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Tinashe release an official music video for "Cold Sweat." This is off of her album titled Aquarius. You can purchase it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/aquarius/id911472229.

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Super producer Remo The Hitmaker has teamed up with PaperChaserDotCom for a new mixtape titled "The Purest Product, Vol 1."

The entire project was produced by Remo.

Features include Young Buck, Twanee, Lot A Nerv, Nyce Da Future, 2Eleven, Ca$his, Big T, Gilli Conway, PopOff, Express, Kay1ner, Lil Eto, Kitami Safiya, C-Black, Pretty Boi Green RIZSELFMADE, ShimmyChoo and C.Carter.

The tape will world premiere on www.Thisis50.com on Wednesday, July 1st.

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XXL presents Washington D.C.'s own Shy Glizzy. After the success of his mixtapes 'Law 3' and 'Young Jefe,' the 22-year-old seems to be off to an impeccable start. The Glizzy Gang leader is currently prepping an EP, to be released through 300 Distribution this summer. Check out his #XXLFreshmen freestyle in the video above. The 10 MCs in the 2015 XXL Freshman Class are DeJ Loaf, Fetty Wap, GoldLink, K Camp, OG Maco, Raury, Shy Glizzy, Tink, Vince Staples and the winner of the fan-voted 10th Spot, Kidd Kidd. Check out the XXL Freshmen perform live in New York City at the Best Buy Theater on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 and in Los Angeles at Club Nokia on Monday, July 13, 2015.

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Lil Reese drops off his new mixtape, Supa Savage 2. Features include Lil Durk, Young Thug, Chief Keef, Jim Jones and Young Scooter.

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New music video for "Money Trees Deuce" from Top Dawg Entertainment recording artist Jay Rock.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — For years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to revisit the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds, saying the law that took it off the dome was a bipartisan compromise, and renewing the debate would unnecessarily expose divisive wounds.

But opinions changed within five days of the massacre of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, as a growing tide of Republicans joined the call to remove the battle flag from a Confederate monument in front of the Statehouse and put it in a museum.

On Monday, Gov. Nikki Haley did what a previous Republican governor found to be political suicide. Herself a Republican, she not only called for the flag's removal but pledged to call legislators back to Columbia if they don't deal with it in a special session in the next few weeks. Just hours before they return to work Tuesday, a rally to bring the flag down will be held outside the Statehouse.

Haley's announcement came days after authorities charged Dylann Storm Roof, 21, with murder. The white man appeared in photos holding Confederate flags and burning or desecrating U.S. flags, and purportedly wrote of fomenting racial violence.

Haley has for years deflected questions about the flag. But she said Monday she was moved by the outpouring of love and forgiveness that followed the "true hate" of the crime. She noted her entire family attended Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal on Sunday, when the church reopened its doors.

"My children saw what true faith looks like. My children saw that true hate can never, never triumph over true love. My children saw the heart and soul of South Carolina start to mend," she said.

She stressed that, for many South Carolinians, the flag still represents noble traditions of heritage and duty, but for many others, it is a "deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past."

"The hate-filled murderer who massacred our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick and twisted view of the flag. In no way does he reflect the people in our state who respect, and in many ways, revere it," she said.

The governor's declarations sparked action in other arenas as well Monday: Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn called for the Confederate emblem to be removed from the state flag, becoming the first top-tier Republican to do so.

In Tennessee, both Democrats and Republicans called for the removal of a bust of Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from an alcove outside the Senate's chambers.

And Wal-Mart announced Monday that it is removing any items from its store shelves and website that feature the Confederate flag.

Removing the flag in South Carolina won't be easy, despite the shifting sentiment.

Making any changes to the banner requires a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers under the terms of the 2000 deal that moved a square version of the flag to a monument to Confederate soldiers out front.

Legislators return to Columbia on Tuesday for what was supposed to be the end of a special session to approve a state budget. Just adding the flag to the agenda will take two-thirds approval by both chambers.

While those standing behind Haley included state and federal Republican officeholders, the top GOP leaders of the Legislature were absent.

But state GOP Chairman Matt Moore said the Republican legislative leaders he's talked with are committed to the flag coming down.

"I think both parties are united that it should be done. The legislative process will obviously be a challenge given the rules of both chambers, but with enough political will anything can be done," he said. "There is a silent majority of South Carolinians who strongly believe we can have a better future without the flag being on Statehouse grounds."

