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West Coast rapper Nipsey Hussle is a fan favorite. While he's yet to release his debut studio album, his mixtapes have definitely held his fan base down.
Nipsey is about to release the third installment of his Marathon mixtape series on December 21st.
Peep the cover for that up top and the Victory Lap photo shoot with Jorge Peniche below.
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Alicia Keys releases the official music video for the Inferno Version of her single "Girl on Fire" featuring Nicki Minaj.
The song is the title track off of Alicia's upcoming fifth studio album which will be released on November 27th.
Cover story via Billboard
A lot can happen in the span of three years. Just ask Alicia Keys. Since the 2009 release of her last album, "The Element of Freedom," the singer/songwriter/musician/ producer/actress has penciled in a few more hyphens next to her name. In addition to becoming a wife and mother, Keys began co-managing her career, produced her first Broadway play, directed her first short film, executive-produced a made-for-TV movie as well as an upcoming theatrical film, designed her own Reebok shoe line and recently launched an animated storytelling app for children.
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And in the middle of this whirlwind of activity, she found time to write and record a fifth studio album, the aptly titled "Girl on Fire."
"These last three years have been the most in every way," Keys says during a promotional stopover in Dallas. "The most newest, the most difficult, the most loving, the most dream-filled, the most breaking free . . . an entire crazy dynamic of lessons and emotions to grow into and claim. This whirlwind has definitely forced me to be who I am, to be free enough and brave enough to just not accept anything else-nor try to be anything else."
That declaration rings loud and clear throughout "Girl on Fire." Fine-tuning the self-discovery process she initiated with 2007's As I Am, Keys alternately rages and simmers on the Nov. 27 RCA Records release-her first since former label J Records was absorbed under the RCA banner. The singer's trademarks are still in place: impassioned soulful vocals, self-accompanied by distinctive piano fusing classical and gospel runs with R&B/ hip-hop and pop melodies and beats. But this time around, Keys' creative spark is stoked by enterprising collaborations and deeper lyrical honesty.
Opening track "Brand New Me" sets the stage: "It's been awhile, I'm not who I was before/You looked surprised your words don't burn me anymore/Been meaning to tell you, but I guess it's clear to see/Don't be mad it's just a brand new kind of me/Can't be bad I've found a brand new kind of free," sings Keys, whose chic bob is also emblematic of her changing focus.
"That's the most personal song Alicia has done," says RCA CEO Peter Edge, who signed Keys to J. "She has a very emotional way of delivering a song. But on this album she has dug deep, become more confessional and personal versus talking in gen- eralities. It's a very big step in a new direction."
Keys adds, "This is me stepping into my complete woman- hood, my journey to becoming fearless."
She credits her husband, songwriter/producer/DJ Swizz Beatz, and 2-year-old son Egypt for helping her see the world with new eyes and feeling "less contained and much more open." In fact, two months after Egypt was born, Keys began writing a few songs by herself. Then she would bounce ideas off longtime collaborator and friend Kerry "Krucial" Brothers.
"It was a very eased-in process that helped me realize one thing," she recalls. "I just wanted to craft great songs and create emotion with incredible songwriting talents. That was the mandate."
As part of that mandate, Keys sought out people she hadn't worked with before. So joining such returning collaborators as Brothers and John Legend are singer/songwriters Bruno Mars and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, producer Salaam Remi, Pop & Oak (whose production credits include Nicki Minaj and Elle Varner), emerging producer/remix artist Jamie xx and fellow U.K. up-and-coming singer/songwriter Emeli Sande, who co- penned "Brand New Me."
Edmonds says it was a phone call invite from Keys' camp that set things in motion for him to fly to Jamaica to collaborate with the singer/songwriter on the simple, acoustic guitar-laced love song "That's When I Knew." The idea for the song came to him as he watched Keys sing and play in the studio.
