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Big Snoop Dogg gets serious in the latest installment of Double G News.

The Doggfather talks conspiracy theories surrounding flu shots, blue tooth technology, the 2012 apocalypse and drugs in the ghetto.

"I honestly believe that the government did put crack in the ghettos. Because I was one who sold crack and dibbled and dabbled around with it, and it just fell out the sky," he says. "It wasn't just like it was something that just we grew it or knew how to make it from scratch, it was given to us. And when it was given to us we passed it on to our homies. If it was an older homie that knew how to do it, he passed it on to a couple of his homies. It was a situation that we never stopped to think 'why is it here and how did it even get here?' But I definitely think it was designed and planted by the government because they was so hard on it once we got it and mastered it."

Snoop went on to compare the disparity between the punishment for possessing powdered cocaine vs crack.

"If you notice powder cocaine still is not a felony compared to crack cocaine," Snoop said. "You know we got some celebrities... I aint gonna say these white bitches names, but these motherf*ckers always get caught with powder cocaine; riding on the freeway the wrong way, sniffing coke, doing all kind of retarded sh*t. And then you have a n*gga from the hood who get caught with a five piece rock and you give him his third strike. That's why I say it's definitely designed to break down the ghetto because it was planted in the ghetto."

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Is it over already?

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries have only been married two months, but according to published reports their marriage is already on the rocks.

US Magazine is reporting that the reality star and her NBA husband "are not getting along at all."

The problems seems to stem from Kim's hectic schedule and the fact that Kris is currently out of work due to the NBA lockout, which has no end in sight. So, while Kim is bringing in big money, Kris isn't making a dime. He's reportedly been spending a lot of Kim's cash partying and Kim wants him to be more productive.

Add that to the fact that Kris reportedly just isn't buying into the Kardashian clan hype.

"Kris is not drinking the Kardashian Kool-Aid, and it's causing major problems," a source told Us Magazine.

The couple dated for nine months before getting married in a lavish $10 million dollar wedding.

"On some levels she feels like she made a mistake," says the source.

How long do you think it will be before Kim and Kris are headed for divorce court?

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Mobb Deep's re-introduction to the world is coming November 25, in the form of their new Black Cocaine EP.

"We're doing the EP first just to give 'em a little appetizer, a little warm up project before the album drop. And the album is coming right behind it at the end of February," Prodigy told MTV host, Sway.

Although the music landscape has changed dramatically in the last several years, Havoc says you can expect the same infamous sound from the group.

"We are who we are," he explained. "We're not really trying to fit in. We just us... that's who we are in today's hip hop environment. We not trying to do what everybody else is doing. We doing what works for us. I think people can appreciate that on a certain level, even if you're into a Drake and your Weezy's and all of this. When you look at us you go 'oh that's a brand we all know and can trust."

The duo purposely kept the the features light on Black Cocaine. Choosing to work only with Nas and Bounty Killa.

"We got Nas on there. We got Bounty Killa, that's about it because it's a warm up project so we didn't want to put too many features on there.," Prodigy said. "We worked with Nas because that's the home team. I know people miss hearing that Mobb Deep/ Nas collaboration, because every time we do a song, it always comes out real good and stands the test of time, always. So when I got out we reached out to him and made that happen."

Many people were surprised when Mobb Deep linked up with Roc Nation artist Jay Electronica for the song "Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," given their history of beef with his boss, Jay-Z.

That old beef has been put to bed apparently because the duo is now open to recording with Hov.

"We was at Jay's studio when we recorded that [Call of Duty]," P says. "I was on the phone with J. Cole the next day congratulating him on his album and all that. We're supposed to be doing some work together too. Tell Jay to get in the studio. He gotta come to Infamous Studios in Queens though. Everything else is irrelevant... all the feelings, dudes wanna act feminine; put that to the side man."

One collaboration that is in the works is a Mobb Deep/Officer Ricky record. Illuminati P explains how that came about and what 50 Cent's reaction to it was.

"I'mma be honest; we come from an era of longevity and consistency. So in the beginning I didn't really see that in him [Officer Ricky]. And then when I was locked up I started seeing he was dropping more and more music. I was like 'damn, I'm starting to like this dude.' That's when I was like when we need to holla at son and do some music," Prodigy explained.

P says he and 50 talked about the collaboration, and the G-Unit boss didn't object.

