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After what seems like a very long wait, B.o.B finally debuts the video for his Lil Wayne collaboration "Strange Clouds." The Motion Family directed clip features a cameo from Grand Hustle chief T.I.

The song is scheduled to appear on B.o.B.'s sophomore album which is scheduled to be released in 2012.

50 Cent has a hand in so many ventures these days you wonder how he has time to sleep. His most personal film yet "All Things Fall Apart" premiered on BET Saturday (December 3) and was well received by critics and fans alike.

In addition to acting Fif has launched Street King Energy Drink, an ambitious endeavor aimed at feeding one billion people in need. There's also his new Sync By 50 "SMS Wireless Hybrid Headphones" that are available for pre-order now.

On the music front, the G-Unit boss is putting the finishing touches on his fifth studio album.

XXL caught up with 50, who graces the December/January cover (actually five covers) for the publication to chop it up about everything he's currently involved in and more.

XXL: During the photo shoot, you asked to listen to some new hip-hop artists. What do you think of the current regime in rap?

50 Cent: The whole culture, I think, is a little…confused. It’s not what I fell in love with, you know? So my job is to make a album that doesn’t have any holes in it, that is a representation of all of the elements I fell in love with. So, like, I look at artists to find what I like about them or why they’re hot or why they exist. And then you see that we’re creating momentum. We’re creating synthetic heat for new artists to generate interest and revenue. So the sales is some shit that ain’t really hot. You see what I’m saying? Like, the actual business of music is saying, “Oh, he’s hot!” and “Let’s try and do something to market it and sell it.” But there’s some shit that’s organic that’s out there that you see, like, without record-company assistance. People are gravitating to it.

How does that affect you, as a vet, to see that going on?

When I was in the mixtape circuit, there was a lot going on. I was able to take things that I wish I made myself and do ’em over. Now it’s not a lot of shit out there I would do over. I’m like, Nah, that ain’t even it right there. You know what I’m saying? When Black Rob had “Whoa!,” I wish that was my record. I wish “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See,” by Busta Rhymes, was my record. Fuckin’ “Lean Back,” I wish that was mine. You see what I’m saying? And you know me and Fat Joe don’t get along. You know what I’m saying? But to the culture, when you have those moments… And I’m sure they’ll tell you they wish they had “In Da Club” and “P.I.M.P.”

Does it make it harder for you to get inspired?

You know what? It makes it a difficult process of building a album. ’Cause when I hear somebody else shit is hot, I go, Oooh, I got to top that. That’s the competitive nature of hip-hop. You can’t take what’s in the DNA of the artist out. You’ll see, at different points, when I’m not active, you’ll see there’s still competition going on quietly between artist to artist. Or they’ll listen and go, I’ma kill it. If you take your time building a project that you feel is an impact on the time period—’cause that’s what it is—it’s important; music marks time. Then your peers that are in cycle are doing exactly what you’re doing. You know what I mean? So there’s no way that you can’t be competitive with what they’re doing, on some level.

So who are you competing against?
Well, for me, I’m still up against what I’ve done. So in order to top it, I know it’s a difficult task. You know, I see the bloggers. My audience hasn’t grown with me. They keep saying, “Aw, man, I want the old 50!” ’Cause those people, it would take them on a safari. I was bringing them close enough to the animals, without being able to get hurt. I was taking them into my neighborhood, where you can very well get your ass killed.

You’ve been working with Dr. Dre on Detox. Has he worked with you yet on your material?

Dre helped me a lot on this record. I went to Los Angeles, was working out there
for a little bit. I was working on the Detox records, right. I keep saying to Dre, I’m like, “Yo, you don’t have to invent nothing. All they want is a strong version of what you gave last time.” They need a new version of that. It’s like Sade. She goes away for six years, and then she comes back with a new disc. You go, I love this shit! It reminds you of the fuckin’ shit that she gave you before she left. There’s certain artists that have that luxury. You could go away and still be interesting enough to come for people to want to hear that effort. Dre is like that. As I’m busy telling him that, I go, “Wait, maybe I’m bugging for some of the shit that I’ve been doing.” You know what I mean?

