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Looking to follow up on the huge success of "My Girl" and "Mrs Right," Mindless Behavior release a new single off their debut album, #1 Girl.

In stores now.

Keyshia Cole and family

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Happy Halloween!


Celebrities came out in full force this weekend decked out in their best Halloween costumes.


Stars attended various events like the Dream Halloween Los Angeles AIDS benefit, Kate Hudson's LA party and Bette Midler's bash.


Check out the pics and video below.

Heidi Klum skinless costume

Adrienne Bailon

Alan Cumming

Alessandra Ambrosio

Ali Larter and Hayes MacArthur

Angel, Rachel, and AnnaLynne McCord

Asher Roth

Bethenny Frankel

Big Boi and wife

Carmelo Anthony

Christina Milian

Christina Milian

David Arquette

Debra Messing and Daniel Zelman

Gwen Stefani

Heidi Klum

Holly Madison

Holly Robinson Peete

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

Katie Couric

Kevin Cossom and The Runners

Kim Kardashian

Lance Bass

Melissa Rycroft and her husband Tye Strickland

Nicole Ritchie (as J-Lo)

Rashida Jones

Rose McGowan

Rye Rye

Stevie Wonder and Bette Midler

Pic Sources: Rap-Up and Popsugar

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Papoose aka the King Of New York recruits all kinds of eye candy for his latest music video "Donk Jumping."

Check it out below.

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In what turned out to be one of the most exciting main event fight at a UFC event, Nick Diaz and B.J. Penn went toe to toe for three rounds in a fight eventually won by Diaz.


After a first round where Penn looked to have the advantage, Diaz poured it on in rounds 2 and 3, en route to a unanimous decision at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas at UFC 137.


The fight was scored 29-28, 29-27 and 29-28.


After the fight Diaz called out UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre, who was sitting ringside.


"I don't think Georges is hurt," Diaz said. "I think he's afraid to fight anybody."


St-Pierre was forced to pull out of his scheduled fight with Carlos Condit because of a knee injury suffered in training camp.


St-Pierre and Diaz were initially scheduled to fight each other Saturday, but Diaz missed two press conferences to promote the fight and UFC president replaced him with Condit.


White announced at the post-fight press conference that the Diaz/St-Pierre has been re-booked. The fight will now take place on Super Bowl Saturday next February.


According to White, St-Pierre is really angry at Diaz's post fight comments and plans to take it out on him in the ring.


“I’ve known GSP since 2004, he’s one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met,” White said. “GSP flipped out tonight when Nick was in the ring. Nick needs motivation, he’s got it. He’s gonna fight GSP.”


“He’s the most disrespectful human being I’ve ever met, and I’m going to put the worst beating you’ve ever seen on him,” White told the media on St-Pierre’s behalf.


Penn announced after the fight that he planned to retire.


"This probably the last time you will ever see me in here," Penn said after falling to 16-8-2. "I've got a daughter at home, another on the way. I don't want to go home looking like this; I'm done."

Full Fight [Part 1 of 2]

Full Fight [Part 2 of 2 + B.J. announces retirement]

Nick Diaz @ Post Fight Press Conference

Full post fight press conference

Tyrese returns with his first album since 2006's Alter Ego. The r&b crooner kept the features light on this one, but did manage to get in the booth with fellow Watts,California native Jay Rock for this new single "I'm Home."

Open Invitation will be in stores November 1. Check out the tracklisting below.

Tracklist:

1 I’m Home (feat. Jay Rock)
2 I Gotta Chick (feat. Officer Ricky)
3 Stay
4 Best of Me
5 Nothing On You
6 One Night
7 It’s All On Me
8 Too Easy (feat. Ludacris)
9 Takeover
10 I Miss That Girl
11 Interlude
12 Make Love
13 Angel (feat. Candice)
14 Walk
15 What Took You So Long
16 Do It

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When Odd Future and Brick Squad Monopoly linked up at OFWGKTA's Atlanta show Friday (October 28) the energy level got turned up to maximum.

Check out their performance of Waka's "Karma" below.

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50 Cent taped an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan on Friday. It will air Monday October 31, at 9PM Eastern.

After the interview, Fif stopped backstage for a quick chat to talk about his influence on Twitter, his upcoming album, record companies and Piers himself.

"He's a great journalist," 50 said of Piers. "He's going to make sure the public gets to hear the answers to questions they would actually be interested in."

