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What a lot of cats on the underground have already known for a while, the whole world is about to discover. And that is this kid Wiz Khalifa is nice with his.

Fresh off his surprise win in MTV's '2010 Hottest Breakthrough MC' contest. Beating out Diggy Simmons, J. Cole, Nicki Minaj and Travis Porter, Wiz has got to be feeling like a world beater

Hard Knock Tv's Nick Huff Barili talks with the Warner Bros record artist about what he has planned in the future.

With two parents serving in the Iraq War, Wiz had a little to say about that.

"I feel strongly about the situation, I'm not the most political person. But as far as the situation in Iraq goes it needs to come to an end. There's a lot of senseless lives being lost and there's all kinds of stuff going on with the economy based on the war. And based on my parents being over there. I know how hard it is."

Wiz named some his musical influences Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Snoop Dogg, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, 2Pac and Nelly.

Wiz goes on to talk about his career goals and who he would like to madel himself after.



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Four years after a shooting left an unarmed Sean Bell dead (on the eve of his wedding) and two of his friends wounded following a tragic incident with New York City police, the city has agreed to pay $7 million dollars to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Bell's family and his friends.

According to The New York Times, in the early hours of November 25, 2006, five New York City police officers fired 50 shots into the car Bell — who was to be married that day — was driving outside a club in Queens, New York. The car reportedly struck a detective in the leg and hit a police van before the officers began firing. None of the three men in the car — Bell and his friends Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield — were armed, although the officers apparently believed at least one was.

In what's seen as the closing chapter in one of the most controversial police shootings in New York City history — three officers were acquitted of manslaughter and reckless-endangerment charges in 2008, a ruling many activists and rappers spoke out against — the families of the victims are looking to move past the tragedy.

As part of the settlement, Bell's two young daughters (whom he had with his fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell) will receive $3.25 million; Guzman (who was shot 17 times) and Trent Benefield will receive $3 million and $900,000 respectively, according to Times.

Earlier this week, Foxy Brown — a close friend of Bell's fiancée — said Paultre Bell is a strong woman who remained in high spirits throughout the four-year ordeal.

"She just handled everything so gracefully," Brown said. "She just did everything with grace and class."

G-Unit member Tony Yayo, whose G-Unity foundation gave proceeds from a recent event to Bell's family, said the settlement is long overdue.

"I think it's a beautiful thing, but rest in peace to Sean Bell," Yayo said. "I mean, you have times now when a police officer can shoot you in your back, handcuffed on the floor, in a train station in front of everybody and get two years," Yayo said, referring to the Oscar Grant shooting in Oakland, California, in which found a transit officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last month. "So Sean Bell's people deserve that money, definitely, and blessings to them."

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I'm gonna start off by saying that what happened in this situation is messed up and is a serious matter.

A young woman in Huntsville, Alabama. Kelly Dodson, was at home asleep when some lowlife climbed into her bed and tried to rape her. She screamed, and fought with fight her attacker. That's when her brother. Antoine sprang into action and chased the man off.

Antoine told the tv cameras what happened:

"Well obviously we have a rapist in Lincoln Park. He's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up trying to rape em. So yall need to hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband cause they raping everybody out here!"

Antione The Homo Thug wasn't done yet.

"You don't have to come and confess that you did it...we looking for you! We gonna find you so you can run and go tell that."

All I can do is take a deep breath and slowly....................SMFH because this seems like an episode of The Boondocks

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With a five-week chart run for Recovery that shows no signs of abating and sales of 2 million just over the horizon, Eminem has been on a winning streak lately. His hit duet with Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" has topped charts and given Slim Shady one of the biggest non-satirical crossover pop hits of his career, but according to longtime manager Paul Rosenberg, the path to success had plenty of obstacles.

Rosenberg spoke to HITS magazine and said the title of Recovery had a very literal meaning for the MC, who has openly spoken about his struggle with prescription drug addiction. After admitting that he made his 2004 album, Encore, in the throes of drug addiction and that last year's Relapse was part of the process of flushing the drugs out of his system, Recovery was about taking a step forward.

"Em was certainly gaining his footing after not being sober for awhile," Rosenberg said. "It took him a bit to get on stable ground and figure out what he wanted to do. After almost overdosing, everything looks and sounds different to you. He was really thrust back into the game and had to adjust."

Rosenberg sidestepped a question on whether he agreed with the rapper's assessment that Encore and Relapse weren't Eminem's finest work. "With respect to Relapse, we were just excited that he was focused and recording music again, that we could get the record out there and not make the fans wait any longer," he said. "And I think we accomplished that. He's a little hard on himself. Even at his worst, Eminem is still far better than most. He wants everything he does to be received on that level of excitement, wonderment and anticipation as his first couple of albums."

