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Lil Wayne was part of an all-star concert event last night [March 1] for Caesars Total Rewards. The Young Money CEO performed at H&H Courtyard in Hollywood, Californina.
Check out his full show below
"I'm Going In" x "We Be Steady Mobbin."
"Blunt Blowin"
"How to Love"
"6'7"
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Nicki Minaj opened the NBA All-Star Game up tonight [February 26] by performing during the player introductions. The Harajuku Barbie sang/rapped "Moment 4 Life," "Turn Me On," "Starships" and "Super Bass."
Nicki Minaj Performs "Moment 4 Life" x "Turn Me On"
Nicki Minaj Performs "Starships" x "Super Bass"
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A lot of hip-hop heads were surprised to hear Spitta Andretti and SP The Ghost were collaborating on a mixtape. Here we get a behind the scenes look at the recording process that also included Daz Dillinger.
#The1st28 mixtape drops today [February 28].
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Drake's "Club Paradise" tour hit the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles, CA Monday [March 5]. The Young Money star brought out a couple of special guests in Meek Mill and J. Cole.
Peep the footage below.
J. Cole "Can't Get Enough"
Meek Mill "I'm A Boss"
Drake "Stay Schemin"
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Jhené Aiko is a star on the rise. The 23-year old California native is signed to producer No I.D.'s Def Jam distributed Artium label. This past weekend the songbird took time out during a performance to pay tribute to 2Pac by performing one of his classics, "Keep Your Head Up."
Of course the show would not have been complete without Jhené singing her hit song "Stranger."
Check it out below.
"Keep Your Heads Up"
"Stranger"
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Check out DJ Pauly D and Artistic Raw's remix of Chris Brown's "Turn Up the Music" as premiered by Ryan Seacrest.
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Nipsey Hussle and Blanco have teamed up for a collaborative album entitled Raw that is being produced entirely by Cooking Soul. The first single "L.A. Confidential" features YG.
Video directed by Aris Jerome
Raw will be released April 17, 2012
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The 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards was held Friday (February 17) in Los Angeles. It was a night of celebration and remembrance as awards were given out for achievements of people of color and Yolanda Adams paid tribute to fallen superstar Whitney Houston.
Among those winning awards were LL Cool J for Actor in a Drama series “NCIS: Los Angeles,” Diggy Simmons for Best New Artist, Cee Lo Green for Best Male Artist, Jill Scott for Best Female Artist, Mike Epps for Supporting actor in a motion picture for “Jumping the Broom,” and “The Help” for Best Motion Picture.
Check out the full list of winners below plus performances from Ne-Yo, Jennifer Hudson, Jill Scott and Yolonda Adams.
Winners of the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards, presented Friday in Los Angeles:
Motion Pictures:
Motion Picture: “The Help”
Actor in a motion picture: Laz Alonso, “Jumping the Broom”
Actress in a motion picture: Viola Davis, “The Help”
Supporting actor in a motion picture: Mike Epps, “Jumping the Broom”
Supporting actress in a motion picture: Octavia Spencer, “The Help”
Independent motion picture: “Pariah”
Foreign motion picture: “In the Land of Blood and Honey”
Documentary, theatrical or television: “Sing Your Song”
Television:
Comedy series: “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”
Actor in a comedy series: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, “Reed Between the Lines”
Actress in a comedy series: Tracee Ellis Ross, “Reed Between the Lines”
Supporting actor in a comedy series: Nick Cannon, “Up All Night”
Supporting actress in a comedy series: Keshia Knight Pulliam, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”
Drama series: “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
