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All Papoose needs is a mic and a beat to get down to business. The Brooklyn MC visited the Shade 45 show of his good friend DJ Kay Slay recently and dropped an in-studio video for "Guns & Roses."
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Scott Storch has once again been popped for cocaine possession. The man behind hits like "Lean Back," "Just A Lil Bit" and "Candy Shop" was caught February 4th in Las Vegas according to TMZ.
Cops found a baggie containing 2.7 grams of coke in a trash can after receiving a tip from security at the Cosmopolitan Hotel that Storch tried to hide his stash in there.
Police were initially called to the hotel after receiving a complaint that the producer wouldn't pay for his room. After his arrest he was booked and released on $5000 bond.
Storch has been in recovery since 2005 when he blew his entire $30 million dollar fortune on drugs, cars and cribs.
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DJ Drama caught up with A$AP Rocky and his crew while they were in Atlanta recently and Barack O'Drama had plenty of questions lined up for Pretty Flacko.
A$AP's birth name is Rakim Mayers. He recently got a chance to meet the man he was named after, rapper Rakim.
"I don't know if words can express it, I was just happy to be meeting him," he said. "I knoew it would happen eventually someway, somehow. I was just happy it happened."
Because of his style of music most people assume A$AP only listens to rappers from Houston. He said that's not the case and cited rap and rock influences ranging from UGK to Red Hot Chili Peppers.
He also clarified a rumor that he had been asked to be on the 2012 XXL Freshman cover and passed.
"Nah, not even...I was busy," A$AP explained. "I don't know who they spoke to 'cause we was busy. I wouldn't have minded doing it."
Peep the rest of the interview below. A$AP goes on to talk about fellow Harlem rapper Azealia Banks and rumored girlfriend Iggy Azalea.
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Stories about a Drake/Common confrontation have been trickling in over the last day or so. The two had been involved in a dispute on record that was supposedly deaded after Drake said he wouldn't respond to Common's "Stay Schemin" diss. But according to Billboard and a witness the two came face to face backstage at Sunday's Grammy Award show in Los Angeles and a shouting match ensued.
Publicist Robert Santini of consulting firm PKM*BNC was backstage when the two rappers saw each other for the first time since their war of words started. He tweeted about what he saw.
Drummer Questlove of The Roots also tweeted that he saw Common and Drake backstage in the same area.
On Wednesday Santini took to Twitter once again to clarify his previous comments.
"You heard it on this man's twitter first. I was backstage. No physical altercation, just a good verbal one," he wrote. "I threw it up Sun on twitter before any news broke, check the time line. It was just a bunch of hootin & hollering."
Obviously this situation isn't squashed yet. It will be interesting to see if either Common or Drake writes a diss song about what went down.
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Redman tackles a classic in Eminem's "I Just Don't Give A F*ck" to freestyle over. Mr. Noble is is prepping the release of Muddy Waters 2. Hopefully he'll keep blessing us with freestyles or even better a mixtape while we wait.
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"And the people can't believe that Gucci Mane got jungle fever/And I think I love this girl because her price is hella cheaper." - Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane and Yo Gotti drop visuals to the Zaytoven and Fatboi produced "In Love with a White Girl" off of Gucci's mixtape, Trap Back.
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Diddy hosted a Grammy after party at the Playboy Mansion Sunday (February 12). Ticket prices were through the roof, topping out at $50,000. It was all for a great cause because the event's proceeds benefited the Angelwish Foundation for children afflicted by HIV/AIDS.
Diddy talked to Jimmy Kimmel about the event, and 5 to 1 female to male ratio which made it the best party he's ever thrown. He also talked about what inspired him to executive produce the movie 'Undefeated,' and a lot more.
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Yelawolf is still hard at work promoting his latest album Radioactive. Wednesday (February 15) the Alabama MC was the musical guest on The Late Show with David Letterman where he performed "Let's Roll" with an assist from Kid Rock.
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Lil Kim was a guest on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" Wednesday (February 15) and the Queen Bee had quite a lot to say about her arch nemesis Nicki Minaj.
