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50 Cent teams with The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger for her new single.

All had been quiet on the Lil Kim vs Nicki Minaj beef front, but you had to know that wouldn't last long.

A tweet sent by Nicki Minaj right after it was announced that Osama bin Laden was dead, has gotten Kim fired up again.

Nicki's tweet read, "Lil Kim U Next", she's since deleted it.

The Queen Bee fired right back.

"I would never name her "Shitty Garbaj"!!! My dog is way prettier than that bitch!!!" Kim Wrote. "What type of coward lame ass bitch tweets some shit and then deletes it. REAL bitches stand by what they say BOZO...You cheap stocking cap glued $10 bag hair wig wearing bitch. Get a lace front!!! FYI Indian hair don't come in green BITCH... You free lunch eating bitch...WHAT!!!"

Twitter is always getting some sh*t started.

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Nicki Minaj was a musical guest on Dancing With The Stars yesterday (May 3).

The Young Money princess performed "Moment For Life" while DWTS pros Lacey Schwinner and Chelsie Hightower hit the dance floor.

"Moment For Life" appears on Nicki's debut cd 'Pink Friday.'

Maxim just released their 2011 Hot 100 List.

Did your favorite babe make the cut? Let's peep the top ten!

10. Jennifer Lawrence

For her Oscar-nominated role in last year’s Winter’s Bone, this perfectly made 20-year-old learned to skin and gut a squirrel. But the self- described tomboy didn’t mind, claiming she went through an outdoorsy “wood-chopping phase” as a child in her native Hollywood. The heart of a guy’s girl in the body of a girly girl? Yup, that’s more than enough reason to justify her straight-out-of-nowhere jump to the top 10 and her imminent Hollywood takeover.

Heat factor: In X-Men: First Class she’s the one who’s blue. And topless. (But, curses, covered with scales!)

9. Cobie Smulders

For the past five years, the Canadian cutie has had us laughing our pants off as ex-teen pop star Robin on How I Met Your Mother. Last Christmas our contributions to the Nielsen ratings paid off when Cobie rewarded us with the greatest gift of all: stripping down for our December cover. “I’m hoping to start a lesbian relationship with Lily on the show,” she told us. Yup, that’s enough to keep our interest for another few years.

Heat factor: The former model was recently cast as catsuit-clad Maria Hill in The Avengers. Fanboys, let your obsessing begin!

8. Natalie Portman

She was a hot queen in Star Wars, a hot ballerina in Black Swan, and a hot scientist in Thor. Just when you thought there were no hot stereotypes left for her to take on, she becomes a hot mom. If we’d known that the newly crowned Oscar winner would end up with a ballet dancer, we would’ve seriously reevaluated our high school extracurricular activities.

Heat factor: Step 1: Rent Your Highness. Step 2: Find scene of Natalie in a metal thong. Step 3: Press pause and praise God.

7. Anne Hathaway

If anyone deserves a spot on the upper echelons of this list, it’s Anne, who’s made escorting our girlfriends to chick flicks almost bearable for an entire decade. The New York native has starred in countless blockbuster flicks (sometimes topless!), voiced cartoon characters (“Hot Blonde” on Family Guy!), and single-handedly hosted the Oscars this year (thanks for nothing, Franco!).

Heat factor: Let’s hope the world doesn’t end in 2012, because that’s when Anne is set to take on the role of Catwoman in Christopher Nolan’s next Batman installment. Can you hear us purring?

6. Bar Refaeli

The Israeli supermodel and June birthday girl recently picked up her first film role in the thriller Session, playing a psych patient whose doctor becomes obsessed with her (we see where you’re coming from, doc). However, here’s hoping that her future big-screen roles will require a wardrobe she’s more familiar with: bikinis…and maybe some body paint.

Heat factor: Bar will continue cru­sad­ing for environmental awareness… while, ironically, raising the temperature wherever she goes.

5. Mila Kunis

Who’d have guessed that she’d grow up to be the hottest former cast member of That ’70s Show? (Sorry, Ashton, but it’s true.) After kicking ass in The Book of Eli, Mila literally danced her way into our hearts as Black Swan’s badass ballerina. We went to see it five times. The Natalie-Mila sex scene was fine, but, man, are we suckers for a good plié.

Heat factor: Need another reason to hate Justin Timberlake? He got to see her naked while filming next month’s Friends With Benefits.

4. Cameron Diaz

From the moment she, um, styled her hair in There’s Something About Mary, we knew Cammie was the girl for us. A French fry-eating, big-wave-surfing former model who’s done her fair share of serious ass kicking and bootie shaking on film, she’s almost too good to be true. Thankfully, she’s real. It would totally trip us out if the lady we’ve been crushing on for more than a decade didn’t exist.

Heat factor: Cameron is back just the way we like her, starring in the raunchy comedy Bad Teacher.