Actor in a drama series: LL Cool J, “NCIS: Los Angeles”
Actress in a drama series: Regina King, “SouthLAnd”
Supporting actor in a drama series: James Pickens, Jr., “Grey’s Anatomy”
Supporting actress in a drama series: Archie Panjabi, “The Good Wife”
TV movie, mini-series or dramatic special: “Thurgood”
Actor in a TV movie, mini-series or dramatic special: Laurence Fishburne, “Thurgood”
Actress in a TV movie, mini-series or dramatic special: Taraji P. Henson, “Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story”
Actor in a daytime drama series: Emerson Brooks, “All My Children”
Actress in a daytime drama series: Tatyana Ali, “The Young and the Restless”
News/information, series or special: “Unsung”
Talk series: “Oprah’s Lifeclass”
Reality series: “Dancing With the Stars”
Variety series or special: “Oprah Presents: Master Class”
Children’s program: “I Can Be President: A Kid’s-Eye View”
Performance in a children’s program, series or special: Keke Palmer, “True Jackson, VP”
Writing:
Comedy series: Salim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, “The Game”
Dramatic series: Lolis Eric Elie, “Treme”
Motion picture: Ann Peacock, “The First Grader”
Directing:
Comedy series: Leonard R. Garner, Jr., “Rules of Engagement”
Dramatic series: Ernest Dickerson, “Treme”
Motion picture: Salim Akil, “Jumping the Broom”
Recording:
New artist: Diggy Simmons
Male artist: Cee Lo Green
Female artist: Jill Scott
Duo, group or collaboration: Mary J. Blige feat. Drake
Jazz album: George Benson, “Guitar Man”
Gospel album, traditional or contemporary: Kirk Franklin, “Hello Fear”
World music album: Sounds of Blackness, “Sounds of Blackness”
Music video: Jennifer Hudson, “Where You At”
Song: Kirk Franklin, “I Smile”
Album: Jennifer Hudson, “I Remember Me”
Literature:
Fiction: Reshonda Tate Billingsley, “Say Amen, Again”
Nonfiction: Hill Harper, “The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place”
Debut author: Lyah Le Flore, “The Strawberry Letter”
Biography/autobiography: Harry Belafonte, “My Song”
Instructional: T.D. Jakes, “The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God”
Poetry: James Golden, “Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems”
Children: Tony Dungy (author), Ron Mazellan (illustrator), “You Can Be A Friend”
Youth/teens: Jeff Burlingame, “Jesse Owens: I Always Loved Running”
Jill Scott "I'm So Blessed"
Ne-Yo and Jennifer Hudson "Aint No Mountain High Enough"
Yolanda Adams "Whitney Houston Tribute"
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Producers Cookin' Soul bring together two rising stars in Mac Miller and Dutch rapper MC Melodee for an internationally flavored joint entitled "Genius."
The song will appear on Melodee's upcoming collaborative project with Cookin' Soul due to drop later this year.
Video directed by Film Collins.
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Lloyd Banks performed at the System Dance Club in Long Island, New York Friday February 10th and by all accounts shut it down. One look at his Twitter timeline and you can tell fans left the event happy.
HipHop-N-More was in the building and captured footage of the PLK performing "Shock The World" x "Beamer, Benz or Bentley" and "Start It Up."
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Sunny days and pretty women in bathing suits fit the Spring Break theme in this behind the scenes look Travis Porter's new video "Ayy Ladies" featuring Tyga.
Chris Brown, Meek Mill and Mann make cameo appearances.
Shot by Alex Nazari
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Shade 45's Sway in the Morning show is turning into a really good spot to catch interviews and musical performances. The show is filmed, then uploaded to Sway's youtube channel where fans can watch Devi Dev and Sway chop it with everyone from new school rappers like Astro to legends like Erick Sermon.
E. Sermon was the latest guest on the show, and he had some very interesting takes on hip hop. With so many different types of rap acts, Sermon feels like it should be broken down into more than one category.