When asked who she thought was the most overrated artist at this moment, Kim didn't say Nicki's name directly but made sure you knew who she was referring to by doing an impersonation of the "In Living Color" character Fire Marshall Bill.
Kim also had disparaging remarks to say about Nicki's song "Stupid Hoe," a track that a lot of people perceived as a Kim diss.
"I'm pretty sure I feel the same was everybody else feels right about now," Kim said. "If you have to make a song called 'Stupid Hoe' you must be the stupid hoe."
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Album sales aren't the only measure of a hot MC. Meek Mill doesn't have a solo LP on the shelf, but the Philadelphia flame spitter has made his presence felt in a variety of other ways.
Thanks to "Ima Boss," his inescapable single with Maybach Music CEO Rick Ross, Meek has maintained a deafening buzz on the streets and impacted the game like no other MC in his class. Meek Milly meets all of the criteria to be considered one of the "Hottest MCs in the Game." His in-your-face lyrical delivery and fresh-off-the-block style have all helped earn him the #7 spot on the "VII" edition of the list.
Meek started off his year right, landing a spot on XXL's 2011 Freshman cover before most rap fans could even pick him out of a lineup. But those unfamiliar with Milly quickly learned who he was when Ross signed him to Maybach Music Group. And then his single "Ima Boss" began to catch fire in the streets. From the song's opening bars, Meek separated himself from other rap rookies by putting his gangsta on full display, daring his adversaries to come for him ("They say they gon' rob me, see me never do sh*t").
"For me, Meek is that real, real street music," MTV News editor/writer Rebecca Thomas said. "As much as I'm a Drake fan, a [Big] Sean fan, all those people, I just think there are days you wake up and you need to hear 'Ima Boss.' If you didn't feel 'Tupac Back,' if you didn't feel 'Ima Boss' all last year, you're dead."
It wasn't just the fans that felt Meek either. Everyone from Fabolous to Jim Jones repurposed the "Ima Boss" beat for their own freestyle needs. The omnipresent single peaked at #17 on the Billboard Rap chart, but its run in the streets and the clubs made it seem so much bigger. Mill didn't ride just the one single, though: On "Tupac Back," he resurrected the spirit of the fallen rap legend, and with "House Party," from his Dreamchasers mixtape, Meek has created quite the track record.
Last year alone, Meek signed a deal with Ecko Clothing to launch his own Dreamchasers line, was named one of MTV Jams' Fab 5 artists, won MTV2's Sucker Free's Who Got Next award and snagged a #1 rap album with his appearance on MMG's Self Made, Vol.1 compilation.
"You need dudes like Meek to hit the reset button every now and then on the game just to let them know like, 'Yo, this comes from the streets,' " said Rahman Dukes, MTV News' director of hip-hop news. "He's just as responsible for building that MMG Empire as Ross is."
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Karen Civil sat down with newly signed Interscope Records rapper Iggy Azalea recently to give her an introduction to fans who may not be familiar with her yet, and get answers to questions that have been on people's minds.
Iggy talked about what topics you will hear on her debut cd, The New Classic, how meeting T.I.'s family helped convince her to choose his as esecutive producer of the project, if she writes her own rhymes and more
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Could we see a Cam'ron and Mac Miller album or mixtape in the near future? It's a distinct possibility according to Miller.
“Me and Cam are actually talking about doing a project together,” Mac told XXLMag.com. “We don’t know when we’re gonna do it. We have three or four songs recorded already. We’re working on more at this point.”
The unlikely duo have already released one song together "Dig That."
Miller says the two share a similar sense of humor and have a good time in the studio.
“We’re two funny guys,” he shared. “We cut up a lot in the studio, and have a good time and make some dope music. I think the cool thing is that it’s an unexpected collaboration that actually turned out dope. We wanna do some soulful hip-hop shit, while also making some hard shit and some fun music. [We’re] making sure that we do it in a way that’s different than other people who have done projects together. It’s still in the brainstorming stage, but we definitely have some dope records done. He’s got a lot of knowledge in that he’s schooling me on.”
Would you be interested in hearing a full length Mac Miller and Cam'ron project?
Cam'Ron and Mac Miller "Dig That"
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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.
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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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