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Kendrick Lamar paid a visit to Los Angeles radio station Power 106 recently to spit some freestyle bars for Big Boy's Neighborhood.

Check it out as K. Dot goes in over three classic West Coast instrumentals.

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The soundtrack to Wu Tang Clan leader RZA's directorial debut, The Man with the Iron Fists hit stores today. To mark the occasion RZA releases the official music video for his collaboration with The Black Keys, "Baddest Man Alive."

Directed by Chris Marrs Piliero

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Wyclef Jean stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning. The first part of the interview was pure comedy as Clef tried to explain why he took the now infamous picture of himself on a motorcycle wearing a speedo.

The interview then took on a more serious tone when Clef talked about his autobiography, Purpose: An Immigrant's Story. He explained how it affected his wife, why he wrote it and why he got angry at Lauryn Hill for lying to him about her first child being his.

Clef said he thinks Lauryn is bi-polar, but not crazy. 

He also talks about The Fugees, his stage show, being physically fit, his presidential run in Haiti, artists on his label, problems with taxes, the Yele Foundation scandal, his next album "The Refugee Republic" and more.

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Here's the intro to Meek Mill's highly anticipated debut album, Dreams and Nightmares. The project is scheduled to be released on October 30th.

You can pre-order your copy now on iTunes.

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Nicki Minaj releases the official music video for "Come On a Cone." The track appears on her sophomore album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

Video was directed and produced by Grizz Lee (@GRIZZLEEMUSIC) in association with GRIZZ LEE ARTS and Pink Personality LLC.

Kendrick Lamar and his fellow Black Hippy members Jay Rock, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q break us off with a remix of Kendrick's popular song "Swimming Pools (Drank)." 

This is a Target bonus track off Kendrick's good kid m.A.A.d. city album, which is in stores now.

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Kendrick Lamar's good kid m.A.A.d cityalbum hit store shelves today. In the weeks leading up to it's release K. Dot sat down for a lot of interviews promoting the project.

Here is one with @punablog where he mentions that Dr. Dre pushed his long awaited Detoxalbum back to get Kendrick's out first.

"Detox got pushed to the back just because [of] my album," Kendrick said. "Dre really found an interest in my music. He really wanted me to go forward and push that immediately. And that's a great thing. I've heard the records on Detox, it's insane. Just the opportunity to be on that is a privilege... an honor."

Hopefully Detox will eventually be released at some point.

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This is a very nice surprise. D-Block veteran Styles P teams up with super producer AraabMuzik for a real heater aptly titled "Araab Styles."

Peep the video below courtesy of PitchforkTV.

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Bronx, New York emcee G.BUB gives us visuals to his lead track off the Free Cheese project set to drop later this Fall titled Public Announcement.

Log on BonafiedMusicGroup.com. Follow them @BonafiedMusic and @gutta_bub

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50 Cent was a busy man last week in Dubai as he performed in front of a packed crowd of 16,000 at the Atelier/Festival on Friday October 19th. The event was held at the Meydan race course and included performances from Craig David, Ciara, Nelly and Skyblu of LMFAO.

Earlier in the week 50 attended GITEX (Gulf Information Technology Exhibition) 2012 conference at the Dubai World Trade Center where he introduced his SMS Audio headphone line.

The G-Unit boss took time out to attend a forum at American University of Dubai on October 18th where he spoke about business, life and conscious capitalism.

“It’ll take the new generation of entrepreneurs to make a difference," 50 told the audience, according to UniqueAuction. “Entrepreneurs come up with ideas before they have the finances to support it, and in the process get discouraged when they don’t get funding and end up working for some other entrepreneur. It’s not only the things in books that will determine if you’ll be successful. It takes more than being taught in a classroom to help you not to fall into a 9 to 5 regime of just getting by.”

50 also launched his SMS Audio headphones at the Virgin Megastore in Dubai's Mall of the Emirates on October 18th. Tony Yayo and Kidd Kidd were there to lend their boss a hand.

A couple of people in the audience wore hilarious t-shirts referring to Gunplay's missing chain.

50 took to Twitter to thank the people of Dubai for showing him a good time.

Check out video and pics of the events below courtesy of @FNDTV, 7DaysInDubai, Dubia.platinumlist.net and 7DaySUAE.

50 Cent, Kidd Kidd and Tony Yayo at Virgin Megastore

50 Cent at American University in Dubai

Audience at American University tries to get 50 Cent to sing.

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Ryan Leslie releases the sixth and seventh in a series of 10 videos making up the "LES IS MORE" visual album. The project will be released on October 22 in the U.S. and in Europe on October 26th.

Pre-order your copies now from iTunes in the U.S. and Amazon in Europe.

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Back in 2005, a Harvard freshman filling out a profile for an on-campus recruiting program listed Jay-Z as her business role-model.


Chanequa Campbell was promptly called into the Office of Career Services and told to name someone else.


"It's not appropriate. I don't think people will respond well to this," the career counselor told her.


Campbell, who grew up seven blocks from Jay-Z in Brooklyn and idolized the drug-dealer turned rapper turned entrepreneur, refused to name someone else. She argued with the career counselor awhile longer, finally offering as a small concession to use her role model's given name, Sean Carter.

