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Cam'ron will get to show off the acting chops he displayed in movies like 'Paid In Full' and 'Killa Season' by starring in a movie for a new film company formed by himself, Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere.

According to AllHipHop, the company dubbed KFU Productions is a joint venture between Latifah's Flavor Unit Films and Jacob York's Killa Films. The first flick under the KFU umbrella, "Percentages" is already being shot.

In addition to Cam who has the lead role, the film will also star Omar Gooding, Robert Wisdom, Macy Gray, Donnell Rawlings, Melinda Williams, K.D. Aubert and Ving Rhames.

The plot centers around two New York drug dealers on the run from a deal gone sour.

Cam'ron wrote the film himself and will also produce the soundtrack.

“Cam did the story, and then we brought in a writer to really tighten the script,” Jacob York told AllHipHop.com. “The movie was originally supposed to be the follow up to Killa Season, but we decided to make a brand new movie since the script was so good.”

The movie is being shot in New York and Miami. It's scheduled to hit movie theaters in 2012.

Cam'Ron on the set of 'Percentages'

Big Boi of the Grammy winning duo Outkast has avoided jail time by agreeing to a plea deal in a drug case.

The 36-year old rapper was arrested after exiting a Miami cruise ship in August when a K-9 dog alerted that he was carrying drugs. After a subsequent search, Big Boi was found to be in possession of ecstacy, a cigarette roller with marijuana residue and MDMA.

As part of the plea deal agreed to yesterday in a Miami courtroom, Big Boi will have to undergo three months of drug testing, community service and make $2,000 in donations to charities.

According to the Associated Press, the two felony drug charges the rapper faced will be dismissed if he tests clean for three months.

If you were able to catch the BET Awards earlier this week you saw DMX shut it down with a medley of his old hits. It was clear in that moment that hip hop needs DMX, and vice versa.

The demons that have followed the talented rapper over the last rocky few years might finally be gone.

"Everyone was taking advantage of me with my finances, trying to put me in the direction to fail," X told TMZ. "I have 10 kids. I have to drive them in the right direction, so I let the cocaine go. I am on a spiritual road to do right in my life. I am leaving out all negativity and going to stay on the right road to positive."

The 40-year old rapper's pastor agreed that he is living a clean and sober life now.

"When [DMX] first came to my church he looked broken, sad, and full of struggle. Now you see a dramatic change. You see that the drugs and alcohol aren’t in his life."

X is currently working on his seventh solo album with help from long time friend and collaborator Swizz Beatz.

The world's most infamous rap duo, Mobb Deep, is back with a taste of that 'Black Cocaine,' their upcoming EP. Peep this J.U.S.T.I.C.E League cut from the project.

EP due in stores Black Friday, November 25.

Royce Da 5'9, Joe Budden, Crooked I and Joell Ortiz, collectively known as Slaughterhouse keep the momentum from ripping the BET cyphers going by dropping off some new music.

Their Shady Records debut album is coming in 2012.

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The controversy surrounding Beyonce's baby bump doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.

As we reported yesterday, rumors are running rampant that the superstar singer is wearing a fake baby bump. Some have even suggested that she isn't pregnant at all.

This all stems from Beyonce's appearance on an Australian talk show. When the singer sat down her pregnant stomach seemed to deflate.

Count talk show host Wendy Williams as one of those people who is not yet convinced there is a pregnancy.

Williams blew off the picture of Beyonce looking pregnant while wearing a bikini, saying anyone could look like that after a "smothered pork chop" or "burrito."

Williams then brought out two of her pregnant staffers to demonstrate how an expectant mother normally looks when sitting in a chair.

Peep the clip below.

Morgan Creek and Universal Pictures are looking for a new director for a movie based on Tupac Shakur's life after Antoine Fuqua backed out of the project following a failed attempt to find an actor he felt was suitable for the role on 'Pac.

Variety is reporting that John Singleton is in negotiations to take Fuqua's vacated spot.

Singleton is very familiar with Shakur, having directed him in the movie 'Poetic Justice.' The two became such close friends that Singleton wrote the screenplay for 'Baby Boy' with 'Pac in mind as the lead. The role was eventually played by Tyrese Gibson after 'Pac was killed.

Check out some rare BET footage of Singleton and 'Pac having some fun facing off in a foot race below.

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Give the Drummer Some is Travis Barker's debut solo album. The Blink 182 drummer recruited some of rap's biggest names for the project.

Check out the new visuals for "Just Chill," featuring Kobe, Bun B and Beanie Sigel.

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Machine Gun Kelly releases visuals for "Welcome to the Rage," taken from his new project Rage Pack.

Quote from Machine Gun Kelly:

"The Rage Pack is my 1st music project since the release of Lace Up last year. The music is inspired by the energy me and my fans create during my live performances. There has been a lot of controversy with the word "rage"...we don't talk it...we live it! Wild Boy was the first release off the Rage Pack...I'm excited for the world to hear what we've created....Welcome to the RAGE!!"

"Wild Boy" featuring Waka Flocka Flame is available on iTunes now! Download the explicit version HERE. Clean version available HERE.


