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Chris Brown made it official today, confirming he was no longer with Karrueche Tran.

The singer issued a statement saying he didn't want to hurt Tran anymore because of his friendship with Rihanna.

"I have decided to be single to focus on my career. I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna," Chris Brown tells Confidenti@l through his spokesman on Thursday. "I'd rather be single allowing us to be both be happy in our lives."

Chris and Rihanna at Jay-Z concert Wednesday night

The announcement comes on the heels of reports that Chris and Rihanna have been all over New York City together this week. The two were photographed together at Jay-Z's Barclays Center concert.

This should put to rest any speculation about whether or not the former couple would be getting back together. At this point it's only a matter of time.

Peter Rosenberg of Hot 97 says the two deserve each other.

"Obviously I hope everything works out for Chris Brown and Rihanna. I hope they have no problems. However, evidence suggests that won't be the case," Rosenberg said on "The Realness" this morning. "Let's be real guys and this is why I'm over it... they deserve each other. They're both young, they're both immature, they love horrible tattoos. This is a couple that's meant to be together. So people like me as much as we think it's the wrong thing - there's nothing to do but sit back and let them make the mistakes and learn for themselves. So Godspeed Chris Brown and Rihanna. Or as you'll forever be known, Chrihanna."

Sources: New York Daily News and Hot 97

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A York County, South Carolina inmate earned himself more time in prison after punching his lawyer in the face while in court.

Lamarcus Williamson, 30, had just been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery, assault and drug charges. As he was being led away he suddenly turns toward his public defender and punches him in the face.

"I was shocked, I didn't see it coming. I hit the floor," said attorney Dan Hall.

Constables immediately grabbed Williamson and rushed him out the door, but the damage had been done.

Hall said he had only met Williamson once before and was just filling in for a colleague. 

"I've been doing this for 25 years and I never seen anyone physically attacked in a courtroom," Hall said. "An inch higher I would have had a broken nose, an inch lower my front teeth would have been knocked out, I'm still sore," Hall said. "He hit me right above the teeth and right below the nose.  My mouth is still sore and my lips are lacerated a bit on the inside, but I think I'll be OK."

Lamarcus Williamson

Williamson was charged with criminal contempt and will get six more months added to his 15-year sentence.

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Sources: New York Daily News and WCNC

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Roscoe Dash has been very vocal in the last couple of weeks about not getting his proper writing credit on the song "To the World," which appears on the G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer.

R. Kelly, Kanye West and the track's producer Pop Wansel, appear in the credits but Dash doesn't.

The rapper/songwriter vented on Twitter last month about the omission.

"Everybody go get the G.O.O.D album and listen to #1... & tell me y I'm not on the credits," he wrote. "& as far as @KanyeWest 'To The World' if u listen close my adlibs are STILL in the song."

He also claimed to have written the chorus for Wale's hit "Lotus Flower Bomb," which features Miguel.

Roscoe sat down with Sway in the Morning recently to speak on both situations.

"When I said something about it wasn't for the attention. It wasn't for any type of publicity. It wasn't because of anything like that," Roscoe said, speaking on not getting credit on Cruel Summer. "It was really because I feel like there's so many people who wanna do what we do, and feel like they can do what we do, and that it's easy. And they don't really know half of the things that we go through. So I just wanted to put that out there for them so see that."

He went on to explain that things have since been cleared up and there's no bad blood between him and Kanye.

The conversation then switched gears to the "Lotus Flower Bomb" confusion.

"Honestly to keep it real Wale is a really good friend of mine still to this day despite what's going on," Roscoe said. "So whenever he was going through what he was going through when he was in between [record deal] situations I wanted to make sure that I could do whatever it is that I could do to help him in any way he needed to be helped. We went in at my spot and did a couple of records. 'Lotus Flower Bomb' was one of those records that we wrote. He had another vocalist come in and lay the record. I believe his name was Sam. And whenever I talked to Wale the other day... we hadn't talked about it since then because I don't bring up stuff like that,"
Roscoe explained. "So when we finally talked about it he was like, 'I don't know, I didn't know you wrote it. If you wrote it then I'mma make sure you get what you need to get for it.' And that's pretty much what it was."

I guess the lesson to be learned from all of this it's that in the music business you better make sure you have your paperwork in order to ensure you don't get jerked.

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Sean Paul just released his fifth studio album titled Tomahawk Technique. The latest single from the project "How Deep Is Your Love," features Kelly Rowland.

