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The 2012 Soul Train Awards aired last night on BET and Centric. Big winners on the night included Beyonce who walked away with 2 awards including Best R&B/Soul Artist. Elle Varner won Best New Artist. Best R&B/Soul Male Artist went to Miguel and Frank Ocean won Album of the Year for Channel Orange.

New Edition was honored with the Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award. Soul Train founder Don Cornelius was remembered with a special tribute.

There were also great performance from Miguel, Elle Varner, 2 Chainz, New Edition, Eddie Levert, Stevie Wonder, Charlie Wilson, Ne-Yo, Keyshia Cole and more.

Check out the list of winners and performances below.

The 2012 Soul Train Awards Winners :
Best New Artist: Elle Varner
Centric Award: Leah LaBelle
Best Gospel/ Inspirational Performance: Whitney Houston & Jordin Sparks’ “Celebrate”
Best Hip Hop Song of the Year: Kanye West ft. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz’s “Mercy”
Best R&B/ Soul Female Artist: Beyonce
Best R&B/ Soul Male Artist: Miguel
Album of the Year: Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange
Song of the Year: Tyrese’s “Stay”
The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award: “Tonight (Best You Ever Had)”: John Legend ft. Ludacris
Best Dance Performance: Beyonce – “Love On Top”
CENTRICTV.com Best Caribbean Performance: Sean Paul’s “Tomahawk Technique”
CENTRICTV.com Best International Performance: Estelle’s “Thank You”
CENTRICTV.com Best Independent R&B/ Soul Artist or Group: Eric Roberson
CENTRICTV.com Best Traditional Jazz Artist/ Group: TIE

*The Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio

*Tony Bennett — Isn’t It Romantic
CENTRICTV.com Best Contemporary Jazz Artist/ Group: Esperanza Spalding-Radio Music Society

New Edition "Candy Girl," "Mr. Telephone Man," and "If It Isn't Love."

The Soul Train Awards honors and remembers the late, great trailblazer and Soul Train mastermind, Mr. Don Cornelius.

2 Chainz – "Birthday Song" x "I’m Different"

Stevie Wonder "Superstition" x "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"

Tank, Ginuwine, and Tyrese unite as the supergroup TGT and brought a soul medley featuring "Stay," "If You're Lonely," and "Zoom" to life.

Miguel "Adorn"

Elle Varner "Refill"

Charlie Wilson "My Love Is All You Have"

 Keyshia Cole "Trust and Believe" x "Enough Of No Love"

Ne-Yo "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)."

John Legend "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)."

Anthony Hamilton, Leah LaBelle, Fantasia, and Charlie Wilson "Soul Train Classics Medley"

Marcus Canty pays homage and covers Luther Vandross's classic "Never Too Much."

Elle Varner wins Best New Artist

Soul Trains Awards archive footage

Eddie Levert "Casanova"

Miguel wins award for Best Male R&B Soul Artist

Take a walk down memory lane with New Edition, rediscover their music and see why they are the winners of this year's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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NextMovie.com picks a rapper to review a popular film every couple of weeks. This week they asked Duck Down Records representative Sean Price to give his take on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, which stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

"Unfortunately I just watched Twlight. That's two hours of my life I can't get back," Sean said. "I've never seen Twilight before and I wish I never saw this one. I think Twilight was the cheesiest movie I ever saw in my life. They love each other. There was a bunch of lilacs and grass. It was just a$$ all around."

Check out the rest of Sean's review below and find out why he's on Team Edward and Stevie Wonder is the only person he’d recommend this movie to.

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The 25th annual Soul Train Awards will air on Sunday, November 25, at 9 p.m. EST on BET and Centric. The event will be hosted by Cedric The Entertainer.

There will be a tribute to late Soul Train founder Don Cornelius. New Edition will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Performers on the night will include 2 Chainz, Miguel, Fantasia, Stevie Wonder, Keyshia Cole, Elle Varner, John Legend and more.