Saying Em was "really" smart in realizing what went wrong with those releases, Rosenberg said his star client has a clear understanding that his audience wants to connect emotionally to his music and realized he hadn't done that recently and needed to get back into that mode. "His mission was to create songs that would accomplish that. It's just good to see that when you make something great, people are still there for it. You can take a misstep, but you can still get back on track."

As for why Marshall deviated from his previous method of working with mentor Dr. Dre on Recovery, which only features one Dre production, Rosenberg said once the original plan to do a Relapse sequel was dropped, Em realized he'd turned a musical corner and wanted to keep moving in that direction.

"When Em started working with Dre on sessions for the second record in Hawaii, he turned a corner artistically," Rosenberg explained. "And at that point, he wanted to keep moving in that new direction. So it was an evolution. ... By the time Marshall started focusing on making a new album, Dre was already working on his own stuff. So we reached out to Just Blaze first, worked on several tracks with him, and that opened the door to the other producers — Boi-1da, DJ Khalil. Those three are the guts of the record. It was a natural progression, a matter of timing."

Not surprisingly, Rosenberg said Em is very happy with how his latest album has been received and the smash sales he's racked up so far. "He's really happy with it," he said of the rapper, who has come out of his shell a bit to promote the album with some viral videos and rare TV appearances. "He put a lot of work into it. He thought it was what people would be looking for, so the reaction has been gratifying. That his fans love it is the most important thing to him. Em feels he let people down because he didn't give what he felt he needed to give them. That's what drove him to make this album."

As for "Love the Way You Lie" giving Slim Shady his biggest crossover hit since the "8 Mile" smash "Lose Yourself," Rosenberg said the tune was an attempt to reach that elusive wider audience. "Em wanted to connect with a radio audience this time," he said. "He realized the last time that it didn't make it all the way like he wanted it to. He certainly had that in mind making this album." For now, Rosenberg said, there are no plans for a major tour and Em will stick to the two co-headlining gigs he's got booked with Jay-Z in New York and Detroit and an appearance at the Epicenter Festival in Fontana, California. "We don't have anything else booked," he said. "He loves performing, but he doesn't love traveling, so we try to figure out a way to make that work. We'd like to find ways he can perform without going to different cities."

Source: MTV

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Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco understand the fans frustration, he feels it too. His latest album 'Lasers' has languished in limbo at Atlantic Records with no release date in sight although it's been finished for months..

Some fans have taken it upon themselves to start a petition to force Atlanric into putting the album out...now!

"I love to see progression," he told MTV. "I love it. I love to see this petition. It brought me to tears a couple of times like, 'these n---as really f--- with me. All these kids and these fans f--- with me and it's some positive sh--. Go to Wearenotlosers.com and see what Lasers really is. ... That's what they're petitioning for. Listen to 'I'm Beamin,' the song. It reaffirms what we're doing."

He says Atlantic presented him with choices of singles for the album. He turned them all down because he was told he wouldn't have ownership of or any publishing rights to the tunes.

One of the songs turned out to be B.o.B.'s smash hit "Nothing On You" featuring Bruno Mars.

The problem as Lupe sees it is that the record companies only care about 3 great songs off the album that they can market.

"I don't think the label cares about an album," Lupe told MTV. "I don't think n---as care. People just want their number-one record. They don't care about the rest of the album. I was talking to an engineer the other day and he said, 'These n---as don't even care about mixing an album no more.' They just want the first three songs. Three singles. They get them, one, two, three, they don't care what's on the rest of the album. I know this for sure. I've seen it. You can't blame them because of the attention span of the game and the attention span of music, how fast things are going. You only got them one, two, three shots. I'm not no fool. I'm looking at it like 'Yeah, you're right."


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Fabolous-There Is No Competition 2: The Grieving Music EP dropping August 31st.

Fabolous-“Loso’s Way 2 – Rise To Power,” is set to release November 2010

Tracklist:

1. Lights Out (I Don’t See Nobody) (prod. Lex Luger)
2. Girl You Be Killin’ ‘Em (prod. Ryan Leslie)
3. I’m Raw (prod. Amadeus & Lee Major)
4. Body Ya (prod. Sonaro)
5. Body Count (prod. Sonaro)
6. Tonight f Red Cafe & Lore’l (prod. Jahlil Beats)
7. The Wake (prod. I.N.F.O. & NOVA)
8. Body Bag f. Cam’ron & Vado (prod. I.N.F.O. & NOVA)

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Lady Gaga, international superstar, terrific singer/song writer, hard worker and gay rights advocate.