"The whole thing is...look at rock and roll. Rock and roll respects their craft like hip hop respects our craft. You got some artists who don't know how to express like I can because I recognize what's in and what was before. This is not my era. I don't write songs to compete in this era," Sermon said. "Sade came out and sold 546,000 pieces. Her fans bought that. The young people don't know who she is and she still managed to sell all them records because of what...she was Sade and the fans are still there. But when you have these other genres like Britney Spears or [Christina] Aguilera. A rock and roll person don't wanna see them in that category. They wanna see them in their own lane, which is pop. Or Blink 182 will be alternative rock or punk rock. Or when wanna put soft rock in there with Maroon 5, but they won't put them in rock and roll. But they put everything hip hop in that one umbrella. They'll throw TLC in there, they'll throw Mary J. Blige in there. They'll throw whatever in hip hop because that's the one genre without having categories. Why is that?"
Sermon then broke down how he would categorize hip hop.
"I feel like the underground should have underground, the opposite of hip hop which is kick, snare, samples, beat and the conversation of a hip hop artist is either lyricism or either message," he explained. "Then you have the party [rappers] which Lil Jon would have called crunk at the time. But then you got the south. They running [things] for 14 years. That's them...you gotta give them their own music lane. So it won't conflict with Kendrick Lamar who's a spitter. They call him because he's new, but he really don't belong on records with certain people, he's a rhymer. You have to put Machine Gun Kelly--him and Waka they're stage divers. They're kinda like heavy hip hop so put them in a heavy rap category like heavy metal. Again rock's got all types of stuff going on. Just the fact that we can have a balance."
Erick Sermon says rap needs more categories + performs "Gold Diggers"
Erick Sermon speaks on the making of "Music" & performs it
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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."
Common "Streets Is Watching" Freestyle
Common "Shot Callers" Freestyle
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B.o.B. was one of the featured performers yesterday (February 3) at the 2012 VH1 Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam concert in Indianapolis.
Check out footage of Bobby Ray performing "Don't Let Me Fall" and "Strange Clouds" below.
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Iggy Azalea celebrated her Interscope signing by performing at club 330 Rich in San Francisco last Thursday (January 26). Above Ground was on hand to capture the footage as Iggy got the crowd pumped up with "Hello" and "My World" off of her Ignorant Art mixtape.
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"Hello"
"My World"
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Busta Rhymes made sure the crowd at Nokia Theater in L.A. left happy Friday night (January 13) following his star studded performance.
The new member of YMCMB brought out Chris Brown, Swizz Beatz and Snoop Dogg at various points throughout his time on the stage to perform "Look at Me Now," "I Wanna Rock" and "Touch It."
Busta Rhymes x Chris Brown "Look at Me Now"
Busta Rhymes x Swizz Beatz "Touch It"
Busta Rhymes x Snoop Dogg "I Wanna Rock"
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A$AP Rocky surprised the crowd last night at Toronto's Opera House by bringing out Drake during his show. The crowd went wild as Drizzy performed "Cameras" and "The Motto" off of his latest album Take Care.
A$AP and Drake will be hitting the road together later this year when the Young Money star launches his "Club Paradise Tour" in Miami on February 14. Kendrick Lamar will also take part in the tour which will play 17 U.S. dates before heading over to Europe for 18 additional dates, wrapping up in Nottingham, England on April 25th.
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Kid Cudi was this year's headliner at Australia's "Heatwave Festival." Cudi used the opportunity to play a couple of new songs with his alternative rock band WZRD. The band was formed with Dot Da Genius, who produced Cudi's Grammy nominated hit record "Day 'n' Nite."
They performed "Brake" and "Teleport 2 Me." The latter song is the lead single off of their self titled debut album scheduled for release January 30, 2012. The disc will be curse free and will not contain the n-word.
WZRD album cover art
WZRD performs "Brake"
WZRD performs "Teleport 2 Me"
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DJ Kay Slay brings the Outlawz and Lil Cease together to remember the legacies of two of the best that ever did it, Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. "Bury The Hatchet" is the latest video from Kay Slay's upcoming album Rhyme or Die which will be released in 2012.
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