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If "Pain" is an indication of the direction Pusha T is taking on his upcoming Def Jam debut album then fans have a lot to forward to. Future lends a hand on the hook of this Kanye West and No T.D.-produced heater.

Def Jam has found it's new Vice President of A&R. 

Barry Weiss, Chairman & CEO of Universal Republic and Island Def Jam Motown, and Karen Kwak, Executive Vice President/Head of A&R at Island Def Jam Music Group, announced that Grammy Award winning singer/super producer The-Dream would be be taking over the position.

"The-Dream is a gifted songwriter and producer who writes from a unique cultural point of view. This rare ability sets him apart from all other writers and producers out there," said Weiss.

The-Dream, real name Terius Nash, has a proven track record as a hit maker having penned songs like "Umbrella" for Rihanna, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" for Beyonce, "Touch My Body" for Mariah Carey and many more. Now he will be looking to find new talent for Def Jam.

According to a statement issued on Oct. 8, The-Dream “will have a comprehensive, broad reaching A&R portfolio.” He will work with both new and established talent at the label, and also work in a production capacity with artists on the Def Jam roster. 

Read what The-Dream has to say about his new position below.

I am committed as I have been previously to bringing the power of belief in the artist back to the forefront. 
I share a unique view of an artist and as well as the business of music. I, with the help of many others, have ran a successful business for the last five years in the midst of the 'Digital Change.'  My concentration and effort will be to the artist to succeed in their dreams and goals. I've been a part of watching and participating in the success of many great women and men including Beyonce, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion to name a few. Music means more than just a download, it’s life to the culture and also the people who listen. This is a new exciting yet critical time for music – ‘You Meet Change with Change!’

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Ca$his releases this new mixtape as a warm up for his upcoming project, The Art Of Dying. The mixtape features Ca$his going in over various popular instrumentals.

Tracklist:

01 Intro
02 New Day f. K-Young
03 Church (Amen) Freestyle
04 Let It Be
05 So Serious Freestyle
06 Burn Freestyle
07 Bless The Speaker f. Black TK
08 Water Whippin’
09 Coolie High (Skit)
10 Simon Says Freestyle
11 Same Damn Time Freestyle
12 Smoke Break
13 DABS
14 Tattoos
15 Can I Live Freestyle
16 Bring It Back
17 Rollin Freestyle
18 That Good
19 Trunk Knock
20 Vanity
21 Art Of Dying (skit)
22 Outro

Eve is gearing up to release her first album since 2002's Eve-Olution. To get fans warmed up she will be dropping the lead single "She Bad Bad" tomorrow via Blondie Rockwell, Inc. Today she released the single's cover art and a snippet.

The Philadephia MC has been dropping lyrics from the song on her Twitter account for the last several days.

"I live up at the top, so you keep climbing, Know they can never catch her/Me, I’m the chick that keeps ‘em under pressure. And every n*gga smells her, wan sex her/They say they wan protect her, But really they wan kiss and caress her."

Are you excited about Eve's comeback? What do you think of the snippet?

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Big Sean will be releasing his sophomore album later this year titled Hall of Fame: Memoirs of A Detroit Player. He recently stopped by Philadelphia radio station Hot 107.9 to chop it up with Q Deezy about the new album and a variety of other topics.

Besides Hall of Fame the two talked about Sean's Detroit mixtape, rumors that he and Kanye West both have sex tapes, is there a collaboration with Eminem on Hall of Fame, Chris Brown and more.

Watch the full interview by clicking here.

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Now this is pure hip hop. M.O.P.'s Lil Fame is teaming up with Massachusetts spitter Termanology for a new album titled Fizzyology. Here's a fire track off of the project featuring Styles P and Busta Rhymes.

"Play Dirty" was produced by DJ Premier.

Fizzyology drops on November 6th.

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RZA is making his directorial debut with the movie The Man with the Iron Fists. It's a movie he also stars in co-wrote with Eli Roth.

The Wu Tang Clan leader stopped by The Breakfast Club today and talked about how music and film are similiar.

"To me music and film have the same wavelength, " he said. "A lot of people may have not comprehended that, but I'm on of the kids that did comprehend it. It all activates under the same model. When I was making Wu Tang albums I was actually trying to make movies, so when you listen to a 'Cuban Linx' you felt like you were getting a movie in your head. Now that I've kind of rose above that I'm making physical movies now with hip hop music sounds as a backdrop to it."