Lady Gaga sex symbol??.....meh.........Not so much.

While rumors have swirled that Lady Gaga has a penis or whatever it's clear from these pics taken at Houston's St Regis Hotel Tuesday (July 27) she's 100 percent woman.

Gaga looks like she might want to stop killing herself on stage though. The bruises, scrapes and the beat up knees need tending to.

Shouldn't they have someone that takes care of that? *Kanye Shrugs*

She may not be on the cover of the next Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, but she will be around for a long time in the music industry as long as her "little monsters" keep supporting

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M.I.A has a short list of celebrities she's not into right now, and it looks like she's added daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey to the roster.

In an interview with 'Time Out London,' M.I.A. recanted an experience at this year's Metropolitan Ball in New York where she says she was slighted by Winfrey.

"She was with [supermodel] Iman [Bowie]. Iman was always dancing with me, hugging and kissing me, but Oprah seemed really pissed off with me," said M.I.A.

In addition to receiving the cold shoulder from Oprah, M.I.A also spoke about how she disliked the praises she gave to Lady Gaga (another person she's expressed disdain for in the past) while at the Met Ball.

"Also, [Winfrey] made this huge speech at the ball praising Lady Gag about how she is helping Americans to be the best of themselves. There's millions of other Americans who represent that for me. Is [it] about numbers? About how much you're selling? Is it truly about the journey? Because [Lady Gaga's] journey isn't that difficult: to go from the f------ Upper East Side to a f------ perfoming arts school and onto a stage at the museum of f------- wherever. That journey's about four miles."

M.I.A' has had harsh words for Lady Gaga in the past. In an interview with another publication earlier this year, she referred to Gaga as a good "mimic," accusing her of ripping off the work of Madonna and Grace Jones.

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West Coast MC/producers The Alchemist and Oh No have announced plans to release a collaborative album entitled Gutter Water. The new team, who go by the name of Gangrene, will share production and rapping duties on the LP, which will feature guests Raekwon, Guilty Simpson, and XXL Freshman Fashawn, among others.

Fans can expect to hear Alchemist’s distinct dark sound, made popular by his work with Prodigy, Jadakiss and Nas, mesh with Oh No’s underground West Coast flavor. Brother to cult producer Madlib, Oh No has released three solo albums on independent record label Stones Throw.

Gangrene recently released their lead single “Chain Swinging” and will put out Gutter Water on Decon Records in October 12. —Calvin Stovall

GUTTER WATER TRACK LISTING:

1. Intro
2. Boss Shit (Cuts by DJ Romes)
3. Not High Enough
4. Gutter Water ft. Raekwon
5. Get Into Some Gangster Shit ft. Planet Asia
6. Take Drugs
7. Chain Swinging (Cuts by DJ Romes)
8. Wassup Wassup ft. Fashawn and Evidence
9. All Bad (Cuts by DJ Romes)
10. Breathing Down Yo Neck ft. MED
11. From Another Orbit ft. Roc C
12. Ransom
13. Standing In The Shadows
14. Brass Knuckle Rap ft. Guilty Simpson
15. Not Leaving ft. Big Twins

Source: XXL

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West Coast MC/producers The Alchemist and Oh No have announced plans to release a collaborative album entitled Gutter Water. The new team, who go by the name of Gangrene, will share production and rapping duties on the LP, which will feature guests Raekwon, Guilty Simpson, and XXL Freshman Fashawn, among others.

Fans can expect to hear Alchemist’s distinct dark sound, made popular by his work with Prodigy, Jadakiss and Nas, mesh with Oh No’s underground West Coast flavor. Brother to cult producer Madlib, Oh No has released three solo albums on independent record label Stones Throw.

Gangrene recently released their lead single “Chain Swinging” and will put out Gutter Water on Decon Records in October 12. —Calvin Stovall

GUTTER WATER TRACK LISTING:

1. Intro
2. Boss Shit (Cuts by DJ Romes)
3. Not High Enough
4. Gutter Water ft. Raekwon
5. Get Into Some Gangster Shit ft. Planet Asia
6. Take Drugs
7. Chain Swinging (Cuts by DJ Romes)
8. Wassup Wassup ft. Fashawn and Evidence
9. All Bad (Cuts by DJ Romes)
10. Breathing Down Yo Neck ft. MED
11. From Another Orbit ft. Roc C
12. Ransom
13. Standing In The Shadows
14. Brass Knuckle Rap ft. Guilty Simpson
15. Not Leaving ft. Big Twins

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Nicki Minaj's "Your Love" video has been out for several days, so by now you should know that the lovely Young Money siren kicks the bucket at the end of the clip. During a sword fight with her female rival, Nicki's character, a martial arts student who's in love with her sensei (played by Michael Jai White), comes out on the losing end when she catches some powder to the face and a sharp blade to the gut. Last week in Los Angeles, Nicki explained why she wanted to have a fatal attraction in the video.

