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Kanye West is seeking $100 million in financial backing for his Yeezy clothing line.

The New York Post's Page Six reports that the entrepreneur has reached out to LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Richemont and Chris Burch, who helped launch Tory Burch’s fashion line and later started C. Wonder.

“Kanye is spending a lot of money. He thinks on a big scale and is currently paying for everything himself. He needs a backer to help him achieve the kind of fashion-world domination he is aiming for," a source told Page Six.

West had hired Relativity Media, an entertainment mini-conglomerate, to help find a backer, but the company filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2015.

As for people who doubt West will reach his lofty goals, a source told Page Six he is determined to prove them wrong.

“He has defied a lot of doubters with what he has done. He has been a huge success in fashion, particularly what he does with Adidas. He has big plans and he’s met with a lot of people in different fashion houses and those with venture capital money in Silicon Valley.”

SEASON 3 / WAVES / MADISON SQUARE GARDEN / INTERNATIONAL CINEMAShttps://t.co/6u1aPYUwQ8 pic.twitter.com/SkEeTGgoMu

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 1, 2016

YEEZY Season 3. 2/11 4PM ET. @TheGarden. Livestream for ALL on TIDAL. https://t.co/flkoN5t26q

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 10, 2016

On Thursday, February 11, West will debut his Yeezy Season 3 collection and new album titled "The Life of Pablo" at Madison Square Garden.

The event will be streamed live on TIDAL and in select cinemas around the world.

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A$AP Twelvyy's vows to fill his empty pockets with cash in 2016. Check out his official music video for "L.Y.B.B. (Resolution)" featuring fellow Mob member A$AP Rocky.

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DJ Kay Slay a.k.a. The Drama King is preparing to release his new mixtape titled "50 Shades of Slay" on February 15. Here's a song off of it featuring Ransom, Vado, Oun P and JR Writer called "Feel the Flames."

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FORBES has rolled out it's third annual list of Hip-Hop Cash Princes. The list consists of rap acts under 30 who they feel are the most likely to one day grab a spot on the Hip-Hop Cash Kings list.

Judges included Charlamagne Tha God, Hit-Boy, Lovebug Starski, Atlantic Records chief Craig Kallman and three members of the Forbes staff.

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The 10 Hip-Hop Princes of 2016

Fetty Wap, Boi-1da, Dej Loaf, G-Eazy, Joey Bada$$, Lil Dicky, Little Simz, Logic, Metro Boomin and Young Dolph.

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What's your take on the list? Are there any artists you would omit? If so, who would you put in their place?

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Kevin Gates continues to promote his debut album titled "Islah" by releasing an official music video for "Pride."

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Yung Joey reaches out to Dave East and gets an assist on his new record titled "All Day High." Produced by The Superiors. Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think by sounding off in the comment section below.

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Beyonce's performance of her new single titled "Formation" at Super Bowl 50 continues to be a hot topic. The song includes the lyrics "I like my baby hair, with baby hair and Afros. I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils."

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The singer and her dancers paid tribute to Malcolm X by forming an "X'' on the field and saluted the Black Panthers by raising their fists in the air.

While millions enjoyed the show and applauded Beyonce for celebrating her heritage during Black History Month, others were offended. Some are calling the performance racist and a slap in the face of police.

According to TIME, an “Anti-Beyonce Protest Rally” will be held outside of the NFL headquarters in New York City on February 16. Information about the event was posted on the website Eventbrite.

“Are you offended as an American that Beyonce pulled her race-baiting stunt at the Superbowl? Do you agree that it was a slap in the face to law enforcement? Do you agree that the Black Panthers was/is a hate group which should not be glorified?” the anonymously posted event page said. “Come and let’s stand together. Let’s tell the NFL we don’t want hate speech & racism at the Superbowl ever again!”

What's your take on the controversy?

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I think Twista's got him one. Check out the music video for his single "Models & Bottles" featuring Jeremih and Lil Bibby. This is off of the Chicago rapper's new EP titled "Livin Legend," available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/livin-legend/id1065702284

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Boosie Badazz teams up with his homie and frequent collaborator Webbie to drop an official music video for "Problem." Directed by Joe Yung Spike.

