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New mixtape from Florida rapper Plies. Plies does several features with west coast artist and producers. Me being a DJ from the West coast i thoroughly enjoyed this mixtape. Scroll down and listen for your self

Chalk up a big win for Kevin Hart and Ice Cube. Their new action-comedy "Ride Along" is projected to bring in $47.8 million over the weekend, including Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, to take the top spot at the box office, according to Entertainment Weekly.

The numbers surpass Universal's $25 million budget for the film and breaks the January record for a box office opening.

Finishing in second place is Mark Wahlberg's film "Lone Survivor" with $23.2 million in ticket sales. Check out the remainder of the top five below.

The top five:


1. Ride Along — $41.2 million
2. Lone Survivor — $23.2 million
3. The Nut Job — $20.55 million
4. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — $17.2 million
5. Frozen— $12 million

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50 Cent held his Big Apple Boxing event in the Queens. Troy Ave, Tony Yayo, Nyemiah Supreme, SBOE, Prodigy and many more performed!

There were wins for SMS Promotions from Donte Strayhorn, Ryan Martin and Emmanuel DeJesus!

Also, Ashlee Ray interviewed celebrities such as DJ Envy & more at the event for Thisis50.

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Canada first, then hitting the road w/ my brother @2chainz for the "2 GOOD to be TRU" tour. On my way Europe. Click http://t.co/xuNbOadvkd

— PUSHA T (@PUSHA_T) January 16, 2014

Pusha T will be in a town near you over the next several months as he hits the road in support of his My Name Is My Name album.

The 46-city tour will hit Canada, Europe and the United States, starting January 28th in Vancouver. Other stops include Boston, New York, Seattle, Las Vegas and Houston before winding down on June 6th in London.

On some of the dates Pusha will appear on 2 Chainz's 2 Good To Be T.R.U. tour. Check out the dates below via Billboard.

Pusha T tour dates:

January 28 – Venue – Vancouver, BC
January 29 – Marquee Room – Calgary, AB
January 30 – Union Hall – Edmonton, AB
January 31 – Telus Theatre – Montreal, QC
February 1 – Barrymore’s Music Hall – Ottawa, ON
February 2 – Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON
February 3 – Marquee Ballroom – Halifax, NS
February 4 - House of Blues - Boston, MA*
February 5 - Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY*
February 7 - Chicago Theatre - Chicago, IL*
February 8 - Eagles Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI*
February 10 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO*
February 11 – The Complex – Grand Room – Salt Lake City, UT
February 12 - Revolution Event Center - Boise, ID*
February 13 - Showbox SoDo - Seattle, WA
February 18 - Fox Theater - Oakland, CA*
February 20 - The Observatory OC - Santa Ana, CA*
February 21 - Hollywood Palladium - Hollywood, CA*
February 22 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV*
February 23 – Club XS – Tucson, AZ
February 24 – Club Red – Tempe, AZ
February 27 - Midland Theatre - Kansas City, MO*
February 28 - Chaifetz Arena - St. Louis, MO*
March 1 - Egyptian Room at Old National Centre - Indianapolis, IN*
March 2 - Bank of Kentucky Center - Highland Heights, KY*
March 4 - Palace Theatre - Louisville, KY*
March 6 – Altar Bar – Pittsburgh, PA
March 7 – Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, MI
March 8 – Brick Street Bar – Oxford, OH
March 9 – Center Stage – Atlanta, GA
March 12 - La Hacienda Event Center - Midland, TX
March 13 - South Side Ballroom - Dallas, TX*
March 14 - Bayou Music Center - Houston, TX*
March 17 - Jannus Live! - St. Petersburg, FL*
March 18 - The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason - Miami Beach, FL*
March 20 - The Fillmore Charlotte - Charlotte, NC*
March 21 - Landmark Theatre - Richmond, VA
March 22 - Tower Theatre - Upper Darby, PA*
May 30 - Paris, France
May 31 - Tilburg, Holland
June 1 - Mojo, Hamburg, Germany
June 2 - Gibson Room, Frankfurt, Germany
June 3 -  X-Tra, Zurich, Switzerland
June 4 - Essigfabrik, Cologne, Germany
June 5 - Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
June 6 - Koko, London, UK

* - 2 Chainz' 2 Good To Be T.R.U. Tour

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Watch part 1 here, Steven Jo Says He Made Spoken Reasons; Rapping; 50 Cent -Click HERE

Watch part 2 here, Steven Jo Says He Slept with Kaylin Garcia - Click HERE

Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Steven Jo for an exclusive interview!

In part 3, Steven Jo talks about when he was doing drugs, being yourself being the only way you can make it, hating rappers because of their influences, being signed to Wonda Music, his youtube views & much more!

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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with 2 Pistols for an exclusive interview!

2 Pistols freestyles, speaks on where he has been, having hits, if he feels the game hasn't changed, the controversy of his game, situation with Dolla, new project "Coming Back Hard" & much more!

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Kanye West lands on the cover of the February issue of Interview magazine. The controversial rapper talks with 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen about how his 2002 car crash changed him, his creative process, recording Yeezus, the fallout from the Taylor Swift fiasco at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, staying current and more.