"I just felt like that was the most emotional and truthful storyline," Minaj explained. "I felt like mostly everyone would normally make themselves win in the end. I wanted to show that the only way I could be beat is if you cheat. If you cheat! If you play fair and square, I'm gonna win. It's my little way of looking at it. Also, I felt it was almost heart-wrenching to see it. I made myself this nice girl in the video and you bond with the character, you know what I mean? You know what I mean. You see her die. I wanted people to talk about it in the end. 'Why did she make that decision?' I wanted them to cry."

Nicki's fans will be crying tears of joy when her long-anticipated debut album hits stores. She promises the project will be out before the end of the year, and she's focusing heavily on recording her own songs.

"Maybe a few things cooking," Nicki answered with a smile when asked if she has any more guest appearances coming up. "But right now, it's all about the album. November 23. Nothing comes before that." Then Nicki contemplated the title of her project.

"Maybe we should call it ... The Album," she ruminated. "Nicki Minaj: The Album," she continued before dismissing the idea. "I don't know, it'll come."


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Jasonville, Indiana (CNN) -- Last Christmas, Stacey Chapman hung a stocking, anxiously awaiting the homecoming of the all-American soldier she had met online and planned to marry.

But he never came home. After some research, Chapman discovered the 20-year-old blond in fatigues pictured in the online dating profile, Spc. Brian Browning, had died in Iraq three years ago.

And the man she had been e-mailing and chatting with for the last six months, who went by the name "Christain Browning," was really a scammer posing as an American soldier.

"He made me believe he was falling for me, that he was completely in love with me, that he was a soldier over there defending our country," said Chapman, a recently separated mother of two. "I think I had a big red flag on me that said, 'very lonely, very vulnerable.'"

Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, told CNN his division has received hundreds of complaints of scammers using the photos of U.S. soldiers in dating and social websites in the last year. CNN has learned the scammers have used photos of both living and dead troops, including high-ranking Army officials and even generals assigned to the Pentagon.

Many of the soldiers are fighting overseas, unaware that their photos -- stolen off the web -- are being used unless they're contacted by the duped victims. But often, as in the case of Stacey Chapman, the impostor uses a variation on the soldier's name, making the real soldier hard to find.

A broken-hearted Chapman lost more than $1,200 that she sent via Western Union for what she thought was his plane ticket home. And while the financial hit hurt, it didn't compare to the emotional toll.

"What a lowlife he was, trying to actually portray a soldier that had died in the war," Chapman said. "I had fallen for him, and he had ran with it and taken me for not only my money, (but) my heart."

Grey said the military can't do anything to stop the scam because U.S. soldiers aren't the perpetrators. The best solution, he said, is to get the word out.

Master Sgt. C.J. Grisham, a military blogger and active-duty soldier, is doing just that. Grisham receives up to 10 emails a day from victims duped by the scammers. Through his blog, www.soldiersperspective.us, he warns unsuspecting victims and soldiers and tracks the scammers, who he said are likely based in western Africa.

Grisham said the scheme often starts out small. After capturing the attention of a woman online with a fake profile of a man in uniform, the scam artist teases the victim with chocolates, flowers and teddy bears. Soon after sending the gifts, the impostor starts asking for money to pay for Internet or phone service. From there, the money requests grow.

"Love is such a powerful emotion. Loyalty or patriotism is a very powerful emotion. And people do a lot of stupid stuff in the name of love and in the name of patriotism," Grisham said.

CNN contacted the Browning family in Astoria, Oregon, after learning that the photo of their fallen son had been used in the online romance scam. Spc. Brian Browning's father, Perry Browning, didn't take the news lightly.

"It makes me madder now more than anything, because some scumbag is using my son's good name and honor to pillage women," Browning said.

Browning's father had a message for Stacey Chapman, the woman who planned to marry his "son." The real Brian Browning was a loving son and a caring and funny character, he said.

"She fell in love with a nice picture of a young man. My son was a worthy person. He was worth falling in love with," Browning said. Chapman is "every much a victim in this as my son Brian was," he added.
"This guy is just trying to make a buck off of everybody's heart. Crappy bastard
," he said.



