of war than rhymes: “I’m not telling you to shoot somebody, but if somebody try to shoot you, shoot em.” Not exactly advice you’ll hear at school. Even better is Stretch, a track that not only harkens back to 50’s days as a street level drug dealer but reveals more about the album’s title: “I’m not supposed to be the boss, I’m supposed to be an enforcer.” 50 apparently believes it’s only a matter of time before his violent tendencies overwhelm his CEO responsibilities, and I’m not inclined to disagree. On occasion 50 takes his need to be intimidating a little too far, most notably on Psycho, a track that’s only too appropriate for guest artist Eminem but doesn’t quite work for 50, who’s far too calculating to truly pull off “psycho,” but when he misses on Self Destruct, at least 50 misses while trying to hit the right target. Where Curtis really fell apart was when 50 turned his attention to the ladies, but on Self Destruct he mercifully avoids any attempts at reviving Candy Shop, and when he does turn his thoughts to women he does so with relative skill. Case in point, Baby Be Me, the album’s lead single and a track that softens 50’s killer persona without turning him soft, giving him a catchy beat by Polow da Don to work over and bringing in the always classy Ne-Yo to polish things off. Every modern hip-hop album that wants to sell big needs at least one track for the ladies, and Baby By Me should get the job done nicely, especially if gold-digging groupies officially adopt it as their anthem. While 50 never gets as sexy-romantic again on Self Destruct, the album does touch on relationships a few more times: on the soulfully regretful Do You Think About Me and the unintentionally hilarious Could’ve Been You, though most of the hilarity predictably comes from R. Kelly’s hook (“cause I be smellin my s**t too, now how you like that?”). In fact, the album’s only flat-out love song is Hold Me Down, and there the object of 50’s affection is his gun. Women weren’t weakening 50’s game, his desire to make radio hits for them was, and thankfully on Self Destruct he desire is mostly dead. More important that what Self Destruct says about 50 as a public persona, or his place in the rap game, Before I Self Destruct is a hip-hop album that actually seems to care about hip-hop. Hell, the man even does a semi-quasi-cover of the Sugarhill Gang’s seminal Rapper’s Delight with his Gangsta’s Delight. So how long will it be until 50 once again forgets hip-hop in favor of a new clothing line or corporate deal? If history is any judge, not long. But for now, he’s just a damn good street rapper – exactly what we were all waiting for him to become again.

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J. Cole talks to Nick Huff of Hard Knock TV about his thoughts on the Jay-Z & Beanie Sigel situation, being compared to Drake on MuchMusic TV in Toronto, and what impact mixtapes have in an artists career.

“It’s nothing you can do about those comparisons… I know it comes from a place where people don’t really know. It’s one of those things where they think “this guy reminds me of XYZ” because that’s the hot guy that’s on their mind right now. I remember a couple of years ago, people was saying Lupe cuz that’s who they was hearing about.

Once people get into the music, it’s like “oh wait, no he’s not.” But like I always say, he’s talented so it’s not a diss really. It’s all good. But the Toronto joint was crazy, ha. She said it, I was like . She didn’t mean anything by it. [Interviewer: It's kinda funny how the blogs ran with it.] Yeah, it was a real expression… I can’t believe they caught that on-camera.”

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“If the good die young, then the greats go to jail,” Pusha T raps on the Clipse’s new single, “Doorman.”

The duo have been reflecting on the incarceration of their manager and friend, Anthony “Geezy” Gonzalez. Last month, Geezy struck a plea deal for one federal drug conspiracy charge as well as one firearm charge. As much as it hurts to not have their friend with them, the Clipse said they have to go on with their lives and careers.

“The show don’t stop, we know what we gotta do,” Malice, who tweeted, “We luv u GZ!” in the wake of Geezy’s court outcome, said. “So we’re out here doing it. The situation has been hard as well as heartbreaking. But I got the faith everything is gonna work out for the best. I believe everything happens for a reason. We still take care of our fam. We never leave our fam behind.”

The Clipse release their next LP, Till the Casket Drops, on December 8. Guests include Yo Gotti — not Drake — on “Showin’ Out.” Fabolous also appears on a remix of “Kinda Like a Big Deal.” (Kanye West appeared on the original.)