Check out this year's nominees as well as previews of some of the performances.

Album of the Year:

• Eric Benet for “The One”
• Frank Ocean for “Channel Orange”
• Nas for “Life is Good”
• R. Kelly for “Write Me Back”
• Usher for “Looking for Myself”

Song of the Year:

• Estelle for “Thank You”
• John Legend featuring Ludarcis for “Tonight (Best You Ever Had)”
• Trey Songz for “Heart Attack”
• Tyrese for “Stay”
• Usher for “Climax”
• Wale featuring Miguel for “Lotus Flower Bomb”

Best R&B/Soul Female Artist:

• Beyonce
• Estelle
• Keyshia Cole
• Mary J. Blige
• Melanie Fiona

Best R&B/Soul Male Artist:

• Miguel
• Robin Thicke
• Trey Songz
• Tyrese
• Usher

Best New Artist:

• Elle Varner
• Emeli Sande
• J. Cole
• Luke James
• Robert Glasper

Best Dance Performance:

• Beyonce for “Love on Top”
• Chris Brown for “Turn Up the Music”
• Nicki Minaj for “Starships”
• Rihanna for “Where Have You Been”
• Usher for “Scream”

2 Chainz "I'm Different"

Elle Varner "Refill"

Stevie Wonder "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"

Soul Train sword swallower

Cedric The Entertainer closing skit

Fantasia Performs Aretha Franklin's "Don't Play That Song For Me"

SOUL TRAIN AWARDS '12: BEHIND THE SHOOT WITH CEDRIC

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YMCB artist Gudda Gudda is back with a brand new mixtape titled Guddaville 3. Here's a music video for track 16 off of the project.

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2012 has been a great year for 2 Chainz. The Atlanta emcee emerged as an artist everyone has their eyes on after countless show stealing features and the release of his debut solo album Based on a T.R.U. Story.

Tity Boi caps the year off by being named The Source Magazine's Man of the Year. The issue will be available on December 4th. In the meantime check out an excerpt from 2 Chainz's interview with the publication as well as some behind the scenes footage of his photo shoot.

2 Chainz on changing his name: “It wasn’t like my name made me rap better. I worked my ass off….It felt good to outdo myself and just be omnipresent and be a part of everything.”

2 Chainz on his come up:  “Those who haven’t been through that struggle don’t mind going to the zoo to pet the animals. They don’t wanna live in the zoo, but they don’t mind coming through. I’m someone who can show you around in a cool way where you don’t have to worry about getting eaten up.”

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Saigon is fed up with a lot of today's hip hop music and he's ready to do something about it. During a new interview with The Breakfast Club, The Yardfather said he would like to punch Rick Ross and 2 Chainz in the face for putting out music that is detrimental to our youth.

"If they don't change the message though, for real I'm on a whole new beef," Saigon said. "[I'd want to punch] Rick Ross, Two Chainz... everybody who is putting detrimental music to children. Because these companies market music to children and y'all know that. If you're gonna do that put the same thing you put on a porno. You know when you go in a movie store and the porno had it's own little section. Do that for this music because this is marketed to children. And we all know that. I did 106 & Park the other day and I was so sad to see these little young girls spitting the lyrics and some of the stuff that was coming out of their mouth. And they're 13 and 14."

What do you think about what Saigon's comments?

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A brand new EP from Bishop The Greek comprised of 7 all new original records in a sequel and continuation to his summer EP "Rap's Renaissance". Featuring the single "Shut It Down" with Dubbs produced by Alcatrackz which was on AllHipHop.com.

