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Rapper Meek Mill will be released from a Philadelphia jail today after serving five months for parole violations, according to NBC Philadelphia.

The Dream Chasers Records boss was near the end of his five year probation sentence for drug and gun cases when he was cited for multiple violations, including missed meetings with his parole officer and posting a photo with a gun on social media.

In July, Judge Genese Brinkley sentenced Meek, real name, Robert Williams, to 3-to-6 months in jail, restarted the clock on his 5-year probation from the beginning and ordered him to take etiquette classes.

The timing of his jail sentence delayed the release of Meek's sophomore album, Dreams Worth More Than Money. It will probably now arrive in early 2015.

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Brick Star Boyz rapper Young Lito delivers an official music video for his new song entitled "I'm Grinding." The is off of BSB's forthcoming mixtape, BSB Volume 6.

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Hollywood Jack Thriller had the pleasure of interviewing Timbaland's new artist V Bozeman and her manager Monica Payne.

V Bozeman talks about her start in the music business, being from South Central Los Angeles, her forthcoming album, Music Is My Boyfriend, role in Empire television show, sings and more.

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Xzibit is no longer a single man. The 40-year old rapper tied the knot with Krista Joiner on Sunday, November 30. He was understandably overjoyed and shared his thoughts on Instagram.

Yesterday was our wedding day. It was nothing short of amazing. We were surrounded by friends and family and had an outstanding ceremony. It was not tainted by negative energy and I made sure it stayed that way. There was a time I thought I would NEVER get married. I thought that being single was the only way for me, not knowing that I was giving up more of myself to people who didn't care about me or love me unconditionally. I had to do a LOT of growing up and over time came the maturity I needed to be able to make a commitment stronger than anything that I have done in my life outside of being a father to my two beautiful sons. Yesterday, I made my family complete. I had to realize that I am not perfect and I don't always do the right thing, but when I was standing there, watching it all unfold, the only thing I could think about was, I am worthy of being a husband and she deserves the world and the security that comes from being a wife. I have no regrets about my past, the good and the bad. But now,this is my future. My sons needed to see that. They now have an example to reference in life when it comes to being a man and how to treat a real woman when you find her, or in my case where she puts up with your bullshit until you come around..lol. Thank you to the groomsmen and bridesmaids who made the day go so well, thank you to the wedding planner who made our day feel and look like a movie,(details details)@bignutellapb for keeping the idiots out and making sure we had no problems.@curtchambers Put together a band that rocked like you wouldn't believe, couldn't have asked for a better moment. So now what? Well, we go forward, take the good with the bad and make room for blessings. Before I got married, some of my homies asked me if I was nervous, I said "you're only nervous when you're not sure." Keep it pushing ladies and gents, cause I'm going forward.@mrskristajoiner

The Wesr Coast spitter, real name Alvin Joiner, almost had his night ruined when he was arrested for DUI right after the reception.

TMZ reports that the couple turned thing up considerably while celebrating their big night at the St. Regis Monarch Beach. More than a few drinks were consumed and while driving home, police in Laguna pulled X over a cited him for driving under the influence. He was arrested and taken to a nearby station to be booked.

He's out now and is no doubt enjoying time with his wife.

Congrats X, we wish you and Krista the best. Not even the cops can keep a good man down!

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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Benzino for an exclusive interview!

Benzino speaks on fighting on Love and Hip Hop, past beef with Eminem & much more!

Follow @iambenzino @jackthriller @thisis50

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Former Conglomerate Records Artist Reek Da Villan Releases Official Video For New Single, "No Problems" Featuring Lil Durk & Mykell

Hip-Hop artist Reek Da Villan has been working on new music and a new label situation since leaving Conglomerate Records back in July of this year. Now signed to oneDotone Records, a New York based independent label, Long Island's "Golden Boy" is ready to take the music world by storm.

Reek recently announced that he is currently working on his new EP, "Reek What You Sow" which is set to be released the first quarter of 2015.

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Here's the latest heat from Southside Jamaica, Queensbridge, New York rapper and Sisterhood of Hip Hop star Nyemiah Supreme. "Saint Laurent" was produced by Big Fruit. Peep it up top.

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Jas Prince, son of Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Prince, is credited with discovering Drake. Jas signed the rapper to his company Young Empire Music Group and to Aspire Music Group. In 2007 Cash Money Records wanted to sign Drizzy and Jas agreed to a deal that would give him 22% of of the rapper's future profits and advances.

Jas Prince and Drake

According to court documents, Jas later approached Lil Wayne's manager Cortez Bryant with a new deal demanding more money.

Jas ended up filing a lawsuit seeking $4 million dollars from Birdman and Cash Money, claiming he was cheated out of royalties.

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Bryant now says he only signed the new deal because he thought he might be killed if he didn't.

The docs claim that Prince chased them around the table with a gun and threatened to kill them if they didn’t sign the new agreement. He goes on to say Cortez didn’t call the police because he feared for his life and he just signed the document, according to The Jasmine Brand.

Read the court documents here.

Drake is not involved in the lawsuit.

