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Super talented R&B singer Chrisette Michele releases her new Audrey Hepburn: An Audiovisual Presentation project. Chrisette secured features from Rob Glasper, 2 Chainz, Fogo, Lem Payne, Wale, Dunson, Bilal, Kenneth Whalum and more.

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Big Boi was the musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon recently. The Atlanta rapper performed "Mama Told Me," the lead single off of his sophomore album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors. Little Dragon was on hand to lend an assist.

Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors goes on sale December 11th. You can pre-order it HERE

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Black Hippy member Jay Rock becomes the latest artist to step into the BET Backroom booth for a freestyle session. The Top Dawg Entertainment spitter reps California well.

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Katt Williams had a change of heart and decided he was wasn't going to retire after all. Several days ago the comedian announced he was hanging up the mic, but on Thursday his management issued a statement to TMZ saying he was frustrated when he made that comment to a Seattle TV station.

"Katt is definitely NOT retiring. He will be moving forward with the tour ... Friday is Texas, Saturday New Orleans, and on to Alabama. The reason why he made remarks was due to him feeling totally disrespected by all the things that happen to him in the city of Seattle. He had a moment where he felt very unappreciated. He now just wants to move forward from those unfortunate events and give his fans  outstanding shows from this point forward."

Despite his renewed commitment to stand-up, Katt was a no-show for his appearance in Houston last night. Toyota Center officials issued a statement late Friday stating the event was canceled "due to circumstances beyond their control."

Instead of telling jokes in Texas, the troubled 39-year old comic was busy getting arrested in Dunnigan, California. Katt was popped at a gas station Friday after a traffic stop. An arrest warrant had been issued for him out of Sacramento County Thursday for a reckless driving incident that happened in November in which he led Sacramento police on a wild chase while riding a three-wheeled motorcycle.

According to KCRA, Katt will be back in a Sacramento court in January after assault charges were filed against him for slapping a Target employee in the face on the same day he fled from police.

Snoop Dogg told TMZ that he hopes his friend gets some help.

"Katt needs some help. Somebody really needs to sit him down and get him some help," Snoop said. "I'm his friend, I can't clown or laugh at him. I really wanna see him get some help before he goes too far."

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50 Cent's Street King Immortal album will arrive in stores on February 26 via Shady/Aftermath/Interscope.

The disc is 50's final album obligation under his current contract with Interscope. In a new interview with Billboard, he explains the album's delay and why he wouldn't mind remaining at the company after it's released.

"All the success I've had has been with Interscope, so of course I'd stay where I'm comfortable," he says. "It took a little longer than we needed with business affairs at Interscope to get everything done. [The offices now have] new people I have to get acquainted with," 50 added, referring to John Janick being named president/COO of Interscope Geffen in October.

The business mogul also talks about how Occupy Wall Street influenced him while establishing Street King energy shots and SMS Audio. Every energy shot sold provides a meal for a hungry child abroad through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). For each domestic purchase of a headphone at smsaudio.com, SMS donates 250 meals to those in need here in America through a partnership with Feeding America.

"[When] I was developing the market for [Street King], [there] was a lot of protesting going on -- Occupy Wall Street, L.A. and Chicago, all those different places -- so it was really visible how people felt major corporations didn't actually care about them," he says. "It felt like the right thing to do."

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Machine Gun Kelly is no stranger to controversy and he's launched a new video game that is sure to get people talking.

"Nun Puncher" allows fans act as a cartoon version of MGK and "use their iron fists to fight off evil, zombie like nuns who attempt to kill the Cleveland rapper." The more nuns you punch, the more powerful you become.

Players are encouraged to tweet their high scores to the Bad Boy rapper with the hashtag #NunPuncher to get a retweet from the "Wild Boy."

To preview the game Click HERE.

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Rick Ross has cancelled the remaining dates on his Maybach Music Group tour. The trek was supposed to run through December 16th.