Seven years later Campbell, who ended up getting kicked out of Harvard, still gets upset telling how Harvard didn't respect the businessman from her community.


If it wasn't clear back then, it's clear now that Jay-Z is a damn good business role model.
"I know his resume," Campbell told me. "He made most of his major respect—Wall Street respect—since '04."


But he was a businessman from the start.


"Hov [another nickname for Carter] started as an independent artist with Reasonable Doubt in 1996. Even though he wasn't going platinum, at the beginning he was making money because he owned his own label, he was his own business," Campbell said.


Then he got big. Fourteen Grammy's and over 50 million album sales were just the start. Jay-Z invested in all kinds of ventures—including the Brooklyn Nets, ad firm Translation, cosmetics company Carol's Daughter, Rocawear, and the newly revamped 40/40 Club—earning a networth around half a billion dollars.
Still he never changed who he was.


"To be successful and never change who he is, that's the important thing for me," says Campbell. "It's rare he's ever lost his cool. He never lets a situation bring himself out of character. He's someone who can articulate any position he has."


He's a good role model too.


"Most of Jay-Z's songs, if you understand his vernacular, he's telling you how to be cool, how to be good at life," Campbell says. "He's promoting things of content, things to aspire to. He mentions Warhol, he mentions Basquiat. He mentions people you've never heard of. He brings this light to our normal conversation."


Campbell repeats from memory a great Jay-Z quote from a couple of years ago. Here's what Jay-Z said after meeting Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov at the Four Seasons: "I'd been staying there for 10 years, and I always thought I was at the top level. But when I met Prokhorov, they took me up to this extra, extra room that I had never even heard of before. Now there's something else to shoot for. There's always an extra level you don't know about."


Jay-Z hangs out with Barack Obama and parties with Warren Buffett. He trails only Sean "Diddy" Combs on the Forbes' list of Future Hip-Hop Billionaires. If either makes the cut, he will join the short list of currently only five black billionaires in the word.


As Jay-Z says: "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."


So yeah, we think Harvard got it wrong. Meanwhile Campbell has bounced back from her legal troubles and is teaching in New York City. She's thinking about working at a think tank and is also writing a memoir.


"That's why I love Hov," Campbell says. "He's a prime example of how they can't hold the past against you."

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Ciara is ready to follow up her single, "Sorry" with a new track titled "Got Me Good." The r&b beauty hit up the California desert to film the music video for the song and she gave VH1 an all access behind the scenes look at the shoot.

Expect Cici's One Woman Armyalbum to drop later this year.

Spotted at HHNM

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Gucci Mane is seemingly ready to take on the world lately. After putting his beef with Young Jeezy back on the front burner with the diss records "Truth" and "Respect Me," he's now taking shots at Yung Joc and Jeezy's former manager Kenneth “Block” Russell.

“I got all eyes on me like Pac did/But I ain’t tryin’ to go broke like Joc did/I ain’t tryin’ to f*ck my deal up like Block did," Gucci raps in the song "F*ck the World" off of his new Trap God mixtape.

Joc was previously signed to Bad Boy South and had a hit record with "It's Going Down," which appeared on his 2006 album, New Joc City. But he hasn't released an album since 2007.

Block had a deal with Bad Boy South, but that went sour after the artists he signed didn't meet Diddy's standards according to AllHipHop.

This morning Gucci took to Twitter to send a warning Joc's way.

Joc says he has no idea why Gucci is coming at him.

Gucci's definitely on a rampage. Check out the video for "F*ck the World" below.

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Saturday Night Live had a little fun yesterday at President Obama and Mitt Romney's expense during a spoof of Tuesday's second presidential debate.

Romney and Obama got heated at each other throughout the debate as they fielded questions from the audience.

At one point Romney asked Obama what his salary was. Obama replied that is was $400,000.

"That's what I pay my cats," Romney said. "Now sit down before I hit you over the head with my paycheck."

Tom Hanks pops up near the end of the skit as an audience member with a question about Libya.

Check out the spoof below.

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Check out Papoose's latest single "Try You," produced by Ron Browz. The track will be featured on Pap's upcoming mixtape, Most Hated Alive.

Peep the artwork below.

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It's been a busy couple of days for Drake. After performing at Howard University's Yardfest in Washington, D.C. on Friday, the Toronto rapper made a stop in Atlanta on Saturday.

Drizzy was in in the mood to celebrate. He went back to school recently to earn his high school diploma and his 26th birthday is Wednesday October 24th.

"Let me tell you why I'm here. I came here from Toronto, well because it's my birthday on Wednesday. And second of all like a few days ago, for the last three months actually I went back to high school and a few days ago I graduated," he told the crowd. "I don't know where I'm going next. I might come to the 'A.' I might have to go to a university in the 'A' or some sh*t like that. That's what I really wanna do."

He later performed "HYFR," "No Lie" and "Pop That."

"HYFR"

"No Lie"

"Pop That"

Pics from Atlnightspots

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Bruno Mars held down double duty as both the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live yesterday. He performed "Locked Out of Heaven," the lead single off of his upcoming album, Unorthodox Jukebox.

He also debuted a new song "Young Wild Girls."

Unorthodox Jukebox will be released on December 11th.

"Locked Out of Heaven"

"Young Wild Girls"

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