“Geezy’s good,” Pusha insisted. “Yeah, he’s alright,” Malice concurred.

“Everybody is good. It’s Geezy, it’s a few more too,” Pusha detailed. “Y’all just know Geezy, but everybody is our brother. Every time we talk to them, nobody is hanging their head. Ain’t no crybabies. We got real soldiers in the family. Everything is gonna work out alright.”

According to The Virginian-Pilot, Geezy is scheduled to be sentenced on January 11.

Source:MTV

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“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” When somebody is as consistent as Young Jeezy, it’s tough to say he’s in a zone. That’s just him. The Snowman brings it repeatedly. (“Bag Music” is kinda sick too, by the way.) Singer Rihanna praised his work on her new record “Hard.”

“When I first heard the song, I was in Paris,” Rihanna said earlier this week of the track, which was written by The-Dream and produced by Tricky Stewart. “Dream and Tricky, they flew out and played me the record. They played me a few [songs], but this one stuck out to me. It had such an arrogance to it, which is so far from who I am … which is part of why I wanted to do it. It was fun. It was bragging. A lot of attitude. Young Jeezy was the perfect person for the topic of the song. Just the vibe of the song. I love, love, love his verse. He added so much more to the record.”

Source:MTV Mixtape Daily

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“Buck is still signed to G-Unit Records… I hope he can come up with a record. Iif he comes up with a song, I can get my money back. Game is still on G-Unit Records, they gotta pay me not to put a logo on it.”

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) – Baton Rouge rapper Torrence Hatch, better known as Lil Boosie, was back in court Monday after violating his probation.

District Court Judge Chip Moore revoked Hatch’s probation, sending him straight to jail.

Hatch was on house arrest with an ankle monitor. The monitor indicated that on more than one occasion, Hatch had violated the terms of his release.

Judge Moore doubled Hatch’s original sentence and ordered him to spend four years in prison.

Hatch was convicted of drug and gun charges in September.

Damn Boosie come on man what the hell were you thinking.

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Shot to the heart. Young Dro was putting the finishing touches on his album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once) when he walked into the Grand Hustle office and found out the entire LP was already on the Internet.

“When I walked in the office, couldn’t nobody look me in the eye,” Dro said. “They was looking down. You had Jim Jonsin beats, some of the best production I ever had on there. When I saw it I was like, ‘Oh my God. OMG.’ But then I said, ‘I’m gonna patch it up.’ ”

Dro shook off the shock and came to accept the fact that he would have to record more songs.

“The album got leaked, so we going back in the studio,” he explained. “We gonna get Cannon beats, we gonna get DJ Toomp beats, we gonna sew the album up and act like it ain’t never bled. No leak.”

P.O.L.O. is now slated to drop sometime in January 2010.

“If you a real player, you only get one life,” Dro said. “I’m still a player and I still got one life to live. I’m still in that Polo.”

In the meantime, Dro says he’s thinking about putting out five mixtapes — the first is R.I.P.: (I Killed That Shit) with DJ Don Cannon.

“I been waiting for years — he finally called me and said, ‘I wanna do the tape with you,’ ” Cannon said. “I was like, ‘Yes.’ We got new beats, a bunch of freestyles where he killed [other artists'] beats. The whole thing is, ‘I killed that.’ Some people are gonna get mad he killed their beat.”

“I kill everything I do,” Dro insisted. “If you see me in some clothes, I killed that. If you see me in my whip, I killed that. If you hear my flows, I killed that. I be killing stuff. Then we putting rests in peace to — everybody talking swag this, swag that — I killed that. I’m the #1 guy, I’m gonna kill it. R.I.P.”

Joints to Check For:

» “U Don’t Know Bout It.” “It was explaining where I stay or where I live you don’t know about it,” Dro said. “Before you go out telling everybody your business, ‘You don’t wanna know about this, shorty.’ If you ain’t where I’m at or where I live, I can’t tell you about it — that’s breaking the code.”

» “Mo Money Mo Problems.” “The ‘09 ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ — it’s me, Mac Boney and Tip on there,” Dro said. “We just giving it to them how we seen when we was able to get money and do our thing. We giving it to the public — we still in the streets, we still in the ‘hood, we still corporate, but there’s problems around the money we’re making sometime.”