"I experienced the full essence of who Alicia is, and a song idea clicked with me right then," says Edmonds, who had met the singer only a couple of times beforehand. "Watching her sing, her emotion . . . that's when I knew who she was and how special she is. I call her 'Sunny Vibrations.' You're never sure of how a collaboration is going to go. But writing with her was so easy. We were on the same page in terms of words and melody. She writes from the heart."
"It was fun to experiment with people I hadn't worked with before," Keys says. "With all the new things I've been experiencing, it felt right to push myself and see where it took me."
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Mixing live and programmed elements, the resulting album is both organic and contemporary, accented by heavy drums with electronic and reggae infusions. Leading the charge is the title track. Co-written and co-produced by Keys, Jeff Bhasker and Remi, the single was recorded as a three-track suite: a main version plus two remixes, Inferno and Bluelight. Keys first performed the Inferno version-featuring Nicki Minaj-at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 6 assisted by Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas. With support from not one but two advertising synchs, "Girl on Fire" debuted at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, Keys' strongest-ever bow as a lead artist. It's No. 4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and No. 5 on Adult R&B.
Keys shifts from fiery inspiration to scorching intimacy on "Fire We Make," a duet with Maxwell capped by a remarkable guitar solo from acclaimed Warner Bros. newcomer Gary Clark Jr. And in addition to "Brand New Me," Capitol/EMI's Sande - who released her own debut album earlier this year-collaborated with Keys on two additional songs: the stripped-down "101" and the can't-buy-me-love ballad "Not Even the King." "It's rare in this business to find someone you connect with so naturally in such an electric, creative capacity," says Sande, 25, who first met Keys when she opened the latter's 10th-anniversary Piano & I concert in London. "The first song we wrote together was '101.' It reminds me of the Alicia I fell in love with when I was 15 years old."
The Keys that early fans fell in love with has come a long way from the Hell's Kitchen native and corn-row-rocking ingenue whom Clive Davis introduced in 2001 as his latest J Records music phenomenon. Spurred by the No. 1 R&B and pop single "Fallin'," Keys scored the first five of her 14 Grammy Awards-including best new artist and song of the year-with multiplatinum debut album Songs in A Minor. Since then she has released three more top-selling al- bums (see box, opposite page) as well as the 2005 set MTV Unplugged.
Along the way, she has logged 14 top 10 singles and eight No. 1s on the Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs chart and nine top 10s and four No. 1s on the Hot 100. Among the chart- toppers in that mix are "You Don't Know My Name," "If I Ain't Got You," "My Boo" (featuring Usher), "Like You'll Never See Me Again," platinum-selling singles "No One" and "Empire State of Mind" (with Jay-Z) and the 2010 hit "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)," which spent 12 weeks atop Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
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Master P is preparing to drop his new Al Capone mixtape. Here's some behind the scenes footage of the No Limit boss knocking out the music video for "Friends with Benefits" featuring Houston's Kirko Bangz.
P brings out the 2013 Lamborghini and mingles with a bevy of sexy women.
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Al Capone coming soon.
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Machine Gun Kelly and the EST Boys tour Europe for the first time in the latest episode of Kellyvision II. MGK has some fun cruising the streets with a fake mustache and practicing with his band in preparation for upcoming shows.
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With a strip club full of young ladies doing what they do as the setting, Uncle Murda releases his official music video for "Peel Her Off."
Murda's First 48 mixtape will be dropping soon.
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Here's some nice behind the scenes footage of Rihanna’s Unapologetic album photo shoot. We get to see her in Las Vegas at the shooting range, backstage at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, at the iHeart Radio music festival and more.
Riri's Unapologetic album drops on November 19th.
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Big Boi is gearing up to release his second solo album titled Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors on December 11th. Here's some great on the set pics from his upcoming music video "Mama Told Me," which features Kelly Rowland.
Also check out the cover art for the new album below.
**UPDATE** November 12th
Big Boi has released some official behind the scenes footage for the video. He and Kelly talk about the concept of the video, working with the director Syndrome and more.
