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14-year old rapper Chris Miles continues to show why he's got next in the rap game. His bars are way advanced for his age. There are a lot of emcees out there who could take a few lessons from Chris.

His latest music video is for "The Final 80 Bars" featuring DJ Baby Chino. Peep that below and do yourself a favor by picking up Chris' latest mixtape, Growing Pains, for free from Datpiff. http://www.datpiff.com/Chris-Miles-Growing-Pains-mixtape.474379.html

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West Coast producer/rapper DJ Quik is apparently the victim of a spreading rumor that he has AIDS. Last night Quik sent out a Tweet mentioning that Andre 3000 had said something about him and that he would address it today.

"Andre 3000 had some interesting things to say about me..., stay tuned," Quik wrote. "Will speak on the Dre 3K comment tomorrow. Not even emo."

Earlier today Quik revealed what Three Stacks allegedly said about him.

Andre 3K told his brother that I was sick and that turned into "DJ Quik got the monster." Big rumor in the Midwest. Thanks Andre Badu

— DJ Quik (@djquik) October 1, 2013

Stay tuned, there are sure to be more developments to this story.

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As expected Drake will claim the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. His Nothing Was the Same album had a very strong debut after moving 658,179 units it's first week out, according to Hits Daily Double.

The album is available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nothing-was-the-same/id705503499

Kings of Leon takes the No. 2 spot after selling 115,088 of Mechanical Bull. 

Cher (Closer To the Truth), Elton John (Diving Board) and Luke Bryan (Crash My Party) finished 3, 4 and 4 respectively.

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Iggy Azalea has been turning a lot of heads as of late. From the title of her forthcoming debut album, The New Classic, her split from ex-boyfriend A$AP Rocky, the way she gets on her knees and twerks better than Miley Cyrus could ever dream about and her looks.

Born in Australia, Iggy headed to the United States at age 15 determined to make a name for herself in hip hop and hasn't looked back since.

She graces the cover of the October issue of Paper Magazine. The Grand Hustle affiliate had a lot to talk about. Check out an excerpt from her cover story.

On Miley Cyrus twerking:

"I've been doing that onstage for two-and-a-half years. She probably f*cking watched my videos online and decided to try it."

On challenging her back up dancers to a twerk-off:

"People just wanna see my butt. We'd been doing that dance-off at the shows, but no one put it online. At the Bowery, they did."  

On her relationship with T.I.:

"T.I.'s family. I'll always be loyal to him." 

On opening for Beyonce on an upcoming trek through Australia:

"It'll be weird when my parents are there. Not because of the dancing or the sexuality, but because they created me. There will be fans screaming for me, but my parents know the real side of me. The side that's not cool."

On her move the the U.S.:

"I just knew that this is where hip-hop is from. And all I wanted to do is become a rapper. I had to be in the States."

On picking up guys:

"I have to approach them. It's so annoying. I think I must have a bitchy face, because guys don't want to talk to me. It's true, I have a mean face."

On the perception that she's more of a model than rapper:

"It pisses me off that my iTunes biography says I'm a 'model-turned-rapper.' I was never a model before. Why do people have it in their stupid f*cking fantasies that I was a model? I would've loved to have been a supermodel, but I can't f*cking fit the sizes. I'm a six, not a zero."

On her debut album The New Classic:

"Oh, these new songs are about loads of stuff. If I wrote these songs at the beginning of my career, they'd be about ass cheeks. All the songs. Now only one song's about ass cheeks -- out of sixteen. That's growth right there." 

On A$AP Rocky:

"We're still friends, but I don't have the need to talk to him anymore."

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After dropping his Dreamchasers 3 mixtape on Sunday, Meek Mill wastes no time getting out an official music video for "I Be On Dat" featuring Fabolous, French Montana and Nicki Minaj.

The clip was directed by @willKNOWS

You can download Dreamchasers 3 now for free from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/dreamchasers3

Jay Z lands on the cover of the November issue of Vanity Fair. In his interview with the publication the Roc Nation mogul discusses rumors that his wife, Beyonce, was never pregnant, his 18-month old daughter's love of music and slanging crack back in the day.

