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While out in Paris, France recently Kendrick Lamar stopped by Generations Radio. The Top Dawg Entertainment artist blessed the show with an in-studio performance of his hit song "Swimming Pools (Drank)."
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Love & Hip Hop New York cast member Raqi Thunda has been mentioned in the media a lot recently because of her issues with Tahiry, Consequence and Joe Budden. Raqi claimed that Joe physically assaulted her on the set of the show, leaving her with a missing toe nail
Some have suggested that Raqi is in love with Joe, which she denies, but their relationship is definitely complicated.
During a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, Joe discussed Raqi and their drug use together over the summer.
"We popped [molly's] all summer. I stopped. I had a bunch of bad incidents," Joe said. "My brain just operates differently on drugs. It was definitely a relapse. But I mean, me and Raqi did a lot of drugs together."
In a new interview with Vlad TV, Raqi admits to experimenting with Joe by taking Molly, but says it's not her thing. She claims to have witnessed the Slaughterhouse rapper's descent into a drug-induced haze. At one point she tried an intervention..
"I went to his house to tell him get off the f*cking Molly's you look crazy as hell," Raqi said. "I was around him for 5 or 6 days at a time where he didn't eat, he didn't sleep. He was on blogTV literally deteriorating before his fan's eyes. I had to remove myself from the situation and watch him from a viewer's perspective. And I'm like 'holy sh*t Love & Hip Hop is about to start filming in a month and we're gonna look crazy.'"
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In the wake of mass shootings like the ones in Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado, there has been an increasing debate about gun control in America.
While most of the debate has centered on spree shootings, Al Jazeera English takes a look at the problem of gangs and guns in America's inner cities in the third part of their three part series "Inside Story Americas: Guns In the United States."
Today's episode focuses on Baltimore, Maryland. The city, which was the backdrop for HBO's gritty series "The Wire" had 217 murders last year. 1 in 4 people live below the poverty line. Many people living in the inner city have turned to gangs and drug dealing as a means of survival, which means more gun violence, making it a dangerous place to live.
"Because you know it's a lot of wolves in this city. You refuse to be that one sheep that gets taken for everything," said former gang member, Shawn Hawkins. "You know in your heart you're a good guy and you don't intend on hurting anybody, but the next man may hurt you. You're gonna need a gun."
Shawn says getting your hands on a gun in Baltimore is very easy.
"It's like going to the store to buy a lollipop. If you got the money, you got a gun in this city," he says. "If you had to break it down 1/4 of it would be for drugs, 1/4 of it would be for gangs. 50 percent in general is just pure survival."
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Shakiara Lester works for "Rewired for Change," a charity that helps people escape the cycle of gang violence, gun crimes and prison. She explains why many turn to those options to survive.
"A lot of people between the ages of 16 and 24, they gota take care of their entire house," she explains. "Their grandmother is an alcoholic, their mother don't come home, they don't know the father, but the mother got four kids. All y'all living in one house. You gotta take care of them. So now what's left for me to do that I'm 18-years old and my grandmother can't feed my four brothers and sisters? I have to go and do it. Nobody is talking about the reality of it, They're just saying that all the bad people should be in jail."
Handguns are the second leading cause of death for African Americans from 18 to 25-years old in the United States.
Why isn't there more attention being paid to gun homicides in urban areas? Is the answer more power for police? This documentary attempts to examine that issue. Watch it below
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Infamous Mobb spitter Ty Nitty grinds as hard as any rapper I know. He consistently drops new music and visuals. The latest music video from Nitty is the catchy Sheff La-produced banger "In The Hood."
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It looked like there might be trouble in paradise for Coco and Ice-T in December when pics of Coco snuggled up with rapper AP.9 hit the net, but the buxom model says nothing could be further from the truth.
"Do I want to set the record straight? No," Coco told the Daily Mail, "Because that's old news. And those pictures [with Moose Diesel] are old too. People are going to think what they think and there's nothing I can do about it. But people were also saying my booty was fake too no matter what I said or did, so there's nothing I can do about that either."
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Coco insists she and Ice have moved past the turmoil.
"Ice and I just live our own lives," she adds. "I have to answer to him and he has to answer to me and that's it. We don't care about the outside world and even though it can be harsh out there, we just have to deal with it."
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When the scandal initially broke there were reports that Ice and Coco had split. She insists there's no truth to that rumor. In fact the couple renewed their wedding vows on New Year's Eve.
"There's no truth to that rumor at all. I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. We already feel like that because we've been together so long," she insists.
The couple met in 2001 when Ice was 43-years old and Coco was 22. They got married 2 months later and have been together ever since.
