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This past weekend a story broke about an alleged heated argument between Busta Rhymes and Charlamagne Tha God at a party in Hollywood for Melanie Fiona. Busta was supposedly upset with Charlamagne about negative comments Wendy Williamsmade about him several years ago when he thought Charlamagne was her sidekick on the radio.

This morning on The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne gave his side of the story. He says the two exchanged words, but there was no physical altercation.

Hot 97's Peter Roseneberg also released audio of what he says happened. In his version of the story Busta pressed his finger against Charlamagne's forehead and mushed him.

Check out both sides of the story below and decide for yourself what happened.

Charlamagne Tha God Discusses Argument With Busta Rhymes In Hollywood

Hot 97's Version Of What Happened

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Nas was going to appear as a surprise guest during Nicki Minaj's set at Summer Jam 2012. As we all know by now Nicki didn't perform, but Nas did and he brought special guest Lauryn Hill out with him. Rap-Up caught up with the Queens MC to get get his take on the situation.

What was it like to touch down on the Summer Jam stage?
It was magic. I didn’t want to be announced. I wanted to keep it quiet, a surprise for people. It was an honor to do it again because I haven’t done it in years.

How did you get Lauryn Hill to come out?
Nicki had asked me to come out during her set and so I figured that would be a great way to go into my show. I only wanted to bring out Lauryn during my set, so she was with it. That’s my sister.

Have you kept in touch with her over the years?
I don’t really keep in touch with anyone except my family. Artists, we’re too busy to be in touch, but we’ve seen each other through the years and it’s just love.

Can we expect another collaboration between the two of you?
I don’t know. She’s amazing. I’d love to.

What do you make of the whole YMCMB vs. Hot 97 drama?
I’ve been there before and things like that happen every couple of years. I guess this is the second time something has happened like that between the artist and the radio station. We don’t always agree and the nature of hip-hop can be aggressive and get real gangsta on you now and then. That’s just what it is. These things happen.

Lauryn wrote a letter in support of Nicki. Do you stand by her decision not to perform?
[YMCMB's] situation was different than mine and I’m not clear on all of it, but of course when it happened with me years ago, it was based on the Jay-Z drama and a whole bunch of other stuff. Her situation is based on something different between her and her camp. Eventually I got cool with Hot 97 and they got cool with me. It’s one hip-hop family, and that’s how it should be at the end of the day.

Did you speak to Nicki about the situation?
I think it was just really messy. When you’re in the heat of that moment, no one has time to inform anybody, but we spoke after briefly and it seemed like it was a crazy situation for her to handle. When put in that position, it’s no easy thing and I guess I was in support of her, in support of Hot 97. I’ve been there before, so at the end of the day, it could be fixed. It’s one hip-hop family, let’s unify it.

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The Jay-Z and Nas beef has long been put to rest, but in the summer of 2002 it was in full swing. Nas planned to lynch Hov on the Summer Jam stage that year. Hot 97 wouldn't approve the act and ultimately Nas refused to perform.

MONTREALITY got their hands on some footage of what we would have seen. Was Nas taking the beef way too far?

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What was supposed to be one of the biggest shows of Nicki Minaj's her career at Summer Jam 2012 turned into a war of words with event organizers. Eventually Nicki cancelled her performance altogether. Artists and fans have come down on both sides of the fence. Some have blamed Nicki for not performing, while others think it was wrong of Peter Rosenbergto criticize her given the fact that she was the headliner.

One artist who did perform at the event thinks Nicki did the right thing by pulling the plug on her performance.

In a letter sent out to her 45,000 Twitter followers today, Lauryn Hilloffered her support to Nicki. Check out what Lauryn had to say below.

No disrespect to Nicki, but I need to clear up an inaccuracy. I was not scheduled to be a special guest on her set at Summer Jam, I was invited by Nas to perform with him. I don't have details on exactly what transpired between the station and the artists, but I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. We can do better than this, there is a better way, or else 'we' (the proverbial we) find ourselves in danger of being hypocrites!!!

