Bryan Williams aka Birdman takes a break from signing every free agent artist under the sun to pose for the cover of RESPECT.
The issue which becomes available March 6th will contain an interview with the man who along with his brother, Slim, runs the South's biggest record label.
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Tyga's sophomore album Careless World: Rise of the Last King has been pulled from retail outlets such as iTunes, Amazon and Best Buy because of an uncleared Martin Luther King sample.
The sample appears at the end of the album's opening track "Careless World." There were initial reports that the album would be unavailable for two weeks, but Tyga tweeted this morning that it will be back on store shelves Tuesday February 21.
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Talent definitely runs in the family as Doug E. Fresh's sons Slim and Trips, together known as Sqaure Off team up with Peter Gunz's offspring Cory Gunz for "The Pain." The track is featured on Square Off's album Money, Moet and Memories.
The video features the familiar voice of "Pain in the Ass" from Jay-Z and Biggie's joint "Brooklyn's Finest."
Track produced by DJ Ted Smooth
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50 Cent releases official visuals for one of my favorite tracks off of his mixtape The Big 10. Produced by DJ Khalil "Shooting Guns" features G-Unit/Rida Gang member Kidd Kidd.
Directed by Jackson Smith
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With his Underrated album due in stores March 13th, Bow Wow releases visuals for the lead single "Sweat" featuring Lil Wayne.
The single is available now via iTunes.
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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.
Photos courtesy of S Dot B Photography.
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As part of their Best New Artist series, The Grammys teams up with Pepsi and Pandora to give viewers an inside look at this year's nominees. This episode features Roc Nation's J. Cole, who will battle it out with Nicki Minaj, The Band Perry, Bon Iver and Skrillex for the coveted trophy.
Cole talks about his early influences like Nas and Tupac, getting his demo tape rejected by Jay-Z initially and what it was like to move from Fayetteville, North Carolina to New York City to attend St. John's University and get his rap career started.
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CTE and YMCMB collide as 2Eleven and Mack Maine team up for "Bullsh*t." The track is off of 2Eleven's new mixtape Product Of The Block Volume 2.
The project drops later today and boasts features from Freddie Gibbs, Young Jeezy and Omarion.
Drake's song The Motto has been remixed by just about every rapper under the sun. The catchy track, a tribute to the Bay Area has been sitting on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for 11 weeks, and has now passed the platinum mark in sales.
The album the song is featured on, Take Care, went past a million in sales last month.
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It looks like the Common vs. Drake beef is officially over.
When Common spoke to Rolling Stone last week he told them that he wasn't going to fire any more shots if Drake didn't respond to his "Stay Schemin" diss.
"I feel like I said what I had to say, and I'm just going to let it be at that point," he said at the time. "Now, if something else happens, then I'll just have to act accordingly. But right now, I feel like, man, I said what I needed to say about this situation on record."
Now Drake has gone on record saying he won't respond because he feels like Common was only using him to promote his album.
"Despite how it’s been worded by him that situation is not a hip hop moment or a battle for the sake of musical integrity," Drake told Nah Right in a new interview. "It’s a ploy for attention around the release of an album. More than anything it was just disappointing cause what kid isn’t a fan of what Common has done for our genre. A guy who made such an incredible career for himself based off expressing genuine feelings about life and love is now targeting me for sharing my story."
How do you feel about Drake not responding? Did he lose the battle or was he right to assume it was a publicity stunt by Common?
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Lil Wayne stares at himself through the "Mirror" in his latest video. Bruno Mars lends his vocals to the track, a bonus cut from Tha Carter IV.
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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.
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Bow Wow's Underrated 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.
Peep the full tracklist below.
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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.
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Drake released this video yesterday via his OctobersVeryOwn blog spot. It features a thick female dancing to "Practice." A track off of his platinum selling "Take Care" album. It initially looks like some random clip the young lady put together until Drizzy walks in near the end and gives her a big hug. While not the official video we're pretty sure most guys won't hate on it.
Drake is asking his female fans to submit videos of themselves dancing to his tune. It's not clear if the winner will appear in an official video for the track or if Drake just wants to see how many sexy ladies will actually send videos in.
Ladies if you're interested head over to Drake's website for information on how to submit your "Practice" video.
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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."
The life of a rap star, lol.
Underrated the album coming soon.
Video directed by Rico Da Crook.
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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."
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Waka Flocka finally gets around to shooting an official video for his Round of Applause remix featuring Drizzy Drake. The strip club anthem was shot and edited in Los Angeles by Delaney "Music Jones" Douglas.
Check out some behind the scenes footage below.
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Drake is looking to get back into acting in a big way by portraying Barack Obama if possible.
The former star of Degrassi: The Next Generation was interviewed by VH1 while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah several days ago when he was asked about getting back into acting.
"I was inspired before I came out here," he said. "Now it's for sure."
Drake said that he's mostly offered roles of basketball players and rappers, but is looking for something with more substance.
"I've been reading scripts for a while. I wanna do something great," Drake told VH1's Janell Snowden. "I wanna do a movie specifically for my culture, the younger people who are still in tine with everything going on. I'm actually writing with my friends right now--the have a production company called Be Any Means Necessary. We're writing together trying to figure out the right movie."
According to Drake, the perfect role would be that of America's first African American President.
"I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him," Drake told VH1. "That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Anytime I see him on TV, I don't change the channel, I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions."
Sources: Rolling Stone and VH1
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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.
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