3. Katy Perry

How has the past year been for our 2010 No. 1? "Really difficult, because I have to be pretty every single day!" It sure is nice to see the California Gurl has remained as humble as she is hot since she first caught our attention by kissing girls and shooting whipped cream and fireworks from her, er, heart.

Heat factor: This summer she voices red-hot, blue-bodied Smurfette. We’d like to smurf that!

2. Olivia Munn

This has been a big year for Miss Munn: The Attack of the Show! geek turned into a satire goddess on The Daily Show and jumped to her highest Hot 100 position yet. With her second Maxim cover this February, Olivia told us, “I wanted to show something different: that you can be sexy and smart and a 2011 woman.” It’s true: Skewering those fat cats in Washington has never been sexier.

Heat factor: Olivia cannot be contained on the small screen—watch out for her in the upcoming comedy Freeloaders.

1. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

All hail Maxim’s new queen! When we first heard rumblings of a Megan Fox replacement in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, we wept into our Optimus Prime pillows for weeks. As it turns out, director Michael Bay found someone even foxier. Making her Hot 100 debut at the No. 1 spot and scoring her first big screen role in the next Transformers, please give a warm, not-creepy welcome to supermodel and all-around British bombshell Rosie Huntington-Whiteley!

Heat factor: Forget the Hells Angels …Rosie earned the world’s most prestigious set of wings courtesy of Victoria’s Secret in 2009.

Pop princess Rihanna finished # 22, Kim Kardashian came in at # 22, and Ciara placed at # 62. Surprisingly Beyonce didn't make the the list at all.

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During the initial phases of the investigation into the killing of Notorious B.I.G., police took a look at rapper DJ Quik.

Quik has long been associated with the bloods, and was very friendly with the Death Row Records camp at the time. But the rapper is quick to point out in an interview with HipHopDX, he was cool with Biggie.

“You know they picked me up for questioning about that sh*t before? Just because I was there at that [VIBE] party [with Biggie before the shooting], they tapped my phones, found out my accountant’s number and went and posted up and waited for me at my accountant’s office to pick me up for questioning,” Quik said. “And it was only because I owned a ’95 [Chevy] Impala [SS] that was black cherry colored like the one that was used supposedly in the shooting – which was probably black, mine was burgundy, but at night they look identical in color.”

Police never bothered to question fellow cop and suspect David Mack, who was also a blood and reportedly worked part time for Death Row.

 David Mack

“When they came to my accountant’s [office] to come get me, I ended up calling my lawyer and I told him what was going on,” continued Quik. “So he called the Parker Center and arranged for me to go up there and talk to ‘em, instead of them gafflin’ me up and making a scene. So I went down there and told ‘em everything I knew, everything I saw, the whole shit. And after I did that the burden was off. ‘Cause it was rumors in the street that I did that shit. How am I gonna kill Biggie Smalls when I like him? Who does that?!”

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Raekwon the Chef serves up a new hot plate with the latest visuals from his new album 'Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang.'

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185 Parkhill Projects, Staten Island, NY was a place few people have experienced growing up. LRG Films teamed up with legendary Wu-Tang Clan member, Raekwon, to take you back to the day-to-day life experiences. "Butter Knives" is an ode to Raekwons rich history in the projects and even more widely, hip hop. Enjoy.

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The man who has crafted hits for everyone from Eminem to Dr. Dre is hoping to land on Drake's upcoming album as well.

DJ Khalil worked with Drake before on the retail version of 'So Far Gone.' Those sessions turned into one of Drake's favorite songs "Fear."

"We did a track two years ago called 'Fear' off of So Far Gone, and it's like one of his favorite songs — he told me himself," Khalil told MTV.

Things have been coming together nicely over the past several years. Long an underground favorite as part of the rap duo Self Scientific, along with MC Chace Infinite. Khalil seems to have hit his stride as a part of Dr Dre's production team.

The beatmaker feels like Drake is one of those artist who make his job easier.

"Drake, to me, he's a lyricist, he understands songs," the producer said. "He can really write, he's an incredible writer. He has a great sense of melody. He just knows how to make good records."

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Broken Equipment gets in on the bin Laden action with their latest spoof.

Eminem has revealed the title of his upcoming EP with fellow Detroit rapper Royce Da 5'9.

Made via his Twitter account, the announcement came in a short statement.

"Hell: The Sequel"," Eminem wrote.

Producers on the project include DJ Khalil, Bangladesh, Havoc and Mr. Porter according to Allhiphop.

The EP is expected to be released in June.

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A 31-Year old deaf and mute man out trying to have a good time with friends, was attacked by a gang member who mistook their sign language for gang signs.

Alfred Stewart was celebrating his birthday along with close friends, whom are all deaf, at Ocean's Eleven Sports Lounge and Grill in Hallandale Beach, Florida.