"Actually the first day I had came home, 50 had flew to New York to come see me. And I went over to the G-Unit office and I told him 'Mobb Deep need to start doing songs with everybody. We need to start reaching out to people even if we got little conflicts," P said. "People like Rick Ross, people like Lil Wayne, people like whoever. Just reaching out to everybody that we respect and we like their music and start doing songs with them. Because Mobb Deep is the type of group we always do songs with other regions, or other parts of America, even overseas. We always like to find artists we like and respect and do songs with them. Why stop now? And {50 Cent] was like 'yeah, you right.'"

It's been well documented that Prodigy spent three years in prison on gun charges. He was released in March 2011. At one point both he and Lil Wayne were locked up at the same time in separate prisons. P said the two kept in touch and that they plan on working together in the future.

"While was both locked up we was in communications with each other. He mad a little quote for me on my autobiography, on the cover of the book. So, we supposed to be doing some music in the future."

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Cat Washington is giving the world intimate details about her 1 1/2 year relationship with Drake.


The Bad Girls Club 5 reality show cast member chatted with Q Deezy of Philadelphia radio station 107.9 earlier this week and she didn't hold anything back.


"We met on the set of 'Best I Ever Had.' It was real cool. We like sat on the bleachers on set directed by Kanye [West]. Having fun, tweeted each other back and forth, real cool. Never thought it would go anywhere, just cool kicking it," Cat said. "Next thing you know I’m in Toronto and we’re having dinner. He flew me out to Toronto, we started kicking it and started liking each other. The next thing you know one flight turned into ten and I got a toothbrush in there and it's on."


Cat says within a month she had moved from Philadelphia to Toronto to live with Drake full time.


"It was like 0 to 60," she said "I actually packed up like 'yo I'm out... I'm in love.'"


Cat went on to talk about her sex life with Drizzy, hinting that the two never used protection and talked about his love making ability.


"He is a phenomenal "peach eater" and he is black and Jewish and the black side is Mandingo."


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The Source Magazine's 14th annual Power 30 issue is set to hit newsstands November 15. Gracing the cover is Young Money's man of the moment, Drake.

With his new album, Take Care, dropping next month, the Toronto emcee has a lot to discuss. In the 8-page feature written by Kim Osorio, Drizzy says he's no longer in awe of fellow artists like Kanye West.

“When I was a kid trying to figure out what I liked, it was [Kanye] who I related to the most. He was an artist, in every sense, from his cover art to his music. Now, I would say he was a really great competitor," Drake said.

The Power 30 issue will also rank "the most prominent earners, tastemakers and influencers of the past year in Hip-Hop." Additionally there will be a Digital 30 ranking of the movers and shakers who are making the biggest impact on the web.

OFF OF THE "T.R.U. REALIGION" MIXTAPE HOSTED BY: DJ DRAMA

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Shows like X-Factor are geared towards finding the next great singer, but several weeks into the competition 14-year old Brian Bradley aka The Astronomical Kid, is proving that a rapper with the right amount of swag and skill can compete with the best of them.


Bradley has made it into the top 12 in a quest to win a $5 million dollar recording contract.


Last night (October 25) the Brooklyn kid who aspires to be bigger than Jay-Z, performed a hyped version of "Jump" on the first live show of the season.

Do you think Astro can win it all?

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LONDON (AP) — Amy Winehouse drank herself to death.

 
The soul diva who had Grammy-winning songs and fans around the world died with empty vodka bottles in her room and lethal amounts of alcohol in her blood — more than five times the British drunk driving limit, a British coroner ruled Wednesday.

Coroner Suzanne Greenaway gave a verdict of "death by misadventure," saying the singer died of accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after weeks of abstinence.
"The unintended consequence of such potentially fatal levels (of alcohol) was her sudden and unexpected death," Greenaway said.

 
The 27-year-old singer, who had fought a very public battle with drug and alcohol problems for years, was found dead in bed July 23 at her London home. An initial autopsy proved inconclusive, although it found no traces of illegal drugs in her system or signs of injury.

Pathologist Suhail Baithun told the inquest into the singer's death that blood and urine samples indicated Winehouse had consumed a "very large quantity of alcohol" prior to her death. The level of alcohol in her blood was 416 milligrams per 100 milliliters, he said — a blood alcohol level of 0.4 percent.