On Blue Ivy's musical tastes:

She does like her mother’s music—she watches [Beyoncé’s concerts] on the computer every night. But my album came out and I don’t know if Blue ever heard any of my music prior to this album—she’s only 18 months old and I don’t play my music around the house. But this album was new, so we played it. And she loves all the songs. She plays a song and she goes, ‘More, Daddy, more . . . Daddy song.’ She’s my biggest fan. If no one bought the Magna Carta [album], the fact that she loves it so much, it gives me the greatest joy. And that’s not like a cliché. I’m really serious. Just to see her—‘Daddy song, more, Daddy.’ She’s genuine, she’s honest, because she doesn’t know it makes me happy. She just wants to hear it.”

On dealing drugs:

“I know about budgets. I was a drug dealer. To be in a drug deal, you need to know what you can spend, what you need to re-up. Or if you want to start some sort of barbershop or car wash—those were the businesses back then. Things you can get in easily to get out of [that] life. At some point, you have to have an exit strategy, because your window is very small; you’re going to get locked up or you’re going to die.

Crack was everywhere—it was inescapable. There wasn’t any place you could go for isolation or a break. You go in the hallway; [there are] crackheads in the hallway. You look out in the puddles on the curbs—crack vials are littered in the side of the curbs. You could smell it in the hallways, that putrid smell; I can’t explain it, but it’s still in my mind when I think about it.”

On the rumors surrounding his wife's pregnancy:

“I don’t even know how to answer that. It’s just so stupid. You know, I felt dismissive about it, but you’ve got to feel for her. I mean, we’ve got a really charmed life, so how can we complain? But when you think about it, we’re still human beings. . . . And even in hip-hop, all the blogs—they had a field day with it. I’m like, We come from you guys, we represent you guys. Why are you perpetuating this? Why are you adding fuel to this ridiculous rumor?”

To read the rest of the interview head over to Vanity Fair. And pick up a copy of the issue when it hits newsstands on October 8th.

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Singer, songwriter and New Jersey native, Justina drops her EP, Valentine, today.  Valentine features 6 tracks and production from multi-platinum producers- Infamous, Shy Boogs and The Heatmakerz.  Justina recently debuted her video, “Lord Have Mercy”, the first promotional song off her debut EP, produced by Claws.  Justina is also opening up for Mike Stud on The Relief Tour which kicked off September 28th.  The tour covers 27 cities and ends November 1st.

 

Justina is excited to get back on the road and perform for her fans.  She performed on 2012 Vans Warp Tour and also toured as the opening act for established artists such as Chris Webby, Shawnna and MGK.

 

 

Hard working and never one to slow down, Justina can also be seen in the 2013 online advertising campaign for Flud Watches and has been heavily involved in the marketing campaign for Conquer Ent., the music division of Shop.com.

 

Justina’s raspy, yet beautifully toned vocals, paired with her edgy style and outgoing personality is what has brought her to the forefront of her musical class. This young entertainer has made such an impact on those who have encountered her music, that her original songs have been featured on major television shows such as: NBC's Smash, VH1's Mob Wives, MTV's True Life and the CW11.  Aside from major television placement, Justina has also been a guest on MTV's Rap Fix with Sway and RCA recording artist Travis Porter, as well as one of Spike TV's Top 100 YouTube Videos for her hit single "Hard to the Body". She is also currently gearing up to begin production on a reality TV show that is being produced by Thinkfactory Media, whose credits include the iconic TV series’ R&B Divas, Hatfields & McCoys and Gene Simmons Family Jewels. 

Check out Valentine's first promo single,  "Lord Have Mercy", below, a sexy, soulful musical piece that brings her edgy persona to life and be sure to catch Justina opening up for Mike Stud during the 27 city "The Relief Tour" which kicked off on September 28th!

 

Justina Valentine EP OUT NOW!

 

Valentine EP // Lord Have Mercy // Twitter // Facebook // Official Site

 

 Upcoming Dates

Tue - Tue - Oct 01, 2013

Buffalo, NY

The Waiting Room

 

Thu - Thu - Oct 03, 2013

Ann Arbor

Blind Pig

 

Fri - Fri - Oct 04, 2013

Toledo, OH

Mainstreet

 

Sun - Sun - Oct 06, 2013

Columbus, OH

Skully's

 

Tue - Tue - Oct 08, 2013

Minneapolis

Cabooze

 

Fri - Fri - Oct 11, 2013

Iowa City, IA

Blue Moose

 

Sat - Sat - Oct 12, 2013

St. Louis, MO

Fubar

 

Sun - Sun - Oct 13, 2013

Bloomington, IL

Castle Theatre

 