RZA compared The Man with the Iron Fists to Wu Tang Clan's 1993 classic album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).

"To me this feels as good as '36 Chambers.' I really feel proud of what I've put in there. And I think when fans see this flick it's going to kind of revitalize to me the whole industry in a sense because what I did for what I had for my resources it's really like going back to that first '36 Chambers' album," he explained.

The rapper/actor/director/producer also spoke on the possibility of there being another Wu Tang Clan album.

"I don't know... I know the 20th year anniversary is coming up. Some of the brothers we've been talking about potentially going back in [and] maybe do a world tour. Just one more last hurrah to close the book. 20 years is a long time time for a hip hop artist definitely to be in the business, but for any artist. Usually 3 to 5 years is the run and you're gone. But we've been doing what we're doing feeding our families for 20 years with this."

Other topics included internal conflicts within Wu Tang Clan, possible Wu Tang movie, who excites him as a producer and more.

The Man with the Iron Fists hits theaters on November 2nd.

RZA interview with The Breakfast Club

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Curren$y and Harry Fraud continue to promote their Cigarette Boats EP by releasing the third official music video off of it, "Biscayne Bay."

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Missy Elliot is back on the music scene. She recently dropped two new singles featuring frequent collaborator Timbaland. While she was taking a break from music the singer/rapper got a serious health scare when she came down with Graves disease, an autoimmune disorder.

She talks with Sway in the Morning about that difficult battle.

"I was scared," she said. "Anybody that has Graves disease, you feel like you finna be outta here. And for me when you say you gotta take a radiation pill you think you really finna be outta here. You know, like what do I really have? And you gotta go through seeing my eyes change, and your hair fall out, your skin change. For me that was traumatic. I remember [being] in the studio with Monica doing 'Everything to Me.' And I couldn't even write the words down because your nervous system breaks down. So you shake so bad. That was a difficult time."

Missy also speaks on Aaliyah's influence and talks about what's missing in today's hip hop and r&b scene.

Missy Elliot talks about her battle with Graves disease

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Christina Milian hasn't released an album since 2006's So Amazin', but the 31-year old Cuban singer in on the comeback trail. With a new record deal with Young Money in her back pocket she is looking forward to putting out new music.

She recently stopped by Big Boy's Neighborhood to talk about what it's like working with Lil Wayne.

"I love it! It's really cool, Wayne just gets his artists which is great," she said. "I have very one-on-one business relationship with everyone from Mack [Maine] to Wayne. They're just very involved in the project."

Christina is the Social Media Correspondent for The Voice, She said that she is looking to get a single or a video ready to debut on the show by the end of the season

"I really wanna pick the perfect single. It's been a second since I've been out musically so I do not wanna fail. I don't believe in failure so I'm trying new things and figuring out the new pieces.. That's one thing that's great about Wayne. He's like, 'Work with different producers, take your time. But at the same time don't be stuck on one thing.'"

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Teddy P drops off fresh new visuals for "Hang Ups." The Young Fyre-produced song can be found T-Pain's latest mixtape titled Stoic.

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What should have a joyous occasion for all turned into a nightmare in Philadelphia on Sunday. NBC 10 reports that a wedding at the Sheraton Society Hill hotel turned into a free for all as 75 to 100 people brawled.

Police say members of one wedding party were already fighting when another wedding party was arriving at the hotel. A member of the second wedding party was hit sparking a drunken brawl that took dozens of police to break up.

At one point the police became outnumbered and had to call for backup.

One 57-year old man suffered a heart attack and later died at Jefferson Hospital. He was the uncle of the bride. He was not involved in the fight.

The fight was caught on tape by 15-year old Max Schultz, who was at the hotel celebrating his 15th birthday.

"I was up on the second floor watching. It was bedlam, out of hand." Schultz said.

Two people were arrested for disorderly conduct and one person was arrested for assault on a police officer. Other arrests could be made after police review the videotape.

The hotel issued a statement in response to the brawl.

"We continue to cooperate with the authorities and as this is an on-going police investigation any questions should be directed to the local police department. Our sincerest condolences go out to the family for their loss."

Watch the pure madness below.