Check it out below.

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Da Cloth emcee Rigz teams up with Cold Summers Ent. artist, Shawn Brown, for "Warm Ups." The track was produced by Chup.

Da Cloth members also include Symph, Maverick, Times Change and ILLanoise.

Peep the visuals for "Warm Ups."

Da Cloth's mixtape "Salute the Few" is available now on Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/DA-CLOTH-DA-CLOTH-SALUTE-THE-FEW-mixtape.717166.html

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Future's split from former fiancee Ciara has been bitter and it just got worse.

In a July 2015 interview with The Breakfast Club, Future was highly critical of his baby's mother over a photo of her current boyfriend, Russell Wilson, pushing their one-year old son Future Zahir Wilburn in a stroller.

"You never do that in our community," the rapper said at the time. "You don't even bring a man around your son. You've only known this dude for a few months and you're bringing him around your kid. Who does that?"

Charlamagne Tha God suggested that Wilson shouldn't have put himself in that position.

"He probably didn't know," Future replied. "She set him up. I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts."

Last month the "Honest" hit maker took his feud with Ciara to Twitter, accusing her of making him jump through hoops to see his son.

"This bitch got control problems," he wrote. "I gotta go through lawyers to see babyfuture...the fuckery for 15k a month. I jus want babyfuture that's all. I been silent for a year & a half. I ran outta patience."

Ciara has fired back by filing a $15 million slander and libel lawsuit against her ex.

TMZ reports the suit states that the singer has done everything she can to make sure Future gets frequent visitation, claiming he has had at least 19 visitations since December 2014.

Cici wants her baby's father barred from making more malicious public statements about her. She also is asking that all derogatory tweets be deleted and for Future to refrain from talking about private family matters regarding their son.

**UPDATE** February 10

Future Hendrix is considering filing his own lawsuit in response to Ciara's. TMZ reports that he is waiting to see the documents from his former fiancee before deciding whether or not to pursue legal action of his own.

The 32-year old rapper, real name Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, claims Ciara has been doing the same thing she's accusing him of.

A source within his camp says he could have sued Ciara over her 2015 single titled "I Bet," but decided not to. The song is widely believed to be about Future's infidelity when the two were together.

"So I'm supposed to believe that it's Fellini's calling your phone? / I'm supposed to believe that they're asking you if you're home? / I wasn't born yesterday, not me / Can't get that over me, not me / I love you, but I won't be a fool for you / That is just something that I wouldn't do, babe / I mean, I'mma stay if you could tell the truth / But you can't, no matter how much time I ask," she sings.

Expect this to drag out for quite a while longer.

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Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is currently on trial in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004.

He's being accused of similar acts by no less than 50 other women, but he has at least one prominent supporter.

On Tuesday, January 9, Kanye West took to his Twitter account declare Cosby is innocent.

The tweet drew a lot of responses, most of them angry ones. Check out some of the reactions below.

.@kanyewest pic.twitter.com/IylzN3hbzj

— Rachel McGrath (@RachelMcGrath) February 9, 2016

Come on Kanye...There are better ways to trend https://t.co/dBArAHFntX

— Andrew Sidel (@AndySidel) February 10, 2016

Kanye!! You can't be for real. FIFTY WOMEN. With nothing to gain thanks to a statute of limitations ON RAPE. Oy. https://t.co/3ekYD43uMs

— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) February 9, 2016

Are we sure Kanye isn't just a character from Zoolander?

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) February 10, 2016

KANYE WEST DELUDED !!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/M1m76i6A9A

— Joshua Malina (@JoshMalina) February 9, 2016

Stop Kanye. This is not a good look. @kanyewest

— roxane gay (@rgay) February 9, 2016

Dammit Kanye why u do this!? https://t.co/2EcQEY5H0c

— sara howie (@saraandcompany) February 10, 2016

kanye really needs to stop letting amanda bynes run his twitter account

— delet'Ed (@EdwindelaRenta) February 10, 2016

Dozens of women have accused Bill Cosby of rape but let's hear what Kanye West, a man who has nothing to do with any of this, has to say.