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DJ Whoo Kid got wild and crazy on Halloween in Las Vegas with Lexani Rims for a special SEMA party. MGK rocked the crowd with his raging antics while Whoo Kid held it down on the turntables.
Porn celebrity girls Alexis Ford and Nikki Benz were also in attendance.
Just a few days earlier Whoo Kid and SMS Audio rocked a crowd of 7,200 at Aruba's Halloween Ghost Town street party.
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Check out video and pics from the events below.
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1017 Brick Squad artist Young Scooter drops off an in studio music video for "Hector Story." The songs serves as the intro off of DJ Swamp Izzo's mixtape, Voice of the Streets, which drops today on LiveMixtapes.
Directed by Cam Kirk
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Kanye West and the rest of his G.O.O.D. Music family have been tight lipped for the most part about a possible Cruel Winteralbum.
In an interview last month with HipHopSince1987, Q-Tip would only confirm that he would be on the album.
"I can't let out too much details about it, but yeah I'll be on it. Kanye has the plan for all of that," Q-Tip said at the time.
Now director and editor, Austin Christianson, has released a short video trailer for the album that probably raises more questions than it answers.
The 53-second clip shows scenes of trees, an abandoned field and a pond with audio of George H. W. Bush's January 16, 1991 "New World Order" speech playing throughout.
Whats does it all mean? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Some nights things just don't go your way and for Katt Williams that happened in Denver yesterday.
The comedian apparently started his show at the Wells Fargo Theatre by rapping when a fan approached the stage and started heckling him.
Katt can be seen on tape exchanging words with the heckler before getting back on the mic.
"I just got diverted by this gentleman," he told the audience. "He says I'm only doing this rap sh*t because I'm not funny. So I'll stop right now and re-introduce myself and tell some jokes. I guess I'll start with twenty minutes on this f*ck n*gga. And then I'll go into the regular jokes."
Katt then hops into the crowd to go after the heckler, but was stopped by security.
When the comedian makes his way back to the stage he goes into a tirade.
"You better be glad the police helped you," he said. "You don't heckle at a comedy show. You're a p*ssy! You're a p*ssy!. I'm allowed to say that, I'm still performing. Aha the police stopped me. How funny. Wow. Wow.... That's just how Malcolm X got shot. Ol' p*ssy a$$ n*gga."
The crowd started to lose patience at that point with some yelling for a refund.
"I was supposed to have E-40 and Too Short on this show, but I didn't think it would motherf*cking work, so I wanted to see. And I was f*cking right as f*cking usual," Katt said, continuing his diatribe. "So now, when I go to San Diego and you hear that New Edition, E-40, Too Short and Xzibit came out on my show, you, Denver, will be able to say, 'What happened?' And why it didn't went down the way it should have went down."
With the crowd now booing him loudly, Katt promised they would all get their money back and stormed off stage.
"Here's the great news. Everybody in this show gets their money back. Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. Good night!"
Katt Williams bombing in Denver.
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Houston's Trae Tha Truth drops off another official music video off of his stand out mixtape, Tha Blackprint. "Sick of Being Broke" features DJ Scream and D-Bo.
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There's now slowing down Juicy J and his Taylor Gang boss Wiz Khalifa. Both artists have shown tremendous work ethics over the last several months by dropping new music and videos.
Peep their latest collaboration up top and download it below.
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Nelly's Scorpio Season mixtape drops later today. In the meantime the St. Louis rapper gives fans a taste of what to expect with this Trae Tha Truth and Bizzy Crook collaboration "Like Dat."
As the LAPD continues to investigate, more details are emerging in the case where a woman is accusing Cee-Lo Green of sexually assaulting her.
As we previously reported, a woman filed a police report earlier this week accusing "The Voice" mentor of the crime. Since then new details have emerged.
The woman claims that Cee-Lo took her to a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles and slipped Ecstacy into her drink. She says the next thing she remembers is being naked in a bed with the Goodie Mob member in the room.