Wed - Wed - Oct 16, 2013

Dallas, Tx

Tree's

 

Thu - Thu - Oct 17, 2013

Austin, Tx

Infest

 

Fri - Fri - Oct 18, 2013

Houston, Tx

Warehouse Live

 

Sat - Sat - Oct 19, 2013

College Station

Schotzi's

 

Sun - Sun - Oct 20, 2013

New Orleans, LA

The Parish @ House of Blues

 

Tue - Tue - Oct 22, 2013

Gainesville, Fl

Highdive

 

Wed - Wed - Oct 23, 2013

Tampa, FL

Crowbar

 

Thu - Thu - Oct 24, 2013

Orlando, Fl

The Social

 

Fri - Fri - Oct 25, 2013

tallahasee, FL

FSU

 

Sat - Sat - Oct 26, 2013

JACKSONVILLE, FL

JACKRABBITS

 

Sun - Sun - Oct 27, 2013

ATLANTA, GA

MASQUERADE (PURGATORY0

 

Tue - Tue - Oct 29, 2013

CARRBORO, NC

CAT'S CRADLE

 

Wed - Wed - Oct 30, 2013

RICHMOND, VA

KINGDOM

 

Fri - Fri - Nov 01, 2013

PROVIDENCE, RI

THE MET CAFE

 

 

 

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This photo shows the location of Ashville, Pa., shooting at 643 Bottom Road. Investigators said the father found his wife and son fatally shot, then in turn shot the two intruders. The father, identified by a relative as John Frew, was not injured. The relative, Virginia Cruse, said the victims included her 64-year-old sister Roberta Frew and the couple's 47-year-old son. She identified the slain assailants as Frew's daughter, Josephine, and her husband, Jeff Ruckinger.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A two-decade family feud came to a violent end when a man shot dead the two home invaders that killed his wife and son, not knowing the assailants included his long-estranged daughter, authorities said Sunday.

Though the investigation of Friday's shootings continues, authorities said it appears Josephine and Jeffrey Ruckinger planned to murder her family at their rural central Pennsylvania home — but it remains unclear what exactly led to the deadly confrontation.

"They parked at the bottom of a long driveway, and walked up, heavily armed," said Cambria County District Attorney Kelly Callihan.

Josephine Ruckinger was armed with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun and her husband had a Derringer pistol and a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun as they approached the Frew family home in Ashville, about 40 miles southwest of State College, according to investigators.

John Frew, his wife Roberta, and their son John Jr., 47, had just returned from dinner out, and were watching TV in the living room of the white mobile home when there was a knock at the door, authorities said.

Police say Roberta, 64, answered the door, and cried out something like "Oh my God, they have guns!" before her daughter shot her at point-blank range. John Jr. then may have attempted to arm himself with a gun, but Jeffrey Ruckinger shot him multiple times in the chest, killing him, police said.

The elder Frew, 67, grabbed a .22 revolver and came out from the bedroom to find the daughter he didn't initially recognize pointing the shotgun at him. Frew fired once, hitting her in the head, then turned and exchanged fire with Jeffrey Ruckinger, killing him. He then called police.

Josephine Ruckinger was still alive when police arrived, but later died at an area hospital. John Frew was not hurt.

The killings happened at a home outside Ashville, Pennsylvania, in a sparsely-populated county

Callihan said that the preliminary investigation suggests that the elder Frew and his family were victims "of a pre-planned murder" plot, and that he acted in self-defense. Police also found a can of gas and lighter fluid in the Ruckingers' car.

"Clearly these two individuals came to this house to carry out a planned deadly attack on his family," said Cambria County District Attorney, Kelly Callihan. "I would characterize it as a home invasion that was a murder plot."

Ballistics and toxicology tests are pending, investigators said.

Authorities are still exploring possible motives, but say there may have been burglaries and robberies at the Frew residence in the past.

A relative, Virginia Cruse, said the daughter and mother did not get along, but that she had no idea what spawned Friday's tragedy. The daughter had "a hatred toward the family," she said.

Start of it all: A 2009 obituary photo for Josephine M. Patterson, Mrs Ruckinger's grandmother and apparent namesake. Ruckinger first split with her family after allegedly bleeding her grandmother dry as she died 20 years ago

When Josephine was about 20, she and a boyfriend trashed her parents' home and stole items including a pistol, then fled to Pittsburgh, Cruse said. After that, she said, "more or less, they disowned her."