So how do you balance that out, though? Giving people what they want, and allowing yourself to develop?

You mean “be creative.” ’Cause when it comes time… This is an even more interesting question: How do you write what reflects what you fell in love with within hip-hop culture while trying to send the right message to the audience?

Well, that’s a big question for you.

Well, for me, the music is an artistic choice. I’ll say, from the very beginning, that I can care less about a critic or how someone judges me for the actual music. You see, people understand within hip-hop culture that I’m passionate about actually trying to do something different. I want to make a change in a different way. This is about me personally feeling like I wanna mean more after I’m dead, when I’m gone.

You mean, from just being an artist?

Than just being an actual artist. I want to affect people’s lives in a positive way. When you look at entertainment for entertainment purposes, they may provide all the images we create through the music or in film, and I’ll explain it to you in a different way. All right, see, sexuality is necessary for entertainment purposes, so there’s a sex scene in films. Death is necessary in films, so you see people get killed a lot. In action films, being in life-threatening situations is entertaining, because death is our fate. If you look at the details that actually create scenarios that we identify with emotionally at different points, where you can feel emotion in actual films, we do the same thing through the music we create. Now, this actual project that I’m creating captures portions of my life from the past, portions of the new outlook that I have, after experiencing these different things. When you get a chance to step out of the bubble—that bubble would be my hood—and you see everything that goes on there doesn’t stop going on without you.

That’s a good feeling.

It feels amazing, because when I identified with that, I see that it’s the same shit. There’s always a new guy on the corner. Regardless what the police swept last week, there’s a new one to replace him. When your music doesn’t come out, there’s always 10 records on the Top 10 countdown. So I feel like I’m not necessary. Do you understand? I’m not necessary to my hood, as far as hustling or being down there, because there’s a replacement for me. I’m not necessary to music, because there’s always 10 in the Top 10 countdown. It’s not necessary for me to be there. Some people may miss me at different points, but I’m not necessary. So I feel like, when I involve myself in something, like the Street King project… It is very necessary that I’m involved there, ’cause nobody’s doing anything about it. And having the ability to partner with the World Food Programme is the presentation that I offer. They don’t take everybody who comes. You feel what I’m saying? But to them, my story’s a story of redemption.

And this all comes back to your music how?

’Cause you don’t get a second chance at a first impression. All of the real talented artists, the artists I respect, it’s the first CD. They’ll tell you Nas’s Illmatic, they’ll tell you Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt, they’ll tell you 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’. You see what I’m saying? The giants play in New York, still, nah mean?

There’s also Lil Wayne.

He’s turning into 50 Cent. He’s going through that process of being successful, ’til people go, “You know what? Get the fuck outta here. We don’t want you here no more.” Because you’re successful.

To read the rest of the interview pick up a copy of the December/January XXL, which is on newsstands now.

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T-Pain drops new visuals for a track that will not appear on his rEVOLVEr album. It's a nice ballad from Teddy P.

You can pre-order rEVOLVEr from iTunes. It's set to be released Tuesday December 6.

Here's the official tracklisting for the Snowman's upcoming fifth studio album. The disc features appearances from Andre 300, Snoop Dogg, Jadakiss, Fabolous, 2 Chainz, Devin The Dude and more. You can grab a copy of TM103 when it drops December 20.

Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition Tracklisting:

1. Waiting [Prod. By Lil Lody]
2. What I Do (Just Like That) [Prod. By Drumma Boy]
3. O.J. (Ft. Jadakiss & Fabolous) [Prod. By Lil Lody]
4. Nothing [Prod. By Lil Lody]
5. Way Too Gone [Prod. By Mike Will]
6. SupaFreak (Ft. 2Chainz) [Prod. By D. Rich & Shawty Redd]
7. All We Do (Ft. Trick Daddy) [Prod. By Midnight Black]
8. Leave You Alone (Ft. Ne-Yo) [Prod. By Warren G]
9. Everythang [Prod. By Lil Lody]
10. Trapped (Ft. Jill Scott) [Prod. By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League]
11. F.A.M.E. (Ft. T.I.) [Prod. By J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League]
12. I Do (Ft. Jay-Z & Andre 3000) [Prod. By M16]
13. Higher Learning (Ft. Snoop Dogg, Devin The Dude & Mitchelle’l) [Prod. By Lil C]
14. This One’s For You (Ft. Freddie Gibbs) [Prod. By Lil Lody]
BONUS TRACK:
15. Talk 2 Me (Ft. Freddie Gibbs & Eminem) [Prod. By Drumma Boy & Travis Barker]

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The 15 minutes of fame Detroit rapper T-Baby received when her video was shown during a recent episode of Beavis & Butt-Head, has turned into a nightmare.

T-Baby's video "It's So Cold In the D" first gained fame 3 years ago when it was uploaded to youtube, but it wasn't until the Beavis & Butt-Head episode aired did it take off nationally. Since then the rapper says she's been receiving threatening racist text messages.

"Goodnight n*gger, I wish all you f*ckers would go back to Africa where you belong not here. Sleep by your window so I can get to you easier," read one, the rapper told TMZ.

Now she is afraid for her safety and that of her son.

"I feel in a lost situation because I have no one but my son ... but I refuse to stop," she said. "Only way I can show how I am here to stay is keep doing my thing."

T-Baby refuses to go to police because she says she's not a snitch.

What would you do in her situation?

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Young Money singer Shanell aka SNL aka Gypsy drops new visuals for her song "What Is Love."

The track is produced by Timothy Bloom and Donnie Scantz.

This Insane Sick produced track will appear on No Mercy's upcoming album A Monster Unleashed, dropping in 2012.

Slaughterhouse MC Crooked I is set to drop his latest project In None We Trust: The Prelude EP on December 13. You can pre-order your copy now from PlanetCob.com.

Tracklisting:

1. Ssuut x 2
2. Pocket Full Of Money
3. Roll Call feat. G. Malone, Coniyac, Jay Rock, Mistah Fab
4. Diamond In The Back feat. K-Young
5. Drum Murder feat. Horseshoe G.A.N.G.
6. No Competition
7. Goin Bad feat. KeyAna
8. Game Time (Bonus Track)

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At the rate tracks are leaking off of Young Jeezy's new album we will have heard everything before it's release date, not that we're complaining.

This latest song is produced by Memphis hitmaker, Drumma Boy.

Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition will be in stores December 20.

Spotted at 2DopeBoyz

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Fresh out out Flint, Michigan, Jon Connor is fast becoming a hot new name in hip hop. Check out the Latin Legend directed clip for Jon's song "All Around the World In A Day."

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A deadly shooting that followed a bar fight in Redlands, California was caught on tape. The incident happened last month, but police have just recently released surveillance video in hopes of catching all of the men involved.

The video shows 22-year old Kruze Levusi Kuaea walking out of Charlie Jewell's bar on November 19, when one of his friends points out another man that was supposedly mouthing off to him. Kuaea turns around to confront the man and punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. After that all hell broke loose as friends of the man who was knocked down started fighting with Kuaea. One of them pulls out a gun and starts letting off shots into the crowd outside the bar.

Kuaea was killed and two other people were wounded.

"It was a senseless killing," Kuaea's mother, Maricia told KTLA. "He was 22-years-old. He had his whole life ahead of him."

Police arrested 22-year old Randy Ortis for the shootings. He was charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder. He is being held without bail at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.

Randy Ortis has been arrested for murder

Cops are still searching for six other men that were with Ortis at the time of the murder.