The victim, who does not live in California, went to her local authorities to report the assault and the case was referred to the LAPD.
According to TMZ, the LAPD had the woman make a "pretext call" in an attempt to get Cee Lo to admit to the crime on tape. Reportedly the singer is heard on the tape apologizing and referencing MDMA (Ecstacy). Cee-Lo does not admit to putting the drug in her drink, but does say he thought it would help them have an exciting time together.
Sources connected to Cee-Lo say no such tape exists and accuse the woman of first approaching the singer through a civil lawyer before going to police and demanding money to make the case go away.
Sources close to the accuser say her lawyer approached Cee-Lo's people to find out if he had any STD's (sexually transmitted diseases) and never asked for money.
LAPD detectives will refer the matter to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office when the investigation is completed.
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K-Jay - The College Life
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1. Church Clap (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Kevin Burgess)
2. Counterfeit (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Touheed Epps)
3. I'm Blessed (Snippet) (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Tony Fadd)
4. Paradise Life (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Johnny Juliano)
5. I Know (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Alex Medina)
6. Who Wit Me (Hosted By DJ YoungStar)
7. I Don't Like Ft. XROSS (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by G.I. Townsend)
8. Walk By Faith (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by SuperstarO)
9. Frozen Ft. Eddie White (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by 8 Attack)
10. Yeah We Do (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by ZoneBeatz)
11. Playing Church (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Touheed Epps)
12. Pull Out Ya Fan Ft. Nno (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Tommy Gunz)
13. Broken Road (Hosted By DJ YoungStar) (Prod. by Tyler Williams)
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El Nuevo Alarma! Magazine catalogs the most brutal crimes and deaths in Mexico City and brings the gruesome images and stories weekly to their readers. The publication claims to have a circulation of 15 million.
In this documentary, Vice rides along with crime photographer David Alvarado as he races to cover various crimes in an attempt to capture the best (goriest) photos. He has to compete with other photographers, sometimes angry mobs and police who don't want him taking pictures of their crime scenes.
Sometimes the photographers work together and share pictures from different incidents. They all depend on tips from ambulance workers, cops and ordinary citizens to the scenes fast.
According to the documentary a cop is killed almost every day in Mexico City.
David Alvarado
"Usually in Alarma! the photos are more cruel, more grotesque. So, those are the photos I have to take," says David. "We, the crime photographers - we're the eyes of the city when everyone else is asleep. Our photos let them know what happened during the night. That is our job. In general, most people are morbid. During the time you've been working with us, you've noticed how the people are always standing around. looking. That's the morbid attraction. And that's why they buy our newspapers."
At many of the accident/crime scenes the photographers get attacked by family members of the victims and the police themselves.
"I've had my camera destroyed. I've been kicked slapped and beaten up," says Davis.
Vice also talks with Miguel Angel Rodriguez Vazquez, the magazine’s editor about people's fascination with the magazine.
Miguel Angel Rodriguez Vazquez
"Alarma! readers like to see the photos," Miguel tells Vice. "But of course they want to know what happened. They want to know why it happened. But, if we dig a little deeper, the most interesting stories involve love. 'Why did he kill her? He killed his wife and then he tried to kill himself.' I think those stories attract people more. But, once again in the end, it's the image that grabs them."
A lot of the criminals in Mexico worship Santa Muerte "Saint Death." sometimes referred to as Señora de las Sombras "Lady of the Shadows." They believe she can protect them from getting caught. In return they pray to her promising gifts in return.
They pin money on her dress and also bring her weed, cocaine and liquor,
Saint Death and Jesus Malverde, the patron saint of drug dealers
Out of fear of retaliation from drug dealers, most photographers and journalists try to steer clear of reporting on narcotics related killings, but sometimes it can't be avoided.
"There's a lot of things they cannot investigate," Miguel explains. "If we report on accidents and gory crimes there's no retaliation. Anyone who goes past what you are allowed to say is running a big risk. They must be very brave. They are very brave and there's not many of them."
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