Photography by Steve Klein

STEVE MCQUEEN: It's hard to make beauty. People often try, and more often than not, everything starts to feel sort of cheap or kitsch. But you express yourself in a way that's beautiful. You can sing from the heart and have it connect and translate, which is a huge thing for an artist to be able to do. So my first question is: How do you do that? How do you communicate in that way?


KANYE WEST: I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. [laughs] I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.

MCQUEEN: Let's go deep very quickly then: Talk to me about who you were and who you've become—both before and after your accident, the car crash. Who are those two people, Kanye before and Kanye after? Are they different people? Was there a seismic change in who you were after you nearly lost your life?

WEST: I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do. I was a music producer, and everyone was telling me that I had no business becoming a rapper, so it gave me the opportunity to tell everyone, "Hey, I need some time to recover." But during that recovery period, I just spent all my time honing my craft and making The College Dropout. Without that period, there would have been so many phone calls and so many people putting pressure on me from every direction—so many people I somehow owed something to—and I would have never had the time to do what I wanted to.

MCQUEEN: So basically, it allowed you to focus, and you realized at a certain point that it was now or never—and that you had to do it now.

WEST: Yes. It gave me perspective on life—that it was really now or 100 percent never. I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, right now it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying ...

MCQUEEN: Well, unfortunately, that is indicative of what a lot of black performers and leaders have had to go through. People will often try to undermine them in a way to take away their power. You know, when I saw you perform, I was like, "This guy is gonna die on stage." When I saw you play, it felt like that—like it could be the last performance that you give. There's an incredible intensity to your performances.

WEST: As my grandfather would say, "Life is a performance." I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud. A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.

MCQUEEN: It can be hard to take those kinds of risks as an artist if you're thinking about tomorrow.

WEST: Well, all we have is today. You know, the past is gone, and tomorrow is not promised.

MCQUEEN: Talk to me a little bit about Yeezus. The album before that one, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, was a phenomenal success. Did that wear on your mind when you went in to make Yeezus?

WEST: Yeah! So I just had to throw it all in the trash. I had to not follow any of the rules because there was no way to match up to the previous album. Dark Fantasy was the first time you heard that collection of sonic paintings in that way. So I had to completely destroy the landscape and start with a new story. Dark Fantasy was the fifth installment of a collection that included the four albums before it. It's kind of the "Luke, I am your father" moment. Yeezus, though, was the beginning of me as a new kind of artist. Stepping forward with what I know about architecture, about classicism, about society, about texture, about synesthesia—the ability to see sound—and the way everything is everything and all these things combine, and then starting from scratch with Yeezus... That's one of the reasons why I didn't want to use the same formula of starting the album with a track like "Blood on the Leaves," and having that Nina Simone sample up front that would bring everyone in, using postmodern creativity where you kind of lean on something that people are familiar with and comfortable with to get their attention. I actually think the most uncomfortable sound on Yeezus is the sound that the album starts with, which is the new version of what would have been called radio static. It's the sonic version of what internet static would be—that's how I would describe that opening. It's Daft Punk sound. It was just like that moment of being in a restaurant and ripping the tablecloth out from under all the glasses. That's what "On Sight" does sonically.

MCQUEEN: So Yeezus was about throwing away what people want you to do—the so-called "success"—so you could move on to something else.

WEST: It's the only way that I can survive. The risk for me would be in not taking one—that's the only thing that's really risky for me. I live inside, and I've learned how to swim through backlash, or maintain through the current of a negative public opinion and create from that and come through it and spring forth to completely surprise everyone—to satisfy all believers and annihilate all doubters. And at this point, it's just fun.

MCQUEEN: But there must have been moments of doubt or depression or sadness. I mean, with what happened after the Taylor Swift incident [at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards] and all the negativity that came your way as the result of that. How did you deal with it all mentally, physically, and spiritually?

WEST: It's funny that you would say "mentally, physically, spiritually" because my answer before you even said that was going to be "god, sex, and alcohol."

MCQUEEN: People can get lost in all of those things. So how did you arrive where you are now after coming through that period?

WEST: Well, I don't have an addictive personality, so that means that I can lean on what might be someone else's vice just enough to make it through to the next day. You know, just enough religion, a half-cup of alcohol with some ice in it and a nice chaser, and then ...

MCQUEEN: A lot of sex. [both laugh]

WEST: Yeah—a lot of sex. And then I'd make it to the next week.

MCQUEEN: So was there a moment when Yeezus all kind of came together as a work?

WEST: I've heard people say stuff about how a work is just taken out of your hands, and there were times ... I remember that we were shooting the "New Slaves" video before I'd even finished the second verse. We were on our third shoot day, and I was in the studio still finishing it because my lyrics aren't written beforehand. It's very important to me that they're completely in sync with what's happening in society at that time—that they're very timeless, but very up to date ...

MCQUEEN: How important is that for you, to be current?