Police say that's when 45-yea old Barbara Lee became heated when she thought they were throwing up gang signs, so she starts throwing them back.

I can't think of anything dumber than throwing gang signs at a group of deaf people who obviously were there minding their own business, but anyway.

Lee then went outside, but soon came back with 19-year-old Marco Ibanez.

According to police Ibanez pulled out a knife and both he and Lee attacked the group, leaving Stewart with 2 stab wounds to the torso and one to the back. One of Stawarts's friends also suffered stab wounds, and a bouncer who tried to help them was hit in the head with a bottle.

"By them being deaf, they're not bad people," Stewarts mom, Barbara said. "So they don't think nothing bad, they just. He'll say 'ok, it's alright I don't won't no problems.  I'm just thankful that it didn't get worse."

Alfred Stewart

Lee and Ibanez were both arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

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(CNN) -- Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, is dead, officials said -- almost 10 years after the attacks that killed about 3,000 people.

The founder and leader of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces Monday in a mansion in Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, along with other family members, a senior U.S. official told CNN.

In an address to the nation Sunday night, U.S. President Barack Obama called bin Laden's death "the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda."

"Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan," Obama said. "A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

A congressional source familiar with the operation said bin Laden was shot in the head.

A U.S. official told CNN that bin Laden was buried at sea. The official said his body was handled in the Islamic tradition, but did not elaborate.

Half a world away, the scene outside the White House was one of pure jubilation.

 People gather at World Trade Center site to celebrate bin Laden's death.

Hundreds reveled through the night, chanting "USA! USA!" Others chanted "Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!" in reference to the demise of bin Laden. Many also spontaneously sang the national anthem.

In New York, a cheering crowd gathered at ground zero -- the site where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood. Strains of "God Bless America" could be heard intermittently trickling through the crowd.

One former New York firefighter -- forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered as a result of the dust from ground zero -- said he was there to let the 343 firefighters who died in the attacks know "they didn't die in vain."

"It's a war that I feel we just won," he said. "I'm down here to let them know that justice has been served."

Bob Gibson, a retired New York police officer, said the news of bin Laden's death gave him a sense of "closure."

"I never thought this night would come, that we would capture or kill bin Laden," he said. "And thank the Lord he has been eliminated."

Jubilant people in Washington, D.C., celebrate the news Bin Laden had been killed

The news also brought some relief to family members of those killed on 9/11.

Jim Riches, who lost his firefighter son when the World Trade Center's north tower collapsed, said he was gratified when he learned of bin Laden's death.

"(My) son still isn't coming home," he told CNN. "(There's) no closure, but at last at least some justice for the murder of 3,000 Americans, finally."

"This is important news for us, and for the world," Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93, said in a statement. "It cannot ease our pain, or bring back our loved ones. It does bring a measure of comfort that the mastermind of the September 11th tragedy and the face of global terror can no longer spread his evil."

Bin Laden eluded capture for years, once reportedly slipping out of a training camp in Afghanistan just hours before a barrage of U.S. cruise missiles destroyed it.

He had been implicated in a series of deadly, high-profile attacks that had grown in their intensity and success during the 1990s. They included a deadly firefight with U.S. soldiers in Somalia in October 1993, the bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa that killed 224 in August 1998, and an attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 sailors in October 2000.

In his speech, Obama reiterated that the United States is not fighting Islam.

"I've made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims," Obama said.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, released a statement Monday morning welcoming the death of bin Laden.

"As we have stated repeatedly since the 9/11 terror attacks, bin Laden never represented Muslims or Islam. In fact, in addition to the killing of thousands of Americans, he and al Qaeda caused the deaths of countless Muslims worldwide," the statement said.

While the death of bin Laden "is a significant victory," the war on terrorism is not over, said Frances Fragos Townsend, former Homeland Security advisor to President George W. Bush.

"We've been fighting these fractured cells. We've seen the U.S. government, military and intelligence officials deployed around the world," Townsend said. "By no means are these other cells nearly as dangerous as he is, but we will continue to have to fight in chaotic places."

U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world were placed on high alert following the announcement of bin Laden's death, a senior U.S. official said, and the U.S. State Department issued a "worldwide caution" for Americans.

The travel alert warned of the "enhanced potential for anti-American violence given recent counter-terrorism activity in Pakistan." Some fear al Qaeda supporters may try to retaliate against U.S. citizens or U.S. institutions.

But for now, many Americans were soaking up the historic moment.

"It's what the world needed," said Dustin Swensson, who recently served in Iraq and joined the revelers outside the White House. "(I'll) always remember where I was when the towers went down, and I'm always going to remember where I am now."

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President Obama announces bin Laden is dead

Mansion where bin Laden killed set on fire

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