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Here is the second of three BET.com exclusive warm up digital cyphers. This one features Core Masson, Kosha Dillz and Ol' Dirty B*stard's son, Boy Jones.
The RZA holds it down on the turntables.
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BET.com has released the first warm up cypher for this year's BET Hip Hop Awards. This is the first of three that will be shown exclusively on their website.
This one features Brianna Perry, Relly, Fame, The Kid Daytona and K'La.
Check it out below and let us know who you think had the hottest bars and be sure to tune in to the BET Hip Hop Awards airing October 9th on BET at at 8P/7c.
If the video player below doesn't work click HERE to watch the cypher.
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The music bug has bitten the kids of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Ace aka Trey Smith teams up with his siblings Willow and Jaden for "Find You Somewhere."
The video was directed by Jada. Check it out below and let us know what you think of it.
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50 Cent seems to be everywhere these days. The business mogul never stops working. There's always a new business venture to promote and during a recent trip to Sweden he stopped by the television show Breaking News with Filip and Fredrikto talk about what he's been up to recently.
50 speaks on the weirdest ideas people have asked him to invest in, his SMS Audio headphone line, "Street King Immortal," having financial freedom and more.
During a funny segment of the interview one of the hosts' father compares the quality of Beats by Dre to SMS Audio.
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Trae Tha Truth, Yo Gotti and Young Jeezy team up for "Choppa Talk." The song is off of Trae's upcoming mixtape titled The Blackprint, which drops August 30th.
Produced by Sonny Digital
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Mississippi and Houston link up as Big K.R.I.T. recruits Slim Thug and Lil Keke for the official "Me and My Old School (remix)" music video. The original track can be found on K.R.I.T.'s mixtape 4eva N A Day.
Directed by Michael Artis
Pick up a free copy of the tape from Datpiff.
Known as much for her beefs as her rhymes, Azealia Banks is definitely making a name for herself. The 21-year old Harlem rapper burst onto the music scene with her catchy hit "212," but then quickly found herself in the middle of squabbles with the likes of Kreayshawn, Iggy Azalea, Lil Kim, T.I. and most recently Jim Jones.
If she's bothered by the various conflicts she isn't letting it show. She released her 1991 EP in May, then followed that up by dropping a mixtape titled Fantasea. She now finds herself on the cover of Vibe alongside red hot producer Diplo.
Check out an excerpt from her cover story with the publication.
VIBE: You’ve come a long way since riding the Uptown 4 train. How are your peers reacting to your early success?
AZEALIA BANKS: The energy I’m getting is kinda, “Yo, what up?” and keep it moving. There’s no like… I don’t know.
Why do you think there’s hesitance?
Because I’m kinda this UFO that floats above wide ground. And nobody really gets it, but they see this weird floating object there [laughs]. When I spoke to Missy, she was like, “Yo, where did you come from?” Because you usually see people on their come up.
And now people are waiting to see if the UFO will crash?
Sometimes it is scary because you drop down in this territory where people feel like it’s their space. So then it’s kinda like, “Errr, hi…” And they don’t know how to react to you, and you don’t really know how to react to them. But they like your shit and you respect their shit. And it’s cool.
Besides feeling territorial, there are folks who take the hierarchal, respect-your-elders adage very seriously. Is that voided once someone disses you?
When people come at my head it doesn’t faze me enough to be sad. It’s just, “Listen motherf*cker, let me tell you about yourself and what I got and am about to get. You’re trying to knock me off my feet; I’m trying to stand tall, ’cause I’m here for a reason. I wasn’t even thinking about y’all, y’all came at me.”
Right, but not every 21-year-old newbie has the balls to publicly mouth off at T.I. Were you raised to be this fearless?
My mother was always like, “Anybody say something you don’t like, punch them in the mouth. Do it!” [Laughs] If I had a fight, when she came home I would get another a$$ whupping just for being a little bird. And she’d be like, “Why you letting these people bring you down?” I was a really fresh little girl, always arguing back, trying lipstick on, trying to shake my a$$—knowing in the back of my head I’m gonna get f*cked up [by my mother]. But fuck it, I wanna get f*cked up.
Do you think your American buzz so far has been built more off controversy than music?
Of course, because Americans are distracted by sh*t like that. It’s like, “Listen, T.I., if I was a f*cking boy you wouldn’t say anything to me.” But when I’m a girl and I say something back, the media wants to turn it into all these different things. Rappers beef all the time. I said what I said about [Iggy Azalea] and kept it moving. Then a month later you said what you said. And it keeps coming up. Leave it alone. I didn’t say she couldn’t rap. I said something very real. Out of everything, she had to [call herself] “a runaway slave master”? C’mon, that’s not swag. That’s not fly sh*t.
