Nicki Minaj's "Stupid H*e" music video has racked up over 20 million youtube hits since it premiered January 20, but it won't be seen on BET.
The cable network is refusing to air it according to TMZ because it's too explicit for television. Nicki tweeted on Saturday that the video would be seen on MTV Jams, which is also owned by Viacom so that wouldn't seem to make any sense.
Fans of the video can still see it unedited on youtube. The video-sharing website hasn't flagged it as being inappropriate or age-restricted.
BET has yet to release an official statement on the ban.
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Tyga is following up on his "Rack City" video with "B*tch Betta Have My Money" off of his 2011 mixtape B*tch I'm The Sh*t. Kurupt Young Gotti and YG are featured.
Common recently visited Cosmic Kev's show on Philadelphia's Power99 radio station. The Chicago spitta goes in over Jay-Z's "Streets Is Watching" and French Montana's "Shot Callers."
Nicki Minaj and LL Cool J team up for their second promotional video for the 54th annual Grammy Awards. The two looked like they actually had fun filming the clip as LL beat boxes while Nicki dances.
LL will serve as the show's first host in seven years. Nicki is nominated for four awards, including Best New Artist and will also perform on the show which airs Sunday Feb. 12, 2012 at 8 pm ET on CBS.
Cory Gunz is a free man this morning after his father, Peter Gunz, posted his $30,000 bail. The 24-year old posted several messages on Twitter once he was home and expressed remorse for his arrest on a gun charge.
"Lock My Body, Kan't Trap My Mind," he wrote on the social networking site. "I apologize to all of my Supporters, Friends and Family. Things Happen, No excuses. My only regret is letting ya'll down... Peace."
Corey, born Peter Cory Pankey Jr., was arrested in the Bronx, New York Saturday when plainclothes cops responding to a fight in the area apprehended him when he exited a cab and found a loaded, unregistered Taurus .9mm handgun in his backpack as well as a face mask reports XXL.
"This was a big mistake on my part," Gunz told the New York Daily News after his release. "I didn't have any intentions of harming anyone or committing a criminal activity. So many young people look up to me and I need to fight though this."
New York has notoriously strict gun laws. Lil Wayne, who signed Cory to his Young Money label last year spent 10 months locked up in Rikers Island in 2010 on a gun charge. Prodigy of Mobb Deep was released from prison in March 2011 after serving 3 years on similar charges.
One of the rapper's biggest supporters is Nick Cannon, who executive produced Cory's MTV show "Son of a Gun." Cannon tweeted that he would be there for Cory if needed.
"Great dude, just a little bad luck. @CoryGunz is holding strong and will be out shortly. Family is here if and when anything is needed," Cannon wrote.
Peter Gunz said he believes his son was searched illegally.
"It was definitely an illegal search," Peter said. "He just got out of a cab and police ran up on him and they were in plainclothes. He didn't know they were cops - he thought he was getting robbed."
If convicted, Cory faces a mandatory minimum sentence of three and 1/2 years.
Yesterday we previewed J. Cole's "Road to the Grammys" as part of Pandora, PepsiCo Inc., and The Recording Academy's Best New Artist series. Today we take a look at Nicki Minaj, who along with Cole is up for the award against Bon Iver, Skrillex and The Band Perry.
"I'm not gonna be nervous about winning because I really don't think I'm gonna win anything," Nicki says. "The way I look at it is, I know eventually in my career I'm gonna have Grammys. This year is just about being nominated and feeling grateful. Feeling like my fans and I have come a very long way. And we're just gonna celebrate this moment."
Nicki is nominated in four total categories. She will also perform at the event.
The 54th annual Grammy Awards airs February 12 at 8PM ET on CBS.
Bow Wow'sUnderrated cd is due out March 13th. The official tracklist was released today and revealed some interesting features.
Ace Hood, Miguel, Chris Brown, Musiq Soulchild, Talib Kweli, Meek Mill, Jadakiss, Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J all make appearances. Machine Gun Kelly and Boys II Men are featured on the deluxe edition.
On the production side Bow recruited Cardiak, No I.D., Bei Major, Drumma Boy and Jahlil Beats among others.
Bow Wow has run into some legal trouble in Tennessee that might require he spent a couple of days in jail before it's all cleared up.
TMZ is reporting that the rapper failed to pay a $100,000 tour bus bill from 2009 to a Tennessee company. The company then filed a lawsuit in Georgia where the rapper lives to get the judgement enforced.
He was ordered to show documents regarding the lawsuit. After he failed to do so the tour bus company filed a motion to have the rapper held in contempt.
In October 2011 a Georgia judge granted the motion and ordered the rapper be arrested and held until he produces the documents. According to the report Bow Wow still hasn't responded and will have to keep looking over his shoulder until he does.
In episode 10 of Bow Wow's web series "Underrated" he hits up Chateau Nightclub in Las Vegas before jetting to Los Angeles to link up with Wiz Khalifa.
There's plenty of Kush smoke in the air as the two rappers pull an all-nighter in the studio. At about 6 am in the morning Wiz is so high he loses track of what he's supposed to be doing.
"I don't even know what the f*ck I'm looking for, I'm high as hell," says the Taylor Gang chief. "What the f*ck am I doing? I think I'm looking for some beats."
Just a couple of hours after dropping her latest video for "Stupid H*e" yesterday, Nicki Minaj announced that the release date of her sophomore album has been pushed back.
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded was originally scheduled to drop on Valentine's Day, February 14. That date has now been moved to April 3rd.