"We're like a brother and sister who've known each other the whole time. We're best friends and we're tight-knit. Has the whole episode been hurtful? 'It has, yeah," she admits, "And I don't like to have to deal with it. But you know, people don't like me because people don't really like models.'
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Drake drops his new single "Started From the Bottom" off of his upcoming album.
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Trinidad James was the headliner at Hot 97's "Who's Next Live" showcase earlier this week at SOB's in NYC earlier this week.
The Def Jam artist performed "All Gold Everything," "That Turn Up," "$outh$side," "One More Molly," "Team Vacation," "Given' No F*cks" and "Females Welcome."
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Mack Maine teams up with N.O.R.E. a.k.a. P.A.P.I., Flow and Cory Gunz for "Ghetto Symphony." The song is off of Mack's upcoming mixtape titled Freestyle 102: No Pens or Pads. The project will be released on Monday.
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Love him or hate him, one thing you can't deny about Joe Budden is that the man has great taste in women. His current gal pal Kaylin Garcia recently had her first photo shoot with Felix Natal Jr.
Check Kaylin out getting her grown and sexy on below.
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Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Snoop Lion releases the official music video for "Lighters Up" featuring Mavado and Popcaan. The song is off of Snoop's upcoming reggae album titled Reincarnation.
Produced by: Dre Skull and Major Lazer
Director: Andy Capper
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With his long awaited Nacirema Dream album hitting stores on March 5th, Papoose is working hard to get the word out about the project.
Pap was recently in London and stopped by Tim Westwood TV. The Brooklyn rapper freestyled a preview of the song Alphabetical Slaughter II, where he uses every word in the alphabet starting from Z.
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Transgender performer Sydney Starr recently appeared on The Breakfast Club to chop it up with DJ Envy and Angela Yee.
They discussed the rumors of his relationships with Chingy and Lil Wayne, him believing God is OK with him having surgery to become a woman, his singing career, how he's tricked men into believing he's a woman, upcoming book, what his parents think about his transformation and more.
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Boombox Family artist Nitty Scott, MC releases the official video for her freestyle over A$AP Mob and Flatbush Zombies' "Bath Salt" instrumental. "How To Make It In America's" Paulina Singer also makes a cameo.
Director: B. Streets Riley
Make-Up by: Giselle Telesford (@NotesThaFuture)
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Pusha T's new mixtape Wrath of Caine was inspired by Big Daddy Kane's song "Wrath of Kane." Push breaks down for Sway In the Morning why he thinks Kane is better than Rakim.
"In making this mixtape I realized in my opinion that Kane was better than Rakim," Pusha said. "This is like an ongoing battle through my friends. Arguing among The Re-Up Gang. Arguing among me and my brother. I thought Rakim was better for a long time. I was driving to New York, and I was [going] through Philly. And during the mid day they were doing all Rakim and all Kane. So as I'm driving through Philly [they were playing] back to back records. And 'The Wrath of Kane' was the solidifying point for me. They both were great lyricists. It just got to a point of discography to me. Kane's discography...he won."
Pusha also spit a freestyle.
What do you think of Pusha's comments? Is Big Daddy Kane better than Rakim?
Pusha T says Big Daddy Kane is better than Rakim
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Drake is preparing his third studio album. The YMCMB rapper will be releasing it's lead single titled "Started From the Bottom" on Grammy night, February 10 according to Billboard. The record was produced by Noah “40” Shebib and Mike Zombie.
While we have heard Drizzy featured on other artists records within the last year, his last solo album, Take Care, was released in November 2011. To date the record has sold 1.9 million copies according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Cash Money Records co-CEO Birdman told Billboard recently that Grammy night will be "the highlight of their life."
"This year we got something in store. We got a new record coming out this year. It's just one of those nights that, after seeing each other together, that’ll be like the highlight of our night, the highlight of our life, the highlight of our year," Birdman said.
Are you looking forward to hearing new solo music from Drake?
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Beyonce joined Rich Eisen and Deion Sanders on "Super Bowl Live" to talk about what fans can expect from her halftime performance this Sunday in New Orleans.
The singer said she had studied previous halftime performers like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Prince in preparation for her performance. She hinted that she might have a guest or two join her during the show.
It should be entertaining. Tune in Sunday on CBS to catch it.
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Trinidad James is kicking off his Def Jam career with an all-star remix music video to his hit "All Gold Everything" featuring Young Jeezy, T.I., and 2 Chainz.
The rappers gathered in Atlanta yesterday for the Motion Family-directed clip, which also has appearances from DJ Drama and B.o.B.
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