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Raw footage shot outside the hotel

Bride's uncle dies after wedding brawl

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Lil Scrappy teams up with Rolls Royce Rizzy and releases a new music video for "God Know." The song can be found on Rizzy's mixtape, God Got Me.

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Chicogo's Fredo Santana releases brand new visuals for "Smokin Dope." The 12 Hunna-produced track is off of his latest mixtape, It's A Scary Site.

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Rihanna put aside her reportedly rekindled romance with Chris Brown for at least one day as she traveled to Azerbaijan on Saturday to perform at Baku’s Crystal Hall venue.

"Baku! I can't believe I'm here. I'm so excited," she told the crowd. "We've  waited such a long time to get here.  It's finally happening. For real. Now's not the time to be shy. I need y'all to get real crunk for me!"

The 24-year old singer opened the concert with “Only Girl (In the World)” and performed many of her hits throughout. She didn't perform her new single "Diamonds," which is surprising considering the song is already burning up the charts. It made it's debut at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and is already No. 1 on the UK charts.

Riri took to Twitter this morning to let her fans know the good news.

Check out pics and video from her Azerbaijan show below.

Pics from Global Grind and Daily Mail

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Brandy will be releasing her sixth studio album Two Eleven on October 16th. The R&B star appeared at The Factory in West Hollywood on Friday to perform "Wildest Dreams" and "Put It Down" off of the project.

Check out the performance below and pre-order Two Eleven from iTunes.

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Mila Kunis is the Sexiest Woman Alive according to Esquire Magazine. The beautiful 29-year old follows in the footsteps of 2011's sexiest woman, Rihanna, in receiving the honor from the publication.

Kunis has come a long way from the funny teen that starred in That 70's Show. Her role in the movie Black Swan, specifically her love scene with Natalie Portman really caught our attention. But aside from being a sex symbol, Kunis has built up a very solid body of work in movies like The Book of Eli, Date Night, Ted and Friends with Benefits, proving she is one of Hollywood's top actresses.

She is also the voice of Meg Griffin on the popular cartoon Family Guy.

Check out an excerpt from her interview with Esquire below to find out more about Mila.

My career was threatened over me not wanting to do the cover of a magazine.

 

By who?

By an executive. Oh, that's not even true. A person higher than an executive. It was like, If you don't do this magazine, you'll never work in this company. I went, "Great." It was the first time that I had someone on the phone tell me that I will never work in this industry again.

 

Did you laugh?

I said, "I'm sorry, what did you say?"

 

Which magazine?

It wasn't Playboy, but it was a magazine I didn't want to do. It's very simple. I just didn't want to do it. I said I would do that one and that one, just not this one. And this person couldn't accept no. In my twenty-nine years, I've never met someone who lied as much as this person did. You know when little kids look at you with chocolate all over their face, and then you say, "Why did you eat that chocolate?" And they say, "I didn't eat chocolate," and you say, "But you have it on your face." It was worse than that. There are good, honest people who work their asses off and don't reach nearly as much success as this person does.

 

It seems like you just got something off your chest.

I never spoke about it, and I did as little interviews as I possibly could. Because why support a project that didn't support me back? People in this industry lie so much, they believe their lies. That's what I learned on that movie. I learned people are assholes and people lie. I think that was the turning point of my career. Where I said no!

 

Wow. "People are a$$holes and people lie," says Mila Kunis on a lovely Wednesday morning in a café in the Hollywood Hills. What she's talking about is her experience during the production and then the promotion of Max Payne, the 2008 action film she starred in with Mark Wahlberg. This all erupted suddenly, when that movie happened to come up during a conversation about some of her recent roles. She didn't want to talk about it. Then she paused. And then she started talking about it. She squinted and slowly moved her head from side to side in a way that only means ... motherf*ckers! What Kunis is right now is worked up. Which is a fascinating thing to watch. Because onscreen, Mila Kunis is a master at being worked up — as Jackie on That '70s Show, as Wahlberg's girlfriend in Ted, as the voice of Meg Griffin on Family Guy. In real life, it's just as captivating. Even over eggs.