The Rage Pack drops this Friday 10.14.11

Two years after his fling with Rihanna fizzled out Drake is still licking his wounds.

The two superstars dated briefly following Riri's break up with then-boyfriend Chris Brown. Rihanna eventually moved on to a more serious relationship with baseball player Matt Kemp, leaving Drizzy out in the cold.

"At the time it hurt, but she didn't mean to," Drake told Elle magazine in their new issue. "I'll never put that on her. I was hurt because I slowly started to realize what it was. I guess I thought it was more. That was the first girl with any fame that paid me any mind. You spend days reading about this person in magazines. All of a sudden you have this number-one song and you're at some birthday party and there she is. And you're just some naive kid from Toronto staying in some shitty-ass hotel who got invited to this party on a whim. That's just how it happened."

Rihanna hasn't talked much publicly about dating Drake other than to say it was bad timing.

"It was at a really fragile time in my life, so I just didn't want to get too serious with anything or anyone at that time," the singer told The BoomBox last year.

For now Drake seems to have his eyes set on his Young Money label mate, Nicki Minaj. The two of them pretended to get married via Twitter last year.

"I don't know if we were really pretending. I'd marry Nicki. I think Nicki would be one of the only people that would understand me at the end of all of this and be able to love me."

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Royce Da 5'9 had one of the most talked about verses in the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards cyphers.

The Slaughterhouse MC showed his affection for Roc Nation's pop princess Rihanna, by uttering the words "hi Rihanna" several times during his time on the mic.

After the show the line became a trending topic on Twitter.

Riri responded with her own tweet the next day that read: “Hi @Royceda59.”

When Royce made an appearance on 106 and Park yesterday (October 12) the topic of conversation was his now famous line.

"I seen her overseas, me and Em were performing at the V Festival. She was coming out to perform with us. I’m just a Detroit guy, everybody’s treating me like I’m famous, but I still feel regular. She came up to me and told me that she liked one of my songs, so I just felt like, you tell me that again, we go together—has to happen. I just express myself through my music. I just thought it was a line I was going to say, I didn’t know she was going to hear it. I didn’t know it was going to become this, trending for 20 hours,” said Royce.

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Royce Da 5'9 talks about "hi Rihanna" line from BET cyphers

Slim The Mobster teams up with Prodigy for a new track off his upcoming street album, War Music, available November 8.

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DJ Cosmic Kev of Philadelphia's Power 99 radio station invited Diggy Simmons to the show recently.

Check Diggy's freestyle out below.

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Millions of people use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to keep up with friends, family, news, celebrities, etc. Charles Barkley isn't one of those people. As a matter of fact he thinks you're a loser if you spend time on either one.

"Tweet is for losers. And what I mean by that, if you wake up in the morning and you're worried about what I'm doing, you a damn idiot. You are a damn idiot," Barkley said. "I don't feel the need to put every thought that comes in my head out to the world. I don't feel that. And I hope nobody wakes up in the morning and says let me follow Charles Barkley for the day. I don't Facebook -- I'm not trying to keep up with people from my past. I'm running from them."

The comments come from a 'Rant and Rave' video posted by Barkley on his website.

What do you think of Sir Charles's comments?

As we reported last week, Luther Campbell has given Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled and Diddy until January 2012 to start giving back to the city of Miami in the form of community work, or risk having their passes revoked.

Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke was the front man for the Miami-based rap group 2 Live Crew. More recently he had an unsuccessful run at the Mayor's office.

The ultimatum was issued via an article Campbell wrote for the Miami New Times.

I've got a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money Brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy and all the rappers from other parts of the country who now live in Miami. I'm tired of seeing these cats using up our beaches, soaking up our sunshine, taking over the nightclubs, and sleeping with our women without investing anything into the community. I want to know when Lil Wayne is going to do more than show up courtside at the American Airlines Arena. Hell, it's not like he paid for them anyway. You know he got comped.

This free loading and mooching of my city has got to stop. There used to be a day when out of town rappers were scared to throw their weight around Miami. It didn't matter if they were coming from New York or Los Angeles, they knew better than to act like they owned this mother fucker.

Artists knew better than to come to Miami and disrespect us.But now folks in Miami's entertainment industry have gone soft, turning into a bunch of groupies just because they want to say they drank Rozay with the Cash Money crew.

Lil Wayne has finally responded. Writing on twitter that Campbell is "trippin." More surprising was the shot Wayne took at DJ Khaled, saying he wasn't "feelin" the DJ.

I think Luke is pretty serious about that deadline, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

What do you think of Wayne's new beefs with Khaled and Campbell?

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Maino is known as a real street dude. One who has made it in the game despite a lot of hardships. However, he says his tough guy image sometimes works against him when he does work giving back to the community.

The rapper has been working with Russell Simmons to help end gun violence, but he says the media only wants to talk about his checkered past or old beefs.

"Nobody cares about when you're doing positive. They only notice when Maino smacks the sh*t out of somebody," the Brooklyn rapper said. "They care about whatever fight they heard about or nonsense footage."

Maino was also asked his opinion on the Outlawz claim that they smoked 2Pac's ashes.

"I don't feel no way about it," he said. "It is what it is. Those were his people though. I wonder what it burned like."