Unlike a lot of celebrities, 50 actually interacts with his followers on Twitter. He said that should be expected of all entertainers who use the social networking site.

"It allows you the opportunity to reach your base," said 50. "To create something, as a form of entertainment. I think entertainers are supposed to entertain on it."

The G-Unit boss also discussed his upcoming album and how record companies can negatively affect an artist's career.

"You can make great music and it just goes into a slot where people say 'it was done well, but who cares?' You got older material of artists you listen to and you go back and say 'wow, this person was amazing; what happened to them?' The system happened to them. The business of music itself happened to them," he said. "Sometimes the companies don't prioritize things the actual public thinks are amazing and it just falls to the wayside"

He went on to add that his new album is all but finished. He needs just two songs before the disc is complete.

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Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy have been doing a ton of promotional work for their new movie, Tower Heist, which opened yesterday.

During an interview with Global Grind, they were asked where they were when they heard Officer Ricky had suffered two seizures in the same day, then went to the opening of his Wing Stop fast food joint in Memphis the day afterwards.

"So he hasn't had bad seizures if you have one seizure, then after the second one you go to the Wing Stop," Murphy said. "I think Rick Ross is cool. You sure these is real seizures Rick is having? I hope everything is alright. I didn't think that after a seizure nobody want no chicken wings. You wanna go sit down. That's a good sign if you come out of the coma and go 'oh chicken wings' then you know you're alright."

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Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake went in on some old school tunes when JT visited Jimmy's show yesterday.

This is the third installment in their History of Rap series.

Backed by The Roots band, the duo rapped to "Mama Said Knock You Out," "Sabotage" "Jump Around," "Hip Hop Hooray" and much more.

Check it out below.

Lola Monroe is officially Taylored.

Monroe, formerly known as Angel Lola Luv during her days as a video vixen has signed with Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang imprint.

"We got it in with Taylor Gang. We Taylored now," the 25-year-old beauty told Greg Street of Atlanta radio station V-103. "Wiz is like a positive free individual that's about his business and that matches everything I've created on my side. When he reached out, he was like, 'I feel as though our movements represent the same thing, so I want you to rep Taylor Gang.' And I agreed, so it's only right."

Monroe is preparing to drop two new mixtapes; one of which will be hosted by DJ Ill Will.

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Check out the latest visuals from Jill Scott.

The r&b diva recruits Pall Wall for this track off of her latest album, The Light of the Sun.

Gucci Mane's legal troubles don't appear to be going away anytime soon.

The rapper was denied a chance at a sentence reduction when a DeKalb County judge ruled against his attorney's motion. To make matters worse, Gucci was hit with a civil by a woman he pushed her from a moving vehicle when she refused his offer of $150 to go to a hotel.

"He thinks the rules don't apply to him," said the woman's attorney, B.J. Bernstein. She told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that she wants Gucci to be held accountable for his actions.

"He pushed a woman out of a moving Hummer," she said. "Sometimes jail is not enough for some people and some people who have celebrity and the one thing that scares them more than anything else is to go after them civilly."

Gucci's attorney offered to have the rapper give a free performance at the DeKalb County Battered Women's Shelter, but the judge in the case wasn't having it.

"I don't think it would be appropriate to let him out just because he's a rapper," DeKalb State Court Judge Eleanor Ross said.

Gucci, real name Radric Davis, pleaded guilty on September 13, 2011 to two counts of Battery, two counts of Reckless Conduct and Disorderly Conduct for pushing the woman from his vehicle.

Young Money artist Lil Twist drops a new Busta Rhymes assisted single from his upcoming album, Don’t Get It Twisted.

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Concert review by the Atlanta Journal Constitution


It threatened to turn ugly before it even started.


At 8:58 p.m., when a deep voice off-stage announced “two minutes” until showtime, boos, not cheers, filled Philips Arena.


You can’t blame fans for voicing their crankiness when a show with a 7:30 p.m. ticket (a ludicrous possibility for any rap or rock show) still hasn’t started by 9 p.m. And with the PR machine behind the “Watch the Throne” tour keeping any information about opening acts, start times, show setup or anything relevant on the kind of lockdown reserved for the C.I.A., all that the crowd could do was share frustrated eye rolls and sighs.