» “Don’t Know Y’all” “The single ‘Don’t Know Y’all’ on the album, it’s cats out there on the street that act like they know what I been through or act like they was there when I got shot or my mama got shot,” Dro laughed. “I be driving and they flagging me down. When you flagging me down, partna, you don’t know me. Me and the boy Yung L.A. on there. We shot the video in the ghetto. We shot the video in the ghetto. … It was in Chapel Forest on Simpson Road. We had Mike Epps come to the ghetto and see the ghetto children. We was amongst killers and gorillas, but we gave back to the ‘hood — we let the children dance and get their rock on. It’s gonna be real big.”

Link:MTV

I been fucking with Dro, niggas just realizing the skills……

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As one of the game’s most influential artists, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has the honor of holding down not one but two separate covers of XXL’s special year-end double issue. In the December/January cover story, the G-Unit CEO breaks bread with XXL to talk about his new album Before I Self Destruct, his big year on the Web with his site thisis50.com, his role in hip-hop and much more. Also included is a 10-year anniversary tribute to the making of the record that first brought 50 to the public, “How to Rob.” Other features in the first-ever Internet Issue are XXL’s list of the 100 Best Hip-Hop Web sites, articles on Snoop Dogg and OJ Da Juiceman, as well as tribute pieces to rap legends ODB and Mac Dre to commemorate the fifth year anniversary of their passing. For the first time ever XXL has two candidates for Eye Candy of the Year, complete with a reader contest to vote for your favorite. But wait, there’s more as XXL reviews the new Gucci Mane album, The State v. Radric Davis. XXL’s December/January double issue hits newsstands on December 1.

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Not so fast. After Beanie Sigel and 50 Cent sat down for a joint interview with Philadelphia radio station Power 99 earlier this week, the streets thought Sigs signing with G-Unit was already a done deal. According to 50, they did talk about it, but still have a long way to go.

“I had a meeting with him today,” 50 said Thursday. “First we gotta start with the music — where’s the music? Then we have to get into what it would take to bring him over to G-Unit as a record company. You can’t sign a deal in a conversation — it’s a process. We’ll see what happens.”

Fif did note that he thinks Beanie is capable lyrically and looks forward to hearing what he has in his vaults. “I would listen to what he has,” Fif explained. “His skills haven’t diminished. Nine times out of 10, he’ll have something workable already on deck. When you’re dealing with artists who have been established longer than you, it’s a process. You have to figure out exactly where they are at before you commit to being a part of those projects, because they have habits and they’ve been conditioned for something different. You have to figure out exactly what that is before you dive in.”

The Broad Street Bully isn’t the only established MC Fif is thinking about extending an invitation to. “I got artists who I’m looking at,” he said. “A few of them aren’t actively available for me to do different things with them. But I’m looking to sign new artists into the actual company.”

Link:MTV

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“Making music is art,” he continues. “It doesn’t change who you are as a person. It doesn’t mean you’re entitled or you’re above the law. You still treat people as human beings. It doesn’t change the laws of the universe. Life has a balance and for every action there is a reaction. So if you put negative energy in, negative energy comes back to you. You have to live your life within the laws of the universe and I haven’t lost sight of that. “You have to be close with your foundation and the people who know you best because they’ve known you for so long that they can see the changes in you,’ he continues. “Fame is such a deadly drug that you can’t see the changes because you are so consumed by it. You need a close-knit group of friends and family to make sure you stay grounded.” Full Article: Gotham Magazine

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“Him and the licensee who licensed Roc-A-Wear went behind my back and obtained the license to the company that was licensing PRO-Keds and stopped making the State Property PRO-Keds,” Beans said on Philadelphia radio station Power 99. “It was all geared towards Roc-A-Wear.”

Dame said he did not want to address any specifics regarding Sigel, but did say he did not want any beef.

“I love Jay, I love Beans — what’s the reason for beef?” Dash responded. “That’s stupid. What’s the reason for beef? People die, people don’t feel good — I want people to laugh. What’s up, y’all?”

Dame was shocked to hear Beanie on the radio.