The biggest questions remaining may be how and when legislators take up the issue.

They could take up a resolution Tuesday allowing them to add the issue to their special session. But they are unlikely to begin debating a bill to take the flag down until July — after the funerals — when they return to decide whether to override Haley's budget vetoes.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Larry Martin said he believes it's both impractical and disrespectful to publicly debate the topic this week.

"I prefer us to not do that out of respect for the services that will be held," said Martin, R-Pickens.

He said there's a feeling among legislators to reciprocate the "gracious outpouring of folks from Charleston."

The last governor who called for the flag's removal, Republican David Beasley, was hounded out of office in 1998 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The group's influence also doomed his front-running Senate campaign for the seat won by Republican Jim DeMint.

"Do not associate the cowardly actions of a racist to our Confederate Banner," the group's South Carolina commander, Leland Summers, said in a statement. "There is absolutely no link between The Charleston Massacre and The Confederate Memorial Banner. Don't try to create one."

As recently as November 2014, a poll of 852 people by Winthrop University found 42 percent of South Carolina residents strongly believed the flag should stay, while only 26 percent strongly believed it should be removed.

But South Carolina's population is slowly becoming more diverse, and more exposed to people from outside the state. The pollster, Scott Huffman, predicts that his August 2015 survey will show that people who didn't have strong feelings before "will have flipped and now prefer it to come down."

Only a few months have passed since Haley, an Indian-American, described an opponent's rally to bring down the flag as a campaign stunt. She claimed last year that businesses weren't bothered despite continuing boycott demands by black groups.

"We really fixed all that," she said, with her election as the state's first female and first minority governor, and the election of Scott as the South's first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.

The governor's announcement came as civil rights groups planned days of marches and protests against the Confederate flag that Roof embraced.

"The flag got appropriated by hate groups. We can't put it in a public place where it can give any oxygen to hate-filled people," said Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., a Democrat.

The Confederate battle flag was placed atop the Statehouse dome in the 1960s as an official protest of the civil rights movement. After mass protests, it was moved to the grounds in 2000, as part of a compromise between a group of black lawmakers and the Republicans who have controlled South Carolina since 2001.

That deal kept it flying high since the shooting, even as state and U.S. flags were lowered to honor the victims. It also means that when thousands of mourners honor Emanuel's slain senior pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, they will likely see the Confederate flag before or after filing past his coffin in the Statehouse.

The White House said President Barack Obama respects the state of South Carolina's authority to decide the issue, but believes the flag belongs in a museum. Obama knew Pinckney personally, and plans to deliver his eulogy in Charleston on Friday.

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Adcox reported from Columbia. Steve Peoples contributed from Washington, D.C.

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Diddy is cooling his heels in a UCLA campus jail after letting his temper get the best of him while watching his son, Justin Combs, football practice.

TMZ reports that Diddy, real name Sean Combs, got angry when he saw a coach yelling at Justin during a strength and conditioning drill.

After practice Puffy confronted Strength and Conditioning Coach Sal Alosi while the coach was on a phone call. Alosi told the Bad Boy Records CEO to hold on. Instead of waiting for Alosi to finish his call Diddy picked up a kettlebell and swung it at the coach.

Luckily for all parties involved, the business mogul missed because a witness claims that if he had connected, Alosi would be dead.

The entire incident was caught on tape, according to TMZ's report.

Head Coach Jim Mora called this an "unfortunate incident for all parties involved" -- and said they would let the legal process run its course.

**UPDATE** June 23

Diddy is out of jail after posting bail of $50,000 on Monday night, June 22. However, he and his lawyers now have a lot of work to do 

The Los Angeles Times reports that authorities hit the business mogul with multiple charges including three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats and one count of battery.

**UPDATE** June 24

Diddy may have caught a huge break in the case.

TMZ reports that the UCLA coaching staff held a meeting and decided they don't want to press charges and want police to drop the case.

There is a chance the assistants who were allegedly threatened by Puffy could file charges, but that doesn't appear likely.

Local authorities told TMZ that they will still forward the case to L.A. County D.A. for felony review next week. There is video of the incident and charges could still be filed.

We should find out soon if Diddy will face any punishment.

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Sean Combs a.k.a. Puff Daddy a.k.a. Diddy was arrested on the campus of UCLA is Los Angeles, Monday, June 22.