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And that’s all it was. For T.I. to drag me through the dirt… It’s silly. In Europe they leave it alone and keep playing my songs on the radio and I keep getting booked for fashion shows because they’re about the art. All I’m doing is making myself look bad by getting engaged with y’all because no one in Europe gives a f*ck about y’all. All I’m doing is giving y’all n*ggas exposure. So if you notice I’ve backed up off Twitter the past days [laughs].
Speaking of that wonderful social network, that’s the main thing you’re slammed for—calling out other artists on there.
Exactly. And that’s the only thing n*ggas could hold against me, because I’m hot. So you know what? I’ma back off and [tweet] about random sh*t and make these records. I’m trying to just reach out, do a little record…
Which brings us to Lil’ Kim. Why address her publicly instead of sending a private message or e-mail?
That’s what we did, and that shit is over. Yo, listen, [Lil’ Kim], this black cloud you got over you—don’t try to push that over me. You can keep that, because as soon as I released “Jumanji” is as soon everybody forgot about you. I have my hand on the dial; I can control how hot and cold you are right now. So I’m not even going to give it to you. I tried to make a legitimate track with you, tried to collaborate. I was bigging her up and she keeps throwing it back in my face. I tried.
Do you regret getting into these Twitter clashes?
Of course, because it’s e-thugging… Who wants to look like that? But how else am I gonna reach y’all? I don’t have a T.I. to get on a radio show and defend me; I’m the one behind me. Y’all expect me to agree like, “Oh yea, I’m wack. I only have one song.” That’s one song y’all niggas don’t f*cking have. You might win some, but you just lost one.
Kanye certainly doesn’t think you’re wack. Tell me about the time you guys first met in London last year.
He hit me up like, “You’re mad talented. What do you eat for breakfast?” The whole conversation was pretty dense—two Geminis in one room. So it was so many ideas flying.
To read the rest of the interview head over to Vibe
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Waka Flocka Flame just announced plans to hit the road on his own Triple F Life: Friends, Fans, and Family Tour. The 42-city trek kicks off October 2nd in Norfolk, Va. The tour will wind through cities like New York, Milawaukee, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Dallas and Houston before winding down overseas in Paris, France on December 3rd.
Tickets can be purchased on Waka's website starting on August 10th.
Tour dates:
TUE October 2 Norfolk, VA The Norva Theater
WED October 3 Richmond, VA The National
FRI October 5 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
SAT October 6 Silver Springs, MD Fillmore Silver Springs
SUN October 7 Allentown, PA Crocodile Café
TUE October 9 New York, NY Irving Plaza
WED October 10 Philadelphia, PA TLA
THU October 11 New Haven, CT Toads Place
FRI October 12 Providence, RI Lupos
SAT October 13 Albany, NY Northern Lights
SUN October 14 Boston, MA House of Blues
TUE October 16 Montreal, Quebec Tellus Theater
WED October 17 Toronto, Ontario Kool Haus
THU October 18 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
FRI October 19 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
SAT October 20 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
SUN October 21 Chicago, IL Congress Theater
MON October 22 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
TUE October 23 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
THU October 25 Denver, CO The Ogden
FRI October 26 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
SUN October 28 Seattle, WA Showbox Sodu
MON October 29 Vancouver, BC Commodore
TUE October 30 Portland, OR Roseland Ballroom
WED October 31 Reno, NV Knitting Factory
THU November 1 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
FRI November 2 Santa Ana, CA Observatory
SUN November 4 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
MON November 5 Phoenix, AZ Celebrity Theater
TUE November 6 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
THU November 8 Austin, TX Emos East
FRI November 9 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
SAT November 10 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
SUN November 11 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues
TUE November 13 Orlando, FL The Beachum
WED November 14 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
THU November 15 Tampa, FL The Ritz
SAT November 17 N. Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
SUN November 18 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte
WED November 21 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
SUN December 2 Amsterdam, Netherlands Melkweg
MON December 3 Paris, France Bataclan
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Asher Roth stopped by Hot 97's Cipha Sounds and Rosenberg show recently. He showed how nice he is on the mic by going off the top of the head for a freestyle over the instrumental of "R.E.C. Room" by Inspectah Deck.
Watch Asher go in below.