“I was surprised. I was hurt for him, more or less, because I know that ain’t him,” Dash said. “But I don’t want to speak on that. Whatever [Beanie's] going through where he’s got to do that … I could understand where he may look at things and feel that way. I can see that. He’s probably got a lot of people around him and nobody to really tell him what’s going on. It was a different environment for Roc-A-Fella back then. I feel bad for those cats. I love those cats. I hate that they struggle. I hate it. I hate to see anybody struggle. I don’t embrace that. I’m not one of those dudes that get happy when I hear something bad about somebody I had a bond with. I really loved those dudes. You see Ski down there, I knew Ski for 20 years. That’s my man. Sometimes people have different agendas for why they don’t wanna be my friend. But at the end of the day, I’m always there for them.”

Dame Dash just laughs off stories about how he is supposedly in dire straits financially. He gets so much of a kick out of it that he doesn’t rush to defend himself against the rumors. These days, Dame is back where he started, making music independently along with brokering art and producing television.

Dash has a complex in lower Manhattan, DD172, where he has two music studios and an art gallery, and also publishes a magazine and maintains CreativeControl.tv. Mos Def has dubbed the building the “24-7 karate school,” because of all of the artists that come through and work together. Mos, the Black Keys, Jay Electronica, Jim Jones, the RZA, Raekwon the Chef and producer Ski (Reasonable Doubt) to name a few.

Dash says everyone is welcome, just as long as no one brings negativity.

“I’m not teaching violence. No beef! None of that. I don’t have beef with nobody.”

On November 27, Dash releases the first album off of his Blak Roc label — the next LP from the Black Keys, under the name Blakroc. The album features Jim Jones, the RZA, Raekwon the Chef, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Billy Danze and Pharoahe Monch.

Link:Dame Dash: “I love Jay, I love Beans – What’s The Reason For Beef?”

Wow his attitude seems completely opposite from Beans and Dame Dash, whatever happened to that cocky dick head Dame Dash?

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[7:10-7:40] Beans was the better artist out of the actual crew, the stronger artist. That’s why when he did the year and a day, I was like “as soon as he comes home, I’m bringing that project over here.” He would of got at least $800,000. Jay was telling him he didn’t want to lose him.

Jay & Puffy had these feelings towards me at one point. They didn’t want to lose anything to me… It was like “I’m losing something, to him?”

[8:35-9:10] I think that he does a great job at manipulating the system. When he had the Def Jam building, Nas got like $2 million dollars. Jay got a $15 million dollar marketing plan. He was like “This is for you. This is for me. This is for you. 1, 2, this is for me. This is for you. 1, 2, 3, this is for me.” Until his whole marketing plan is the real one. You know that “Wave, wave, wave.” [Show What Me What You Got] That was the wrong record. If you got $15 million in marketing, you can make the wrong record feel like right record.

Do you guys even know anything about the secret society? Shit is crazy you better look it up, I’ve heard things about Jay-Z being affiliated with it but nothing solid. 50 Cent impressed me with the “Glasses, None Confrontational Vibe” thing, I didn’t expect him to pick that up that’s the type of things you learn in psychology, that boy must be reading some books because he wasnt’t this sharp coming in.

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“Crawl,” co-written by Brown and produced by Adam Messinger and Nasri Atweh for Three Piece Productions, is the second single from Chris Brown’s third album, Graffiti due in stores 12/15. The “Crawl” video was directed by Joseph Kahn and was shot in Los Angeles.

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50 Cent speaks on the leak of the album and pushing up the release date. He speaks on Jay-Z dodging beefs and say he lost to Nas. Also states he understands Beanie Sigel’s situation and that there was big money for him if he had got released, he also confirms Beanie Sigel’s story about seeing him in jail every month.

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“Tampa’s Most Connected DJ,” DJ Ekin sits down with the G-Unit Boss…50 Cent. Talk on the new album, working with Em & Dre, & well you know…the bizness!