Ms. Lauryn Hill 

What's your take on the situation? Should Nicki have ignored the criticism and performed anyway?

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As you have probably all heard by now, Hot 97 and YMCMB are feuding following Nicki Minaj's refusal to perform at Summer Jam 2012 Sunday [June 3rd] after the Harajuku Barbie was dissed by Peter Rosenberg.

It shouldn't be a major surprise that Hot 97's competitors would have something to say to say about the situation and today Power 105.1 responded to it by giving Hot 97 their "Donkey of the Day" award for dissing their headliner.

Peep the audio below as DJ Envy and Angela Yee go in.

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Each year that XXL releases their "Freshman Class" list there are both positive and negative responses. The 2012 cover featuring Machine Gun Kelly, Iggy Azalea, French Montana, Kid Ink, Future, Danny Brown, Roscoe Dash, Hopsin, Macklemore and Don Trip is no different.

The XXL staff sat down with Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, Cipha Sounds and K. Foxx to explain how they make their decisions on which rapper make the list.

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French Montana hit up the Hot 97 show today to chop it up with Angie Martinez. He talked about the upcoming NY Giants "Shot Caller" remix, turning down a deal with G.O.O.D Music to sign with Bad Boy, meeting Rihanna and his appearance on the record "Stay Schemin" that took the Drake vs. Common beef up a notch.

Angie asked French about Drake's verse on "Stay Schemin" getting at Common and the Chicago rapper's immediate reply.

"With them you gotta look at it like it's hip hop, it's competition, it's good for the music," French said. "I think Drake wanna fight. He said he can't wait to run into him."

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Prodigy and Havoc have been in many conflicts with other rappers throughout the years. Whether it's been Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z or Saigon, Mobb Deep has never shied away from a battle. During a very candid interview with Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, Illuminati P breaks down why the group has always been ready to address all drama at a moment's notice.

PR: It's almost an honor that you had your sh*t with Pac. I'm just curious, all these years later Pac's gone, he's basically a God in hip hop and he talked crazy sh*t about y'all. How does it feel being a dude who was the subject of beef with this dude who is considered an all time great?

Prodigy: At that time we didn't care who he was, or what he did, or he with--none of that. We was just holding our crew. Holding down our team, holding down our state, out borough. And we was willing to die for that. As stupid as that may sound, we was willing to die over rap music. We was putting our life on the line. At that time we was doing shows in L.A. and all that. That's why I went so hard at Jay-Z when he said that line in a song because he wasn't around for none of that. Pac was going at him too. Nas, Jay. Mobb Deep, Biggie. So, Biggie and Mobb Deep was holding it down we wasn't playing, we was ready to die for that. Get locked up whatever, get shot...because that'e the mentality we had at that time. Thank God we made it out of that and it's sad that Pac didn't and Biggie didn't.

So, when Jay-Z started saying all that crazy stuff [like] he held New York down and 'New York been soft ever since Snoop came through and crushed the buildings.' I took that very personal and I said what I had to say about him. I called him a b*tch basically for saying that. He was a b*tch for saying that 'cause he waited 'til everything had died down, he waited until people got murdered...waited 'til everything was over with then come out and said that like he did something.

P goes on to talk about how getting in shape has helped him deal with sickle cell, his book My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy and a lot more.

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Popular Hot 97 radio personality Cipha Sounds is in a lot of trouble today after making a racially insensitive remark about Haitian women.

Last Friday December 17 during his show with Peter Rosenberg and K-Fox, Cipha joked, “The reason I’m HIV negative is because I don’t mess with Haitian women.”

Haitian groups are calling for the dj to be fired.

Members of The Haitian Roundtable, The Haitian America Caucus and BelTiFi are expected to protest outside of Hot97 today according to XXL.

Cipha expressed remorse for making the joke.

“I made a stupid, tasteless joke that was totally taken the wrong way. If I said anything to offend my Haitian people I apologize.” he said