The Bad Boy Records CEO attacked the school's football Strength and Conditioning coach Sal Alosi with a kettlebell after his son Justin Combs was yelled at.

Diddy was arrested and charged with felony assault.

G-Unit Records mogul 50 Cent couldn't help taking a couple of jabs at Diddy's predicament in an ongoing contest between Ciroc and 50's Effen Vodka.

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38-year old super producer/rapper Kanye West has achieved just about everything an artist could hope for since releasing his debut album, The College Dropout, in 2004.

With 21-Grammy Awards under his belt and over 21 million albums sold worldwide, the G.O.O.D. Music CEO is still striving for more. His fledgling career as a designer is at the top of the list.

The only time Yeezus sometimes runs into trouble is when he lets his mouth dig him into a hole.

He's still trying to live down the embarrassment of interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The rapper almost let history repeat itself at the 2015 Grammy Awards when he temporarily invaded Beck's space at the podium.

In both cases West was defending Beyonce. He felt Jay Z's wife deserved the Best Female Video trophy over Swift and Album of the Year over Beck.

West later admitted he hadn't even heard Beck's album prior to the Grammys.

In a new interview with NME, the rapper clarified his position on Beck.

"I'm fine to apologize for inaccuracies," Kanye said. "You know, I send flowers for inaccuracies. I talked to Beck's wife, and I think I had a point about Beyoncé's album, but I think I was inaccurate with the concept of a gentleman who plays 14 instruments not respecting artistry."

In the same interview the "Jesus Walks" hit maker also defended himself.

"Isn't it amazing that people are so constantly shocked by the commonly agreed-in truth? How much bullshit are we in if, every single time I give not just my opinion, but a vast 80%, 90% opinion, I get into that much trouble? When the truth is a mass opinion. That's not about accuracy, it's the definition of truth," he continued. "In this fight, in this struggle for beauty, in this struggle for awesomeness, in this struggle for fair play, in a manipulative field, there might be a couple of inaccuracies on my part. But far fewer than the inaccuracies of the current systems."

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Former Major League baseball player Darryl Hamilton has been killed in an apparent murder/suicide inside a home near Houston

The Houston Chronicle reports that Hamilton, 50, was found dead at 4:45 p.m. by police responding to a 911 call in Pearland. He had been shot multiple times.

Monica Jordan, 44, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The couple's 13-month old son was found unharmed. He has been released to Child Protective Services. Jordan also had two children from a previous marriage.

"It's terrible, terrible. Now there are three kids without a mother," neighbor Memman Sam told Fox 26 News. "I don't know how a human being can do this kind of thing to each other."

Hamilton played 13 seasons in the big leagues for several teams including the San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers.

He was most recently an analyst with the MLB Network.

Many in the baseball community are mourning his loss.

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Now in its 12th episode, The Urban Daily's #NoFilter cast is back for another hilarious ride through the world of pop culture. First up to bat, we’re looking at the split between Big Sean and Ariana Grande. The couple put out a press release regarding their break-up, which then followed with several reasons, one being a particular lyric where Sean referenced his girl’s “billion dollar p*ssy.” You can imagine the jokes!

Cast: Skoob, Danielle Young, Charlamagne Tha God, Kaz, LowKey, Deanii Scott, Rip Michaels, Jack Thriller, Rae Holliday.

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There's no stopping Future Hendrix as he continues to put his stamp on 2015. His latest release is etitled "News or Somthn." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.

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Check out Janet Jackson's new song titled "No Sleep."

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(Reuters) U.S. President Barack Obama, in a podcast posted online on Monday, used the N word to emphasize his point that the United States has made progress in eliminating racism but there was still more work to do.

Obama discussed race and gun control as part of the hour-long podcast interview, in the aftermath of the shooting deaths a week ago of nine black people at a church in South Carolina, allegedly by a 21-year-old white man with racist sentiments.

"I always tell young people in particular: 'Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s,'" Obama told Mark Maron, host of the "WTF" podcast.

He said the legacies of slavery and discrimination were still "part of our DNA that's passed on."

"We're not cured of it ... and it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'nigger' in public. That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination."

"Societies don't just overnight completely erase everything that happened two to 300 years prior."

Obama said one of the darkest days of his presidency was another shooting incident: The December 14, 2012, slayings of 26 people at a school in Connecticut by a 20-year-old man.