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Nelly is out spreading the word about his new album, M.O. He made a pit stop by The Breakfast Club to chop it up with the Power 105.1 crew of Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God.

The St. Louis rapper discussed his participation in one of the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards cyphers, the Real Husbands of Hollywood and how he got the gig, acting, working with Miley Cyrus, 1st week sales, endorsement deals, longevity in rap, Ashanti, the St. Lunatics and more.

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Miley Cyrus is pregnant with Juicy J's baby? The answer is no, but the rumor is still funny nonetheless.

A satire website posted a story about Miley announcing that she was pregnant with Juicy's child during the taping of the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards over the weekend.

This morning Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg decided to kick "The Realness" on the rumor.

"Let me just start by saying I know this rumor is not true. In fact it has confirmed to be made up, but I am running with this until it actually happens," Rosenberg joked. "Move over North West. Sit your tiny baby butt down Blue Ivy. Prince William and Kate Middleton's baby George, take a hike. It's all about the made-up child between Miley Cyrus and Juicy J, a.k.a. Ratchet Baby. I cannot wait for Baby Twerkster a.k.a. Moussey J or Miley Mafia to join the world. This baby will combine the talents of Juicy J and Miley Cyrus. Talents of which we don't even understand yet 'cause we don't know what they are. But one day we will have a new baby to lead us to lead us into the future."

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LL Cool J recently stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The Grammy Award-winning emcee got a surprise when Ellen dug up classic footage from his first performance in front of an all white crowd.

He then obliged the talk show host's request by beat boxing.

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Former CTE member 2Eleven is not slowing down his grind. The West Coast rapper releases the official music video for "Y.O.L.O."

The track is off of Deuces No Brakes mixtape. You can download it now for free on Datpiff. http://www.datpiff.com/2Eleven-No-Brakes-mixtape.491740.html.

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A$AP Ferg made his late night television debut on the Arsenio Hall Show Monday, September 30th. He was joined by A$AP Rocky for a performance of "Shabba."

The song is off of Ferg's debut album, Trap Lord, which is available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/trap-lord/id676345055.

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The U.S. government began to shut down for the first time in 17 years early Tuesday, after a Congress bitterly divided over President Obama’s signature health-care initiative failed to reach agreement to fund federal agencies.

Hours before a midnight deadline, the Republican House passed its third proposal in two weeks to fund the government for a matter of weeks. Like the previous plans, the new one sought to undermine the Affordable Care Act, this time by delaying enforcement of the “individual mandate,” a cornerstone of the law that requires all Americans to obtain health insurance.

The new measure also sought to strip lawmakers and their aides of long-standing government health benefits.

The Democratic-led Senate quickly rejected that plan on a party-line vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) urged House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to abandon the assault on the health-care law and pass a simple bill to keep the government open. Otherwise, Reid warned, “the responsibility for this Republican government shutdown will rest squarely on his shoulders.”

Boehner refused to yield. He instead won approval, in a 1 a.m. largely party-line roll call, requesting a special House-Senate committee to meet in the coming days to resolve differences between the two parties, leaving in limbo the fate of millions of federal workers and the services they provide.

John Boehner

Shortly before midnight, the White House budget office issued a memo instructing agencies to “execute plans for an orderly shutdown due to the absence of appropriations.”

The impasse means 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed Tuesday. National parks, monuments and museums, as well as most federal offices, will close. Tens of thousands of air-traffic controllers, prison guards and Border Patrol agents will be required to serve without pay. And many congressional hearings — including one scheduled for Tuesday on last month’s Washington Navy Yard shootings — will be postponed.

In a last-minute ray of hope for active-duty troops, Congress on Monday approved and sent to the White House an agreement to keep issuing military paychecks. But Obama warned that the broader economy, which is finally starting to recover from the shocks of the past six years, would take a substantial hit if congressional gridlock shutters “America’s largest employer.”

“Keeping the people’s government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital services running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you ‘give’ to the other side. It’s our basic responsibility,” Obama said in a statement Monday evening at the White House.