As we previously reported, Ross cancelled shows that were scheduled in Greensboro and Charlotte, North Carolina amid reports that he had received death threats from the GD's (Gangster Disciples). Today reps for the rapper told AllHipHop that due to the “apparent lack of organization and communication on the part of the tour promoter,” the remaining dates of the Maybach Music Tour have officially been canceled.

Ross issued the following statement:

“I want to apologize to all of my fans who I missed performing for due to the cancellations and want to let them know that I will get back to their cities. I enjoyed my experience with my little bros Wale and Meek Mill and I’m ready to get back in the studio to make good music.”

The timing of the cancellations would lead some to believe that the GD's might have Ross hesitant to be on the road at the present time. The GD's have released several videos from factions in Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Colorado and Georgia warning promoters not to book Ross without checking with them first. The group is demanding Ross pay for disrespecting them by using their imprisoned leader Larry Hoover's name in the song "B.M.F. (Blowing Money Fast)."

They reportedly gave him a pass initially, but he gave them false contact information and backed out of an agreement to speak at some of their functions at schools and appear at events to help them further their "growth and development" movement.

Ross further angered the GD's by putting his face on their six point star on the cover of his Black Bar Mitzvah mixtape.

We'll keep you updated as this story continues to unfold.

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Pusha T is getting ready to deliver his first solo album titled My Name Is My Name in 2013. But first the G.O.O.D. Music rapper will break fans off with the Wrath of Caine mixtape.

Check out the black and white trailer for Wrath of Caine below.

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Big Boi will release his second solo album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors on December 11th. The Outkast spitter has recruited some top notch talent for features.

T.I., Ludacris, Kelly Rowland, Kid Cudi, Killer Mike, A$AP Rocky, B.o.B, Little Dragon and more have added their talents to the project.

Check out the booklet and production credits courtesy of HHNM. You can pre-order the album HERE.

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1017 Brick Squad boss Gucci Mane and his artist Young Scooter drop off official visuals to their song "Free Bricks." The duo are teaming up for their Free Bricks 2 project, dropping soon.

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Check out 2 Chainz's new music video for "Extremely Blessed" featuring The-Dream. The Sharod Marcus Simpson-directed clip stars Kearia Diggs.

The song can be found on Tity Boi's album Based On a T.R.U. Story.

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When he's not killing the competition on the court Kobe Bryant is bringing in the endorsements off of it. The Los Angeles Lakers baller stars alongside FC Barcelona soccer star Leo Messi in a pretty funny new commercial for Turkish Airlines.

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Wicked returns to the Big screen with his 3rd Solo Music Video Directed By Prestige Madison,(Madson Records/Films) Releasing Super Villian Music. Off Of his Freshman Mixtape "Freestyle Hour" Produced By Theme Music Productions
Special Shoutouts to everyone involved on this project. Filmed in Rochester New York.
Wicked Will be releasing Freestyle Hour Part 2 Early 2013. With only a few years in the game & with only one complete solo mixtape put out , Wicked has shown his passion and progession without out a doubt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0l6sjgI-M&feature=youtu.be
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It's been fifteen years since The Notorious B.I.G. was murdered in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved, but today his autopsy report was obtained by TMZ and made public for the first time.

Biggie, real name Christopher Wallace, was shot four times.  He was hit in the chest, shoulder, leg, forearm and scrotum.

According to the report only one of the shots proved fatal.

-- Gunshot #1 struck Wallace in the left forearm and traveled down to his wrist. 
-- Gunshot #2 struck Wallace in the back, missed all vital organs, and exited through his left shoulder. 
-- Gunshot #3 struck Wallace on his outer left thigh and exited through his inner left thigh. 

The reports says .. after Gunshot #3 exited the thigh, "the projectile strikes the left side of the scrotum, causing a very shallow, 3/8 inch linear laceration."

The fatal bullet was Gunshot #4 ... which entered Wallace's body through his right hip and ripped its way through several vital organs ... before coming to rest in his left shoulder area. 