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27-year old Khloe Kardashian stepped out to the gym Thursday (December 1) without makeup or hair extensions. The reality star and wife of NBA player Lamar Odom looked almost unrecognizable.

It was a rare moment, as the Kardashian sisters are rarely ever seen out in public without their hair and makeup perfectly in place.

Khloe talked about their love for makeup with XOJane back in September.

"We joke and we say we are like trannies because we love hair and makeup," she said. "I don’t think we necessarily need it, but we love it. But Kim, definitely, if you take off what’s on her face, her face is the exact same. She doesn't need it -- it's just like a mind thing to her. She really doesn’t need any of that on her face."

After the latest pic surfaced of her without makeup, Khloe took to Twitter to address any haters that have a problem with her looks.

"Some people are so stressed trying to be perfectly flawless.... but I'm so HAPPY to be perfectly flawed," she wrote on the social networking site. "Haters are like crickets; they make a lot of noise you can hear but you never see them, then you walk right by them and they're quiet."

What's your take on the pics?

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Some people are just born lucky.

Motorcycle stuntman Denis Borges survived a scary crash at Brazil's "Extreme Show" that was being held at Beto Carrero World last month. After watching the video you'll be wondering how.

Borges and his partner Anderson Sanches were performing a maneuver that required them to ride at full speed while avoiding three oncoming cars. Borges misjudges the distance between the vehicles and clips one of them sending him flying 80 feet through the air. After he landed he slid an additional 40 feet.

According ABC News, Borges was rushed to a nearby hospital and miraculously came away without any injuries. He reportedly was back at work the next day.

“The drivers are professionals who already have more than 10 years experience and rehearse their maneuvers on a daily basis,” Beto Carrero World said in a statement to ABC. “‘It was a really scary accident, but it also served to show how extreme the show is.”

Check out the video below.

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Nas pulled double duty Thursday night (December 1) while in Miami for the 2011 Art Basel event. The Queens MC painted a picture of a man smoking a joint while at the same time performing his hit song "Made You Look."

The painting was for charity and was later auctioned off for $14,000 to photographer Rashid Johnson.

"Wow, that's the first time I sold art in my life," Nas told the crowd. "That's incredible... and if this can help money go to some charity then this is a beautiful thing. This is what this is about. Children with cancer, that's a real cause."

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T-Pain decides to give a full preview of his upcoming album rEVOLVEr. The disc will be released December 6. Check it out up top.

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Beyonce may not be able to perform right now due to her pregnancy, but she is still hard at work nonetheless. The singer sat down with Katie Couric on ABC's 20/20 Friday (December 2) to talk about the editing work she did for her new DVD "Beyonce: Live at Roseland." The DVD includes some rare footage of a young Beyonce performing before the fame.

"I just cringe when I see those old clips, but they're so endearing... so charming. I said 'I have to put this in here as embarrassing as it is,'" she said laughing.

Bey also reveals why she chose the MTV Video Music Awards to announce her pregnancy.

"News that's that big it's hard to hide and keep to yourself," she explained. "I felt so liberated and I felt like I can breathe and be happy. It was a beautiful feeling. I went straight off the stage and just cried. I hugged my mom, I hugged Jay and just cried."

The pop star goes on to talk about her pregnancy craving and the wild rumors surrounding them.

"I also read that you like ice cream with hot chili sauce," Couric said. "Yeah, that's very strange," responded Beyonce.

"Is that true?" Couric asked. "No it is not. I was on a plane and the flight attendant came and was like, 'I have your hot sauce and pickles and bananas.' I was like, 'That is absolutely disgusting, what are you doing?' He's like, 'I read it on the Internet.'"

Peep the full interview below courtesy of MWP.

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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller had the honor of getting an exclusive interview with Patrice O'Neal before he passed away. To show our respect, we are releasing the interview to the public today.

He talks about who he he was, speaking his mind, Tracy Morgan apologizing for some of his jokes, his inspirations, his best advice he ever had, regrets, what he wanted to be known for at the end of the day & more.

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