Tracklist:

1. Words From Bynoe
2. Everyday (Produced by DJ Ophax)
3. Mr. Police (Produced by Screwaholic)
4. My Name (Produced by DJ Ophax)
5. Death Is Certain (Produced by DJ Ophax)
6. Shut It Down (ft. Dubbs)(Produced by. Alcatrackz)
7. Thug Love (ft. Carina Mitchell)(Produced by Tantu)
8. I Wish (Produced by Kwan Lee)
9. Outro

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2 Pistols gets assists from Joell Ortiz, French Montana and K Major on his new single "All I Know." The track was produced by Bolo

Juelz Santana is calling an end to hiatus away from the music scene. The Dipset member appeared recently on Trav's new song song "Pain" and also on Future's "YSL Cheetah."

Last night Juelz announced he was scrapping plans to release his Reagan Era mixtape in favor of two projects, God Will’n Volumes 1 and 2.

Good to see Juelz back on his grind.

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In the latest episode of Wiz Khalifa's 2050 Tour vlog we find him and his Taylor Gang crew of Chevy Woods, Juicy J, Berner and Lola Monroe getting wild and crazy on the road as they roll through Canada.

Peep the wild Halloween footage and more below.

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Check out DJ Camillio as he rocks the Vintich Lounge in New York City as he celebrates his four year anniversary as host of the New at Two show on Hot 97.

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2 Chainz appeared on the Wendy Williams Show yesterday for a performance and short interview. 

Tity Boi discussed the success of his Based On a T.R.U. Story album, how he plans on staying in the spotlight, his Respect My Vote campaign and addressed criticism about his lyrics.

He also treated the audience to performances of "Birthday Song" and "I'm Different."

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2 Chainz has achieved a lot of success as a hip hop artist and by all accounts has "made it," but that wasn't always the case. He grew up poor living in low income housing and sold drugs at an early age to make ends meet. His criminal activities led to several convictions and he lost his right to vote.

Now as a spokesperson for Respect My Vote, Tity Boi encourages urban youth and felons to get out and vote.

He appeared on BET's new show Don't Sleep and talked with host host, T. J. Holmes, about how he learned he could be reinstated as a voter despite his criminal record and why felons should be given another chance if convicted at an early age.

"I just feel like everyone deserves a second chance depending on the crime of course," 2 Chainz told Holmes. "Being that I was 15, I feel like I wasn't mature enough. I feel like I could have succumbed to some kind of peer pressure. It was always older people around. That's not an excuse none of the things that took place. But just for me I feel like if someone makes mistakes as early as 18 or before they can even drive. I feel like they should be given another opportunity depending on how severe the case was."

He goes on to explain how an encounter with a woman recruiting people to vote in 2008 showed him how he could be reinstated as a voter.

Unfortunately, if you live in Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee, Virginia or Wyoming you can't get your right to vote back if you have a felony conviction.

According to the Huffington Post, those states "deny the right to vote not only to inmates but also to those on parole and probation and those who have completed their sentences."

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                                            It's official! Mixtape dropping Nov. 22nd!

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Kanye West performed last night at Manhattan's Skylight at Moynihan Station venue. The event was held to launch the new Samsung Galaxy Note II smart device.

The Louis Vuitton Don played an hour long set that included songs like "Clique," "New God Flow," "Mercy," "Jesus Walks," "Good Life" and "Say You Will."

He surprised the audience when he brought out 2 Chainz to perform "Birthday Song."

"Birthday Song"

"New God Flow"/"Mercy"

Freestyle over "Say You Will"

Freestyle pt. 2

Freestyle pt. 3

"Clique"

Pic sources: Kenny Sun and ThenQM

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No rapper is safe when comedian Affion Crockett is around. As he gets ready to release his comedy album, Watch The Clone, Affion has some hilarious fun at the expense of Tity Boi A.K.A. Two Chainz in his new video spoof titled "Enunciation."

Peep the cover art and tracklist for the album below as well as the "Enunciation" video. And pick up Watch The Clone on November 6th via iTunes.

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Mike Knox drops "Me Against the World Pt. 2," the powerful into off of his upcoming Me Against the Worldmixtape, which drops later today.

The tape will be hosted by DJ Whoo Kid

Follow Mike on Twitter @MikeKnox215