Cory Gunz is in police custody today after being arrested for possession of a loaded firearm. MTV is reporting that the 24-year old rapper was arrested around 2PM Saturday (January 28) in the Bronx.
Gunz was originally taken to the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx, then later transferred to Central Booking.
"It was definitely an illegal search," his father Peter Gunz told MTV. "I spoke to the arresting officer, and so far, what I'm hearing from him is that they got a phone call at the station saying they should 'look out.' According to [the officer], they didn't know he was Cory Gunz. They just saw a bunch of kids following him around."
New York has notoriously strict gun laws. Lil Wayne, who signed Cory to his Young Money label last year spent 242 days locked up in Rikers Island on a gun charge. Prodigy of Mobb Deep was released from prison in March 2011 after serving 3 years on similar charges.
Even though this is Cory's first offense his father is worried about what kind of punishment his son will face.
"To go to a precinct and see your son, your junior, in handcuffs, it's heartbreaking. Anytime you see your child in jail, in the cell, in handcuffs, it's very hard. He's walked down some of the same paths that I walked down, but you never want to see your kids go through what you went through," Peter said to MTV. "This is Cory's first offense, but sometimes they like to make an example out of rappers and people with any kind of celebrity to them."
It's always interesting watching rappers get interviewed by The Breakfast Club. DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God have a way of getting them to admit to certain things they may not want to.
Bow Wow was the latest artist to sit in the hot seat. The YMCMB rapper talked about the fallout stemming from putting his estranged alcoholic father in one of his webisodes, dealing with constant rumors, chopping it up with Snoop Dogg about doing a movie based on his life and becoming a father for the first time.
In addition Bow talked about past relationships with Karrine "Super Head" Steffans, Kim Kardashian, Dollicia Bryant and Ciara.
Nicki Minaj gets super animated in her new video for "Stupid Hoe." A song that could be perceived as a Lil Kim diss. The track is off of Nicki's upcoming album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.
Common displays the skills that show why he's going to be a problem for Drake in their war of words. The veteran Chicago rhyme spitta was in Atlanta recently for a Q and A session with fans when he was asked to freestyle.
With music from his hit record "The Light" as the backdrop, Common did his thing coming off the top of the dome encorporating words that are written on cards being held up the event's host. Of course the rhyme wouldn't have been complete without him dropping a Canada Dry line.
Big Fendi, the owner of Come Up DVD fires all kinds of shots in the trailer for the next volume in the series.
Doggie Diamonds of www.ForbezDVD.com interviews Big Fendi, to get the real story behind his conflicts with Nicki Minaj, Jordan Tower, Gravy, Diddy and more.
Fendi goes in on Nicki Minaj for never compensating him for helping to launch her career. If you search youtube, you will see that before Nicki Minaj changed her image into the Young Money pop star she is today, she was featured on several Come Up DVD music videos as a hardcore rapper. According to Fendi he introduced her to Waka Flocka's mother Deb Antney, who became her manager for a while.
"Everybody know this DVD right here started Nicki Minaj's whole career," says Fendi. "I changed her name, I changed her image. Me and Nicki Minaj was arguing because I wanted her to be the sex symbol, talk about p*ssy and get n*ggas open, and she told me I was disgracing her name. But she [now] still talks about p*ssy and a$$, a$$, a$$. So is she following my blueprint? I gave her to Debbie [Antney] on some management sh*t--Waka moms and sh*t went left after that. Nicki goes to Atlanta and becomes a new Nicki after that. Debbie started questioning me as far what I ever did for her. So now, Nicki hanging out with Debbie," Fendi continues. "I call Nicki to tell her about my birthday party coming up. Nicki started telling me I need to holla at Debbie. Nicki piggybacked off Debbie to get with Puff [Diddy]. Puff aint did no more. Debbie aint did no more."
After all he did for Nicki, Fendi said he was expecting some form of financial compensation, but never got any.
"She gave me credits on her album, woopty-fucking-doo. 'Shout out to Fendi for teaching me everything.' I read that...I was like 'OK, but where the f*ck is the money at?' I'm the reason why Nicki Minaj is with Young Money," Fendi claims. "I spoke to Tez, who's the President of Young Money right before Wayne came home [From Rikers Island]. He was like, 'Yo Fen when Wayne gets home we gonna straighten you out.' N*gga I aint heard from Tez since."
Fendi sh*ts on his former artist Gravy, the rapper who played Biggie Smalls in the movie "Notorious" as being an ungrateful fraud with a fake image.
"Gravy was my son. Like a n*gga that I took care of like mt little boy," Fendi said. "N*gga's jewelry was fake, I got him real jewelry. Anything negative that come out of Gravy mouth about me, n*gga need to smack him for that. Cuz he aint built like that."
Fendi also accuses director Jordan Tower of stealing his videos and featuring them on WorldStarHipHop as his own and says Diddy's Dirty Money group name belongs to him.
Fendi says he will end a lot of people's careers when he releases Come Up DVD Volume 23 on March 3rd.
Shouts to Doggie Diamonds and M. Reck of Forbez DVD and Big Fendi.
There are big wagers taking place all over the country as Super Bowl 46 inches closer to taking place. Few will be bigger than a proposed bet between 50 Cent and Birdman.
As we previously reported, 50 won $500,000 dollars when he bet on the New York Giants to beat the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game, paving their way to the Super Bowl.
A day later Birdman tweeted that he was willing to place a $5 million dollar bet with anyone on the New England Patriots to defeat the Giants in the big game. Fif answered the call by telling Stunna he'd bet him $1 million instead.
This could get interesting. Who do you think will win the big game between the Patriots and Giants?
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