But Announcer Voice wasn’t lying this time, as the lights dropped at 9 p.m. sharp and red laser beams shot down on two spots – one on a square in front of the main stage and the other on a secondary square by the soundboard.


As the thumping backbeat to “H.A.M.” reverberated through the three-fourths full arena, the two titanic stars of this tour – Jay-Z and Kanye West – faced off from their respective cubes, which rose from the floor into towers of coolness.


The pairing of these mega-rappers (aka Hova and Yeezy) is to hip-hop fans what the joint tours of Elton John and Billy Joel have been over the years to middle-aged suburbanites: Bliss.


And while the opening night of the 32-date jaunt wasn’t without quibbles – lousy sound, a slightly bloated set list, video footage that sometimes seemed haphazardly assembled – the bottom line is that the guys unveiled a brisk, hits-filled show that was as exhausting to watch as it was entertaining.


The natural inclination with these marquee couplings is to compare the performers. But it’s the huge differences between Jay-Z and West that make them amusingly compatible.


Jay lumbers. West glides. Jay is a 100-percent-rock-solid rapper. West is a hybrid rapper and pop singer. Jay looks as if he’d be just as content lounging on his thousand dollar couch in New York as he does on stage. West looks as if his life depends on the adulation he receives from a crowd. Jay’s costume changes consisted of swapping black shirts and swiveling his omnipresent New York Yankees cap. West rotated through three ensembles, usually involving a type of skirt over his pants. (The press was prohibited from taking photos, otherwise you could see for yourselves.)


But when they blended their formidable talents, as on “Otis,” performed against an American flag backdrop with a fiery snap that immediately made you realize THIS would have been the perfect opener, Jay-Z and West were a rather dynamic duo.

Throughout the 2 ½-hour show, the rappers alternately performed together and separately, making the night a rich combination of smashes and new collaborative material from their platinum-selling “Watch the Throne” release.


Backed by three keyboardists/DJs lurking in the shadows of the clean, airy stage accented by a slanted ramp and a couple of rows of flashing amber lights, the pair whipped through “Welcome to the Jungle” – accompanied by disturbing video of a cheetah catching and destroying a gazelle – and “Gotta Have It,” one of numerous songs that spotlighted Jay-Z’s jaw-dropping word-spitting skills.


West injected his trademark drama into ”Jesus Walks,” dancing sideways across the stage and sinking to his knees, while Jay-Z dodged plumes of flames during his “Public Service Announcement.”


Several times during the set, the twosome flashed grins at each other or slung an arm around the other’s shoulder, although West usually followed Jay-Z’s lead with any affectionate movements. Their enjoyment sharing the stage was obvious as they led the crowd through the refrain of “Run This Town” and chanted over the heavy, chest-rattling bass in “Monster” as more video of wild animals played behind them.

We know you’re filled with testosterone boys. It’s OK, you can lay off the metaphors a bit.


The only breather – if you can call it that – these two ever took was when they sat on stage for the lulling “New Day,” a poignant rap about fatherhood and learning from mistakes. As the pair sat side-by-side for the introspective song, followed by Jay-Z’s “Hard Knock Life,” they looked like a couple of buddies sitting on the stoop of a brownstone, swapping stories like childhood friends.


For the next round of solo tunes, Jay-Z smiled his way through his undeniably brilliant “Empire State of Mind,” its liquid beats sending a sizzle through the arena air.


Then it was West’s turn to test-drive the back-of-the-hall cube, which he did for his trio of “Runaway” – complete with unnecessary Auto Tune – “Heartless” and “Stronger.”


While the rising platform, glowing red for West’s spin, was certainly a visual feat, it’s impractical. With zero lighting aside from shards of laser lights, the figure performing could have been Betty White for all anyone could see. It was a cool atmospheric effect for a few minutes, but the squinting became tiresome by West’s second song atop the tower.


But the show is so rapidly paced, even the annoyances passed quickly.


It seemed a natural ending, though, when Jay-Z leaned into the light Latin beat of “Big Pimpin’,” then the lighting shifted to strobes and purple lasers for a raw, stripped version of “Gold Digger,” ending with Jay leaning into Kanye to gave him some “advice” for his gold digger…a humorous segue into “99 Problems.”

At that point, many in the crowd shifted toward the exits, not wanting to get stuck in a post-concert crush, but also fearing an early departure in case one of Atlanta’s celebrity rappers showed up (sorry – no one did).