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Foxy Brown insists there were no shots fired at Nicki Minaj. The Brooklyn veteran disputes claims she was dissing the Young Money MC during a recent show at Manhattan's B.B. King Blues Club & Grill. Brown says that, in fact, she thinks Minaj has been doing an exemplary job at navigating the music industry.

"What's funny, I actually applaud Nicki for it," said Foxy, who was accompanied by her manager earlier this week during a visit to the MTV News studio. "I think she's doing an incredible job of branding herself. When you're a boss bitch, you give it up. Send her a Chanel bag or something," she laughed. "If you're winning, you're wining. That's just how I see it."

When Foxy was asked whether she shared the same line of thinking as Lil' Kim, who believes that a rising female MC like Minaj should pay homage, Brown insisted, "I'm not caught up in that at all ... I'm not even in that category. I'm still one of the youngest female rappers in the game. [Other female rappers] may feel like that because they're older, but I myself am still young. I don't feel that. I applaud what she's doing.

As for Foxy's comments at her B.B. King's show over the weekend, Brown addressed her female rap counterparts mixing hip-hop and dancehall saying, "I'm the only rap bitch in the game that f--- with all hip-hop, all dancehall, and I'm the only bitch that can do that for real"

Brown told us that yes, she was referring to Nicki's Caribbean accent on the remix of Gyptian's "Hold You," but no, she wasn't throwing jabs.

" 'Cause everyone thought it was me on that dancehall record," Foxy explained. "It's something I created. That's something that had never been done before — hip-hop and dancehall together — until I did it. I didn't do it just to sell records. I didn't do it as a ploy or gimmick. My parents are from Trinidad. I'm Trinidadian. I'm West Indian. That is the music I grew up on. To incorporate that with hip-hop was the biggest thing ever.

"My ex-fiancé is Spragga Benz; [he] had the most amazing dancehall hook and we went crazy on it. I think anybody that does that after, [people will be like, 'Is that Fox?'] Then the little ad-libs [Nicki does on the song], 'whoa, whoa,' that's my trademark. People will start to question that and say, 'Was that Foxy?' But what I said onstage is what is said. I back up and stand behind everything I say two million percent: I am the only Trinny chick that can kick yard sh--."


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A 14-year-old faces a hate-crime enhancement charge after Palm Bay police said he carried out a racially motivated attack on a 22-year-old man for listening to rap music.

The teen was taken into custody late Monday and charged with battery after Palm Bay police were called to investigate a disturbance near the intersection of Port Malabar Boulevard and India Lane in the northeast section of the city.

Hate-crime enhancement means the first-degree misdemeanor battery charge could be elevated to a third-degree felony because the youth showed "extreme prejudice against the victim because of his race," said Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Palm Bay Police Department.

"The victim, who is white, was walking along Port Malabar listening to rap music when he saw the suspect and a group of other youth," Martinez said.

The 14-year-old, who police say may have known the man, told the man to stop listening to the rap music, "because he was white," and that, "white people shouldn't listen to rap music," Martinez said.

"(The victim) then told them that he could listen to any kind of music he liked," Martinez said.

The teen struck the victim in the face as the other youth encouraged the attack, police said. The beaten man escaped and contacted police. He later identified the teen, Martinez said. The teen was then booked into the Juvenile Detention Center.

The state attorney's office will review the charges.

Source: Florida Today

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Funeral Fab is back with a new EP to follow up his highly successful mixtape "There Is No Competition 2: The Funeral Service".


Basically this EP has two new joints on it, "Lights Out" and "Girl You Be Killin' Em" added to six of the hotter tracks from the original. Def Jam wants their slice of the pie after seeing how well the music was received so this mixtape will come with a price tag.



1. “Lights Out (I Don’t See Nobody)”
2. “Girl You Be Killin’ ‘Em”
3. “I’m Raw”
4. “Body Ya”
5. “Body Count”
6. “Tonight” feat. Red Cafe and Lorel
7. “The Wake”
8. “Body Bag” feat. Cam’ron and Vado
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Big Snoop Dogg is no stranger to conflicts and confusion. He's never hid the fact that he's a Rolling 20 Crip out of Long Beach. He represents that, but he doesn't condone senseless violence.

He spoke spoke to DJ Green Lantern recently saying people that gang bang outside of Cali shouldn't come out there with no buulshit..

"If you are banging outside of Californina......BLOODS AND CRIPS, you need to stay there. Cause if you come back to California where it originated at, we have different sets of rules and regulations that don't apply to you and you will become a victim of the circumstances.."

Well a lot of crips from around the country felt disrespected by what was said.

One such set in Oklahoma City near where Snoop has a show in Tulsa tonight. Are telling the Big Dogg he better get in touch with them for a pass or they cannot insure his safety.

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