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“Beanie Sigel had a record deal,a record label and a clothing line and never went platinum. I don’t know in the history of rap has anyone done so much with so little. If that’s not pushing a person sh!t” – Jay-Z

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Beanie Sigel speaks with Charlamagne Tha God about his recent track, “Average Cat.” He speaks on jabs from Jay-Z on, “Already Home,” how members of G-Unit got more money than anyone in State Property because 50 Cent made sure they got paid(Jay-Z only paid Young Gunz $1250 a show and they had to split it). Jay-Z came to Beanie Sigel’s court hearing and was asked to take responsibility of Beanie’s whereabouts if he was lets go and Jay-Z said no. He says at powerhouse after Beanie Sigel performed with Jadakiss cops came out to make him leave the venue. Also speaks on Damn Dash taking bread from Beanie and said he can sue him for embezzlement.

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DJ Hero in stores today.

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Gucci Mane is officially gone mainstream, his last couple of tracks have catering to the females, so we already know what demographics he’s aiming for. Funny how Gucci got super hot after T.I. went off to the big house.

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Fif said he also had his eyes on Columbian model/actress Sofia Vergara, who was at Los Premios too. “I had some ideas,” 50 said. “Actually, I was talking to Sofia. I presented with her at the actual awards, and her schedule didn’t allow for her [to participate].

Kelly was getting ready to fly back to Miami. I was lucky enough to catch her. I kinda begged my way into her doing it. I didn’t want to do the normal video situation, where you have the vixen or somebody no one knows from anywhere. I think it intensifies the whole song.” -MTV

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DJ Kay Slay on Twitter.....

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“I’m pissed off,” Santana said on Thursday morning. Coincidentally, he was in Wayne’s hometown of New Orleans filming his first movie, “Video Girl,” with Meagan Good. “They totally violated my man. I been trying to call my man all morning. I’m offended! I’m offended, for one, that it happened in New York City. That was some bullsh–. I don’t know the situation as far as what happened on the bus, but at the end of the day, Weezy shouldn’t be going to jail for nothing right now.”

Santana said he feels that Wayne was unfairly targeted by police, like many of his peers.

“Even as rappers, we out here on defense,” he added. “We ain’t out here hurting nobody. We go to shows picking up 50, 60, probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Cash money! At the end of the day, you on the bus with however many people was there, how do the officers assume that it’s Lil Wayne’s gun?

Full Article:Lil Wayne’s Guilty Plea Upsets Rick Ross, Juelz Santana & DJ Drama

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This is the exclusive first look at a new Ncredible television show for MTV about the life of the young virtuoso CORY GUNZ. His flow, his life, and the way the show is shot is very cinematic. You’ve never seen a reality television series like this. Directed by yours truly aka Nicholas Scorsese. We about to once again, in the words of my man Kanye “Run MTV Mamma”!

LOL, I can fux with….

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50 Cent insists that despite publicly expressing “disappointment” in Fabolous recently over Twitter comments, the two have no problems.

“Yeah, we’re cool,” 50 said recently on the set of his video for “Baby by Me.” “Fab particularly is an artist I’ve interacted with twice. He’s [opened] two international runs [for the G-Unit]. It wasn’t specifically to try and help him broaden his international presence, but obviously it would help for him to be there and be in front of the audience internationally and put his best foot forward first. Give a good show and people become Fabolous fans at that point.”

Via his Twitter, Fab questioned 50’s motives for having former mic rivals like the Lox and the Diplomats perform at his ThisIs50 Festival that took place earlier this month. In the wake of his comments, Fab insisted that he was not dissing Fif.

“He reached out to tell me he didn’t mean it in that derogatory way,” 50 confirmed. “People misinterpret what you type in the text. I’ve misinterpreted what people were trying to send to me, sending me messages before as well. Before we utilize devices we use to communicate with each other intimately on Twitter and other Web sites, you can forget you’re making a public statement. You can feel you’re having barbershop talk or just saying your personal take on something, and it’s a public statement and people start to resent you for it.

“He kind of felt a little backlash on it,” 50 added about Fab. “People responded negatively to it because they were like, ‘Finally [these artists are performing together]‘ and he’s going, ‘Wasn’t I a part of dividing New York City?’ I wasn’t a part of dividing New York City. New York City wasn’t accepting me initially.”

50’s Before I Self Destruct LP arrives on November 23, but the G-Unit General said he might drop another mixtape before then.

“I have a tape I didn’t put out yet,” he said. “It’s called The 50th Law. I’ve been sitting on it. I’m gonna put it out soon. I’ve been so wrapped up in the presentation for this actual album, I haven’t released it.”

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