One of the hottest producers out right now is Mike Will Made It. He's getting ready to release his new mixtape Est. In 1989 2.5. Check out the latest leak off of the project "On It" featuring Chief Keef and Young Scooter.
One of the hottest producers out right now is Mike Will Made It. He's getting ready to release his new mixtape Est. In 1989 2.5. Check out the latest leak off of the project "On It" featuring Chief Keef and Young Scooter.
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Tip continues to count mark off the days leading up to the release of his eighth studio album Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head. In episode 3 of "Countdown to T.I." the rapper visits Shantinique Music and DSA high school in Detroit.
He then heads back to Atlanta where he donates 1000 turkeys to those in need.
Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head will be released on December 18th.
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Boss Lady is getting ready to release a new mixtape titled Woman On Top on December 24th. Here's the first leak off of the project featuring Grand Hustle emcee Iggy Azalea.
T.I.'s new album Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head will be released tomorrow December 18th. Today the Grand Hustle boss decided to bless Sway with a new song "Memories Back Then" featuring Kendrick Lamar, B.O.B and Kris Stephens.
The track doesn't appear on the tracklist for the album. Maybe it will pop up as a bonus track somewhere.
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New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz played Sundays game against the Atlanta Falcons with a heavy heart. Cruz found out shortly after the shooting massacre in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday that one of the victims, 6-year old Jack Pinto, idolized him.
According to the New York Daily News, Cruz became aware of Jack Pinto after his Twitter feed started to blow up with talk that the 6-year-old had been one of his biggest fans. He instructed his fiancée/publicist, Elaina Watley, to find the family. It took her 20 minutes. She asked the family members if they wanted to talk to Cruz. They did.
“I was in the hotel (in Atlanta) and as I was talking to them I was fighting back tears. You could hear everybody in the background crying as well. It was tough to listen to,” Cruz said.
Cruz also talked to Pinto's 11-year old brother.
“He could barely speak to me. I was just talking to him, telling him to stay strong, to stay positive and I’m going to help the family any way I can,’’ Cruz said.
Pinto was such a fan of the Giants player his family is considering burying him in Cruz's No. 80 jersey
"I told them I was honored," Cruz told ESPN. "I couldn't even express to them how great that made me feel, and how big of an honor that is. … No words describe the type of feeling you get when a kid idolizes you so much that they want to, you know, unfortunately, like put him in the casket with your jersey on."
Cruz honored Pinto during Sunday's game by writing his name on his shoes and gloves.
“Jack Pinto, My Hero” was written on one of his cleats and “R.I.P Jack Pinto” on the other. On the back of his gloves, Cruz wrote “Jack Pinto This one is 4 U.!”
The Giants may have lost Sunday's game, but Cruz showed that athletes can be heroes off the field too.
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AP.9 is not worried at all about any retaliation from Ice-T after pictures recently surfaced of him and the "Original Gangster's" wife Coco all boo'd up in Las Vegas.
"Man I'm from the hood I ain't worried about nothing man," AP told TMZ when they caught up with him recently. "Look at me man, do I look like I'm worried?"
As we previously reported, AP and Coco looked like more than friends in the photos that were taken.
Ice-T responded angrily when he saw the pics, calling them "disrespectful and in bad taste" and added "there's no way to avoid the obvious misconduct of a married couple."
Coco has since apologized for disrespecting her husband by posing for the pics, but said nothing else happened.
AP, however didn't deny that he smashed the thick, blonde model.
"Is that's a rumor? Hey no comment man," the Bay area rapper said.
What do you think? Did AP.9 chop Coco down?
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Big Sean has major plans in store for his sophomore album "Hall of Fame." Having already established himself as a star on the rise, the G.O.O.D. Music rapper is looking to take that next step.
Rap-Up caught up with the Detroit player to chop it up about his plans for Christmas, upcoming shows in Africa, New Year's resolutions, "Hall of Fame," its features and leaving a legacy behind through his music.
"I'm excited to put new songs out, new singles, new everything man," Sean said. "You know the vlogs I've been doing where I've been talking about reality and imagination. A lot of the album has that tone of being super inspirational, super intellectual and of course it still has bangers on there too. It's like an emotional roller coaster."
Sean said you can expect features from his G.O.O.D. Music family as well as Jhene Aiko and James Fauntleroy.
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The VH1 Divas show took place Sunday night at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. There was plenty of star power on hand as Miley Cyrus, Bootsy Collins, Demi Lavato, Natasha Bedingfield, Iggy Azalea and Pitbull took the stage to belt out hits old and new.
Kelly Rowland, Keri Hilson and Adam Lambert paid tribute to Donna Summer, Ciara sang Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and Jordin Sparks, Melanie Fiona and Ledisi performed a tribute to Whitney Houston.