Privately, senior Republicans predicted that the closure would last at least a week. A fraction of today’s House Republicans were on Capitol Hill in 1995 and 1996 when a Republican-led Congress last shut down the government in a dispute over the budget with a Democratic president. Younger lawmakers don’t remember the pain the shutdown caused constituents, senior Republicans said. And many of them now question the conventional wisdom that the closures weakened the GOP presidential candidate in 1996 and nearly cost the party 

Democrats predicted that if the shutdown stretches into the weekend, the government-funding dispute could be rolled into an even more serious battle over the $16.7 trillion federal debt limit. The Treasury Department will begin running short of cash to pay the nation’s bills as soon as Oct. 17 unless Congress approves additional borrowing authority. With so little time remaining to avoid what would be the nation’s first default, Democratic aides predicted that negotiations to reopen the government may be merged into the debt-limit talks.

On Monday evening, Obama telephoned Boehner to urge him to reconsider his stance on the health-care law. In a call that lasted nearly 10 minutes, according to Boehner’s office, the president reiterated his insistence that there would be no negotiations over the debt limit, and that Congress must pay the bills it has incurred.

Boehner responded by mocking Obama in a speech on the House floor.

“ ‘I’m not going to negotiate,’ ” he said, quoting Obama. “I would say to the president: This is not about me. It’s not about Republicans here in Congress. It’s about fairness.”

The speech drew applause for the embattled speaker, who argued passionately that Republicans were merely seeking “fairness” for working people. Obama has delayed a mandate for employers to insure workers and delayed other requirements for big unions, Boehner said. “Yet they stick our constituents with a bill they don’t like and a bill they can’t afford,” he said.

Despite the show of unity, Republicans on both sides of the Capitol remain deeply divided about the attack on the health-care law. In the House, a group of more moderate Republicans was seething about the decision to bow to the forces that oppose the Affordable Care Act, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and his allies on the right, including such outside groups as Heritage Action for America.

On Monday, some publicly urged Boehner to drop the issue and seek the help of House Democrats to pass the simple government-funding bill that the Senate approved last week.

“I don’t want to shut down the government,” said Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), who is trying to become her state’s first GOP senator since the 1950s, adding that she was inclined to support a “clean” funding bill.

Shelly Moore

Frustrations also were simmering among Senate Republicans, who complained that House leaders were pressing the attack in direct opposition to public opinion. Polls show that voters overwhelmingly disapprove of using the threat of a shutdown to defund the health-care law and that blame for a shutdown will fall squarely on Republicans.

“By wanting to repeal Obamacare using this method, it defies what the popular will is,” said Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the 2008 GOP presidential nominee, who campaigned last year on behalf of his party’s national ticket.

“I campaigned in 2012 all over this country for months: ‘Repeal and replace Obamacare.’ That was not the mandate of the voters,” McCain said. “If they wanted to repeal Obamacare, the 2012 election would have been probably significantly different.”

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Adding to the tension Monday was Boehner’s decision to add the provision that would strip lawmakers, congressional staff members and White House aides of the employer subsidies for health insurance they have received for many years.

Now that lawmakers and their aides must join the new health-insurance exchanges, some conservative groups have criticized the subsidies, worth about $5,000 a year for individual coverage and $10,000 for families, as a “special exemption” from the new law. By including the provision, House leaders hoped to attract conservative support and put pressure on Senate Democrats, who faced the choice of shutting down the government to protect their own perks.

“On what flooding peninsula can you stand when it’s a question of delaying the individual mandate, ending member subsidies and funding the government?” said Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.). If Reid kills it, “the senators he’s going to protect become the subject of incredible scrutiny.”

Even some Republicans were uneasy about the prospect of dealing their aides — and some of their colleagues — the equivalent of a big pay cut. Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called it an “outrage,” adding that Boehner had worked directly with Reid and the Obama administration to make sure the subsidies would stay in place when congressional employees join the exchanges next year.

Richard Durbin

Boehner and his team presented the proposal to rank-and-file Republicans in a closed-door meeting Monday. For more than an hour and a half, lawmakers argued about the plan. They emerged with an unusual number of public dissenters, including Rep. Peter T. King (N.Y.), one of a dozen Republicans who ultimately voted against the proposal.

“I don’t want to be the facilitator of a disastrous process and plan,” he said.

Still, most Republicans endorsed the deal, even if somewhat reluctantly. “I think this is a principled call by leadership and it has the support of the con­ference,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), one of Boehner’s closest friends.

Democrats, meanwhile, were united against any attempt by Republicans to extract concessions now, especially with the larger fight over the debt limit swiftly approaching.

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“The bottom line is very simple,” said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). “You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt limit.”

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