But Jay-Z and West still had another half an hour to roll through, a trip that spanned “N*ggas in Paris” – during which the crowd, surely tired of standing and dancing, was encouraged to “bounce” – “Sweet Baby Jesus,” highlighted by an arena aglow with cell phone lights, and, finally, “Why I Love You.”


It was a muted finale to a show that nailed so many peaks. But maybe that was the point. Maybe Jay-Z and West didn’t want the audience to depart solely on an adrenaline high, but with a little something to chew on.

"Izzo" x "Good Life"

"H.A.M." x "Who Gon Stop Me"

"Otis" x "Welcome To The Jungle" x "Gotta Have It"

"Where I'm From" x "Jigga What, Jigga Who" x "Can't Tell Me Nothing"

"N*ggas In Paris"

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Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch The Throne album was one of this year's best hip hop offerings. The disc has already been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and a mega tour in support of the project just kicked off in Atlanta last night (October 28).

Could things have possibly gone any better?

If you ask Method Man he would tell you yes. The Wu Tang Clan emcee thinks Nas should have been on the project, not Kanye West.

"I mean, Kanye’s a genius—I love the dude—but Watch The Throne should have been Nas and Jay," Meth told Complex "N*ggas would still be talking about that even if the album was wack. I’m not taking sh*t away from ‘Ye. Kanye and RZA should go in maybe. Maybe Kanye and Dr. Dre. But as far as emcees, Nas and Jay."

What do you think of Method Man's comments?

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With the ink now dry on his new deal with Warner Bros, Common drops off visuals for "Blue Sky."

Com's ninth studio album, The Dreamer, The Believer will be released in December.

Yelawolf teams up with rock and roll bad boy, Kid Rock for this track off his forthcoming Radioactive album.

In stores November 21

Freddie "Gangsta" Gibbs will be dropping his new Cold Day In Hell mixtape on Halloween.

Check out the official tracklisting, including features below.

01. Barely M.A.D.E. It
02. Rob Me A N*gga f.. Alley Boy
03. 187 Proof
04. Anything To Survive f. Freeway & Sly Polaroid
05. 2′s & Fews f. Young Jeezy
06. Gotta Let Ya Nuts Hang f. Will Scrilla
07. Let ‘Em Burn
08. B.A.N.ned
09. My Homeboy’s Girlfriend
10. PSA 2 (Pussy So Amazin)
11. Natural High
12. Str8 Slammin f. Juicy J
13. Menace II Society f. Dom Kennedy
14. Neighborhood Hoes f. 2 Chainz
15. Heaven Can Wait
16. My Dogz

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"Obie Trice, real name no gimmicks."

Former Shady Records artist, Obie Trice stopped by Ms. Drama's radio show while out promoting his forthcoming album, Bottom's Up.

The Detroit emcee had a lot of other things on his mind as well; specifically skinny jeans, artists he's feeling and Lil B.

Ms. Drama: Name something you would immediately change?
Obie Trice: Skinny jeans.

Ok what's your beef on skinny jeans?
That's just like...terrible

By terrible you mean men right?
Yeah, I mean men. Like little young dudes, that's cool. But men...it's not a good look.

From what age should you not be wearing skinny jeans?
I would say over 16. [If you're] 17,18 I would say chill out on the skinny jeans. When you become an adult chill out on the skinny jeans.

So if you could change it you would ban skinny jeans from the hip hop market?
Definitely, from the hip hop market.

What artists do you currently like?
I'm a big fan of Big K.R.I.T., J. Cole. Definitely the Kanye's and Jay.

Who are you not feeling?
What's the one guy's name everybody keeps talking about he calls himself a b*tch all the time?

Oh, you mean Lil B?
Yeah, I never heard his music though, but I heard he's kinda.....

He has a song "H*es On My D*ck Because I Look Like Jesus" that's currently out.
Serious? [starts laughing hysterically]

And his album he released online is called I'm Gay, but gay meaning happy he says
Oh yeah?

So no collaborations with him in the future then?
Nah, I don't even know his music, but I hear so much about this guy. They talking about this guy like he's terrible though. His music is terrible they're saying.

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Teddy P. aint playing around as he gears up for the December 6th release of his new album, rEVOLVEr.

The "rappa ternt sanga" drops his third video in a week. This one featuring singer Dawn can be found on his prEVOLVEr mixtape.