WEST: I don't use a lot of current-affairs names—I've used them seldomly—but I feel like it's just a current itself, a wave that I'm surfing. There is no sport without the wave, so I have to wait for it. If the waves are high, then we're gonna have a fun day. If the waves are low, then you just stay on the beach.

Source: InterviewMagazine.com

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Drake got the chance to hone his acting chops during his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live yesterday (January 18).

Watch the former Degrassi star in several skits from the show below. How do you think he did? Let us know in the comment section below.

Bar Mitzvah Monologue

Before They Were Stars

Piers Morgan Cold Open

Mornin' Miami

Poetry Teacher

Disney World Show

Nancy Grace

Saturday Night Line: Telephone with Vanessa & Drake

Resolution Revolution

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Black Flag Mafia boss Maino gets help from Coke Boy French Montana and Grand Hustle CEO, T.I., on his new single "Watch Me Do It." Premiered by Funkmaster Flex.

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Drake served as both the host and musical guest yesterday on Saturday Night Live. The October's Very Own boss brought special guest Jhené Aiko to assist him during his performance of "From Time."

Drizzy also did his thing on "Started From the Bottom," "Trophies" and "Hold On, We're Going Home."

 






"Hold On, We're Going Home" x "From Time" ft. Jhené Aiko









"Started From the Bottom" x "Trophies"




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The Crummie Beats production team (@CrummieBeats @FONKSTARR) are preparing to release their next project entitled Fun On Drugs, February 11, 2014.

The team has crafted bangers for 50 Cent, Max B, Continental Five, Bill Collector, Sean Price, Raekwon The Chef, Wiz Khalifa, Juelz Santana and many more. They also edit the Star and Bucwild Show.

Here's a preview track off of the Fun For Drugs tape. This one is called "Drugs 4 Murder."

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TLC's reality show "My Strange Addiction" features people who can't break what most most others would describe as strange or disgusting habits.

22-year old Keyshia, an expectant mother from Queens, New York, has to rank near the top of the show's most disgusting people featured to date.

The young woman loves to sniff, suck on and nibble urine stained diapers. When she can't get her fix from from friends with children, Keyshia scours neighborhood trash cans searching for her smelly delights.

"I love sniffing and chewing dirty diapers," she told TLC. "It has to have pee in it. The heavier ones that have more pee smell better. I love it, it just tastes amazing. I have one while I'm cooking in the kitchen, I have one in my drawers, I have one when I'm sleeping. I keep some in my trunk. I keep some in my pocketbook. Like, you know when you're walking into a room and you smell like a strong smell of food and you kinda taste it? That's what it's like."

I feel sorry for her fiance. Watch the madness below.

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The New York hip-hop scene has been the target of quite a bit of criticism for not properly repping its own artists; Trinidad James went so far as to claim that the South runs NY rap.

Queens rapper N.O.R.E. spoke on what he believes is the root of the problem: New York media doesn't do nearly enough to support local artists.

He also touches on the problem of the media wanting the rap scene to be the same everywhere, whether it be Miami, New York, or L.A.

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STAR talks the NY Knicks possibly being cursed, Google introducing a contact lens that measures glucose levels, the Detroit Police station shooter and Yung Ill's return to battle rap.

Radio legend Troi Torain (STAR) always delivers hard-hitting objective truth. As a culture critic he is vicious, as a businessman he is relentless, as a luminary he is un-matched.

Considered a radio pioneer by many, STAR has set precedents on the urban landscape and was recently inducted into News One's "Top 20 Black Radio Jockeys Of All Time."

STAR & BUC WILD made the national stage on MTV (1999) but it was their radio show on New York's Hot 97 and Power 105 (2000 - 2006) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.

Torain's resume includes The Source magazine, MTV Networks, Hot 97, Power 104.1, Power 105.1, Pulse 87, Hip-Hop Weekly magazine, Vladtv, Thisis50, 100.3 The Beat, shot97.com and VH1 (The Gossip Game).

This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.

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Juicy J gives XXL the green light to premiere his latest song entitled "Blow Out." It was produced by Lil Awree with co-production by Crazy Mike.

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Justin Bieber has a drug problem that has gotten serious enough that people close to him want the singer to check into rehab, according to TMZ.

The 19-year old pop superstar has developed an addiction to sizzurp, also known as lean, purple drank or syrup.

Sizzurp is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine. Users mix it with Sprite or any fruit flavored soda. The concoction has been popularized in songs by artists like 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, Beanie Sigel, Paul Wall, Chief Keef, Gucci Mane, A$AP Rocky and many more.

The side effects can be dangerous. Sizzurp has contributed to the deaths of DJ Screw and Pimp C.

TMZ reports that Bieber's behavior has become erratic. A source close to him says he is also abusing weed, alcohol and Xanax 

Rapper Lil Za was arrested for felony Ecstacy and Xanax possession earlier this week during a raid by police at Bieber's Calabasas, California home. They were there looking for evidence to link Bieber to an egg throwing incident that caused $20,000 to his neighbor's home.

We'll wait and see how this situation develops. Hopefully Justin will reach out and get help if the report is accurate.

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