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Producer Mike Free is taking DJ Mustard to court to get money and credit for hits he claims he composed, but Mustard took credit for.

Free, real name Mikely Adam, claims he's the person who wrote, composed and recorded the hit records "Rack City" (Tyga), "I'm Different" (2 Chainz), "I Don't Fuck with You" (Big Sean), "Don't Tell Em," (Jeremih), "Party Ain't a Party" (Jamie Foxx) and many more.

According to TMZ, Free says Mustard took full production credit for some of the songs and didn't pay him what he's due on others.

In his lawsuit Free is asking for his production credits and money owed to him.

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Chicago rapper Chief Keef is not slowing down on the new music. The Glo Gang boss gets production from HurtboyAG and Malikondabeat for his song, "Randy Moss."

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Shy Glizzy links up with DJ Drama to release his latest mixtape entitled Law 3: Now Or Never. Features include Migos, Young Dolph, Bobby Shmurda and more.

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Here's Gwen Stefani's new music video for her single entitled "Spark the Fire." The song is produced by Pharrell Williams. It's available now on https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/spark-the-fire/id947109786?i=947109790.

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Producer Key Wayne is in the lab completing his forthcoming project entitled From Now On. Take a listen to his infectious single, "Same Nigga," featuring TY Dolla $ign.

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On Monday, December 1, Fabolous announced he would be releasing his next album entitled The Young OG Project on December 25. The lead single off of it is called "Lituation."

The Brooklyn, New York rapper talked to MTV about the forthcoming release and why he chose "Lituation" as the first offering to the fans.

“This is a word that I’ve been hearing floating around and I thought, why not make a song of it?’ It’s really about a situation that can get lit," Fab said. “You can come into a situation and it can be [calm] and you can turn it up and get it a little lit. It’s real street, like New York street... kinda aggressive. I wanted to start with that just to get the feel, and get you there first, and then the rest of the album will take you different places.”

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Hollywood Jack Thriller recently sat down with Slink Johnson, the star of the hilarious television show "Black Jesus."

They discuss the show, Slink's first love being hip hop, him being 6'7" with lethal elbows on the basketball court, being the "master of the West African monkey spank technique," being from Arkansas, rapping with Too $hort in 1989, spits a rhymes and much more.

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Slaughterhouse emcee Crooked I recently sat down with Steve Lobel of Blurred Culture to chop it up in part one of their interview.

He talks about what hip hop means to him, dislike for the term "haters," sucker mc's, the origin of his name and more.

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Charles Barkley is making controversial statements once again. The outspoken former NBA player was a guest on Philadelphia radio station 97.5 The Fanatic recently when the topic of the Ferguson grand jury deciding not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown came up.

Barkley thought the grand jury made the right call.

"The true story came out from the grand jury testimony," Barkely told Mike Missanelli, adding that "three or four witnesses, who were black, said exactly what the cop [Wilson] said."

The looting and riots were a sore point for Barkley. He doesn't even consider the troublemakers to be African Americans.

"Those aren't black people, those are scumbags," he said. "There is no excuse for people to be out there burning down people's businesses, burning down police cars. We have to be really careful with the cops man, because if it wasn’t for the cops we would be living in the Wild, Wild West in our neighborhoods,” Barkley continued. “We can’t pick out certain incidents that don’t go our way and act like the cops are all bad. Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn’t for the cops?” 

What's your take on Barkley's comments?

Eric Bolling To Bob Beckel: Are You Questioning Charles Barkley's Blackness?

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Check out Magic Juan's new mixtape entitled The Shrine

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Neef Buck of the Young Gunz and State Property drops off a new single entitled "Why Not?" This is off of the Philadelphia rapper's forthcoming mixtape, Forever Do Me 7. Check it out up top.

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Lupe Fiasco's long awaited album, Tetsuo & Youth, will finally arrive on January 20, 2015. The Chicago rapper locked down features from Guy Sebastian, Trae Tha Truth, Fam Lay, Glasses Malone, Ab-Soul, Nikki Jean and more

Peep the cover art up top and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. ‘Summer’
2. ‘Mural’
3. ‘Blur My Hands’ (Feat. Guy Sebastian)
4. ‘Dots & Lines’
5. ‘Fall’
6. ‘Prisoner 1 & 2′ (Feat. Ayesha Jaco)
7. ‘Body Of Work’ (Feat. Troi & Terrance Martin)
8. ‘Little Death’ (Feat. Nikki Jean)
9. ‘No Scratches’ (Feat. Nikki Jean)
10. ‘Winter’
11. ‘Chopper’ (Feat. Billy Blue, Buk Of Psychodrama, Trouble, Trae Tha Truth, Fam Lay & Glasses Malone)
12. ‘Deliver’
13. ‘Madonna (And Other Mothers In The Hood)’ [Feat. Nikki Jean] 14. ‘Adoration Of The Magi’ (Feat. Crystal Torres)
15. ‘They.Resurrect.Over.New’ (Feat. Ab-Soul & Troi)
16. ‘Spring’

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