The British and U.S. legal drunk-driving limit is 0.08 percent.
Such levels of alcohol intake could have stopped her breathing and sent her into a coma, Baithun added.

Doctors say acute alcohol poisoning is usually the result of binge drinking — the human body can only process about one unit of alcohol, or about half a glass of wine, an hour. Having too much alcohol in the body can cause severe dehydration, hypothermia, seizures, breathing problems, and a heart attack, among other difficulties.

There is no minimum dose for acute alcohol poisoning and the condition varies depending on a person's age, sex, weight, how fast the alcohol is drunk and other factors such as drug use.

Police Detective Inspector Les Newman, who was called after a security guard found Winehouse, said three empty vodka bottles — two large and one small — were found in her bedroom.

Winehouse's doctor, Dr. Christina Romete, said the singer had resumed drinking in the days before her death. Prior to that, Winehouse had stayed away from drink for most of July, she said, although she had been alternating between abstinence and heavy alcohol use for a long time.

"She's made tremendous efforts over the years," Romete said, adding that alcohol became Winehouse's main problem after the singer gave up illicit drugs in 2008.

Romete, who saw Winehouse the night before she died, described the singer as "tipsy" but calm. She said Winehouse had not spoken of suicide, and had talked about her upcoming birthday.

The doctor said Winehouse had been prescribed drugs including the sedative Librium to help her cope with the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, but the coroner said these had played no role in her death.

Winehouse was last seen by her live-in security guard, Andrew Morris, who said he had heard her laughing and listening to music the night before she died.

He said he knew she had resumed drinking, but did not notice anything unusual until he found that she had stopped breathing in bed the next afternoon.

"She did it moderately... she wasn't drinking to get drunk," Morris told the coroner's court.

Dr. Joseph Feldman, chief of emergency services at Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey, said Winehouse likely developed tolerance to larger quantities of alcohol than one would expect after drinking heavily for years. He also said the sedative Winehouse was on, Librium, wouldn't have stopped someone from having seizures if they were in alcohol withdrawal.

"It's easier to withdraw from heroin than it is from alcohol ... withdrawal (from alcohol) can cause anxiety, tremors, hallucinations, the sensation of things crawling all over you," he said.

He said those symptoms sometimes push people back to alcohol, which can result in poisoning.

"It's possible she could have been saved if she had been found (or treated) earlier," he said. "A lot of treatment is supportive care, like IV fluids and making sure they don't vomit."

The singer's parents attended the hearing Wednesday but did not speak to reporters. In a statement, Winehouse family spokesman Chris Goodman said it was a relief to the family "to finally find out what happened to Amy."

"The court heard that Amy was battling hard to conquer her problems with alcohol and it is a source of great pain to us that she could not win in time," he said.

Winehouse's breakthrough "Back to Black" album, released in 2006, was recently certified as the best-selling disc in Britain so far during the 21st century. The updated take on old-time soul also earned her five Grammy Awards.

Although the singer was adored by fans worldwide for her unique voice and style, praise for her singing was often eclipsed by lurid headlines about her destructive relationships and erratic behavior.

 
In June, the singer abruptly canceled her entire European comeback tour after she swayed and slurred her way through barely recognizable songs in her first show in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. She was booed and jeered off stage and had to return to Britain to recover.

Her last public appearance came three days before her death, when she briefly joined her goddaughter, singer Dionne Bromfield, on stage at The Roundhouse in Camden, near her home.

Source: Associated Press

Mobb Deep recruits reggae artist Bounty Killa for the opening track off of their forthcoming Black Cocaine EP, due out November 25.


You can pre-order the EP now on iTunes HERE


Official tracklisting


1. Dead Man Shoes (feat. Bounty Killa)

2. Black Cocaine

3. Conquer

4. Get It Forever (feat. Nas)

5. Last Days

Rumors were swirling around the internet yesterday that Dipset Capo Jim Jones had been involved in an altercation in Harlem, New York on Monday (October 24).


Jones spoke with Hot 97's Miss Info yesterday to confirm that he was involved in a fight with three men, but says it was a botched robbery attempt.


Check out the full story courtesy of MissInfoTV below.

Here are two pics of Jim after the incident. Capo doesn't have a scratch on him.