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Talib Kweli always manages to deliver some good old fashioned hip hop. For "Push Thru" he recruited Curren$y and Kendrick Lamar. The song will be featured on Talib's Prisoner of Conscious album, due out in October.
Video directed By Scott Fleishman and Fredo Tovar.
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Jim Jones Returns with parts 4 and 5 of his Vampire Life movie. Both tracks, which feature Ryder and Don Juan can be found on Jim's latest mixtape Vampire Life 2: F.E.A.S.T. (The Last Supper).
You can download the tape from Datpiff.
When Mac Miller sampled Lord Finesse's 1995 "Hip 2 Da Game" instrumental for his song "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" off his 2010 K.I.D.S mixtape he could have never imagined the hot water it would get him into. It's become a fairly common practice for rappers to use music from other artists for freestyles and mixtapes without being sued, but Finesse isn't buying it.
The legendary D.I.T.C. member has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Miller, his record company, Rostrum Records, and the mixtape site, Datpiff.
"This is a case about a teenage rapper- Mac Miller- copying the music from a song written, produced and performed by Lord Finesse, a hip hop legend, changing the title and then distributing it under his own name in order to launch his music career," the complaint states according to Courthouse News Service.
Since it's release in August 2010, Kids has been downloaded more than 450,000 times. And the video for "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" has been viewed nearly 24 million times on YouTube, according to the complaint.
Finesse says Miller has profited from the unauthorized use of the song and that he only filed the lawsuit after DatPiff, Rostrum and Miller refused to respond to a cease and desist letter earlier this month.
The $10 million lawsuit "alleges copyright infringement, unfair competition, unjust enrichment, interference, deceptive trade practices, and a number of related state law claims." Finesse also seeks a permanent injunction from the court.
Mac took to Twitter to respond to the lawsuit.
"I'm supposed to be on hush but lemme speak on this real quick," Mac wrote. "Finesse and I spoke on the phone for an hour after he heard the record and cleared the air. We even planned to work on music together. All I wanted to do is shed light on a generation that inspired me. Finesse never cleared the Oscar Peterson sample on the original record. I did nothing wrong. We spoke on the phone had a good conversation, he was cool with the record. It's all love tho. I ain't even mad at dude. He still a legend. When I heard there was a problem, I reached out to him to try and solve it. No response. Lord Finesse, thank you for what u did for hip hop. Thank you for bringing my favorite rapper into the game."
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Iggy Azalea talks with AllHipHop about what's been holding up her Glory EP and what it's like working with Cee Lo Green and Pusha T on the project. She also discusses her Grand Hustle family, T.I. executive producing her debut album The New Classic.
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Drake's Club Paradise tour made a stop at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in Long Island, New York Saturday night and he brought out several special guests during his set.
Drizzy welcomed Jim Jones, Cam'Ron and Juelz Santana of The Diplomats to the stage to perform "Ballin," "Santana's Town," "I Really Mean It" and "Salute."
Drake also hung out with Lloyd Banks and Busta Rhymes backstage.
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Mr. Bangladesh steps out of his producer's chair and spits some bars for the camera in the new video for his single "100." Bang gets assists from Pusha T, Jadakiss and a cameo appearance from Funkmaster Flex in this one.
Directed by Gabriel Hart
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Summer Jam 2012 featured a who's who of hip hop artists from coast to coast. Big Sean represented Detroit well during his set. He brought out 2 Chainz and Pusha T to perform the G.O.O.D Music hit "Mercy."
Check out the footage below.
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New music from Soulja Boy
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Brick Squad's Frenchie 1017 collabs with his MDE artists Joffy, ZoeBalla and Deezy on a song entitled "No Jokes." The last verse features Young Image who is no longer with us. R.I.P.
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BET will soon be looking for new hosts of their popular television program '106 & Park. The New York Post is reporting that both Rocsi Diaz and Terrence J are exiting the show after nearly seven years to pursue acting careers.
Diaz, 28, is moving to California and has reportedly already landed a role in a project that also stars Lynn Whitfield.
The 30-year old J has already found some success on the big screen after recently starring in the hit movie 'Think Like A Man.'
Diaz and J have hosted '106 and Park' since 2006 when they won a national competition to replace Free and AJ Calloway.
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Pharell Williams launches his brand new label "i am Other," formerly known as Star Trek. Check out the launch video below which features the label's new talent Buddy, Maxine Ashley, Alyssa Bernal and Leah Labelle.
Brought to you by musician, producer and entrepreneur Pharrell Williams, i am OTHER is a cultural movement.
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