 

She's wearing shorts and a T-shirt and very little makeup. When she took off her sunglasses while offering her hand, she revealed eyes that are not the giant smoky eyes you are used to seeing in photographs. They are big eyes, but they are not mythically big, not the anime eyes you were expecting. She's just come from running errands. In fact, the Sexiest Woman Alive is at this moment not even the most glamorous woman in the café. She's in between work right now. She's finished shooting Oz: The Great and Powerful. She'll start shooting The Angriest Man in Brooklyn two weeks from now. She likes to talk. She answers questions directly and substantively. At times forcefully. But always affably. If she doesn't understand what you're getting at, she will give you the side-eye, but it comes off as genuine, not derisive. Seth MacFarlane, who cast her as the voice of Meg on Family Guy and directed her in Ted, has said she has a voice that you could hear over a jet engine, but that's an exaggeration. At least at first. At first, her voice is almost meek. It cracks. It's a kind voice. And possibly a little tired. Until she gets going.

 

So I spoke with Seth about you. And he mocked me at least once.

Only once?

 

I used the word wonderful to describe your voice.

Oh, God.

 

What I meant was textured and interesting and great for an animated show. And he started laughing. He said, "Wonderful would not be the word I would use to describe it. Overpowering maybe."

 

He's such a d*uchebag. I keep telling him, "Sarcasm does not translate well in print." And he is so f*cking dry. I've known him since I was fourteen, and I find self-deprecating humor great. I tell him, "You can mock away because I know who you are. In print, though? You're going to come off like an asshole. So be careful."

 

Do you think you're funny?

I think I stumbled upon doing funny things, but I'm not funny. I just know how to deliver a joke. There are people who naturally exude humor and are constantly saying funny things, and there are the people who know how to deliver a joke. It's a learned skill. Through twenty years of doing this, I practice it. I think that the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

 

How do you learn to deliver a joke?

Practice. Eight years of a TV show. You learn a lot. Jokes come in threes.

 

Rhythm.

That's all you need. You have to know the rhythm of a joke. And you can learn the timing of a joke, but it doesn't mean that you're going to become Lucille Ball.

 

Are your parents funny?

My dad is dry and sarcastic, and my mom just laughs at everything.

 

She got her start by being funny, at least in the Hollywood sense.

As a teenager she was the funniest part of a successful sitcom (That '70s Show). Then a supporting part in a small but successful romantic comedy (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Then things took a gritty turn, a meaty role in a bigger movie alongside a huge star (The Book of Eli, Denzel Washington) and a startling performance as a crazy and manipulative diva in Black Swan, which happened to involve kissing another woman. Then another romantic comedy, a starring role with Justin Timberlake in the successful Friends with Benefits.

 

It's been a busy career so far, but its trajectory is perhaps not unusual for a beautiful, talented actress in her late twenties. What is unusual is the story of her life before she was cast in her first commercial at age nine (after being discovered at a child-actor showcase by the woman who still manages her).

 

She was eight, in 1991, when she immigrated with her parents and her brother from Ukraine to escape anti-Semitism and the turmoil that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her family moved into a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment in Los Angeles, at the corner of Sweetzer and Melrose, right in the heart of West Hollywood. Mom, Dad, brother, grandfather and grandmother, her other grandfather, and her. They lived there for about four years as her parents worked jobs quite different from the professional careers they'd abandoned back home. It's not the usual tale of a young Hollywood star. Who wouldn't want to talk about it?

 

I've talked about it for so long. If you can find something in it that I haven't disclosed ...

 

You seem bored by this. Do you find it not very interesting?

I find it incredibly interesting, but I want you to go walk down Fairfax. And every. Single. One. Of those people has a similar story. My immigration story is being made into something bigger than it needs to be.

 

Do you think it's being fetishized a little bit?

Completely. It has nothing to do with me. I feel awful talking about it, because my parents should sit down and talk about it. They're the ones who went through hell and back, who gave everything up. I didn't do anything. I was eight years old, and I tagged along. And my parents made me feel safe. I didn't make those decisions. So I can't take responsibility for it. Every immigrant has a story. "And in 1991 during the fall of communism..." Everybody has a story. Let me just repeat: I was eight years old. I didn't know what was happening.

To read the rest of the interview head over to Esquire.com.

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Trigga Trey Songz releases brand new visuals for "Dive In." It's the latest single off of Trey's fifth studio album, Chapter V.

Video directed by Justin Francis

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Trae Tha Truth lets women who are going through tough times in life know that he has their back in the video for "Remember the Rain." The song is off of Trae's mixtape Tha Blackprint.

Video directed by Philly Fly Boy

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