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Kreayshawn has a hit record and a major label deal, but some people are still skeptical about the "Gucci Gucci" rapper. Count former Three Six Mafia rapper, Gangsta Boo as one of those skeptics.

"I don't listen to Kreayshawn, I'm really not feeling her," Boo told XXL. “I think she’s a wigger. I think she looks like she came out the movie B.A.P.S.; like the whole ghetto girl thing, I don’t know if that’s how white girls do it in Oakland. I really don't know. I got to meet her personally to feel her out, to understand like, ‘OK, well this is really this girl, like she ain’t a wigger, this just her. She likes ghetto looks. She's not trying to be a ghetto black girl, that’s just her.’ So until I meet her I have a lil’ bitter taste in my mouth for her. To me it’s an act and it’s a gimmick, but its not a funny one."

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T.I. stopped by the Chelsea Lately show yesterday to promote his new book, Power and Beauty.

In addition to the book the two discussed Tip's recent prison stint, his mentor growing up, his decision to help save a suicidal man's life, Diddy's recent confrontation with a club patron over Ciroc vodka.

Tip also teases Chelsea about her past relationship with 50 Cent.

"Your last name isn't Lately by the way Chelsea," he joked. "I thought your last name was Cent. I thought it was Chelsea Cent."

"No that's not true," Chelsea replied. "50's last name was Lately for a while, but then we changed it back."

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Roc Nation artist J. Cole releases new visuals for "Lost Ones," a track that appears on his number one selling debut, Cole World: The Sideline Story.

With just a Dollar and a Dream, this video was shot in 2008 before I even had a record deal, Three years later, watching it still gives me the same emotions. This is dedicated to the Lost Ones. - Jermaine Cole.

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T-Pain releases a new song and video for a track that will appear on his forthcoming rEVOLVEr album.

Album drops December 6 via RCA Records.

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As we previously reported, Webbie fired major shots over the weekend aimed at 106 & Park host Terrence J, after being banned from BET. Webbie threatened to physically assault Terrence when he catches up to him.


Monday (October 25) the Louisiana rapper called into Chicago's Tony Sculfield and the Morning Riot Show to clarify his stance.


"It aint nothing against me and BET. I love BET, I've been watching BET all my life. I am BET... BET is black entertainment," Webbie said. "That was some personal stuff. You know Rocsi and Terrence, that's his old lady. Y'all go look at that Vibe magazine picture. That's what happened."


According to Webbie, he and Rocsi go way back


"I know her before I made 'Bad B*tch' and 'Gimme That P*ssy,' I knew her before I started making any raps. I don't know the other dude Terrence, that's on him," Webbie said. "I don't know her personally. I just know how people live where we live. The picture explains it all. I'm just saying Terrence get your h*e man, that's your h*e... get your h*e man. This aint got nothing to do with BET. This aint got nothing to do with the millions of kids that I say stay in school. I make sure I tell 'em stay in school. I tell these girls if you get pregnant early take care of that baby 'cause that's your fault. Don't get pregnant early, go be somebody. This on a busta that needs to get his h*e."


Webbie insists he wasn't banned by BET and that Terrence is solely responsible for him not being able to appear on the network.


"This is a personal issue, I love BET. This is a personal issue between this young man or whatever you wanna call him."


As far as the threats to put his hands on Terrence, Webbie says he might not, but there are other people that want to.


"He aint worth it, but I'll just tell him he better be cool 'cause everywhere I've been going I got the streets in my pocket," he said. "And they telling me 'we gonna beat him up' and I don't even be knowing these dudes. But every corner I hit they know so he better stay inside."

It's been almost twelve years since D'Angelo released his last album. Legal troubles and rumored problems with drugs and alcohol have kept him from completing his long awaited third studio album, but that wait may soon be over according to good friend ?uestlove.

"He's in the home stretch right now," The Roots drummer told The Juice. "I know that Fred Wesley and the JB Horns just did a cut that Q-Tip did; I know he's doing his vocals right now."

Quest also revealed more details about Undun, The Roots' 13th studio album.

"We actually completed [the album] at five [o'clock] this morning, so it's officially done," ?uestlove said. "It's essentially a biographical narrative about Redford Stephens. Stephens [is] a composite of four or five people that we've known over the past few years from Philadelphia."

According to The Juice, Undun will tell the story of Redford's life in reverse. From his death to his birth.

Undun is due out December 6th on Def Jam Records.