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Kelly Rowland, Keri Hilson & Adam Lambert Perform A Tribute To Donna Summer
Demi Lovato Performs 'Give Your Heart A Break'
Miley Cyrus Performs 'Rebel Yell'
Natasha Bedingfield, Iggy Azalea & Bootsy Collins Perform 'Groove Is In The Heart'
Jordin Sparks, Melanie Fiona & Ledisi Perform A Tribute To Whitney Houston
Pitbull Performs 'Don't Stop The Party'
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President Obama comforted the nation and gave solace to Newtown’s inconsolable families Sunday — and strongly hinted he would seek a legislative solution to the wave of mass shootings that has haunted America on his watch.
"My mom would be SO proud to see President Obama holding her granddaughter. But not as proud as I am of her" writes Cristina Hassinger via her social networking page.
President Obama poses with family members of victim Emilie Parker.
Emilie Alice Parker was killed Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 26 children and adults at the school.
“If we’re honest with ourselves, the answer is no,” he said. “We’re not doing enough, and we’ll have to change.”
He also made a heartbreaking personal connection with the infant granddaughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, the martyred 47-year-old who died while lunging at the gunman in a heroic and doomed effort to overpower him.
Cradling the adorable child in his arms, with his jaw set and his face a portrait of grief and resolve, the comforter-in-chief tried to lift the boundless pain of a picture-postcard New England village that overnight has become a gruesome national symbol of unspeakable evil.
“My mom would be SO proud to see President Obama holding her granddaughter,” tweeted Cristina Hassinger, the principal’s brave daughter.
“But not as proud as I am of her,” she added.
All was hushed at Newtown High School as Obama took the stage barely 1 mile from the elementary school where 12 first-grade girls and eight first-grade boys — all of them only 6 or 7 years old — and six adult women were cut down.
“We have come to remember 20 beautiful children and six remarkable adults,” Obama told the mourners at the interfaith service.
“We have come to a school that could have been any school — in a town that could have been any town in America . . .“Newtown — you are not alone,” Obama proclaimed.
His voice was even, but he was emotionally vested in the audience of more than 1,500, and at one point, he appeared to brush away a tear with his index finger.
The President also lavished praise on the heroism of the school’s teachers and the guts and swiftness of the town’s first responders:
“When danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school staff did not flinch, did not hestitate . . . ‘Wait for the good guys,’ the children were told — and the good guys came.”
His main weapon was a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, Vance said at a Sunday news conference.
President Obama arrives at the start of an interfaith vigil.
In the aftermath of the calamity, families sought to comfort each other during tear-filled church services and painful vigils.
Some caskets will be closed, he said, but some will be open, he said. "It brings the reality of the situation to light and helps bring closure.”
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Ladies Love Cool James is getting ready to deliver his highly anticipated new album Authentic Hip Hop on February 12th, 2013.
Here's the official music video for the lead single "Take It" featuring Joe.
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Freddie Gibbs delivers brand new visuals for "The Hard" featuring Dana Williams. The Feb.9-produced track is off of Freddie's mixtape Baby Face Killa.
You can cop Baby Face Killa now from iTunes
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Big Sean releases the official music video for "Guap." The video was filmed in Sean's hometown of Detroit by Mike Carson and Mike Waxx.
Produced by Key Wane and Young Chop.
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CNN's Piers Morgan has joined many who are calling for gun control in America following the increasing number of mass shootings in the country.
The latest massacre took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday morning when 20-year old gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people, including 20 children who were 6 and 7-years old.
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Morgan debated on Friday with guests on his show, Steve Dulan of the Michigan Coalition of Responsible Gun Owners, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and gun-rights advocate John Lott, that more guns are not the answer.
The conversation got heated when Morgan asked “why on Earth” anyone would advocate for more guns, given the unspeakable carnage at Sandy Hook.
“If we could suddenly make all guns disappear, I'd have a different position,” Dulan replied, going on to explain that because firearms last “several human lifetimes with minimal maintenance,” then the only way to stop shooters is with other guns.
“This is exactly the argument that I have been hearing ever since I joined CNN," replied Morgan, noting that he joined the network the week before Gabby Giffords was shot, and since then he’s covered the mass shootings in Aurora, Colo.; outside Portland, Ore.; and at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis. "The argument I keep hearing is, 'Well, if everybody else was armed, it wouldn't happen.' It's a load of total hogwash!"
Nadler, who represents parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan, backed up Morgan’s claims with some statistics. “The proof of the pudding is that in every other industrialized country in the world, other than the United States, they have reasonable gun control laws," he said. “They have 100 people a year, not 9,000 or 10,000 a year, killed by guns."
Morgan argued that Americans should look to the example set by Scotland, where handguns were banned in response to the 1996 Dunblane massacre in which 16 schoolchildren were killed.