"I tell you, right after Sandy Hook, Newtown, when 20 6-year-olds were gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah, that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted," he said. "I was pretty disgusted."

As part of the interview, taped on Friday just ahead of Father's Day, Obama also discussed fatherhood and the frustrations of his job.

"Some of the mythology about me being very professorial, removed, that stuff ... I think it has to do with me not schmoozing enough in Washington because I've got two kids," he said. "And it's true that I don't do the cocktail circuit."

(Writing by Bill Trott; Editing by Susan Heavey and Bernadette Baum)

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Lil Bibby recently chopped it up with Hip Hop's Revival.

Lil Bibby is easily one of the most popular artists coming out of Chicago right now. He has been working hard trying to make his mark on the game. We recently linked with him for an exclusive interview and he told us “he wanted to be remembered like Pac & Jay Z”. 

Bibby is currently working on his new mixtape, “Free Crack 3” and it is scheduled to be released in July. He says Free Crack 3 will be the last of his “Free Crack" mixtape series. He also told us that this project has a “classic feel to it” and it has some big production.

Bibby also talked about Spike Lee’s new film Chiraq. He hopes that the movie shows what Chicago is really like. 

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Crazy beat compilation from producers Fonkstarr & 45. Appearances by Sean Price and Illa Ghee, and also some Wu-inspired fly shit. Don't sleep.

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Adrien Broner is at a crossroads in his career. Once considered to be the heir apparent to fill Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s shoes as boxing's biggest attraction, the Cincinnati native has lost two of his last five fights, including Saturday's bout against Shawn Porter.

Adrien Broner dancing on his way to the right to fight Shawn Porter at the MGM Grand In Las Vegas

Despite his past missteps, "About Billions" could resurrect his career, but he's going to have to convince the fans who buy tickets that he's worth watching again. To do that he might have to drop down to the 140-pound light welterweight division and beat a series of quality opponent.

He's currently campaigning in the 147-pound welterweight division but both Marcos Maidana and Porter (he fought Porter at a 144 pound catch weight) proved he's not physically strong enough to fight in that weight class.

Marcos Maidana watches after knocking Adrien Broner to the canvas in their December, 2013 fight.

One interested observer is Floyd Mayweather Sr. Broner held his training camp for the Porter fight at the Mayweather Boxing Club.

Floyd Sr. has watched him up close and believes his out of the ring activities are affecting him negatively. Read what he told Boxing Scene about Broner.

"I'll be honest with you, I voted for Broner. I was thinking Broner was going to win. You cant keep making excuses for people. You can't keep making excuses. if he knows that there is something that he didn't do right, he knows right from wrong. If he did it wrong and got his ass whopped, that's what is supposed to happen," Mayweather Sr. told BoxingScene.com.

"He's not no top ranked fighter, in the rankings. He held all night. Broner looked like nothing. All that grabbing and holding. With all that stuff he does...the women...the drinking...all that stuff. He's not going to do nothing. He looked like a bum. First, he needs to learn how to fight. If he wants to learn how to fight, he needs to come see me - or else forget it, done. My whole saying is, it's my way or the highway and no other way.

"All the things Broner was saying, none of it was true. Don't get me wrong, I see where he's got ability, but with all the sh*t with these girls and drinking, he's never going to get nowhere."

At this point Broner probably regrets turning down that 5-year, $40 million offer from Roc Nation Sports.

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Things have gotten so bad at Young Money Records, they are in danger of losing two of their biggest stars, according to a new lawsuit filed by Lil Wayne.

TMZ reports that Wayne is accusing Birdman of failing to pay some artist's profits and stiffing so many other people that Drake and Nicki Minaj are likely to leave the label.

Wayne signed both artists to his label, which is an imprint of Birdman's Cash Money Records and distributed by Universal Music Group.

The new lawsuit accuses Birdman of gross mismanagement. This is all part of a legal war between Weezy and the man he once considered a father figure.

In January the "Lollipop" hit maker filed a $51 million suit against Cash Money and Birdman, seeking to have his contract voided.

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The 3rd installment of The Audible Doctor's "Seasons" series. Entirely produced by The Audible Doctor the EP features Hus Kingpin, Tragedy Khadafi, Masta Ace, Wordsworth, Has-Lo & more. Purchase Here: store.audibledoctor.com/album/the-spring-tape.

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