Check out the Juwan Lee-directed video for the song below.

You can cop Tomahawk Technique now from iTunes.

On October 16th Brandy will be releasing her sixth studio album, Two Eleven. It's the singer's first album since 2008's Human.

Check out her new single titled "No Such Thing As Too Late" up top and pre-order Two Eleven from iTunes.

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Kendrick Lamar is out promoting his upcoming album, Good Kid, m.A.A.d City. He stopped by The Breakfast Club this morning to chop it up with Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy.

Kendrick speaks on writing for Detox, rumors he's smashing Lady Gaga, his album cover art, the fights at the BET Hip Hop Awards and winning Lyricist of the Year there, plus more.

Good Kid, m.A.A.d City drops October 22nd.

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G-Unit/D4L's Shawty Lo teams up with Alley Boy and releases the official music video for "Best Bullsh*t." The Gamble-produced track is featured on Shawty's latest mixtape, Million Dollar Man.

Directed by GT Films.

Follow on Twitter @ThatsshawtyLo and @AlleyBoy

Download Million Dollar Man for from Datpiff

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For the last of BET.com's three exclusive digital warm up cyphers they highlight the youngsters. Lil Chuckee, Lil Niqo and Lil Waah take their turns on the mic spitting bars.

DJ Premier mans the turntables.

If the player below doesn't work click HERE to watch this cypher.

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Here is the second of three BET.com exclusive warm up digital cyphers. This one features Core Masson, Kosha Dillz and Ol' Dirty B*stard's son, Boy Jones.

The RZA holds it down on the turntables.

If the video player below doesn't work click Here to watch this cypher and let us know who you think kills it.

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BET.com has released the first warm up cypher for this year's BET Hip Hop Awards. This is the first of three that will be shown exclusively on their website.

This one features Brianna Perry, Relly, Fame, The Kid Daytona and K'La.

Check it out below and let us know who you think had the hottest bars and be sure to tune in to the BET Hip Hop Awards airing October 9th on BET at at 8P/7c.

If the video player below doesn't work click HERE to watch the cypher.

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Nicki Minaj traveled to Los Angeles to shoot the music video for her new single "The Boys," which features Cassie. Unfortunately Cassie is missing in action in this clip. Hopefully more behind the scenes footage will surface soon.

This track will be featured on the repackaged version of Nicki's album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, which is expected in stores in November.

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Ne-Yo toasts the females with style and class on "Don't Make Em Like You." The track features Wiz Khalifa and will be featured on Ne-Yo's upcoming fifth studio album titled Red.

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Nas admitted to missing his ex-wife Kelis so much that he sent her a text message recently asking if they could hook up for at least one night.

"I can't lie I texted [Kelis] the other night and I told her... You know one of them nights you just miss that sh*t? I was like can we make make love one more time?" the rapper said while performing "Bye Baby" in London at Under The Bridge.

The 39-year old went on to say that he's still hurt by the break of his marriage according to NME.

"[It] still hurts bad. That pain is real, y'all. That sh*t is real."

Maybe we should have seen this coming after seeing him holding Kelis' wedding dress on the cover of his new album, Life Is Good.

The couple split apart in 2009 after four years of marriage. They have one son together.

Nas admitted to still lusting after Kelis again last night during his performance at Village Underground in London. Check that out below. It comes at the 3:25 mark.

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Check out the latest from Ron Browz aka Ether Boy. "Whatcha Doing" features Fat Man Scoob and Lenox Mob.

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Bad Boy Machine Gun Kelly returns to MTV's "RapFix" Live to discuss his new album Lace Up. He's joined by R&B singer/rapper/producer and songwriter Ryan Leslie.

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Here's much better footage of the altercation between G-Unit and Maybach Music Group's Gunplay. It's evident that Gunplay lied in his previous interviews about what went down and Mike Knox was right on point with his description of the event.

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Maino has dropped a couple of songs with his new group The Mafia recently. He's now ready to present the world with a full mixtape of songs by the group and it's members Lucky Don, Hustle Hard Mouse, Push! Montana and Maino himself.

The tape is hosted by Superstar Jay and has 18 tracks.

Features include Busta Rhymes, Jim Jones, Trae Tha Truth, Yo Gotti, Robbie Nova and more.

Peep the video trailer below.

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Brick Squad Monopoly rapper Yung Joey recruits Fred The Godson, Fly-Ty and Waka Flocka Flame for "Real N*ggas." 

The song is off of Joey's upcoming mixtape, Along Came Molly.