Lott tried to argue that the murder rate in Scotland subsequently went up, but Morgan wasn’t having it.
“There are nearly 12,000 murders a year from guns in this country. When are you guys going to focus on that and stop telling me the answer is more guns. It is not the answer! How many more kids have to die before you guys say, 'We want less guns, not more.”
Lott fired back, telling Morgan “The gun-control laws that you're pushing have killed people.”
The host dismissed Lott's claim as “ a load of nonsense,” and then he really let loose: "I'm so frustrated, I'm so furious, that these kids have been blown away again with legally acquired weapons. Some boy, who's got problems takes his mother's three weapons – including this ridiculous assault rifle – and goes in a school and kills these kids, and you guys on the gun lobby still want to tell me the answer is more guns. It is madness!"
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Morgan also criticized Connecticut chief medical examiner, Dr. H. Wayne Carver, for his handling of the press conference Saturday when he announced the manner in which the victims were killed. At times Carver laughed while talking to the media.
Connecticut officials released on Saturday the identities of the 20 children and six adults killed in the mass shooting at a suburban elementary school in Newtown.
The state's chief medical examiner also confirmed that the gunman's mother, a twenty-seventh victim, was shot dead by her son in a related incident. The gunman took his own life.
Those killed at the school were 12 girls, eight boys and six female adults. They are listed below by name, date of birth (mm/dd/yy), gender and age.
CHILDREN
Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/06, female (age 6)
Daniel Barden, 9/25/05, male (age 7)
Olivia Engel, 7/18/06, female (age 6)
Josephine Gay, 12/11/05, female (age 7)
Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 04/04/06, female (age 6)
Dylan Hockley, 03/08/06, male (age 6)
Madeleine F. Hsu, 07/10/06, female (age 6)
Catherine V. Hubbard, 06/08/06, female (age 6)
Chase Kowalski, 10/31/05, male (age 7)
Jesse Lewis, 06/30/06, male (age 6)
James Mattioli, 03/22/06, male (age 6)
Grace McDonnell, 11/04/05, female (age 7)
Emilie Parker, 05/12/06, female (age 6)
Jack Pinto, 05/06/06, male (age 6)
Noah Pozner, 11/20/06, male (age 6)
Caroline Previdi, 09/07/06, female (age 6)
Jessica Rekos, 05/10/06, female (age 6)
Avielle Richman, 10/17/06, female (age 6)
Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/06, male (age 6)
Allison N. Wyatt, 07/03/06, female (age 6)
ADULTS
Rachel Davino, 7/17/83, female (age 29)
Dawn Hochsprung, 06/28/65, female (age 47)
Anne Marie Murphy, 07/25/60, female (age 52)
Lauren Russeau, 1982, female (age 29)
Mary Sherlach, 02/11/56, female (age 56)
Victoria Soto, 11/04/85, female (age 27)
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Connecticut chief medical examiner, Dr. H. Wayne Carver's press conference
Sources: L.A. Times, MSN and Mashable
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As we previously reported, Cash Money rapper Bow Wow revealed in a recent interview with Sway In the Morning that he lost his virginity at age 16 to Esther Baxter.
After hearing about the interview Baxter took to Twitter to fire back.
"Do I REALLY have to respond to this sh*t!?! First...you people believe the SILLIEST sh*t!!! Lmao! I thought this sh*t was a joke...but Lil homie ACTUALLY said that sh*t," Baxter wrote on the social networking site. "N*gga really shot for the stars with that one!!! Couldn't think of anyone else huh!?! It's cool I know times are hard right now but u should've at least let me know so we could BOTH benefit. Losing your virginity to EB at 16...damn...that's a ballerific fantasy bro. Its not the first time & it won't be the last time a n*gga decide to put my name in some sh*t...I don't have time for the foolishness. You have some sh*t to promote do that sh*t WITHOUT putting my damn name in some nonsense. #Done #NothingElseToSay #ByeBoy."
Who do you think is telling the truth?
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Rapper/actor/director/producer RZA of the Wu Tang Clan is facing a lawsuit today from a Dutch singer who claims he didn't properly compensate her for her work.
Thea Van Siejaen says she co-wrote and performed on 14 songs with RZA from 2004 to 2011, including the song "Baby Boy," which was featured in Jet Li's film "Unleashed."
According to Van Siejaen she has only been paid a fraction of what she's owed according to TMZ.
The singer says she has been afraid to come forward and demand full payment for her work because she feared RZA would blackball her within the industry. Van Siejaen is now asking the court to force RZA to cough up her share of royalties for the songs.
"Unfortunately this is a groundless lawsuit by someone RZA had helped get off the streets, lent a helping hand to, and now thinks he’s an easy target to mark looking for money," say sources close to RZA.
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