According to the report, the bullet perforated Wallace's colon, liver, heart and the upper lobe of his left lung.

Click here to see the document

Damion "D-Roc" Butler, Lil' Cease and driver, Gregory "G-Money" Young were also in the vehicle, but none sustained any injuries. Diddy was riding in a Suburban ahead of Biggie and Bad Boy Records' director of security rode in a Chevy Blazer behind the two vehicles. Despite there being so many witnesses on the scene and numerous theories as to who killed the rap star the best the LAPD could come up with was a composite sketch of the killer.

The FBI got involved in the case in December 2002 because of "multiple source information" that Biggie was killed "in retaliation for the murder of Tupac Shakur" and that a rogue LAPD officer was involved according to an FBI report.

The FBI's case was closed in January 2005 when the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles decided there wasn't enough evidence for indictments in the case. No arrests were made.

Biggie was 24-years old at the time of his death.

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50 Cent has shown over the years that he has a strong business acumen. His latest venture is into the world of boxing with his newly formed SMS Promotions company.

The initial idea behind forming a boxing promotions company came when 50 tried to help Floyd Mayweather Jr. with Mayweather Promotions. As the business mogul looked into Floyd's company he quickly realized it didn't exist.

“It doesn’t exist. He’s a Golden Boy [Promotions] fighter,” 50 told the New York Daily News. “It would irritate him if you said it, but in reality he’s a Golden Boy fighter. He’ll sit there and say for Mayweather Promotions, ‘Here’s what we have going, but there are no fighters signed to the promotional company.’ When he said that, I said let me build it for him while he’s gone (to jail). Floyd is my brother, and I even excused him saying there’s a company when there’s not.”

The G-Unit mogul formed TMT Promotions, which was intended to be a joint venture with Mayweather. 50 invested $2 million signing fighters like Billy Dib, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Andre Dirrell. When it came time for Mayweather to reimburse 50 for half of the money spent he balked.

Yuri Gamboa and 50 Cent

50 adjusted by shutting down TMT Promotions and moving all of the fighter he had signed over to SMS Promotions. 50 believes that Floyd's advisers were the ones who ultimately persuaded him not to invest.

“His decision to not participate by not financially offering his half of the finances came by way of his advisers that are afraid (of me),” Jackson said. “If you start burying bodies, you start to learn your way around the cemetery. They don’t want him to be informed. They don’t want him to have information. They make me a complete enemy on what’s going on there.’’

Bob Arum of Top Rank sees a bright future for 50 in boxing.

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“He is the one person that has the ability to reach out and attract the urban audience that we’re lacking from our fan base,” Arum said. “If he can energize the urban market where only Mayweather has been able to do that he could add hundreds of thousands of customers to the fights.”

Tune in tomorrow night (December 8th) on HBO PPV to watch Gamboa fight Michael Farenas for the interim WBA super featherweight title on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao/Juan Manuel Marquez bout.

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Fresh off of dropping his Crime Fetish mixtape, Lil B bounces back another new music video. He seems to release a couple every week. This latest one is for "F*ck the World."

You can pick up B's Crime Fetish mixtape for free from Datpiff.

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The next time Snoop Dogg decides to change his name we suggest "Iron Lungs." The 41-year old rapper recently held a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session, which gave fans the chance to interact with him by submitting questions.

Snoop revealed some interesting facts and gave his opinion on a few subjects.

The California legend believes weed should be legalized and taxed, says Willie Nelson, B-Real and Wiz Khalifa are the only people who have out smoked him, the longest he's gone without smoking is 164 days, he would love to smoke with Bob Marley, his favorite soundtrack to smoke to is Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly," he misses 2Pac and he smokes 81 blunts a day, 7 days a week.

Asked about his time working on the Starsky & Hutch movie with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Snoop replied: "Those cats can smoke uhearme."

It's amazing he can even remember his lyrics after smoking 567 blunts a week for who knows how long. If you wanna check out the full Q&A head over to Reddit.

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