— OhNoSheTwitnt (@OhNoSheTwitnt) February 10, 2016

Kanye West once saw himself in a music video and tried to smash the TV reportedly screaming 'I'll get you out of there mini-Kanye!'

— Adam Hess (@adamhess1) February 10, 2016

ugh making fun of people who didn't like kanye was one of my fav hobbies wtf am I supposed to do now https://t.co/e04SFhT7NF

— Mike Townsend (@townsendyesmate) February 10, 2016

Being a Kanye fan is hard

— Alex Rest (@Alexandtherest) February 10, 2016

Kanye is actually trash and will be remembered more for his idiotic behavior than his music. Bet on that.

— moe (@stylesftclouds) February 10, 2016

finally going to concede to the 'kanye is an idiot' crew

— TERRY RILEY (@helenacelle) February 10, 2016

Welp...

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Dave East hops on the instrumental to Drizzy Drake's latest song, "Summer Sixteen" and flips it into a freestyle titled "Not in My Lane." Give it a listen up top.and sound off in the comment section.

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Whew! Freddie Gibbs just dropped off some pure lava in the form of a song titled "Money, Cash, Hoes." Gangsta goes in over a sinister beat produced by The Beat Bully and co-produced by Sid "Speakerbomb" Miller.

Freddie GIbbs 'Shadow Of A Doubt,' out now.

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(Reuters) Martin Shkreli faces a new legal headache, a lawsuit claiming that his $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album contains illustrations ripped off from a New York artist, who now wants the former drug executive to pay for them.

In a complaint filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Jason Koza said he never allowed his fan art depicting Wu-Tang members to be used in packaging for the hip-hop group's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin," the sole copy of which Shkreli bought.

The one and only copy of Wu-Tang Clan's album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" includes a leather-bound lyric book, featuring stolen sketches by Jason Koza, the suit says.

Shkreli has bragged that he had no plans to listen to the album, but bought it to "keep it from the people."

The 32-year-old is also known for sparking outrage last year among patients, doctors and politicians after his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of the anti-parisitic infection drug Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent.

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Koza, 34, of Copiague, New York, said he thought his nine works would appear only on the website WuDisciples.blogspot.com.

But the Fashion Institute of Technology graduate now blames Wu-Tang leader Robert "RZA" Diggs for including them in the "Shaolin" album, and Shkreli for allowing three works depicting Inspectah Deck, Ol' Dirty Bastard and Raekwon to accompany a Jan. 29 article at Vice.com.

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"Mr. Koza was happy when his work appeared on the website," the complaint said. "Mr. Koza never granted a license for his works to be copied or displayed anywhere (else)."

Other defendants include Paddle8, which auctioned the album, and Wu Tang-affiliated producer Tarik "Cilvaringz" Azzougarh.

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Koza said Cilvaringz has acknowledged the infringement, asking in a Jan. 31 email "if you want to skype discussing the use of your drawings. Thanks bro."

Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Shkreli, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Wu-Tang did not immediately respond to a similar request. A Paddle8 spokeswoman declined to comment.

Last Thursday, Shkreli invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on drug pricing, and later tweeted that lawmakers in Congress were imbeciles. (Full Story) He also faces separate federal securities fraud charges.

Koza is seeking unspecified damages plus profits stemming from copyright infringement.

His lawyer Peter Scoolidge said in a phone interview that Shkreli "didn't need to know" the illustrations were protected to be liable. "There is no intent requirement for copyright infringement," he said.

The case is Koza v Diggs et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 16-00956.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Marguerita Choy and Alan Crosby)

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Ghostface Killah has responded to Martin Shkreli's disses and threat to slap him in the face while a guest on The Breakfast Club, and for raising the price of Daraprim, an anti-parasitic drug used by AIDS patients and pregnant women from $13.50 a pill to $750 per pill overnight when he was the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals.

In a new video the legendary emcee goes in on Shkreli, the man who bought Wu Tang Clan's "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" album for $2 million.

"I don't even know how it came to this. It's Ghost vs. Peter Pan in 2016," Ghost says in the clip. "Walking around with fake goons like he's tough and he ain't got a real bone in his body. I'm just letting everybody know he's a fraud. Then on top of that you gon' come at me when you bought a Wu Tang album for $2 million, acting like we washed up rappers? I'm a washed up rapper, but you done bought a washed up rapper album for $2 million. Who washed up now? I don't care how much money you got 'cause money don't make you a man, bruh. Don't come at me with that little punk ass shit.

This the dude that raised the pill from $13 a pill to like $750," Ghost continued. He raised it by 5,000 percent. People can't pay that much. How they gon' live, man? You're a real killer, man. But you a soft killer. Something's wrong with you. You don't do that to the people."

This feud started in January when TMZ asked Ghost what he thought of the pharmaceutical executive buying Wu Tang's one of a kind album. The rapper replied that Shkreli was a "shithead" for raising the price of Daraprim.

Shkreli responded by saying Ghostface was past his prime as a rapper.

Ghost mad that Shaolin outsold his last 5 albums… dude’s a non-profit rapper. Calls himself ironman, but sounds rusty AF @GhostfaceKillah

— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) January 22, 2016

That was followed by another TMZ interview with Tony Starks.

"This the man I'm beefing with? The Michael Jackson nose kid?" Ghost asked while showing a photo of Shkreli on his phone. "Come on bruh, you don't even wanna do it. I'll break your heart in four days."

Shkreli's response to that was a video in which he demanded a written apology from the Wu Tang Clan rapper or he would erase his vocals from "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin."

As mentioned in my video, I expect a written apology, @GhostfaceKillah. At least 500 words, no grammatical errors and Shaolin stays intact.

— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) January 28, 2016

Shkreli later appeared on The Breakfast Club and said he would smack Ghost in the face if he saw him.

There you have it.

**UPDATE**

Martin Shkreli promptly took to Twitter to offer a response to Ghostface Killah's video that was released today

"Never seen someone real cry to his momma to handle his biz. Soft-serve ice cream rappers should shut they mouth before they get told again," he wrote.

The format of your apology was unacceptable, @GhostfaceKillah. The consequences will never be the same. (Also, stop making medical claims.)

— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 9, 2016

Never seen someone real cry to his momma to handle his biz. Soft-serve ice cream rappers should shut they mouth before they get told again.

— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 9, 2016

Ghost was a guest today on the Fox Business Network show "Mornings with Maria." Host Maria Bartiromo asked him why Shkreli's purchase of "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" was a problem for him.

"It wasn't really a problem for me. The problem I had with him when I was being interviewed was that he has no respect for life," he responded. "He raised the price [of Daraprim] from $13.50 to $750 a pill for these AIDS victims. How could you do something like that? I know people that passed away from AIDS. And I know how hard it is when they don't have no health care. You got people that need this medicine every day. How are you gonna pay $750? They can't make it, so basically you're just killing them. You're killing these babies and it's a shame."

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Houston heavy spitter Killa Kyleon recruits Styles P, Freddie Gibbs and Raheem Devaughn for "The Grind." This is off of Killa's forthcoming album titled "Blessed to Raise Hell," set to be released on February 12. You can pre-order it now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blessed-to-raise-hell/id1077970578

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WDNG Crshers member and alleged Drake ghostwriter, Quentin Miller, drops off a new song titled "Jaw Droppin." The track was produced by Reno. Give it a listen up top.

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A$AP Mob member A$AP Ferg hops on the instrumental to Rihanna's new "Work" single featuring none other that Drizzy Drake. Give Ferg's remix a listen up top.

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B.o.B. releases a new music video for "Blank Mafia." This is off of his EP titled "Water." You can download it now for free from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/pop-mixtape-download.php?id=mda3f8ce

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